TkRoot.new :width => 4, :height => 2

[Ara.T.Howard]

can someone please tell me why the following does NOT produce a window half as
big as my screen?


require 'tk'

tkroot = TkRoot.new

width = (tkroot.winfo_screenwidth * 0.5).to_i
height = (tkroot.winfo_screenheight * 0.5).to_i

tklabel = TkLabel.new :text => 'foobar'
tklabel.pack :expand => true, :fill => 'both'

tkroot.configure :width => width, :height => height

Tk.mainloop


a similar approach works fine with 'place' instead of pack. i tried
'ack_propagate => false' in the call to 'TkRoot.new' - but that didn't work
either...

-a
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[Ferenc Engard]

Hello,

can someone please tell me why the following does NOT produce a window half as
big as my screen?

require 'tk'

tkroot = TkRoot.new

width = (tkroot.winfo_screenwidth * 0.5).to_i
height = (tkroot.winfo_screenheight * 0.5).to_i

tklabel = TkLabel.new :text => 'foobar'
tklabel.pack :expand => true, :fill => 'both'

tkroot.configure :width => width, :height => height

Tk.mainloop

a similar approach works fine with 'place' instead of pack. i tried
'ack_propagate => false' in the call to 'TkRoot.new' - but that didn't work
either...

Try 'ack_propagate => 0'.

Ferenc