From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-12-30T10:01:53+09:00
Subject: TkRoot.new :width => 4, :height => 2


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
':pack_propagate => false' in the call to 'TkRoot.new' - but that didn't work
either...

-a
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