From: Ferenc Engard <ferenc@...>
Date: 2003-12-30T20:18:10+09:00
Subject: Re: TkRoot.new :width => 4, :height => 2

Hello,

"Ara.T.Howard" wrote:
> 
> 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...

Try ':pack_propagate => 0'.

Ferenc