Re: [Pmw-general] Stupid toolbar question

[James K. <jke...@us...>]

Thanks,
using a frame is exactly what I ended up doing :)

-James

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Greg McFarlane <gr...@in...>@hwy.com.au> on 10/27/2002 04:56:13 AM

Sent by:    Greg McFarlane <gr...@hw...>


To:    James Kenefick/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
cc:    pmw...@li...
Subject:    Re: [Pmw-general] Stupid toolbar question



I don't think Pmw.ButtonBox is the right place to start to build a
toolbar.  The ButtonBox is mainly designed to be used in Dialog
windows.  Apart from handling the default ring of the buttons, it does
not buy you much more than a frame with a bunch of buttons in it.

A toolbar is much more specialised and probably has to be custom-built
for each application, similar to a status line at the bottom.  Sorry I
can't suggest a snazzy Pmw.ToolBar megawidget, but it may be easier
just to start with a Tkinter.Frame and add whatever
widgets/megawidgets you need for you application.  To position the
widgets in the Frame, you should learn about the Tk grid geometry
manager - it will probably give you the best results.

Greg

On Thu 24 Oct 2002 at 12:49:37PM -0500, James Kenefick wrote:
>
> Hi all
>       I am trying to create a toolbar using
> a ButtonBox containing some buttons with images,
> I'd like to have some toggle buttons on the bar
> as well, but thus far I am having no luck. Does
> anyone know where I could look at some source
> which does this?
>
> Thanks for you time
>   James
>
>
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