RE: [Tile-dev] -width option for tile label widgets

[Jeff H. <je...@Ac...>]

> > The -width option for tile labels is always in characters, even if the 
> > widget contains an image (in this case, the value of the 

> It should only be ignored if the text label is not displayed 
> at all, i.e., if '-compound image' or '-compound none -image 
> $someImage' is specified.

The core actually interprets -width in pixels if any image is
associated with the widget.  I'm not sure this is the right
thing to do for compound widgets, but that's what it does.

> ... at least that's what's supposed to happen; looks like
> it isn't implemented correctly.  But the intended behavior
> is that '-width' always specifies the width in characters
> of the text part of the label, regardless of the value of 
> '-compound' and '-image'.

That sounds more reasonable ... but isn't what Tk label does.
Test:

package require Tk
image create photo logo -file $tk_library/images/logo64.gif
pack [label .l -image logo -text "1234567" -font Courier -bg pink]
.l configure -compound left
.l configure -width 5
.l configure -width 50

Jeff