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#2714 pack propagate not working correctly
Using Tcl/Tk 8.5.7, I have troubles making pack propagate work correctly. It does not seem to work back and forth. I have to set the width / height property on a packed widget after calling pack propagate xxx to have the pack propagate command effective. I will attach some code demonstrating this. In this code, if you remove the width property setting command, then it no longer works.
It's not clear to me what you want to achieve, and what it is that
is not working.
In general you should never have -width or -height set
in a frame where you use propagation.
If you need to toggle propagation I'd recommend setting -width/-height
when propagation is turned off and setting them to 0 when propagation
is turned on.
I'm simply using "pack propagate .myFrame yes" / "pack propagate .myFrame no" and expecting to see the consequence of the 'propagate' option. I'm actually designing a tcl/tk GUI design tool. See : https://sourceforge.net/projects/puretkgui/
This tool allows to set the propagate attribute and, pureTkGUI being a WYSIWYG, you would want to see it working as soon as you select propagate yes or no. But this does not work, as I do not set the width nor height of the widget .myFrame after having called the "pack propagate .myFrame" command. Does it make sense to you ?
I can't see anything out of the ordinary here.
When propagation is turned on, the window adapts as it should when I test it without needing to do anything else.
When propagation is turned off, the frame is left without a manager so there really is not much to do. The user must in that case take charge and tell it what it wants, e.g. by setting width/height on the frame.
My previous recommendation stands if you want a certain size when propagation is turned off.