R help - May 2007 - GUI component Margin on tkcanvas, tkframe or tktoplevel

Dear gurus:

I have a question on how to configure the margin layout on tcl/tk GUI 
objects like tkcanvas, tkframe or tktoplevel.
For example, if I want to leave a larger margin on the left side of the 
GUI container, which one should I configure, the toplevel or tkcanvas or 
tkframe?

top<-tktoplevel()
canvas<-tkcanvas(top, relief=, borderwidth=...)

I also find the documentation for all the possible arguments that could 
be passed to tktoplevel, tkframe, tkcanvas, tk.wm, tkconfigure is not 
good. I wonder if there are good resource for it... at the very least, I 
know I need to look at what arguments that tck/tk takes... but I don't 
have time to go that far.

Thanks
Hao

Dear Hao,

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> Subject: [R] GUI component Margin on tkcanvas, tkframe or tktoplevel
> 
> Dear gurus:
> 
> I have a question on how to configure the margin layout on 
> tcl/tk GUI objects like tkcanvas, tkframe or tktoplevel.
> For example, if I want to leave a larger margin on the left 
> side of the GUI container, which one should I configure, the 
> toplevel or tkcanvas or tkframe?
> 
> top<-tktoplevel()
> canvas<-tkcanvas(top, relief=, borderwidth=...)
I've used the borderwidth argument (which, I believe, affects all of the
borders) in several places, including to tkframe(). You can try it out and
see whether you get the effect you want.
> 
> I also find the documentation for all the possible arguments 
> that could be passed to tktoplevel, tkframe, tkcanvas, tk.wm, 
> tkconfigure is not good. I wonder if there are good resource 
> for it... at the very least, I know I need to look at what 
> arguments that tck/tk takes... but I don't have time to go that far.
> 
I think that the tcltk package documentation is meant to be used alongside
Tcl/Tk documentation. The most useful source that I've found is Welch et
al., Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk.

I hope this helps,
 John
> Thanks
> Hao
> 
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