Practical Programming in Tcl & Tk, Third Edition

A Basic Grid

Example 24-1 uses grid to lay out a set of labels and frames in two parallel columns. It takes advantage of the relative placement feature of grid. You do not necessarily have to specify rows and columns. Instead, the order of grid commands and their arguments implies the layout. Each grid command starts a new row, and the order of the widgets in the grid command determines the column. In the example, there are two columns, and iteration of the loop adds a new row. Grid makes each column just wide enough to hold the biggest widget. Widgets that are smaller are centered in their cell. That's why the labels appear centered in their column:

Example 24-1 A basic grid.

foreach color {red orange yellow green blue purple} { label .l$color ...