How to add a margin to a tkinter window

Question

So I have so far a simple python tkinter window and i'm adding text, buttons, etc.

snippet:

class Cfrm(Frame):

    def createWidgets(self):

        self.text = Text(self, width=50, height=10)
        self.text.insert('1.0', 'some text will be here')
        self.text.tag_configure('big', font=('Verdana', 24, 'bold'))


        self.text["state"] = "disabled"
        self.text.grid(row=0, column=1)

        self.quitw = Button(self)
        self.quitw["text"] = "exit",
        self.quitw["command"] = self.quit
        self.quitw.grid(row=1, column=1)


    def __init__(self, master=None):
        Frame.__init__(self, master)
        self.pack()
        self.createWidgets()

the problem is, I want to have about a 15-20 px margin around the window, I looked everywhere, and I couldn't find a solution. Also

self.text.tag_configure('big', font=('Verdana', 24, 'bold'))

doesn't work. Any possible solutions?

Answer 1

You can add an innerFrame with some borderwidth or ipadx,ipady attributes to the root Tk() object. Then put everything in it. And to be sure that innerFrame's width and height values are as the window's, use fill and expand attributes.

root = tk.Tk()
innerFrame = tk.Frame(root, borderwidth=25, bg="red")
innerFrame.pack(fill="both", expand=True)

someButton = tk.Button(innerFrame, text="Button1")
someButton.pack()

or

root = tk.Tk()
innerFrame = tk.Frame(root, bg="red")
innerFrame.pack(ipadx=15, ipady=15, fill="both", expand=True)

someButton = tk.Button(innerFrame, text="Button1")
someButton.pack()