Specify the dimensions of a Tkinter text box in pixels

Question

How would I specify the dimensions of a Tkinter text box using pixels? I am not trying to change the font size, I am using this to help me scale it to the size of the window.

Answer 1

You can do it by putting it inside a frame, forcing the frame to a fixed size by deactivating size propagation and configuring the entry to stick to the frame borders. Should work in a similar way with pack, too.

import Tkinter  # tkinter with small t for python 3 #import ttk  # nicer widgets  root = Tkinter.Tk()  mainFrame = Tkinter.Frame(root) mainFrame.grid() button = Tkinter.Button(mainFrame, text="dummy") button.grid()   entryFrame = Tkinter.Frame(mainFrame, width=454, height=20) entryFrame.grid(row=0, column=1)  # allow the column inside the entryFrame to grow     entryFrame.columnconfigure(0, weight=10)    # By default the frame will shrink to whatever is inside of it and  # ignore width & height. We change that: entryFrame.grid_propagate(False) # as far as I know you can not set this for x / y separately so you # have to choose a proper height for the frame or do something more sophisticated  # input entry inValue = Tkinter.StringVar() inValueEntry = Tkinter.Entry(entryFrame, textvariable=inValue) inValueEntry.grid(sticky="we")   root.mainloop()