pack-old(3Tk)

NAME
     pack-old - Obsolete syntax for packer geometry manager

SYNOPSIS
     pack after sibling window options ?window options ...?

     pack append parent window options ?window options ...?

     pack before sibling window options ?window options ...?

     pack unpack window


DESCRIPTION
     Note: this manual entry describes the syntax for the pack command as it
     existed before Tk version 3.3.  Although this syntax continues to be
     supported for backward compatibility, it is obsolete and should not be
     used anymore.  At some point in the future it may cease to be supported.

     The packer is a geometry manager that arranges the children of a parent
     by packing them in order around the edges of the parent.  The first child
     is placed against one side of the window, occupying the entire span of
     the window along that side.  This reduces the space remaining for other
     children as if the side had been moved in by the size of the first child.
     Then the next child is placed against one side of the remaining cavity,
     and so on until all children have been placed or there is no space left
     in the cavity.

     The before, after, and append forms of the pack command are used to
     insert one or more children into the packing order for their parent.  The
     before form inserts the children before window sibling in the order;  all
     of the other windows must be siblings of sibling.  The after form inserts
     the windows after sibling, and the append form appends one or more
     windows to the end of the packing order for parent.  If a window named in
     any of these commands is already packed in its parent, it is removed from
     its current position in the packing order and repositioned as indicated
     by the command.  All of these commands return an empty string as result.

     The unpack form of the pack command removes window from the packing order
     of its parent and unmaps it.  After the execution of this command the
     packer will no longer manage window's geometry.

     The placement of each child is actually a four-step process; the options
     argument following each window consists of a list of one or more fields
     that govern the placement of that window.  In the discussion below, the
     term cavity refers to the space left in a parent when a particular child
     is placed (i.e. all the space that wasn't claimed by earlier children in
     the packing order).  The term parcel refers to the space allocated to a
     particular child;  this is not necessarily the same as the child window's
     final geometry.

     The first step in placing a child is to determine which side of the
     cavity it will lie against.  Any one of the following options may be used
     to specify a side:

     top  Position the child's parcel against the top of the cavity, occupying
          the full width of the cavity.

     bottom
          Position the child's parcel against the bottom of the cavity,
          occupying the full width of the cavity.

     left Position the child's parcel against the left side of the cavity,
          occupying the full height of the cavity.

     right
          Position the child's parcel against the right side of the cavity,
          occupying the full height of the cavity.

     At most one of these options should be specified for any given window.
     If no side is specified, then the default is top.

     The second step is to decide on a parcel for the child.  For top and
     bottom windows, the desired parcel width is normally the cavity width and
     the desired parcel height is the window's requested height, as passed to
     Tk_GeometryRequest. For left and right windows, the desired parcel height
     is normally the cavity height and the desired width is the window's
     requested width.  However, extra space may be requested for the window
     using any of the following options:

     padx num    Add num pixels to the window's requested width before
                 computing the parcel size as described above.

     pady num    Add num pixels to the window's requested height before
                 computing the parcel size as described above.

     expand      This option requests that the window's parcel absorb any
                 extra space left over in the parent's cavity after packing
                 all the children.  The amount of space left over depends on
                 the sizes requested by the other children, and may be zero.
                 If several windows have all specified expand then the extra
                 width will be divided equally among all the left and right
                 windows that specified expand and the extra height will be
                 divided equally among all the top and bottom windows that
                 specified expand.

     If the desired width or height for a parcel is larger than the
     corresponding dimension of the cavity, then the cavity's dimension is
     used instead.

     The third step in placing the window is to decide on the window's width
     and height.  The default is for the window to receive either its
     requested width and height or the those of the parcel, whichever is
     smaller.  If the parcel is larger than the window's requested size, then
     the following options may be used to expand the window to partially or
     completely fill the parcel:

     fill Set the window's size to equal the parcel size.

     fillx
          Increase the window's width to equal the parcel's width, but retain
          the window's requested height.

     filly
          Increase the window's height to equal the parcel's height, but
          retain the window's requested width.

     The last step is to decide the window's location within its parcel.  If
     the window's size equals the parcel's size, then the window simply fills
     the entire parcel.  If the parcel is larger than the window, then one of
     the following options may be used to specify where the window should be
     positioned within its parcel:

     frame center   Center the window in its parcel.  This is the default if
                    no framing option is specified.

     frame n        Position the window with its top edge centered on the top
                    edge of the parcel.

     frame ne       Position the window with its upper-right corner at the
                    upper-right corner of the parcel.

     frame e        Position the window with its right edge centered on the
                    right edge of the parcel.

     frame se       Position the window with its lower-right corner at the
                    lower-right corner of the parcel.

     frame s        Position the window with its bottom edge centered on the
                    bottom edge of the parcel.

     frame sw       Position the window with its lower-left corner at the
                    lower-left corner of the parcel.

     frame w        Position the window with its left edge centered on the
                    left edge of the parcel.

     frame nw       Position the window with its upper-left corner at the
                    upper-left corner of the parcel.

     The packer manages the mapped/unmapped state of all the packed children
     windows.  It automatically maps the windows when it packs them, and it
     unmaps any windows for which there was no space left in the cavity.

     The packer makes geometry requests on behalf of the parent windows it
     manages.  For each parent window it requests a size large enough to
     accommodate all the options specified by all the packed children, such
     that zero space would be leftover for expand options.


KEYWORDS
     geometry manager, location, packer, parcel, size