Tcl/Tk in a Nutshell

Name

place

place operation [arg arg...]

Communicate with the placer, which provides simple fixed placement geometry management of slave windows inside another window called the master.

The place command can take the following forms:

place slave [slave...] [options]

Same as place configure.

place configure slave [slave...] [options]

Place the given slave windows into their master. Valid options are as follows:

-in master

Pathname of window relative to which slave is to be placed. Master must be either slave’s parent (the default) or a descendant of slave’s parent. Also, slave and master must be descendants of the same top-level window.

-x location

The x-coordinate within the master of the anchor point for slave in screen units.

-relx location

The x-coordinate within the master of the anchor point for slave as a relative distance along the master’s width. A value of 0.0 corresponds to the left edge of the master and 1.0 to the right edge. Location need not be in the range 0.0–1.0. If both -x and -relx are specified, their values are summed.

-y location

The y-coordinate within the master of the anchor point for slave in screen units.

-rely location

The y-coordinate within the master of the anchor point for slave as a relative distance along the master’s height. A value of 0.0 corresponds to the top edge of the master and 1.0 to the bottom edge. Location need not be in the range 0.0–1.0. If both -y and -rely are specified, their values are summed.

-anchor anchorPos

Which point of slave is to be positioned ...