Is there a way to find out what width a Label would be for a given text and font, without having to add it to the graphical elements currently being displayed.
I need to get the information without any effect on the GUI, however momentary that effect may be. And, in any case, packing appears to work in a top-down fashion, meaning that controls may expand to fill others higher in the hierarchy but I can't get them to adjust those higher to allow for their actual size.
I'm more used to QML where I can just give an off-screen element the text and font details then just read out the bounding box.
Does anyone know how to do something similar in Tkinter?
You can create the Label without calling pack() / grid() / place(), then call winfo_reqwidth() and winfo_reqheight() on the label to get its size.