Python Tkinter Notebook positioning widgets using ".place"-CodePudding

I am not able to figure out why widgets are not visible when ".place" is used. It works when ".pack" is used. My GUI needs precision positioning of widgets and hence I need to use ".place". Am I doing anything wrong?

Environment: Python: 3.9.6 Windows 10 (21H1)

import tkinter as objTK
from tkinter import ttk as objTTK

root = objTK.Tk()
root.title("Tab Widget")
tabControl = objTTK.Notebook(root)
  
objSummaryTab = objTTK.Frame(tabControl)
objSettingsTab = objTTK.Frame(tabControl)
  
tabControl.add(objSummaryTab, text ='Summary')
tabControl.add(objSettingsTab, text ='Settings')
  
lb1 = objTTK.Label(objSummaryTab, text ="Summary")
lb1.place(x=5, y=5)  
          
lb2 = objTTK.Label(objSettingsTab, text ="Settings")
lb2.place(x=5, y=5) 

tabControl.place(x=5, y=5)

root.bind("<Escape>", lambda _: root.destroy())

root.geometry("500x500")

root.mainloop()

CodePudding user response：

This error is because place() does not automatically resize the widgets, like pack() and grid() do. You need to specify width and height arguments for tabControl: tabControl = objTTK.Notebook(root, width=100, height=100), for example. In this case, width and height are in pixels.