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On Monday, January 25, 2016 at 7:41:57 PM UTC-8, KP wrote:
> If I want to have some space between, say, btn_last & btn_new, will I have to use a dummy label in between these two or is there a better way?
> 
> Thanks for any help, as always!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> from tkinter import *
> from tkinter import ttk
> 
> root = Tk()
> root.geometry("822x600+100+100")
> nav_bar = ttk.Frame(root, borderwidth=2, relief='ridge', padding=(10, 3, 10, 3))
> 
> btn_first  = ttk.Button(nav_bar, text='|<', width=4)  # for buttons showing text only, this will be text units (= average characters?)
> btn_prev   = ttk.Button(nav_bar, text='<',  width=4)  # for image buttons, it will be in pixels 
> btn_next   = ttk.Button(nav_bar, text='>',  width=4)
> btn_last   = ttk.Button(nav_bar, text='>|', width=4)
> btn_new    = ttk.Button(nav_bar, text='New')
> btn_edit   = ttk.Button(nav_bar, text='Edit')
> btn_delete = ttk.Button(nav_bar, text='Delete')
> btn_cancel = ttk.Button(nav_bar, text='Cancel')
> btn_print  = ttk.Button(nav_bar, text='Print')
> btn_help   = ttk.Button(nav_bar, text='Help')
> btn_save   = ttk.Button(nav_bar, text='Save')
> lbl_Recs   = ttk.Label(nav_bar,  text='Records')
> lbl_RCount = ttk.Label(nav_bar,  text='0 ', width=10, borderwidth=2, relief='sunken', anchor='e')  # fake entry look
> 
> nav_bar.grid(column=0, row=0, columnspan=13)
> 
> btn_first.grid(column=0, row=0)
> btn_prev.grid(column=1,  row=0)
> btn_next.grid(column=2,  row=0)
> btn_last.grid(column=3,  row=0)
> 
> btn_new.grid(column=4,    row=0)
> btn_edit.grid(column=5,   row=0)
> btn_delete.grid(column=6, row=0)
> btn_cancel.grid(column=7, row=0)
> 
> lbl_Recs.grid(column=8,   row=0, padx=5)
> lbl_RCount.grid(column=9, row=0, padx=5)
> btn_print.grid(column=10, row=0)
> btn_help.grid(column=11,  row=0)
> btn_save.grid(column=12,  row=0)
> 
> root.mainloop()

Hmm - this only gives me an empty window (no errors). 
What puzzles me that every book/site on tkinter strongly warns of mixing pack and grid managers...

Any ideas?