Yet another newbie question!

ruby-talk
1

Maybe it’s too late at night for this.

How do I create a top-level window /without/ decorations?. Am even I saying
it right? Without the title, iconify, close, and all that other crap. I’d
like it for a modal dialog box sort of thing.

Alan Walkington

2

Here I am again. You know, I like these questions: this is giving me an
excuse to refresh my Tk knowledge!

Maybe it’s too late at night for this.

No such thing!

How do I create a top-level window /without/ decorations?. Am even I saying
it right? Without the title, iconify, close, and all that other crap. I’d
like it for a modal dialog box sort of thing.

myTopLevelWindow.overrideredirect(true)

For the relevant Tk man page: ‘man wm’

In Tcl, you would write this as (more or less):

wm overrideredirect .myTopLevelWindow 1

In Ruby the ‘wm’ part goes away, because the method is attached to all
relevant widgets.

Note also that, like the other ‘wm’ methods, overrideredirect relies on
the window manager being ICCCM-compliant and such–so if the window
manager is buggy, the methods may not work as intended. Not much you can
really do about that.

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On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 04:41:45PM +0900, Alan (Ursus Major) wrote:

–
Matt Gushee When a nation follows the Way,
Englewood, Colorado, USA Horses bear manure through
mgushee@havenrock.com its fields;
http://www.havenrock.com/ When a nation ignores the Way,
Horses bear soldiers through
its streets.

                        --Lao Tzu (Peter Merel, trans.)
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Thanks Matt … and I’m glad you are enjoying this 'cause I’m firing two
more questions of the same caliber:

  1. Now I got the window I want, how do I keep it always on top?, and
  2. To what do I bind to detect when the parent window is being moved, so I
    can move
    this window right along with it.

Thanks again, Matt
Alan Walkington

“Matt Gushee” mgushee@havenrock.com wrote in message
news:20021105091239.GB585@swordfish…

Here I am again. You know, I like these questions: this is giving me an
excuse to refresh my Tk knowledge!

Maybe it’s too late at night for this.

No such thing!

How do I create a top-level window /without/ decorations?. Am even I
saying
it right? Without the title, iconify, close, and all that other crap.
I’d

···

On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 04:41:45PM +0900, Alan (Ursus Major) wrote:

like it for a modal dialog box sort of thing.

myTopLevelWindow.overrideredirect(true)

For the relevant Tk man page: ‘man wm’

In Tcl, you would write this as (more or less):

wm overrideredirect .myTopLevelWindow 1

In Ruby the ‘wm’ part goes away, because the method is attached to all
relevant widgets.

Note also that, like the other ‘wm’ methods, overrideredirect relies on
the window manager being ICCCM-compliant and such–so if the window
manager is buggy, the methods may not work as intended. Not much you can
really do about that.

–
Matt Gushee When a nation follows the Way,
Englewood, Colorado, USA Horses bear manure through
mgushee@havenrock.com its fields;
http://www.havenrock.com/ When a nation ignores the Way,
Horses bear soldiers through
its streets.

                        --Lao Tzu (Peter Merel, trans.)