Re: Tk multiple monitor problem

[Anonymous Monk]

As far as portability Tk sucks at geometry, but its not alone in getting this wrong

• http://wiki.tcl.tk/10872#Dual or Multiple Monitors
• http://wiki.tcl.tk/9886#TWAPI
• http://wiki.tcl.tk/11502#Documenting 'wm geometry'
• http://wiki.tcl.tk/11291#Total Window Geometry
• http://wiki.tcl.tk/17454#Check geometry on Aqua

[JohnRS]

Yes, from what I gather, the problem with Show is that the check to make sure that it places popups in viewable area fails because the test doesn't realize that there is a left monitor. This is somewhat odd considering that you can use the geometry command to put the main window there.

Indeed, I have come up with a work around. It's tacky, but it works. Rather than fight Show's limitation, I use it as is, letting it place the popup incorrectly. Then I use a geometry command to move the popup to where it should be. Since your code stops running after the Show, I came up with the following way to accomplish this. Immediately prior to the Show I added the following.

$mw->after(2, \&Popup_Position_Fix, $popup, $popover);

The Popup_Position_Fix routine does some calculating then executes a geometry command on the popup. As I said, tacky, but it works. :)

[Anonymous Monk]

As long as it works, tacky is beautiful :) but grepping through the source, -popover should have worked, go figure

Tk/DialogBox.pm

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[JohnRS]

I did look at DialogBox.pm and a few others. This is why I feld that probably the Show routine was at fault. I did not know where to find Popup till your message, however. In Wm.pm I now see it. Indeed, this part of it would appear to cause the problem.

    # adjust to not cross screen borders
    if ($X < 0) { $X = 0 }

Unfortunately, when I change this line my code runs the same. So I'm mystified.

Also in Wm.pm I noted the Post routine. It contains this.

    $w->geometry("+$X+$Y");
    # $w->MoveToplevelWindow($X,$Y);

I'm guessing that the commented out MoveToplevelWindow call was replaced by the one to geometry (which works OK on multiple monitors).

Thanks for the leads, however. :)