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in reply to Re: TK Toplevel Window List (wm)
in thread TK Toplevel Window List

Thank you, but which function would produce a window list? Or perhaps, there is a structure which should be examined?

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Re^3: TK Toplevel Window List (wm)
by thundergnat (Deacon) on Feb 12, 2013 at 18:45 UTC

    If you just wnat to get a list of all the toplevel windows from within a single process, it is pretty easy. Something like this perhaps.

    use warnings; use strict; use Tk; my $mw = MainWindow->new(-title => 'main window'); for (1..5) { $mw->Toplevel(-title => "toplevel #$_"); } for ($mw, $mw->children) { print $_->cget('-title'),"\n" if /Toplevel/ or /MainWindow/; } MainLoop;

    To find windows owned by other processes, you are going to need to interact with the OS window manager and that is going to be very specific to the your needs and the OS/WM you are using. There's no portable easy answer.

Re^3: TK Toplevel Window List (wm)
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 13, 2013 at 07:42 UTC

    Thank you, but which function would produce a window list?

    Perhaps one with "list" in the documentation, there aren't that many functions, you can find it, grep/ack makes it easier