(bbfu) (fullscreen considerations) Re3: Center a Tk window on the screen

Of course, if you're running it in MS win32, you should be aware that any "stay on top" windows (such as the taskbar and, on my computer anyway, Trillian) will still be in front. You'll have to do something using Win32 or Win32::API to move them to the back, probably. Although, it's possible Tk has some way to force a z-order for your window (I haven't checked).

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Re: (bbfu) (fullscreen considerations) Re3: Center a Tk window on the screen
by {NULE} (Hermit) on Jan 04, 2003 at 22:45 UTC

This is what I ended up using and it works well, excluding the stay-on-top thing (tested on SuSE 8.0 (5.6.1) and Win98 (ActiveState-5.8.0):

if ($s->{fullscreen})
{
    $s->{fullscreen} = 0;
    $w->{main}->withdraw;
    $w->{main}->update;
    $w->{main}->overrideredirect(0);
    $w->{main}->geometry($s->{windowed}||"800x600+20+20");
    $w->{main}->deiconify;
    $w->{main}->update;
}
else
{
    $s->{fullscreen} = 1;
    $s->{windowed} = $w->{main}->geometry;
    $w->{main}->withdraw;
    $w->{main}->update;
    $w->{main}->overrideredirect(1);
    $w->{main}->geometry($w->{main}->screenwidth."x".$w->{main}->scree
+nheight."+0+0");
    $w->{main}->deiconify;
    $w->{main}->update;
}
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