window focus and stacking in TK

nop has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am learning TK, thanks for your patience with my questions!

When I throw off a new window,


$win->bind('<Return>' =>
    sub {
    my $win2 = $win->Toplevel;
    my $image = $win2->Photo;
    $image->configure(-file=>&nowpic);
    $win2->Label(-image=>$image)->pack;
    $win2->title(&nowpic);
    }
);
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how do I ensure the focus stays on the primary window ( $win), and the new window ($win2) shows up below the primary?

Thanks

nop

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Re: window focus and stacking in TK by alien_life_form (Pilgrim) on Nov 07, 2001 at 19:11 UTC
Greetings, use $toplevel->raise() or $toplevel->raise($other_toplevel) to influence stacking order. Also there is a ->focus method that juust might happen to do what you want. Cheers, alf You can't have everything: where would you put it?	[reply]
Re: window focus and stacking in TK by kevin_i_orourke (Friar) on Nov 07, 2001 at 16:36 UTC
The window focus is controlled by your window manager and you don't have much control over this from within Tk. It tries to protect you from differences between systems and as a result you lose some functionality. You could try playing with `withdraw`ing and `deiconify`ing the windows, if you do this in the right order you might be able to change their relative stacking order. Kevin O'Rourke	[reply]