prevent auto-focus in Tk Toplevels

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Re: prevent auto-focus in Tk Toplevels by Rich36 (Chaplain) on Dec 23, 2002 at 18:08 UTC
You could try passing the parent widget to the routine that creates the new Toplevel and then call `$parentwidget->focus` to give the parent widget focus. You could bind this method to when your new window takes focus. In Mastering Perl/Tk, there's also the method `$widget->focusForce`, which allows you to "force a widget to have the focus even if the applicatuion isn't currently active" (p. 299, Mastering Perl/Tk). «Rich36»	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: prevent auto-focus in Tk Toplevels by dakkar (Hermit) on Dec 25, 2002 at 18:12 UTC
I'm not sure it is Tk's task... it looks more a problem to be taken to the window manager. Assuming, of course, you are using Tk on X11. If this is the case, you'll have to resort to the horror that is the ICCCM (Inter-Client Communications Converntions Manual, or How to do IPC over X11 and have nightmares). Or the (cleaner, but narrower in scope) GNOME/KDE WM conventions. Sorry, out of links at the moment. I'm at my parent's home, on a dial-up (56K) instead of my usual ADSL (320K) -- dakkar - Mobilis in mobile	[reply]