Well, at first glance it appears as though the answer to your question is "no".

I don't believe that Tk provides any information about a "panel" on any given OS/Window Manager/GUI. Actually just looking at that last sentence it's quite obvious why not. Plainly put, there are simply too many different options. From the Gnome Panel to the KDE panel, to WM's docking bar, or FVWM95's "start bar", even MS-Windows has different "shells" that don't use a Start bar.

There are some other options though - perhaps using takefocus/always focus within Tk will help ( I believe these are valid methods in Tk for toplevel objects). Though this will put it simply on top of the menu, and whether that will work for all of them I don't know (does the MS-Windows start menu relinquish it's always on top to other always on top apps? Is this implemented properly in Win32 port of Tk?).

Perhaps the other option is some dirty hacks to find out position and size of current "panels". The gnome panel stores it's size info in ~/.gnome/panel.d/panel, Win32 probably has some info in the registry as to location and size of Start menu, I'm sure that KDE has some info regarding it's panel as well. The problem comes down to where and whom is going to be using the app. Good luck, oh and BTW if you ever find out where exactly in the registry Start menu info stays, please let me know ;-)

In reply to Re: Sizing Tk Widgets WRT the Taskbar by the_slycer
in thread Sizing Tk Widgets WRT the Taskbar by nokesja

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