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

Hi monks,

I just did a mail alert program. When a new mail arrives the program will alert the user with the help of TK messageBox.

But while displaying the alert, the MainWindow is also there, back to the message box. I don't want that MainWindow to be displayed.

Is there any way to display messagebox without the MainWindow in Tk?

--Lakshmanan G.

Your Attempt May Fail, But Never Fail To Make An Attempt

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Re: TK mainwindow
by GrandFather (Saint) on Mar 14, 2009 at 05:15 UTC

    Show us sample code that demonstrates the problem then we can provide a solution appropriate to your context. However, the following may be of some help:

    use strict;
use warnings;
use Tk;
use Tk::DialogBox;

my $main = MainWindow->new ();
my $dlg = $main->DialogBox (
    -title   => "demo Dialog",
    -buttons => ["OK"]
);

$dlg->add ('Label', -text => <<MSG)->form ();
Click OK to close the dialog.
MSG

$main->withdraw ();
$dlg->transient (undef);
$dlg->Show (-global);

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Re: TK mainwindow
by lakshmananindia (Chaplain) on Mar 14, 2009 at 05:36 UTC

    Problem solved as follows

    use Tk;
my $mw = new MainWindow;
$mw->withdraw();
my $response = $mw->messageBox(-icon => 'info', -message => "Testing" 
+, -title => "Perlmonks" , -type => 'ok');

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    Thanks GrandFather for pointing the withdraw function.

    --Lakshmanan G.

    Your Attempt May Fail, But Never Fail To Make An Attempt

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