Tkinter - centering, positioning new windows

[Christian Tanzer]

Thomas Lane <tom at parlant.com> wrote

> Does anyone know how to specify the position of a Toplevel window? I
> haven't been able to find any documentation on this. I would especially
> like to be able to center a window on the screen and center a window
> respective to its parent window. I know this must be possible, since
> dialogs popped up by TkMessageBox do this. As usual, any help would be
> greatly appreciated.

`wm_geometry' allows setting the size and/or position of a toplevel
window. The argument to it is a string of the form

    "%dx%d+%d+%d" % (width, height, x_position, y_position)

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