tkinter popup

[Gigs_]

Eric Brunel wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:05:07 +0200, Gigs_ <gigs at hi.t-com.hr> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all
>>
>> I cant figure out how to disable resizing of my popup window?
> 
> myPopupWindow.wm_resizable(0, 0)
> 
> It may or may not make resize controls disappear depending on your 
> platform and/or window manager. But the resizing will be impossible in 
> any case.
> 
>> How to put this popup window to show in the middle of my text editor?
>> It is writen with Toplevel.
> 
> A bit trickier. For example (untested):
> 
> myPopupWindow.after_idle(centerPopupWindow)
> 
> with:
> 
> def centerPopupWindow():
>   x, y = editorWindow.winfo_rootx(), editorWindow.winfo_rooty()
>   w, h = editorWindow.winfo_width(), editorWindow.winfo_height()
>   ww, hh = myPopupWindow.winfo_width(), myPopupWindow.winfo_height()
>   myPopupWindow.geometry('%sx%s+%s+%s', ww, hh, x + w/2 - ww/2, y + h/2 
> - hh/2)
> 
> The after_idle trick is needed since the dimensions for the popup window 
> will only be known when the window is actually displayed. In theory, 
> myPopupWindow.update_idletasks() should update the display so that the 
> window dimensions are known, but there are cases where it doesn't work. 
> So the after_idle trick is surer.
> 
> HTH
> --python -c "print ''.join([chr(154 - ord(c)) for c in 
> 'U(17zX(%,5.zmz5(17l8(%,5.Z*(93-965$l7+-'])"

thanks for both replay, they are very helpful. specially this one, it 
will took some times for me to figure this. i was completely forgot that 
this can be done like that

thx