Tkinter fullscreen with Mac OS X

[Kevin Walzer]

C Martin wrote:
> On Jul 28, 6:43 pm, "Guilherme Polo" <ggp... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> You could try this, supposing tl is a toplevel:
>>
>> tl.tk.call("::tk::unsupported::MacWindowStyle", "style", tl._w, "plain", "none")
>>
> 
> I tried this (although, my tl is actually a tk instance):
> 
> self.tk.call("::tk::unsupported::MacWindowStyle", "style", self.tk._w,
> "plain", "none")
> 
> and get this message:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./ProgramCountdown.py", line 120, in <module>
>     control = Controller(tk)
>   File "./ProgramCountdown.py", line 37, in __init__
>     self.tk.call("::tk::unsupported::MacWindowStyle", "style",
> self.tk._w, "plain", "none")
> _tkinter.TclError: bad class: should be alert, moveableAlert, modal,
> moveableModal, floating, help, or document
> 
> Any thoughts? Can you do something similar on the tk instance itself?
> 


Try something like this (assuming self.tk._w is the name of your window):

self.tk._w.wm_attributes(fullscreen='true')

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