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Re: [PATCH 7/7] gitk: Explicitly position popup windows.

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Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 21, 2008, 12:52 UTC
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:
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> Alexander Gavrilov writes:
>
>> For some reason, on Windows all transient windows are placed
>> in the upper left corner of the screen. Thus, it is necessary
>> to explicitly position the windows using the tk::PlaceWindow
>> function.
>
> Hmmm, this is not part of the official Tk API as far as I can see, and
> having to call tk::PlaceWindow on every window we create is a bit
> gross.  What exactly does it do, and what effect will this change have
> on Linux?  Are you sure there isn't some other way to fix the problem?

It is just a convenient helper function that can explicitly compute and set the window position in a number of ways. It is used in Tk's dialog implementations. If you don't like using an unofficial function, I can pull out the relevant ~8 lines of code as a separate function in gitk.

http://objectmix.com/tcl/390381-tile-dialog-boxes-not-transient-parent-under-windows.html http://wiki.tcl.tk/1254

Alexander
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Message 10 of 26 in “gitk: UI enhancements”
  1. 0/7 gitk: UI enhancementsAlexander Gavrilov, Oct 8, 2008
  2. 1/7 gitk: Enhance UI popup and accelerator handling.Alexander Gavrilov, Oct 8, 2008
  3. 2/7 gitk: Allow forcing branch creation if it already exists.Alexander Gavrilov, Oct 8, 2008
  4. 3/7 gitk: Allow starting gui blame for a specific line.Alexander Gavrilov, Oct 8, 2008
  5. 4/7 gitk: Fix file list context menu for merge commits.Alexander Gavrilov, Oct 8, 2008
  6. 5/7 gitk: Make cherry-pick call git-citool on conflicts.Alexander Gavrilov, Oct 8, 2008
  7. 6/7 gitk: Implement a user-friendly Edit View dialog.Alexander Gavrilov, Oct 8, 2008
  8. 7/7 gitk: Explicitly position popup windows.Alexander Gavrilov, Oct 8, 2008
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