Popup(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Popup(3pm)
NAME
Tk::Wm::Popup - popup dialog windows.
SYNOPSIS
$dialog->Popup(qw/
-popover => 'cursor' | $widget | undef,
-overanchor => c | n | ne | e | se | s | sw | w | nw,
-popanchor => c | n | ne | e | se | s | sw | w | nw,
/);
DESCRIPTION
You've probably had occasion to use a Dialog (or DialogBox) widget.
These widgets are derived from a Toplevel (which is a subclass of
Tk::Wm, the window manager) and spend most of their time in a withdrawn
state. It's also common to use Toplevels as containers for custom built
popup windows. Menus, too, are dialogs derived from the window manager
class. For this discussion, we'll use the simple term dialog to refer
any widget that pops up and awaits user interaction, whether it be a
Menu, a special purpose Toplevel, or any of the dialog-type widgets,
including, but not limited to, ColorEditor, Dialog, DialogBox,
ErrorDialog, FileSelect, FBox, getOpenFile and getSaveFile.
When it's time to display these dialogs, we call the Perl/Tk window
manager Popup method. Popup accepts three special purpose options that
specify placement information in high-level terms rather than numerical
coordinates. It is Popup's responsibility to take our human
specifications and turn them into actual screen coordinates before
displaying the dialog.
We can direct the dialog to appear in two general locations, either over
another window (e.g. the root window (screen) or a particular widget),
or over the cursor. This is called the popover location. Once we've made
this decision we can further refine the exact placement of the dialog
relative to the popover location by specifying the intersection of two
anchor points. The popanchor point is associated with the dialog and the
overanchor point is associated with the popover location (whether it be
a window or the cursor). The point where the two anchor points coincide
is the popup locus. Anchor points are string values and can be c (for
center), or any of the eight cardinal compass points: n, ne, e, se, s,
sw, w or nw.
For example, if -popover specifies a widget, -popanchor is sw, and
-overanchor is ne, the the dialog's southwest corner pops up at the
widget's northeast corner.
OPTIONS
The options recognized by Popup are as follows:
-popover
Specifies whether the dialog "pops over" a window or the cursor. It
may be the string cursor, a widget reference, or undef for the root
window.
-popanchor
Specifies the anchor point of the dialog. For instance, if e is
specified, the right side of the dialog is the anchor.
-overanchor
Specifies where the dialog should anchor relative to the popover
location. For instance, if e is specified the dialog appears over
the right side of the popover location and if it's ne the the dialog
is positioned at the upper-right corner of the popover location.
AUTHOR
Nick Ing-Simmons, Steve Lidie
This code is distributed under the same terms as Perl.
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