From: Hidetoshi NAGAI <nagai@...>
Date: 2004-05-13T12:31:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Grab on TkToplevel window

Hi, 

From: tveiga@veiga.sytes.net (Tiago)
Subject: Grab on TkToplevel window
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 03:19:00 +0900
Message-ID: <af5442f1.0405121017.21a2ccb6@posting.google.com>
> Is it possible to grab a toplevel window like a dialog box?
> I have something like this:
> window=TkToplevel.new
> window.grab
> 
> and I get this message:
> Error:/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/tk.rb:1623:in `__invoke': grab failed: window
> not viewable

Probably there are two effective ways. 

(1)  window = TkToplevel.new
     Tk.update
     window.grab

(2)  window = TkToplevel.new
     window.wait_visibility
     window.grab

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                                  Hidetoshi NAGAI (nagai@ai.kyutech.ac.jp)