Re: Dialog widgets and global mode

[email protected] (Kevin Walzer) Tue, 16 Sep 2014 09:00:03 -0400
Newsgroups perl.tcltk
Organization WordTech Communications LLC
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 9/15/14, 5:16 PM, Gary Sachs wrote:
> Using Perl and Tkx, trying to create some dialog boxes that use "global"
> mode, but that does now seem to work. I can still access other
> applications and windows.I have tried using widget::dialog and Dialog
> from the BWidget group and tk_widget they all behave the same, "global"
> just seems to be ignored and defaults to a "local" behavior.

What do you mean by "global" mode? Meaning, a global grab, so that they 
prevent interaction with any other app?

This behavior is really only supported under X11--Mac and (as far as I 
know) Windows don't really support this kind of extreme modal dialog 
(rightly so, I think).

--Kevin

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