The Pod window - 1.1

Table Of Contents

• INTRO
• SCREENSHOTS
• EXAMPLE
• DEMOS
• DOWNLOAD
  • REQUIRED PACKAGES
  • INSTALLATION
• HISTORY
• AUTHOR

INTRO

With the Pod command you can:

• create a new kind of toplevl windows
• transform an existing toplevel window in a Pod-window.

For full details read the documentation :

• Pod Reference

Pod is a pure-tcl widget, running (with some limitations) on any platform

• Windows : fully tested.
• Mac / Unix : some troubles with some incoherent wm commands ....

SCREENSHOTS

• Output from demo01.tcl. Note the 3rd semi-transparent Pod

• After adapting an existing app: A Toy Piano

      Pod adapt . -bg darkred
  

  

• - After adapting an existing app: Kandinsky dance

      Pod adapt . -bg #333388
  

  

EXAMPLE

Create a new Pod

   package require Pod
   Pod .myPod -bg orange

or you can transform (adapt) an existing toplevel:

   toplevel .myWin
   button .myWin.b1 -text "A Button"
   pack .myWin.b1 -fill x
   
   package require Pod
   Pod adapt .myWin -bg lightblue
    # some adjustments
   .myWin configure -pady 20
   wm geometry .myWin 200x120+100+100

DEMOS

Run files in demo directory ..

Just for running demos, you are not requested to install this package within the tcl standard library path.

DOWNLOAD

Pod 1.1

REQUIRED PACKAGES

• tcl-tk - v.8.4.14 or higher (required support for "wm attributes $window -transparent $color" command).
  Note that the "wm overrideredirect .." command is rather clumsy or limited under Unix/Mac. For example, under Mac, it is impossible to hide the window decoration after the toplevel has been once mapped ...

INSTALLATION

Pod should be installed under standard library path.

HISTORY

• 1.0
  • initial version
• 1.0.1
  • FIX: -padx -pady options were not initialized (causing errors on "$win configure -padx ..." ) No change on docs.
• 1.1
  • The behaviour of dragging has been changed. Now you can start dragging the whole Pod by simply pressing Button-1 over ANY point inside the Pod, PROVIDED THAT the cursor is not over an internal widget having its own bindings with Button-1 (e.g. scrollbars, buttons, ....). More precise specification in Pod Reference

AUTHOR

Copyright (c) 2007 <Irrational Numbers>

For comments and suggestions, please write to : <aldo.buratti@tiscali.it>