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- From: jiangwu@sickdog.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Jiang Wu)
- Subject: Re: How to raise window to become top-layer?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.021741.296@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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- References: <1992Aug19.010804.16684@twg.com> <16tqqhINNhf0@agate.berkeley.edu> <AXEL.92Aug19232537@avalanche.cs.tu-berlin.de>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 02:17:41 GMT
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- In article <AXEL.92Aug19232537@avalanche.cs.tu-berlin.de> axel@cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Mahler) writes:
- >In article <16tqqhINNhf0@agate.berkeley.edu> ouster@sprite.Berkeley.EDU (John Ousterhout) writes:
- > In article <1992Aug19.010804.16684@twg.com>, david@twg.com (David Herron) writes:
- > |>
- > |> Why does tk not have things like `wm raise' and `wm lower'??
- >
- > There's no good reason for this. It's on my (semi-infinite) list of things
- > to do.
- >
- >On a related issue: is there any way to re-map a window that has
- >been withdrawn with "wm withdraw <windowid>" ?
- >
- >The only way I came up with until now is to destroy a window, and
- >completely rebuild it when it's needed again. We are developing
- >some fairly heavyweight application windows, so that rebuilding
- >them each time we want them on the screen, appears to be rather
- >wasteful.
- >
-
- You can do:
-
- wm deiconify <windowid>
-
- This works for me.
-
- >Cheers, Axel.
- >--
- >===============================================================================
- >Axel Mahler, Tech.Univ. Berlin
- >E-Mail: axel@cs.tu-berlin.de (axel@db0tui62.bitnet)
- >Voice: +49-30-314-73487
-
- -- Jiang Wu
- jiangwu@postgres.berkeley.edu
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