Re: Sorry, but need more help
From: ep (eps57_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/23/04
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Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 08:07:47 -0800
Thank you for the observation - others have said the same but I do not
believe it!
Running the code you gave me does what I want. However, only when I am over
the "demo.tcl" window (that is my script file name). Now to get it work
anywhere on the display?
Ep
"Cameron Laird" <claird@lairds.com> wrote in message
news:1012h9ktgl9ah31@corp.supernews.com...
> In article <5hbQb.19$wM6.22824@news.uswest.net>, ep <eps57@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> >
> >"Bryan Oakley" <bryan@bitmover.com> wrote in message
> >news:OHUPb.10465$CB1.426@newssvr23.news.prodigy.com...
> >> ep wrote:
> >>
> >> > Thanks again to all that are responding.
> >> >
> >> > I tried the code below in a loop calling it. However, I am still
doing
> >at
> >> > least one thing wrong (I tend to do multiple things wrong until I
> >stumble on
> >> > the resolution).
> >> >
> >> > First, I get a window that has the name of the TCLet on it. I would
> >like to
> >> > get rid of it (actually, never have it show).
> >>
> >> I'd suggest getting a good book on Tk and doing a bit of research. The
> >> command "wm" has options for setting the title and removing all
> >> decorations (look for "wm overrideredirect").
> >>
> >> By the way, "TCLet" has no meaning, or rather, the variation "tclet"
> >> most often refers to a tcl program running in the tcl web browser
> >> plugin. You aren't doing that, are you?
> >>
> >
> >Oops. I guess I need to brush on the terminology. I am NOT doing
anything
> >in web browsers. Just stand alone units. That MAY come later (if I am
> >still sane - which, by the way, is questionable from the start!).
> >
> >> >
> >> > Second, I only get the last update. I even changed the time to 5
> >seconds
> >> > (5000).
> >>
> >> I suspect you get all updates but are only seeing the last because your
> >> loop is running too fast. I think we could give you code that displays
a
> >> different message every few seconds so you could see it but I think it
> >> might only serve to confuse you even more.
> >>
> >
> >Confusion is my monicor! I would like to see the code if, for nothing
else,
> >my "education".
> >
> >> I'm reasonably certain the code works, and is doing what you want. If
> >> you have a loop that runs three times in well under a second why do you
> >> want to see three different messages? I suspect your testing methods
> >> aren't in line with what you are actually trying to accomplish.
> >>
> >
> >The last statement may prove correct. What I want to do, let us use this
> >for an example, is to every 2seconds, show in a message box the mouse
> >pointer position in x y coords. I thought (sometimes that is a strenous
> >activity on my part) that I could use some kind of message box to display
a
> >window with that data and have it stay on top and display the changes as
the
> >user moves the pointer. Appears that what I want to do and the
underlying
> >activities to accomplish that may be greater than what I had envisioned.
> >However, I have done it on VB before but cannot get that code back to see
> >what I did and how to "convert" it to tcl. I would like to make this
> >universal for testing some devices that I do for my employer.
> >
> >> If you want to prove the code works, run a wish session interactively,
> >> load in the showMessage proc definition with a timeout of 10000
> >> milliseconds, then interatively type in several showMessage commands in
> >> less than 10 second intervals. You'll see the messages then.
> >>
> >
> >I put your code in and, well the results are somewhat "random".
Sometimes I
> >will get 50% results displayed (5 of 10 loops - usually the last 5 - will
> >display what I want the others do not get displayed). Other times I only
> >get the last result.
> >
> >I am stymied! I know I am, at best, a "novice" programmer, but tcl is
> >kicking my &*^$%($# all over the room! It cannot be that difficult!
> .
> .
> .
> You work too hard.
>
> That's an observation, not an accusation.
>
> When you run
> toplevel .m
> pack [label .m.l -width 30]
>
> bind . <Motion> {
> .m.l configure -text "The position of the mouse is (%X, %Y)."
> }
> does it produce results that interest you? I didn't realize AT ALL
> before that you wanted "some kind of message box to ... display the
> changes as the user moves the pointer".
>
> There is an issue, at this level, with having Tk display the posi-
> tion of the mouse when it's not over one of the Tk application's
> windows. We'll return to that later; first I want to understand
> whether the small script above appears to you to give results that
> are in the direction you want to pursue.
>
> --
>
> Cameron Laird <claird@phaseit.net>
> Business: http://www.Phaseit.net
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