For Tk, you can also do something like this:
```
using Tk
w = Toplevel("title", 400, 300)
Tk.set_size(w, 400, 300)
tcl("tkwait", "window", w)
```
With OS X, this seems to wait until the main window is dismissed.
On Saturday, August 29, 2015 at 2:54:50 PM UTC-4, Tim Holy wrote:
>
> For Gtk:
> https://github.com/JuliaLang/Gtk.jl#usage-without-the-repl
>
> On Saturday, August 29, 2015 11:43:35 AM andrew cooke wrote:
> > ah thanks. didn't think it would be an open issue.
> >
> > On Saturday, 29 August 2015 15:12:34 UTC-3, Isaiah wrote:
> > > Tk.jl only polls right now (see
> > > https://github.com/JuliaLang/Tk.jl/issues/3) so you just need to do
> > > something to prevent the process from exiting, such as calling
> > > `readline()`, or
> > >
> > > while running
> > >
> > > yield()
> > >
> > > end
> > >
> > > (obviously with some hook somewhere that changes the state)
> > >
> > > On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 1:43 PM, andrew cooke <[email protected]
> > >
> > > <javascript:>> wrote:
> > >> I guess I need to clarify.
> > >>
> > >> If can successfully run Cairo and Tk commands in a window so that
> > >> "something" is displayed fine.
> > >>
> > >> But if I put this in a file and execute it, the program finishes and
> > >> exits (as one would expect).
> > >>
> > >> In most GUI packages that I have used in the past, however, there is
> a
> > >> way to "enter the main event loop" of the GUI, so that the program
> does
> > >> not
> > >> exit, but continues displaying the windows on the screen and
> responding
> > >> to
> > >> user events. How do I do that with Tk?
> > >>
> > >> Andrew
> > >>
> > >> On Friday, 28 August 2015 15:03:49 UTC-3, j verzani wrote:
> > >>> I'm not sure the window disappears. For me the size gets set to 1
> pixel
> > >>> by 1 pixel, and so is not visible. This command resizes:
> > >>> `Tk.set_size(win,
> > >>> 300, 300)`, which makes the window visible for me.
> > >>>
> > >>> On Friday, August 28, 2015 at 12:47:03 PM UTC-4, andrew cooke wrote:
> > >>>> How do I make TK windows sit there while I look at them? At the
> > >>>> moment, I have code, based on
> > >>>> http://julialang.org/blog/2013/05/graphical-user-interfaces-part2/
> > >>>> that flashes a window on the screen, but then the program finishes
> and
> > >>>> the
> > >>>> window disappears.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I could add a "while true", but I assume there's some Tk function I
> > >>>> call that "takes over" until the user kills the window?
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Thanks,
> > >>>> Andrew
>
>
