The .withdraw() should be right after the statement that creates the Toplevel
window. Creating it, then making the call to this def show() is giving the
system time to make the window visible. If the Toplevel() and the .withdraw()
are together the window doesn't show up until the .deiconify().
On 2010-09-30, at 10:11, Vasilis Vlachoudis wrote:
> Thank you Michael for the suggestion,
>
> I don't understand why you are using the withdraw() before.
> Now on my linux, it pops up the window (with Tk dimensions) then it remove it
> and then it displays it correctly with my dimensions.
>
> Cheers
> Vasilis
>
>
> On 09/30/10 11:38, Michael Lange wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thus spoketh Vasilis Vlachoudis<vasilis.vlachou...@cern.ch>
>> unto us on Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:30:27 +0200:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> In my application I have several custom made Toplevel windows when they
>>> close they remember their position and size, so the next time to open
>>> them using with the same geometry.
>>>
>>> Therefore in the show method I have the following sequence
>>>
>>> def show(self):
>>> self.deiconify()
>>> self.geometry("%dx%d+%d+%d", self.width, self.height, self.x,
>>> self.y)
>>> self.wait_visibility()
>>>
>> You might try to change your func like this:
>>
>> def show(self):
>> self.withdraw()
>> self.geometry("%dx%d+%d+%d", self.width, self.height, self.x,self.y)
>> self.update_idletasks()
>> self.deiconify()
>>
>> This way you should be able to avoid the ugly visible resizing, at least
>> I have used this successfully on X, I don't have any experience with
>> VirtualBox, though.
>>
>> I hope this helps
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
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