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246.TH Tk_CreateWindow 3 4.2 Tk "Tk Library Procedures"
247.BS
248.SH NAME
249Tk_CreateWindow, Tk_CreateWindowFromPath, Tk_DestroyWindow, Tk_MakeWindowExist \- create or delete window
250.SH SYNOPSIS
251.nf
252\fB#include <tk.h>\fR
253.sp
254Tk_Window
255\fBTk_CreateWindow\fR(\fIinterp, parent, name, topLevScreen\fR)
256.sp
257Tk_Window
258\fBTk_CreateAnonymousWindow\fR(\fIinterp, parent, topLevScreen\fR)
259.sp
260Tk_Window
261\fBTk_CreateWindowFromPath\fR(\fIinterp, tkwin, pathName, topLevScreen\fR)
262.sp
263\fBTk_DestroyWindow\fR(\fItkwin\fR)
264.sp
265\fBTk_MakeWindowExist\fR(\fItkwin\fR)
266.SH ARGUMENTS
267.AS Tcl_Interp *topLevScreen
268.AP Tcl_Interp *interp out
269Tcl interpreter to use for error reporting. If no error occurs,
270then \fI*interp\fR isn't modified.
271.AP Tk_Window parent in
272Token for the window that is to serve as the logical parent of
273the new window.
274.AP "CONST char" *name in
275Name to use for this window. Must be unique among all children of
276the same \fIparent\fR.
277.AP "CONST char" *topLevScreen in
278Has same format as \fIscreenName\fR. If NULL, then new window is
279created as an internal window. If non-NULL, new window is created as
280a top-level window on screen \fItopLevScreen\fR. If \fItopLevScreen\fR
281is an empty string (``'') then new
282window is created as top-level window of \fIparent\fR's screen.
283.AP Tk_Window tkwin in
284Token for window.
285.AP "CONST char" *pathName in
286Name of new window, specified as path name within application
287(e.g. \fB.a.b.c\fR).
288.BE
289
290.SH DESCRIPTION
291.PP
292The procedures \fBTk_CreateWindow\fR,
293.VS
294\fBTk_CreateAnonymousWindow\fR, and \fBTk_CreateWindowFromPath\fR
295are used to create new windows for
296use in Tk-based applications. Each of the procedures returns a token
297that can be used to manipulate the window in other calls to the Tk
298library. If the window couldn't be created successfully, then NULL
299is returned and \fIinterp->result\fR is modified to hold an error
300message.
301.PP
302Tk supports two different kinds of windows: internal
303windows and top-level windows.
304.VE
305An internal window is an interior window of a Tk application, such as a
306scrollbar or menu bar or button. A top-level window is one that is
307created as a child of a screen's root window, rather than as an
308interior window, but which is logically part of some existing main
309window. Examples of top-level windows are pop-up menus and dialog boxes.
310.PP
311New windows may be created by calling
312\fBTk_CreateWindow\fR. If the \fItopLevScreen\fR argument is
313NULL, then the new window will be an internal window. If
314\fItopLevScreen\fR is non-NULL, then the new window will be a
315top-level window: \fItopLevScreen\fR indicates the name of
316a screen and the new window will be created as a child of the
317root window of \fItopLevScreen\fR. In either case Tk will
318consider the new window to be the logical child of \fIparent\fR:
319the new window's path name will reflect this fact, options may
320be specified for the new window under this assumption, and so on.
321The only difference is that new X window for a top-level window
322will not be a child of \fIparent\fR's X window. For example, a pull-down
323menu's \fIparent\fR would be the button-like window used to invoke it,
324which would in turn be a child of the menu bar window. A dialog box might
325have the application's main window as its parent.
326.PP
327\fBTk_CreateAnonymousWindow\fR differs from \fBTk_CreateWindow\fR in
328that it creates an unnamed window. This window will be manipulable
329only using C interfaces, and will not be visible to Tcl scripts. Both
330interior windows and top-level windows may be created with
331\fBTk_CreateAnonymousWindow\fR.
332.PP
333\fBTk_CreateWindowFromPath\fR offers an alternate way of specifying
334new windows. In \fBTk_CreateWindowFromPath\fR the new
335window is specified with a token for any window in the target
336application (\fItkwin\fR), plus a path name for the new window.
337It produces the same effect as \fBTk_CreateWindow\fR and allows
338both top-level and internal windows to be created, depending on
339the value of \fItopLevScreen\fR. In calls to \fBTk_CreateWindowFromPath\fR,
340as in calls to \fBTk_CreateWindow\fR, the parent of the new window
341must exist at the time of the call, but the new window must not
342already exist.
343.PP
344The window creation procedures don't
345actually issue the command to X to create a window.
346Instead, they create a local data structure associated with
347the window and defer the creation of the X window.
348The window will actually be created by the first call to
349\fBTk_MapWindow\fR. Deferred window creation allows various
350aspects of the window (such as its size, background color,
351etc.) to be modified after its creation without incurring
352any overhead in the X server. When the window is finally
353mapped all of the window attributes can be set while creating
354the window.
355.PP
356The value returned by a window-creation procedure is not the
357X token for the window (it can't be, since X hasn't been
358asked to create the window yet). Instead, it is a token
359for Tk's local data structure for the window. Most
360of the Tk library procedures take Tk_Window tokens, rather
361than X identifiers. The actual
362X window identifier can be retrieved from the local
363data structure using the \fBTk_WindowId\fR macro; see
364the manual entry for \fBTk_WindowId\fR for details.
365.PP
366\fBTk_DestroyWindow\fR deletes a window and all the data
367structures associated with it, including any event handlers
368created with \fBTk_CreateEventHandler\fR. In addition,
369\fBTk_DestroyWindow\fR will delete any children of \fItkwin\fR
370recursively (where children are defined in the Tk sense, consisting
371of all windows that were created with the given window as \fIparent\fR).
372If \fItkwin\fR is an internal window, then event
373handlers interested in destroy events
374are invoked immediately. If \fItkwin\fR is a top-level or main window,
375then the event handlers will be invoked later, after X has seen
376the request and returned an event for it.
377.PP
378If a window has been created
379but hasn't been mapped, so no X window exists, it is
380possible to force the creation of the X window by
381calling \fBTk_MakeWindowExist\fR. This procedure issues
382the X commands to instantiate the window given by \fItkwin\fR.
383
384.SH KEYWORDS
385create, deferred creation, destroy, display, internal window,
386screen, top-level window, window