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Tk::Wm::Popup - popup dialog windows.
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=for category Tk Toplevel widgets
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-popover => 'cursor' | $widget | undef,
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-overanchor => c | n | ne | e | se | s | sw | w | nw,
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-popanchor => c | n | ne | e | se | s | sw | w | nw,
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You've probably had occasion to use a Dialog (or DialogBox)
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widget. These widgets are derived from a Toplevel (which is a subclass
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of Tk::Wm, the window manager) and spend most of their time in a
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withdrawn state. It's also common to use Toplevels as containers for
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custom built popup windows. Menus, too, are dialogs derived from the
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window manager class. For this discussion, we'll use the simple term
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I<dialog> to refer any widget that pops up and awaits user
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interaction, whether it be a Menu, a special purpose Toplevel, or any
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of the dialog-type widgets, including, but not limited to, ColorEditor,
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Dialog, DialogBox, ErrorDialog, FileSelect, FBox, getOpenFile and
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When it's time to display these dialogs, we call the Perl/Tk
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window manager B<Popup> method. B<Popup> accepts three special purpose
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options that specify placement information in high-level terms rather
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than numerical coordinates. It is B<Popup>'s responsibility to take
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our human specifications and turn them into actual screen
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coordinates before displaying the dialog.
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We can direct the dialog to appear in two general locations, either
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over another window (e.g. the root window (screen) or a particular
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widget), or over the cursor. This is called the I<popover
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location>. Once we've made this decision we can further refine the
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exact placement of the dialog relative to the popover location by
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specifying the intersection of two I<anchor points>. The I<popanchor
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point> is associated with the dialog and the I<overanchor point> is
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associated with the popover location (whether it be a window or the
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cursor). The point where the two anchor points coincide is the I<popup
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locus>. Anchor points are string values and can be I<c> (for center),
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or any of the eight cardinal compass points: I<n>, I<ne>, I<e>, I<se>,
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I<s>, I<sw>, I<w> or I<nw>.
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For example, if I<-popover> specifies a widget, I<-popanchor> is I<sw>,
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and I<-overanchor> is I<ne>, the the dialog's southwest corner pops up
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at the widget's northeast corner.
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The options recognized by B<Popup> are as follows:
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Specifies whether the dialog "pops over" a window or the cursor.
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It may be the string I<cursor>, a widget reference, or undef for the
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Specifies the anchor point of the dialog. For instance, if I<e> is
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specified, the right side of the dialog is the anchor.
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Specifies where the dialog should anchor relative to the popover
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location. For instance, if I<e> is specified the dialog appears over
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the right side of the popover location and if it's I<ne> the the
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dialog is positioned at the upper-right corner of the popover location.
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Nick Ing-Simmons, Steve Lidie
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This code is distributed under the same terms as Perl.
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