Maximizing a toplevel window

Maximizing a toplevel window: Customers sometimes want a window to come up maximized (they want it to be as though they had touched the fill-the-screen button in the window-manager's decoration).

      package require Tcl 8.2 ;# [package present] and [string equal]
      package require Tk
      proc maximize toplevel {
             # Unixoid window managers definitely can't rely on "wm ... zoom";
             #    can MacOS?
             # "wm state ..." only began to take "zoom" with version 8.3.
         if {([catch {package present Tk 8.3}] == 0) &&
              [string equal $::tcl_platform(platform) windows]} {
             wm state $toplevel zoomed
             return
         }
         pack propagate $toplevel 0
         update idletasks
         wm geometry $toplevel +0+0
         wm minsize $toplevel [winfo screenwidth $toplevel] \
                               [winfo screenheight $toplevel]
      } ;# [CL]

An alternative, to support Tcl/Tk versions older than 8.2 (at least 7.5/4.1):

      package require Tk
      proc maximize toplevel {
          global tcl_platform
              # [wm state] able to set state beginning with Tk 8.3.
              # "zoomed" state available only on Windows.
          if {![package vsatisfies [package provide Tk] 8.3]
              && ([string compare $tcl_platform(platform) windows] == 0)} {
              wm state $toplevel zoomed
              return
          }
          pack propagate $toplevel 0
          update idletasks
          wm geometry $toplevel +0+0
          wm minsize $toplevel [winfo screenwidth $toplevel] \
                               [winfo screenheight $toplevel]
      }

DGP

Someone who wants to pursue this for Win32 should examine http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~eserte/src/perl/Win32Util/

RS A one-liner that works on Windows 2000 (and should on others, too):

 wm overrideredirect . 1; wm geometry . [join [wm maxsize .] x]+0+0

Tkinter can do the same, of course [L1 ].

If you use the current version of Tk with Windows, this works:

    wm state . zoom

    wm state . zoomed

RA2 But of course if you first have a line in your main.proc defining a smaller window, such as "wm geometry . +20+20" make sure you delete it for it will take precedence over your maximized window call (don't make the same mistake I did! :-).

But come to think of it, wouldn't it be normal that we don't mention anything, that the default should be a maximized window?

Incidently what do the 20 and 20 refer to here: "wm geometry . +20+20" ? Anyone has a clue? - RS: A good source for clues is the man page :^) "NewGeometry has the form =widthxheight±x±y, where any of =, widthxheight, or ±x±y may be omitted. (...) X and y specify the desired location of window on the screen, in pixels. If x is preceded by +, it specifies the number of pixels between the left edge of the screen and the left edge of window's border; if preceded by - then x specifies the number of pixels between the right edge of the screen and the right edge of window's border. If y is preceded by + then it specifies the number of pixels between the top of the screen and the top of window's border; if y is preceded by - then it specifies the number of pixels between the bottom of window's border and the bottom of the screen."

There's a problem with the approach described above for unix: menubars, toolbars, etc are not taken into account (at least with some window managers). The window will be resized to fill the whole screen, and thus parts of it will end up covered by those window manager elements. The following command might be a better solution (unix only):

wm attributes . -zoomed 1

Opening the console maximized

RA2 Hi! I'd like to attach a console to my TCL program. What code do I enter, where and how to start a console maximized (100%)? Thanks I appreciate!

RS: See console and Maximizing a toplevel window, but here's what works for me on Win XP:

 % console show
 % console eval {wm state . zoomed}

RA2 Thanks so much Richard! You are very kind!