It transpires that the behaviour of [wm geometry ...] is quite different between the standard Tk platforms. This page is to document those differences (since the wm man page doesn't do so).
The main differences are between whether this command manipulates/queries the entire window including borders/titlebar or just the contents, and in what aspects can be set/queried during a window's creation or while it is withdrawn.
Difference 1: wm geometry . +0+0
Windows and MacOS X -- 'wm geometry . +0+0' will move the main toplevel so that it nestles into the top-left corner of the screen, with the left border and titlebar completely visible.
X11 -- 'wm geometry . +0+0' will move the main toplevel so that its contents are nestled into the top-left corner of the screen, but with the left border and titlebar completely offscreen and invisible.
In summary positioning with wm geometry controls the window contents on X11, but the window structure on Windows/MacOS X.
Difference 2: window decoration geometry
Because of Difference 1, the following proc
proc decorationGeometry {{w .}} {
set geom [wm geometry $w]
regexp -- {([0-9]+)x([0-9]+)\+([0-9]+)\+([0-9]+)} $geom -> \
width height decorationLeft decorationTop
set contentsTop [winfo rooty $w]
set contentsLeft [winfo rootx $w]
# Measure left edge, and assume all edges except top are the
# same thickness
set decorationThickness [expr {$contentsLeft - $decorationLeft}]
# Find titlebar + menubar (if it exists) thickness
set titleMenubarThickness [expr {$contentsTop - $decorationTop}]
return [list $titleMenubarThickness $decorationThickness]
}Is only useful on MacOS X/Windows (where it returns the thickness of the titlebar/menubar and the thickness of the left window border). On X11, it simply returns 0 0.
Difference 3: geometry of withdraw windows
On immediate creation:
toplevel .tt ; wm withdraw .tt ; wm geometry .tt
will return 1x1+0+0 on all platforms, but:
toplevel .tt ; wm withdraw .tt ; update; wm geometry .tt
will return 1x1+0+0 on X11 and 200x200+198+261 (or something similar) on Windows (still need to test OS X). Similarly, winfo height .tt will return (of course) 1 on x11 and 200 on Windows.
A constant here is that ''winfo reqheight .tt' will return 200 (or equivalent) on all platforms.
More to be filled in.
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