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Splash Screen
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This below should do the job. However, the splash screen still look like a normal window.
JP Tanguay
#------------------
# hide the main window
wm withdraw .
Splash; # call your proc that create and display a toplevel named .splash
after 5000 {
destroy .splash
wm deiconify .
}
# do your normal UI setup
label .l -text "Main window"
pack .l
#-----------------------
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To prevent the splash screen from looking like a "normal window" (in other words, having the title bar, resize handles, etc.), execute the wm overrideredirect command. This tells the window manager to "ignore" the window. (The weird name for the command comes from deep within the bowels of window manager interaction. Don't ask anything more about it. >
:O> )
So, if you're creating a splash screen with a top-lvel window name of .splash, you'd simply:
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:O> )So, if you're creating a splash screen with a top-lvel window name of .splash, you'd simply:
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toplevel .splash
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