This is getting very interesting as it "homes in" on full cross-platform functioning. I found no instructions for building the Windows version. I suppose it blindingly obvious, but could you drop a few hints for us extension building neophytes? Or even post a dll? - Roy Terry, 6Dec2003TkTrans is a Windows-specific alternative.Something like Shape needs to be combined with a 'drag and drop' extension to allow proper dragging of arbitrarily shaped objects from, e.g. a canvas or a text widget (where you might want to drag a non-rectangular block of text).Does anyone have plans to really add proper 'drag and drop' support to Tk? Any TIPs in the pipeline?MGS 2003/03/26 - I think the best bet may be TkDNDDKF: 27-Mar-2003 - It's on the Tk 9.0 Wishlist.
The extension appears to have moved to:http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~fellowsd/tcl/shapeidx.html
In a discussion on comp.lang.tcl
it is shown that you can get a shaped window even with plain Tcl on windows. However I would only use it for a splash screen.wm overrideredirect [toplevel .some] 1 wm geometry .some 800x600+40+20 wm attribute .some -transparentcolor #C1C2C3 canvas .some.c -wid 800 -hei 600 -bg #C1C2C3 \ -bd 0 -relief flat -highlightthickness 0 pack .some.c -padx 0 -pady 0 -ipadx 0 -ipady 0 .some.c create oval 20 20 780 580 -width 1 -fill #ff0000 frame .some.c.w pack [label .some.c.w.t -text "Bonjour! Tcl" -fg #C1C2C3] .some.c create window 40 40 -window .some.c.wRLE (2012-10-08): Note that the "-transparentcolor" option to wm attribute is documented as a Windows only feature (wm man page):
On Windows, the following attributes may be set. ... -transparentcolor Specifies the transparent color index of the toplevel. ...tcltk-d: 2012-10-09 On MacOS10.6 wish V8.4
# (set w .anytoplevel) $w conf -bg systemTransparent wm attribute $w -transparent 1may work!.
