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6 Tk::tixWm - Tix's addition to the standard TK wm command.
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9 $widget->wmCapture
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14 The wmCapture and the wmRelease methods change the toplevel attribute
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18 $widget->wmCapture
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20 toplevel widget. Normally this command is called to convert a
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26 $widget->wmRelease
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34 Any data associated with $widget via wm methods (icon, protocol,
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39 wmCapture does not exist in the Win32 window manager code.
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41 How these methods interact with perl/Tk's class hierarchy is not yet
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47 Ioi Kim Lam - ioi@graphics.cis.upenn.edu wrote original Tix version.
48 Updated for tk8.0, Win32 and perl by Nick Ing-Simmons.
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51 Tk::Wm Tk::Mwm Tk::Frame Tk::Toplevel
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54 window manager, wm, TIX
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