Re: [MACTCL] Wish support for fullscreen/half-screen in El Capitan?

[Kevin W. <kw...@co...>]

On 10/7/15 9:13 PM, Trevor Williams wrote:
> Just a quick question to see if there are plans to add support for full-screen/half-screen support to Wish on El Capitan?
I've installed 10.11 and have had a little time to play with the 
half-screen/full-screen API. Based on that, I'm going to rule out adding 
support for it in Tk.

My "fullscreen" extension actually does implement some of this 
functionality--pushing the green window button makes the app 
fullscreen--but adding the half-screen support is going to be very 
difficult. The first version of the fullscreen package let Cocoa handle 
all the window resizing; this would make the half-screen implementation 
possible, as well. But it came at a cost: it was very hard to track 
window state from Tk, which would get confused about screen geometry, 
correct size of widgets, etc.

The latest version of the extension overrides nearly all the Cocoa 
machinery and delegates the window resizing and management to Tk script 
level API's. Works much more smoothly (mostly by calling into wm 
attributes -fullscreen), but also would make the half-screen 
implementation pretty much impossible.

Hope this helps,
Kevin

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