[Tile-dev] Using ttk::dialog with a 'withdrawn' root window

[Christian S. <chr...@su...>]

Hi 

I'm sorry if this is too newbeish.

If I call 'withdraw' on the root window, I cannot make a ttk::dialog show on 
the screen. This little script shows my problem:

<snippet>
package require tile
wm title . "Root window"
toplevel .tl 
ttk::dialog .dlg -type okcancel
wm withdraw .
</snippet>

With this, the dialog doesn't show.

If I comment out the line "wm withdraw .", then the dialog shows ok, but then 
I have the root window on screen.

How can I withdraw the root and show a ttk::dialog?

-- Context:

I'm trying to write an app, which is to sit as a tray-icon in the system tray 
and there should be no root window on the screen. When the icon is clicked a 
pop-up menu appears, and some of the entries in that menu should launch a 
ttk::dialog. 
I use tktray1.1 (http://wiki.tcl.tk/5972) which is a toplevel widget, but as 
the snippet above demonstrates, my problem seems not to be related  to 
tktray.

I'm running tcl8.5a5, tk8.5a5 and tile-0.7.8. It's compiled from sources on 
debian unstable, and I run the app in KDE 3.5.6
 

-- Disclaimer:

I use Tk and Tile from Ruby, and my tcl-skills are in the category just below 
pathetic. Therefore this mail may be nonsense, in which case I appologize.

br. Christian Surlykke