Make sure the window title is visible in tkinter

Cecil Westerhof Cecil at decebal.nl
Fri Jun 28 04:20:03 EDT 2019


Cecil Westerhof <Cecil at decebal.nl> writes:

> Wildman <best_lay at yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 13:25:15 +0200, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>>
>>> I need to write a desktop program. I choose to use tkinter. How can I
>>> make sure the window title is visible? For example when I have the
>>> following code:
>>>     from tkinter      import Button, filedialog, Label, messagebox, Tk
>>> 
>>> 
>>>     window = Tk()
>>>     window.title('A long window title')
>>>     Button (window, text = 'Short text').pack()
>>>     window.mainloop()
>>> 
>>> I see only a part of the 'A', but I would like to see the complete:
>>>     'A long window title'
>>
>> According to link below, it is not possible...
>> "Tkinter has no way of knowing how long the title is on the titlebar."
>>
>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35273690/tkinter-window-not-wide-enough-to-display-window-title
>
> OK, then I will have to live with it.

I just make sure something is in my window that has such a width that
the tittle will be displayed. ;-)

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Cecil Westerhof
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