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Author Re: Tk, how to hide the top level window
Bruce Hartweg

2005-07-24, 8:59 pm



Thomas Dickey wrote:
> Bruce Hartweg <bruce_hartweg@raytheon.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> It can be embedded (though I don't do it myself, I added the option several
> years ago for someone who does):
>
> -into windowId
> Given an X window identifier (a decimal integer), xterm will
> reparent its top-level shell widget to that window. This is
> used to embed xterm within other applications.
>
> xterm supports ANSI color, VT220 emulation and UTF-8
> There's an faq at
> http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html
> ftp://invisible-island.net/xterm/
>


good to know (and why I encouraged the OP to go to the newsgroup).
but... the version of xterm on my system (whatever came with Solaris 9)
does NOT have that option.

And it highlights the point in the original question about embedding apps
*in general* in that the app being embedded has to have the support for it.

Bruce

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