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- .HS grab tk
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- .SH NAME
- grab \- Confine pointer and keyboard events to a window sub-tree
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- \fBgrab \fR?\fB\-global\fR? \fIwindow\fR
- .br
- .VS
- \fBgrab \fIoption \fR?arg arg \fR...?
- .VE
- .BE
-
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- .PP
- This command implements simple pointer and keyboard grabs for Tk.
- Tk's grabs are different than the grabs
- described in the Xlib documentation.
- When a grab is set for a particular window, Tk restricts all pointer
- events to the grab window and its descendants in Tk's window hierarchy.
- Whenever the pointer is within the grab window's subtree, the pointer
- will behave exactly the same as if there had been no grab at all
- and all events will be reported in the normal fashion.
- When the pointer is outside \fIwindow\fR's tree, button presses and
- releases and
- mouse motion events are reported to \fIwindow\fR, and window entry
- and window exit events are ignored.
- The grab subtree ``owns'' the pointer:
- windows outside the grab subtree will be visible on the screen
- but they will be insensitive until the grab is released.
- The tree of windows underneath the grab window can include top-level
- windows, in which case all of those top-level windows
- and their descendants will continue to receive mouse events
- during the grab.
- .PP
- Two forms of grabs are possible: local and global.
- A local grab affects only the grabbing application: events will
- be reported to other applications as if the grab had never occurred.
- Grabs are local by default.
- A global grab locks out all applications on the screen,
- so that only the given subtree of the grabbing application will be
- sensitive to pointer events (mouse button presses, mouse button releases,
- pointer motions, window entries, and window exits).
- During global grabs the window manager will not receive pointer
- events either.
- .PP
- During local grabs, keyboard events (key presses and key releases)
- are delivered as usual: the window
- manager controls which application receives keyboard events, and
- if they are sent to any window in the grabbing application then they are
- redirected to the focus window.
- During a global grab Tk grabs the keyboard so that all keyboard events
- are always sent to the grabbing application.
- The \fBfocus\fR command is still used to determine which window in the
- application receives the keyboard events.
- The keyboard grab is released when the grab is released.
- .PP
- Grabs apply to particular displays. If an application has windows
- on multiple displays then it can establish a separate grab on each
- display.
- The grab on a particular display affects only the windows on
- that display.
- It is possible for different applications on a single display to have
- simultaneous local grabs, but only one application can have a global
- grab on a given display at once.
- .PP
- The \fBgrab\fR command can take any of the following forms:
- .TP
- \fBgrab \fR?\fB\-global\fR? \fIwindow\fR
- .VS
- Same as \fBgrab set\fR, described below.
- .TP
- \fBgrab current \fR?\fIwindow\fR?
- If \fIwindow\fR is specified, returns the name of the current grab
- window in this application for \fIwindow\fR's display, or an empty
- string if there is no such window.
- If \fIwindow\fR is omitted, the command returns a list whose elements
- are all of the windows grabbed by this application for all displays,
- or an empty string if the application has no grabs.
- .TP
- \fBgrab release \fIwindow\fR
- Releases the grab on \fIwindow\fR if there is one, otherwise does
- nothing. Returns an empty string.
- .TP
- \fBgrab set \fR?\fB\-global\fR? \fIwindow\fR
- Sets a grab on \fIwindow\fR. If \fB\-global\fR is specified then the
- grab is global, otherwise it is local.
- If a grab was already in effect for this application on
- \fIwindow\fR's display then it is automatically released.
- If there is already a grab on \fIwindow\fR and it has the same
- global/local form as the requested grab, then the command
- does nothing. Returns an empty string.
- .TP
- \fBgrab status \fIwindow\fR
- Returns \fBnone\fR if no grab is currently set on \fIwindow\fR,
- \fBlocal\fR if a local grab is set on \fIwindow\fR, and
- \fBglobal\fR if a global grab is set.
- .VE
-
- .SH BUGS
- .PP
- It took an incredibly complex and gross implementation to produce
- the simple grab effect described above.
- Given the current implementation, it isn't safe for applications
- to use the Xlib grab facilities at all except through the Tk grab
- procedures.
- If applications try to manipulate X's grab mechanisms directly,
- things will probably break.
- .PP
- .VS
- If a single process is managing several different Tk applications,
- only one of those applications can have a local grab for a given
- display at any given time. If the applications are in different
- processes, this restriction doesn't exist.
- .VE
-
- .SH KEYWORDS
- grab, keyboard events, pointer events, window
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