raise - Change a window's position in the stacking order
raise window ?aboveThis?
raise(1t) Tk Built-In Commands raise(1t)
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NAME
raise - Change a window's position in the stacking order
SYNOPSIS
raise window ?aboveThis?
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DESCRIPTION
If the aboveThis argument is omitted then the command raises window so
that it is above all of its siblings in the stacking order (it will not
be obscured by any siblings and will obscure any siblings that overlap
it). If aboveThis is specified then it must be the path name of a win-
dow that is either a sibling of window or the descendant of a sibling
of window. In this case the raise command will insert window into the
stacking order just above aboveThis (or the ancestor of aboveThis that
is a sibling of window); this could end up either raising or lowering
window.
All toplevel windows may be restacked with respect to each other, what-
ever their relative path names, but the window manager is not obligated
to strictly honor requests to restack.
EXAMPLE
Make a button appear to be in a sibling frame that was created after
it. This is is often necessary when building GUIs in the style where
you create your activity widgets first before laying them out on the
display:
button .b -text "Hi there!"
pack [frame .f -background blue]
pack [label .f.l1 -text "This is above"]
pack .b -in .f
pack [label .f.l2 -text "This is below"]
raise .b
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | runtime/tk-8 |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
lower(n)
KEYWORDS
obscure, raise, stacking order
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from https://source-
forge.net/projects/tcl/files/Tcl/8.6.7/tk8.6.7-src.tar.gz/download.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at https://www.tcl.tk/.
Tk 3.3 raise(1t)