I have a context menu for text and entry widgets. When I click the right mouse button, I open it a
the mouse cursor position.

When I press the context menu key, i.e. keysym 'App' for Windows and 'Menu' for Linux and macOS, I
want it to open at the cursor position of the text or entry field.

How do I get the screen coordinates of the cursor position in that case?

On Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 7:57:27 PM UTC+1, Torsten wrote:
> I have a context menu for text and entry widgets. When I click the right mouse button, I open it a
> the mouse cursor position.
>
> When I press the context menu key, i.e. keysym 'App' for Windows and 'Menu' for Linux and macOS, I
> want it to open at the cursor position of the text or entry field.
>
> How do I get the screen coordinates of the cursor position in that case?

You probably want [winfo pointerxy], as that returns the x/y coordinates of the pointer wrt the screen that holds the window. I do not think I have ever used it myself, so I simply rely on the man page :).

Regards,

Arjen

Arjen Markus <arjen.markus895@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 7:57:27 PM UTC+1, Torsten wrote:
>> I have a context menu for text and entry widgets. When I click the right mouse button, I open it a
>> the mouse cursor position.
>> When I press the context menu key, i.e. keysym 'App' for Windows and 'Menu' for Linux and macOS, I
>> want it to open at the cursor position of the text or entry field.
>> How do I get the screen coordinates of the cursor position in that case?
> You probably want [winfo pointerxy], as that returns the x/y coordinates
> of the pointer wrt the screen that holds the window. I do not think I have
> ever used it myself, so I simply rely on the man page :).

My understanding of the question was, that he wanted the coords of the
widget's "insertion"-cursor - as in: "that blinking thingie"

For an entry widget .e the following might get you further:
lassign [.e bbox insert] px py dx dy
# do some arithmetics to determine the hotspot of that bbox, e.g.:
set py [expr {$py+$dy/2}]
# add the widget's global coords:
incr px [winfo rootx .e]; incr py [winfo rooty .e]

for text-widgets it might be pretty similar...

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Arjen Markus <arjen.markus895@gmail.com> wrote:

> For an entry widget .e the following might get you further:
> lassign [.e bbox insert] px py dx dy
> # do some arithmetics to determine the hotspot of that bbox, e.g.:
> set py [expr {$py+$dy/2}]
> # add the widget's global coords:
> incr px [winfo rootx .e]; incr py [winfo rooty .e]
>
> for text-widgets it might be pretty similar...
>
That is exactly what I was looking for: The index named "insert".
I just missed it while reading the man page (and then did not check the entry page).
Thank you Arjen!

On 2/2/2023 3:09 PM, Torsten wrote:
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>> Arjen Markus <arjen.markus895@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> For an entry widget .e the following might get you further:
>>     lassign [.e bbox insert] px py dx dy
>>     # do some arithmetics to determine the hotspot of that bbox, e.g.:
>>     set py [expr {$py+$dy/2}]
>>     # add the widget's global coords:
>>     incr px [winfo rootx .e]; incr py [winfo rooty .e]
>>
>> for text-widgets it might be pretty similar...
>>
> That is exactly what I was looking for: The index named "insert".
> I just missed it while reading the man page (and then did not check the
> entry page).
> Thank you Arjen!
>

While they are both very helpful individuals, I think you meant Andreas
Leitgeb above since you quoted from his message :-)