><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">
>any particular reason why it doesn't?<br>
<br>
</div>It relies on tcl/tk to measure the screen size. When you don't load the<br>
gui, you don't load tcl/tk, and thus you are stripped of the tool you need<br>
to get the screen size.<br></blockquote><div><br>ok, thanks, now it's clear!<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">><br>
>you can try to run the help patch, add a [stdout], relaunch the help patch with -nogui.<br>
><br>
>I'm making a simple splashscreen with a gem -nogui patch, and it needs to render the image in the center of the screen.<br>
>I know I could use [shell], but I'd rather a cross-platform solution.<br>
><br>
>can I fix the screensize object or is there another object I'm not aware of?<br>
<br>
</div>Does the tclpd library execute with the -nogui flag? If so it should be pretty<br>
simple to use that to return the screensize.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>ok. I'm not sure how to check whether tclpd executes w/ -nogui.<br>How can I check?<br><br>I'm following your suggestion and make a small tclpd object.<br><br>cheers,<br>M<br><br> </div>
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-Jonathan<br>
<div class="im"><br>
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><br>
>thanks!<br>
><br>
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