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gh-75952: Document negative offsets in tkinter geometry strings
Tk geometry strings can contain a negative offset (e.g. 200x100+-9+-8) when a window edge is positioned beyond the corresponding screen edge. Note this in the geometry() and winfo_geometry() documentation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Return the geometry of the widget, in the form ``widthxheight+x+y``.
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All dimensions are in pixels.
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An offset can be negative; see :meth:`~Wm.geometry`.
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.. method:: winfo_height()
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*width* and *height* are in pixels (or grid units for a gridded window);
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a position preceded by ``+`` is measured from the left or top edge of the
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screen and one preceded by ``-`` from the right or bottom edge.
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An offset can be negative, as in ``'200x100+-9+-8'``, when the window
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edge is positioned beyond the corresponding screen edge.
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An empty string cancels any user-specified geometry, letting the window
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revert to its natural size.
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With no argument, return the current geometry as a string of the form

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