SOURCE Joel HATSCH <ptk@[...].net>  writes:

[...]
>  OK, so here it goes : I did a lot of Tk programming in the past.
>  There, when you want to access a widget, you address it using it's
>  hierarchical name like .frame1.frame2.mybutton. In ptk however, you
>  use variables to store the objects. If you know the parent's
>  variable, you can browse through its children to find the given
>  widget. However, there doesn't seem to be a function that maps the
>  string ".frame1.frame2.mybutton" to the corresponding widget's
>  variable.

There is: $mainwindow-> Widget($pathname).

For example:

$ perl -MTk -e '$mw=tkinit;warn $mw-> Frame->Frame->Label;warn $mw->Widget(".frame.frame.labe
l")'
Tk::Label=HASH(0x9024f8) at -e line 1.
Tk::Label=HASH(0x9024f8) at -e line 1.
 
Regards,
        Slaven

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Slaven Rezic - slaven <at>  rezic <dot> de

    tkruler - Perl/Tk program for measuring screen distances
    http://ptktools.sourceforge.net/#tkruler
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