Anton Kovalenko wrote:
> >>>>> Gerald W Lester writes:
> >>>>>             
> 
>      GWL> You should not depend on *any* internal routine being there for
>      GWL> any given release, nor should you depend on their return
>      GWL> values, nor should you depend on the order of return values
>      GWL> where the
> 
>  Thank you for pointing out what I should and what I shouldn't do. For
>  now, unfortunately, there is nearly impossible to write complex,
>  good-looking GUI on Tk without a lot of small fixes that fine-tune
>  internal things of the toolkit. I know that nobody promised to keep
>  internals the same, and I wouldn't say a word if, e.g. ttk::combobox
>  implementation changed its listbox subwidget name or scrollbar type.
>  I would just change my code depending on it, if there is a dependency.
> 
>  The situation with ttk::dialog is different. Dialog API existed for
>  several versions of Tile. It was documented and it had a man page that
>  didn't gave a hint of it being "unofficial", "private" or "internal". Of
>  course you may argue that Tile is entirely unofficial before reaching
>  1.0, and so is Tk8.5 before its beta. Does it mean that everyone should
>  stop asking questions about this software and discussing it?
> 
>  Notice that I don't complain about this change. I just asked for a link
>  to any discussion that has taken place, if there is one. My first
>  thought was that something better is on the way to Tk that will replace
>  the old ttk::dialog - perhaps universal themed/non-themed dialog
>  implementation? Of course I'm interested to read about it. However,
>  I've found nothing of this kind in tcl-core@, TIP repository and
>  sourceforge database. Is there any other place that I have to monitor
>  for ongoing significant changes in Tk? Then I want to know where this
>  place is.
> 
>    
My apologies -- from the name I thought it was an internal.

You are correct this should not just go away.

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| Gerald W. Lester                                                       |
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