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Practical Programming in Tcl & Tk, Third Edition
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Practical Programming in Tcl & Tk, Third Edition

by Brent B. Welch
November 1999
Intermediate to advanced
832 pages
19h 28m
English
Pearson
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Specifying Widget Attributes

Several of the fields in the Clock structure are attributes that can be set when the widget is created or reconfigured with the configure operation. The Tk_ConfigureWidget procedure is designed to help you manage the default values, their resource names, and their class names. It works by associating a widget option with an offset into the widget data structure. When you use a command line argument to change an option, Tk_ConfigureWidget reaches into your widget structure and changes the value for you. Several types are supported, such as colors and fonts, and Tk_ConfigureWidget handles all the memory allocation used to store the values. Example 46-9 shows the Tk_ConfigSpec type used to represent information about ...

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