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Tcl/Tk in a Nutshell
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Tcl/Tk in a Nutshell

by Paul Raines, Jeff Tranter
March 1999
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
18h 21m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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after

after options...

Delay execution of the current program or schedule another command to be executed sometime in the future.

after ms

Delay execution of current program for ms milliseconds.

after ms script...

Return immediately but schedule the given list of command script arguments to be executed ms milliseconds in the future and return an identifier that can be used for after cancel.

after cancel id

Cancel a previous after command using the identifier id returned previously.

after cancel script...

Cancel a previously set after command by specifying the command script arguments originally used in the command.

after idle script...

Schedule a command script to be executed when the event loop is idle.

after info [id]

If no id is specified, return a list of currently scheduled after commands. With an id, return a list consisting of the command and the time of the specified idle or timer event.

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