AW: [Idle-dev] Extends an events

[Guido van Rossum]

[Matthias Barmeier]
> Every menu item will register an a central "event manager". The
> event manager will store the menu items name like "File/Open..." as
> key in a dictionary. When registering the calling extension will
> transmit the callback for the default function to the event manager
> too. The callback is stored in an array attached to the dictionary.
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I don't understand why you need the type argument.  And why you need
to pass results between the handlers?

Tcl already has an event/binding management architecture; see the
bindtags command
(http://dev.scriptics.com/man/tcl8.3/TkCmd/bindtags.htm).

I would like to build on that if possible.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)