[Tkinter-discuss] tcl/tk's syntax to python's syntax

[Rob Ward]

Interesting, I think.

On 23 October 2017 8:27:19 pm AEDT, Michael Lange <klappnase at web.de> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Sun, 22 Oct 2017 21:11:48 +0000
>adil gourinda <rikudou__sennin at live.com> wrote:
>
>> With the aim to make translation of tcl/tk's syntax to python's
>syntax
>> more easy I made this flowchart and I ask you to check it.
>> 
>> Thanks for your help😊
>
>I think the translation of the Tk pathName is problematic. One thing
>that
>might come closer could be
>
>	".parentWidget.childWidget" -> "Instance"
>	".parentWidget" -> "parentWidget"
>
>But strictly speaking I think this is not correct either. If the Tk
>root
>window is the parent, parentWidget is only "." . If a Frame ".f" is the
>parent, parent widget *is* ".f" in Tk,and a Button widget "b" that is a
>child of ".f" in Tk *is* ".f.b". Of course considering this the chart
>might look a bit pointless, like
>	
>	"parentWidget" -> "parentWidget"
>
>Actually the widgets' names (as "b" and "f" in the above example) go to
>the widget's "name" option in Python, which is hardly ever used though
>(in Tkinter we usually let Python assign the widget names automatically
>which leads to something that looks like ".1234567890.1234567891"
>instead
>of ".f.b").
>
>I hope this makes some sense, and maybe one of the Tk experts here can
>provide a better explanation.
>
>Best regards
>
>Michael
>
>
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