tablelist bodytag

tablelist bodytag command returns malformed value.
instead of .tbl.body get body.tbl ( no leading "." and reverse order )
Paste from tkcon on Win98, tcl/tk 8.4.9, tablelist 3.8

(DEV) 52 % puts $tablelist::W
.tbl
(DEV) 53 % .tbl bodytag
body.tbl
(DEV) 54 % .tbl bodypath
.tbl.body
(DEV) 55 % tablelist::getTablelistPath .tbl.body
.tbl
(DEV) 56 % tablelist::getTablelistPath [.tbl bodytag]
bad window path name "body"
(DEV) 57 % tablelist::getTablelistPath [.tbl bodypath]
.tbl

This popped up as I tried to work out binding <Return> to the existing
spacebar action. Can't make it work. I am setting focus to tablelist
widget, don't understand what I am missing.

Help greatly appreciated !

"Timm Reasbeck" <timmr@atlanticbb.net> wrote in message
news:87sm009nfl.fsf@elstar.ursus.kosmos...
>
> tablelist bodytag command returns malformed value.
> instead of .tbl.body get body.tbl ( no leading "." and reverse order )

bodytag would not be the name of the widget. it would be a
a text widget tag name and would only be useful
for tag operations on that text widget.

> Paste from tkcon on Win98, tcl/tk 8.4.9, tablelist 3.8
>
> (DEV) 52 % puts $tablelist::W
> .tbl
> (DEV) 53 % .tbl bodytag
> body.tbl
> (DEV) 54 % .tbl bodypath
> .tbl.body
> (DEV) 55 % tablelist::getTablelistPath .tbl.body
> .tbl
> (DEV) 56 % tablelist::getTablelistPath [.tbl bodytag]
> bad window path name "body"
> (DEV) 57 % tablelist::getTablelistPath [.tbl bodypath]
> .tbl
>
> This popped up as I tried to work out binding <Return> to the existing
> spacebar action. Can't make it work. I am setting focus to tablelist
> widget, don't understand what I am missing.
Better to post the code your working on for the
binding change. And if you are adding onto
bindings your script must begin with '+'.

Roy
>
> Help greatly appreciated !

Timm Reasbeck wrote:
> tablelist bodytag command returns malformed value.
> instead of .tbl.body get body.tbl ( no leading "." and reverse order )
> Paste from tkcon on Win98, tcl/tk 8.4.9, tablelist 3.8
>
> (DEV) 52 % puts $tablelist::W
> ..tbl
> (DEV) 53 % .tbl bodytag
> body.tbl
> (DEV) 54 % .tbl bodypath
> ..tbl.body
> (DEV) 55 % tablelist::getTablelistPath .tbl.body
> ..tbl
> (DEV) 56 % tablelist::getTablelistPath [.tbl bodytag]
> bad window path name "body"
> (DEV) 57 % tablelist::getTablelistPath [.tbl bodypath]
> ..tbl
>
> This popped up as I tried to work out binding <Return> to the existing
> spacebar action. Can't make it work. I am setting focus to tablelist
> widget, don't understand what I am missing.
>
> Help greatly appreciated !

The tablelist "bodytag" command returns the name of a binding tag, which
is not identical to the widget name returned by "bodypath".  This is why
your command #56 above fails (see the reference pages
"tablelistWidget.html" and "tablelistBinding.html" for details on the
helper command "tablelist::getTablelistPath").

Are you sure you have pasted everything correctly from tkcon?  I can't
imagine any situation where one of the commands #52, #54, #55, #57 would
return the string "..tbl" (they return the widget name ".tbl").

Best regards,
Csaba

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