Tcl style traces

[Cameron Laird]

In article <101fkp3nd3ea84c at news.supernews.com>,
John Roth <newsgroups at jhrothjr.com> wrote:
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>"Derek Fountain" <nomail at hursley.ibm.com> wrote in message
>news:40177f07$0$1730$5a62ac22 at freenews.iinet.net.au...
>> > What do you need this for?  If you can be more specific, we might be
>able
>> > to help you a little better.
>>
>> I have a Tcl/Tk script which uses a canvas to graphically represent the
>data
>> stored in the program. Whenever the data store is updated, a Tcl trace
>> automatically triggers to ensure the graphical display is kept consistent
>> with the data. I was after a simple way to convert the script to Python
>> Tkinter. Without the eqivalent of Tcl traces I'm probably going to have to
>> think about it... ;o)
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>There's a facility where you can associate a widget with a
>variable so that when the variable changes the widget's
>value changes, and vice versa. I don't offhand remember the
>details though. You'll need to look at one of the references.
>The variable has to be a subclass of a special Tkinter class
>for this to work, though.
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textvariable--but that applies only for a few widgets,
and only for equivalence of the widget content and the
indicated variable; there's no formatting or other pro-
cedural computation.
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Cameron Laird <claird at phaseit.net>
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