NAME
Tk_Name, Tk_PathName, Tk_NameToWindow - convert between
names and window tokens
SYNOPSIS
#include <tk.h>
Tk_Uid
Tk_Name(tkwin)
char *
Tk_PathName(tkwin)
Tk_Window
Tk_NameToWindow(interp, pathName, tkwin)
ARGUMENTS
Tk_Window tkwin (in) Token for window.
Tcl_Interp *interp (out) Interpreter to use for
error reporting.
char *pathName (in) Character string con
taining path name of
window.
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DESCRIPTION
Each window managed by Tk has two names, a short name that
identifies a window among children of the same parent, and
a path name that identifies the window uniquely among all
the windows belonging to the same main window. The path
name is used more often in Tk than the short name; many
commands, like bind, expect path names as arguments.
The Tk_Name macro returns a window's short name, which is
the same as the name argument passed to Tk_CreateWindow
when the window was created. The value is returned as a
Tk_Uid, which may be used just like a string pointer but
also has the properties of a unique identifier (see the
manual entry for Tk_GetUid for details).
The Tk_PathName macro returns a hierarchical name for
tkwin. Path names have a structure similar to file names
in Unix but with dots between elements instead of slashes:
the main window for an application has the path name
``.''; its children have names like ``.a'' and ``.b'';
their children have names like ``.a.aa'' and ``.b.bb'';
and so on. A window is considered to be be a child of
another window for naming purposes if the second window
was named as the first window's parent when the first
window hierarchy. For example, a pop-up is created as a
child of the root window, but its logical parent will usu
ally be a window within the application.
The procedure Tk_NameToWindow returns the token for a win
dow given its path name (the pathName argument) and
another window belonging to the same main window (tkwin).
It normally returns a token for the named window, but if
no such window exists Tk_NameToWindow leaves an error mes
sage in interp->result and returns NULL. The tkwin argu
ment to Tk_NameToWindow is needed because path names are
only unique within a single application hierarchy. If,
for example, a single process has opened two main windows,
each will have a separate naming hierarchy and the same
path name might appear in each of the hierarchies. Nor
mally tkwin is the main window of the desired hierarchy,
but this need not be the case: any window in the desired
hierarchy may be used.
KEYWORDS
name, path name, token, window
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