Re: [Caml-list] Adding ttk (tile tk) bindings to labltk

[Tim Cuthbertson <tim@gfxmonk.net>]

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On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Eliot Handelman <eliot@colba.net> wrote:

> On 10/03/2013 05:45 AM, Tim Cuthbertson wrote:
>
>>
>> Does anyone know if it's possible to add ttk widgets to labltk? Is there
>> a library other than labltk that I should be using for ttk?
>>
>
> It is for me -- here's how I got  LabelFrame going:
>
> open Tk
> open Protocol
>
> let tokenize strings =
>   Arr.of_list (L1.map (fun s -> TkToken s) strings)
>
> let tk_command string_list =
>    Protocol.tkCommand (tokenize string_list)
>
> let tk_eval string_list  =
>   Protocol.tkEval (tokenize string_list)
>
> let after ms =
>   tk_command [ "after"; string_of_int ms]
>
> module LabelFrame = struct
>   let id = ref 0
>   let create ?(text = "") top =
>     let i = int !id in
>       incr id;
>       let lf_name = (Widget.name top) ^ ".labelframe" ^ i in
>     tk_command
>       ["ttk::labelframe"; lf_name;
>        "-text"; text
>       ];
>     Protocol.cTKtoCAMLwidget lf_name
> end
>
> best,
>
> -- eliot
>
>
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Thanks, Eliot.

It's good to know this is possible, but I was thinking more of extending
labltk itself to provide / generate these bindings - I don't much fancy
writing wrappers like this for each function / widget I want to use.

Cheers,
 - Tim.

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