[PD-dev] TCL/TK command results

[guenter geiger]

On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Krzysztof Czaja wrote:
> hi Thomas,
>
> Thomas Grill wrote:
> ...
>  > is there a way for an external to get the return values from the TCL/TK
>  > widget commands?
>
> one simple way to do that would be to bind your external object to
> a unique <target> symbol, and send it any value from within your
> tcl proc with something like
>
> pd [concat <target> <value>]

one good thing about using this mechanism is that you can use native tk
widgets for gui objects, which is a lot better with regards to
performance, because the drawing stuff is done in the low priority
gui process.

I have tried toying around with this mechanism lately.


Guenter


>
>  > That would be really powerful. Somehow i'm gradually making friends with
>  > TCL/TK.
>
> great!
>
> Krzysztof
>
>
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