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Tk::Reindex (3)

Name

Tk::Reindex - like widgets

Synopsis

use Tk::ReindexedText;
$t1=$w->ReindexedText(-linestart => 2);

use Tk::ReindexedROText;
$t2=$w->ReindexedROText(-linestart => 0);

Description

Reindex(3)                   perl/Tk Documentation                  Reindex(3)



NAME
       Tk::Reindex - change the base index of Text-like widgets

SYNOPSIS
           use Tk::ReindexedText;
           $t1=$w->ReindexedText(-linestart => 2);

           use Tk::ReindexedROText;
           $t2=$w->ReindexedROText(-linestart => 0);

DESCRIPTION
       Creates a new widget class based on Text-like widgets that can redefine
       the line number base (normally Text widgets start line numbers at 1),
       or possibly other manipulations on indexes.

STANDARD OPTIONS
       The newly-defined widget takes all the same options as the base widget,
       which defaults to Text.

WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
       Name:   lineStart
       Class:  LineStart
       Switch: -linestart
           Sets the line number of the first line in the Text widget. The
           default -toindexcmd and -fromindexcmd use this configuration
           option.

           -item Name:   toIndexCmd  fromIndexCmd

           -item Class:  ToIndexCmd  FromIndexCmd

           -item Switch: -toindexcmd -fromindexcmd

           These two options specify callbacks that are called with a list of
           indexes and are responsible for translating them to/from indexes
           that the base Text widget can understand. The callback is passed
           the widget followed by a list of indexes, and should return a list
           of translated indexes. -toindexcmd should translate from 'user'
           indexes to 'native' Text-compatible indexes, and -fromindexcmd
           should translate from 'native' indexes to 'user' indexes.

           The default callbacks simply add/subtract the offset given by the
           -linestart option for all indexes in 'line.character' format.

           It would probably be prudent to make these functions inverses of
           each other.

CLASS METHODS
       import
           To make new Reindex widgets, this function should be called via use
           with the name of the Text-like base class that you are extending
           with "Reindex" capability.  'use base(Tk::Reindex
           Tk::nameofbasewidget)' should also be specified for that widget.

BUGS
       I've used the word "indexes" instead of "indices" throughout the
       documentation.

       All the built-in perl code for widget bindings & methods will use the
       new 'user' indexes.  Which means all this index manipulation might
       might break code that is trying to parse/manipulate indexes. Or even
       assume that '1.0' is the beginning index.  Tk::Text::Contents comes to
       mind.

AUTHOR
       Andrew Allen <ada@fc.hp.com>

       This code may be distributed under the same conditions as Perl.



ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+----------------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
       +---------------+----------------------------+
       |Availability   | library/perl-5/perl-tk-532 |
       +---------------+----------------------------+
       |Stability      | Volatile                   |
       +---------------+----------------------------+

NOTES
       Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
       be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
       code-downloads.html.

       This software was built from source available at
       https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland.  The original community
       source was downloaded from
       http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SR/SREZIC/Tk-804.036.tar.gz.

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at http://search.cpan.org/~srezic/Tk.



Tk1.1                             2013-11-15                        Reindex(3)