Re: [Tcllib-devel] BWidget NoteBook bindtabs error (and RFC)

[Damon C. <da...@tc...>]

    This actually was a bug.  I'm not sure it's in CVS like that or not, 
but I don't think fixing it would break others who are expecting 
something wrong.  I think you're better off fixing it.

Damon


Jeff Hobbs wrote:
> J. Tang wrote:
>   
>> There is an error in the latest stable version of BWidget 
>> NoteBook's bindtabs function.  It purports to append the page 
>> identifier to the script to be executed.  Examining the 
>> source code, NoteBook makes a call to 
>> NoteBook::_get_page_name that returns the tab's name *sans* 
>> first two characters.  Clearly something is amiss here.
>>
>> Question: If I were to modify _get_page_name, I could 
>> potentially break all sorts of programs that have depended 
>> upon this unusual behavior.  Is the correct fix to deprecate 
>> bindtabs, introducing a new procedure without this behavior?
>>     
>
> I believe this is correct, and may relate to this old change:
>
> 2003-11-26  Jeff Hobbs  <je...@Ac...>
>
> 	* notebook.tcl (NoteBook::bindtabs): correct tab name returned.
> (groth)
>
> When I do a test, I see that that the tag found is p:$realPageName, so it's
> appropriate to have the first 2 chars stripped.
>
> Jeff
>
>
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