[tcltk-perl] create_widget_package questions ...

[Jeff H. <je...@ac...>]

Vadim,

I have a few questions about create_widget_package design, or
rather one question with multiple facets.

The AUTOLOAD stuff basically all points to Tcl::Tk::Widget::AUTOLOAD
as the autoloader of choice.

The problem I am having with "method inheritance" changes is as
follows ...

A DialogBox is really a Toplevel with extra methods.  As you
noted, all the special stuff used to be created in the same
Tcl::Tk::Widget package, which isn't really desirable.  I like
that the creation of the first DialogBox creates
Tcl::Tk::Widget::DialogBox and creates the special methods as
subs of that package.

The problem comes when I run something like the DialogBox
sample I sent earlier, where 'resizable' must be autoloaded.
Since a DialogBox used to be a Tcl::Tk::Widget object, we
would AUTOLOAD with $method eq "resizable", and it would be
found in ptk2tcltk_wm.  Now however $method eq
"DialogBox::resizable", and it isn't found.

It seems that we can't blindly strip to the base method name
in all cases, but we do for some.

Do you have any good ideas at how to handle this change in
behavior?

Thanks,

Jeff