Re: [Tile-dev] Strawman Tree widget API

[Bryan O. <br...@bi...>]

Joe English wrote:


> I hadn't considered this, but am open to suggestions.
> The Tk way of doing this would be a linked -variable;
> but for the tree widget the contents of the variable
> would have to be a fairly complicated structure.

Couldn't it just be an array (or dict)?

array set data {
     0 "/"
     0,0 "usr"
     0,0,0 "local"
     0,0,0,0 "bin"
     0,0,0,0,1 "tclkit"
     0,0,0,0,2 "tclsh"
     0,0,0,0,3 "wish"
     0,0,0,1 "lib"
     0,1 "etc"
     0,1,0 "hosts"
     0,1,1 "passwd"
     ...
}

One could fetch all the children of, say, /usr/local/bin via [array 
names data 0,0,0,0,*], and so on.

I'll admit I haven't really thought this through, but it seems like a 
reasonable approach on the surface.