Re: [Tile-dev] Tile feedback

[Michael K. <mi...@mu...>]

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Joe English wrote:

>> displayed) or the tab text (which will break because the application
>> is multilingual). I'm assuming that I could use the child pane
>> window,
>
> Yes, the child window names will work as tab identifiers.
>
>> except I don't see any way of retrieving it.
>
> This is a Frequently Asked Question, with a not very satisfactory
> answer :-(.  The canonical way to get the name of the currently-selected
> tab is [lindex [$nb tabs] [$nb index current]].
>
> There really ought to be a more straightforward way to access this.
> [$nb current] maybe?

Seems like the inverse of index would be reasonable.  i.e.,

[$nb index $window]

vs.

[$nb window $index]

Where either would take "current" as an argument, as index does now.


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