User-Defined Buttons
Suppose you want users to be able to define a set of their own buttons for frequently executed commands. Or, perhaps users can augment the application with their own Tcl code. The following scheme, which is based on an idea from John LoVerso, lets them define buttons to invoke their own code or their favorite commands.
The application creates a special frame to hold the user-defined buttons and places it appropriately. Assume the frame is created like this:
frame .user -class User
The class specification for the frame means that we can name resources for the widgets inside the frame relative to *User. Users specify the buttons that go in the frame via a personal file containing resource specifications.
The first problem ...
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