From: Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>
Date: 2002-07-06T00:06:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Tk configuration issue

In an example such as Phlip gave, it would be nice to be able to pass a value 
to the block, as in ...

   line = TkcLine.new(aCanvas, [fromX, fromY, toX, toY]) { |color|
                  fill color
            }

but there's no way to specify the values to pass into such a block ... at 
least not that I know of.

If such a mechanism was available, then one could do something like pass in a 
reference to the parent object, hence allowing access to its instance 
variables 

   class Fred

      attr_reader :color

      def initialize(color)
         @color = color
      end

      def create_line
         line = TkcLine.new(aCanvas, [fromX, fromY, toX, toY]) { |parent|
                     fill parent.color
               }
      end
   end

Obviously, in the code above, the block parameter "parent" has not been given 
a value, hence the block won't achieve what we want.  We need some way to  
set it to "self" in this case.

Of course, coming up with a syntax for this may be pretty pointless, since the 
amount of code required is probably going to be equivalent to setting some 
local variables that will then be in scope for the block (as Phlip did in his 
first example).

Sorry, just thinking out loud, in case it suggests an idea to someone.  I've 
been caught by this a number of times when writing Tk code.