From: Peter Hickman <peter@...>
Date: 2002-07-16T23:29:09+09:00
Subject: Re: TkText no -textvariable workaround?

Tom Sawyer wrote:

>well, i've been busy adding tk support to my gui template tool (Miter),
>but i've sadly come across a limitation with the TkText widget. it
>dosen't support -textvariable, hence there's no way to bind it to a ruby
>instance variable, as i can with all the other widgets. i did figure out
>a way of automatically set the instance varaible when the TkText value
>changes using bind. but i can not find a way to do the reverse. how do i
>get the TkText's value to automatically change when the instance
>variable does? i looked to see if there's was a ruby callback method for
>such, but i didn't find one. anyone?
>

With TkText you go...

@text = TkText.new(... blah blah blah ...)

and then later on you can go

@text.value
@text.delete(1.0,'end')

and all that jazz.

is that what you wanted?