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Subject: thick Tcl binding, am I being logical ?
From: Patrick <patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org>
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Hi Everyone

I was tinkering with Tash again today. 

It has code like this:
Tcl.Tk.Ada.Pack (Counter, "-side bottom -fill both");

This calls the geometry manger to control the layout of the widget Counter.

In pure Tcl it is:
pack .counter -side bottom -fill both

Tash is about 20K lines of code(in the src dir). There are some examples and it's not a bad project or anything. It's just that since Tcl/Tk changed it's API, it's a pretty thin binding.

I was wondering if it would be logical to create a thick binding to Tcl only and feed in Tcl strings to display Tk widgets rather then trying to bind the Tk code as well.

I frequently go on coding suicide missions, Am I on another? Does this sound logical?

Thanks-Patrick