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Perl/Tk Pocket Reference

Errata for Perl/Tk Pocket Reference

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Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
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Page 3
In the section on Perl/Tk callbacks,

Changed:
Note that B<bind> callbacks are implicitly passed the bound widget
reference as the first argument of the parameters list.
to:
Note that B<bind> I<callbacks> are implicitly passed the bound object
as the first argument of the parameter list.

Also changed:
To prevent B<bind> from supplying an implicit widget reference
to the callback use this form:
to:
To prevent B<bind> from supplying an implicit object reference
to the I<callback>, specify your own object as the first element of
the array:

 Anonymous    Apr 01, 2000
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Page 5
Under the -relief option, added "solid" as a valid value.

Anonymous    Apr 01, 2000
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Page 10
In the description of the Canvas bind() command, added this sentence

"Use the B<CanvasBind> method to create a binding for the
canvas as a whole."

 Anonymous    Apr 01, 2000
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Page 31

The sentence "Set state of default ring" now reads:

"Set state of default string".

Anonymous    Apr 01, 2000
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Page 49
in -data description

changed:
"Specifies a string" to "Specifies a Perl scalar"

 Anonymous    Apr 01, 2000
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Page 62
Removed the italics from "selectionSet"

Anonymous    Apr 01, 2000
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Page 72
Changed

@ISA = qw/Tk::Derived Tk::SomeWidget/;
to:
use base qw/Tk::Derived Tk::SomeWidget/;

 Anonymous    Apr 01, 2000
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Page 85
Changed the first sentence of section 15, Bindings and Virtual Events,

to this:

Note that B<bind> I<callbacks> are implicitly passed the bound object
as the first argument of the parameter list.

Anonymous    Apr 01, 2000
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Page 86
The syntax line for eventAdd() had a superfluous constant-width-font

character "t". Removed the "t" so that

tI<virtual> became simply I<virtual>

 Anonymous    Apr 01, 2000
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Page 93
The "component" parameter to B<findINC> is now in italics rather than

constant width font.

 Anonymous    Apr 01, 2000
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Page 93
The Busy() command has an optional -recurse parameter.

Changed entry to:
$widget->Busy (-recurse => 1);
Changes cursor to a watch until B<Unbusy> is called. If
CW<-recurse> is true, descend the widget hierarchy and
change all cursors.

 Anonymous    Apr 01, 2000
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Page 99
Incorrect index entries

geometry, 79,, 83 is now geometry, 79, 83, 88

 Anonymous    Apr 01, 2000
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Page 100
Incorrect index entries

Subwidget, 72 is now Subwidget, 74
Text, 8 is now Text, 24
Toplevel, 73 is now Toplevel, 39

 Anonymous    Apr 01, 2000