in reply to finding stuff in the docs

When you installed Tk into your ActiveState installation did you use their PPM package manager, or did you compile and install the source yourself(perl Makefile.PL ; make install)?

If you used their PPM you should have gotten a Windows help version of the man pages, but not if you did the install 'by hand'.

At least that's my suspicion.

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Re: Re: finding stuff in the docs
by Melly (Chaplain) on Oct 20, 2003 at 13:59 UTC

    Eep. iirc, Tk was included with the original ActiveState install. No, basically I'm not short of documentation on Tk - I just can't find any easy-to-find reference for 'destroy' in it.

    The only place I have found a helpful reference is in UserGuide (accessable via the ActiveState HTML Help) - but to find this I had to do a Windows search on the Tk directory in c:\perl\site\lib\Tk for 'destroy', and then pick through the many offerings to find the one that actually told me what 'destroy' did (rather than just implement it in a coding example without explanation).

    Even in the UserGuide section, it doesn't get its own heading, but gets just one line in the section 'Item creation'.

    The bottom line is that unless you know about 'destroy', it seems a bugger to track down. I dunno - I kind of expected to find some kind of index to available commands for Tk.

    So, I'm afraid I'm still asking, have I missed something, or is tracking down 'destroy' something of a black art?

    Update

    It's in the Widget section as well, with a 'proper' listing.

    Oddly (and I should have mentioned this before as it's part of the reason I was lost), there is no mention of it afaik in the relevant sections of my Perl CD Library (learning, nutshell, programming, advanced, cookbook, etc.) - Oh well...

    Tom Melly, tom@tomandlu.co.uk