Hey cadphile,

Regardless of why you want to be able to find children of a given widget the children method of a widget can provide interesting information about how Tk's heirarchies work.

Included here is an example of how to tell exactly how a tear off menu is parented. You can see that when you have the menu torn off an additional child of the main window becomes available that is of type Tk::Menu. 

#! /usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Tk;

# Create the main window
my $w;
$w->{main} = MainWindow->new;
$w->{mb} = $w->{main}->Menubutton( -text => 'Menu' )->pack;
$w->{mb}->command( -label => 'print kids', -command => [ \&find_kids, 
+$w ] );
$w->{main}->Button( -text => 'print kids', -command => [ \&find_kids, 
+$w ] )->pack;

sub find_kids
{
    my $w = shift;
    # Find all the children of main.
    print "***** new report *****\n";
    foreach ($w->{main}->children)
    {
        print "1) $_\n";
        # find all the grandchildren
        foreach ($_->children)
        {
            print "2)\t$_\n";

            # find the great grand kids...
            foreach ($_->children)
            {
                print "3)\t\t$_\n";
            }
        }
    }
}

MainLoop;

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{NULE}
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In reply to Re: Tk tearoff toplevel IDs by {NULE}
in thread Tk tearoff toplevel IDs by cadphile

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