Pretty much what I thought - I'd have probably found it if I'd been forced to write $mw->Widget::Button(etc.' or something. As it is, and IMHO, 'destroy' should be listed in the man-page for each widget, or there should be a link to the 'widget' man-page from each widget man-page(mentioning that there are additional commands that are generically available).

I'm tempted to drop a line to the Tk author (it must be at least a couple of months since someone told me to f-off ;)

Update

Well, there is a link from each widget to the widget man-page, and it pretty much says what it ought to say: 'The widget also inherits all the methods provided by the generic Tk::Widget class.'

So, I guess the answer to my original question is 'always check for a "specific-widget methods" section in the docs..'

Tom Melly, tom@tomandlu.co.uk

In reply to Re: Re: finding stuff in the docs by Melly
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