Re^2: Perl Tk Forgetting a Widget

I agree re Tk's nasty habits. I don't understand the desire to destroy/recreate or forget/repack. Why not just clear all the text from the widget?

sub clear {
  $tx->delete('1.0','end');
}
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Re^3: Perl Tk Forgetting a Widget by zentara (Cardinal) on Oct 16, 2011 at 13:39 UTC
Why not just clear all the text from the widget? So he could rebuild another page for that Frame, perhaps a Canvas with a chart on it? I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh	[reply]
Re^4: Perl Tk Forgetting a Widget by keszler (Priest) on Oct 17, 2011 at 04:23 UTC
That would be a good reason. My statement was in reference to the OP's I want to be able to forget/destroy/delete the widget when I move to a new option in the menu so I can create a fresh one to output text from the next script the user will run. [emphasis added] If the purpose of destroying or forgetting is to clear the widget, using `widget->delete` is more efficient.	[reply] [d/l]