Hi,

I've seen that there is a naming convention for the widgets of perl tk: Unsolicited Advice (Mastering Perl Tk).

But is there also a naming convention for hierarchical widgets? For example I have a notebook widget with several tabs. And in a tab I use a frame and in this frame is another frame and then there is a button. If I just name this button "blah_b" for example it is not enough because I could have a button with the same purpose in another frame. So I would like to give it a name which signals that it is inside this tab, frame, ...

My idea was to do this with a prefix. Another idea would be to do this with a hash which represents the hierarchial structure of the GUI.

So the name would represent the hierarchial structure of the GUI. But if I want to move this button from one place to another then I would have to change the name.

So I'm very interested how you handle this problem. At the moment I have no prefix or hash used to name the widgets. But now I really get confused when I'm creating a bigger GUI with perl tk.

Thank you

Dirk

In reply to Perl Tk Naming Convention by Dirk80

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