On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 10:21:09AM +0200, Sander Hoentjen wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 01:54 -0400, Youness Alaoui wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 02:55:26AM -0400, J?r?me Gagnon-Voyer wrote:
> > > About the feature
> > > 
> > > I don't know about linux, but before, when we wanted to do a Copy  
> > > from the text widget in the chatwindow, a "C" would appear in the  
> > > text box. I tried to fix the bug before but it was just impossible.
> > > This is what Phil said:
> > > --
> > > Plus he removes some bug when you type in the outText in place of the  
> > > inText
> > > He created a readonly text box with snit to prevent the edition of  
> > > some areas
> > > (very useful we need that !!)
> > > --
> > > 
> > Ok I see, I never saw any 'C' appear... it's not important, as long as 
> > it fixes something, then kudos!
> > 
> > > About the abbreviations, I didn't know.
> > > 
> > Yeah, I know, me neither I didn't know until Sander told the tcl team 
> > about he bugs we were having with the file dialog window using 'config' 
> > instead of 'configure' and it caused a bug when using snit (which is why 
> > snit is patched for tcl/tk 8.4, but it was fixed in 8.50), I was on the 
> > channel when he said that, and they said that it's baaaad and it should 
> > be fixed.. the abbreviations are there mostly for people using the 
> > interactive shell or lazy programers... (btw, when you use the shell, 
> > even commands are abbreviated, if you do [lin ... ] it will call 
> > [linsert ...] ,etc... ). So I still don't know why using abbreviations 
> > would actually FIX something (instead of breaking it)
> 
> My best guess: What he does is make rotext exactly like text, but change
> the insert and delete procs to empty one, and copy the behavior of
> insert and delete to ins and del, he could have named it roinsert and
> rodelete as well, or something else. Now when you want to change change
> something in that widget you have to call those new names, because when
> you call the old ones nothing happens. The bug about C appearing is a
> bug on mac i guess, when doing copying with control?-c somewhere the tcl
> system calls $text insert c. Because now insert doesn't do anything
> anymore, the bug is fixed.. It was just confusing because he used an
> abbreviation, maybe it would have been clearer if the names would have
> explained a bit more, but this isn't an abbreviation bug in that sense.
> 
> 

ah ok ,I see, it's clearer now, and I think your guess might be right 
since it seems very logical...
Have about using roinsert and rodelete instead ? I would prefer it, not 
to avoid a bug, but instead, to avoid a confusion by other developers 
who might read that code (and who didn't read this thread)

KKRT

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