> Things are a little more complicated though; if you only pass the page name
> to pageconfigure, without any option,
> you want all options with their current values to be returned, if you pass
> one option without
> value the current value should be returned, as in Tkinter.Widget.configure().
Ah, of course. Tk configure methods aren't just setters, they're also two
kinds of getter! A silly oversight on my behalf.
> The Tix way to achieve this seems to be (taken from
> Tix.PanedWindow.paneconfigure()):
>
> def pageconfigure(self, page, cnf={}, **kw):
> if cnf is None:
> return _lst2dict(
> self.tk.split(
> self.tk.call(self._w, 'pageconfigure', page._name)))
> self.tk.call(self._w, 'pageconfigure', page._name,
> *self._options(cnf, kw))
>
> which appears to be broken, though; when I pass only a pagename to it I get
> None as return value,
> I need to call nb.pageconfigure(pagename, None) to get something returned,
> which is at least
> unintuitive, and passing an option as in nb.pageconfigure(pagename, 'label')
> causes an error.
>
> A better way to implement it might be the typical Tkinter way:
>
> def pageconfigure(self, page, cnf={}, **kw):
> return self._configure(('pageconfigure', page._name), cnf, kw)
>
> This allows at least partially to query current values,
> nb.pageconfigure(pagename, 'label')
> returns a tuple ('label', '', '', '', 'foobar'), nb.pageconfigure(pagename)
> still returns None if
> used without None as second argument.
Thank you very much for taking the time to explain / explore these variations.
It feels like there's certainly some scope for a bit of polish in the Tix
implementation, with NoteBook.pageconfigure not exposed and
PanedWindow.paneconfigure broken! Perhaps it is a low priority because, as I
understand, with upcomming versions of Tk, and something called Ttk, Tix may
become somewhat obselete anyway.
Thanks again for all your input.
Luke
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