The elspeth tools do interesting things: they use the send command to inject
definitions for widgets and such into running processes. Clearly, the same
technique could be used to suck those definitions out.
How hard would it be to send a series of configuration queries to a running
process, and churn them out as compounds, in the vtcl understood format?
This tool could even run stand-alone.
I've looked at the format in which compounds are stored, and it looks very
interesting. It's very compact, it's reasonably easy to interpret. Packaged
properly, it (or something like it) could be a contribution to the wider tk
community. Oh, I forgot to add, it's quite close to complete (as regards
encoding packing parameters and such.)
Colin.
