Hi, sorry for the late reply, it somehow fell through my inbox. See for the answers below, Peter On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 11:12 PM, <harven@free.fr> wrote:

Hi,

I am working through the tk tutorial using ltk http://www.tkdocs.com/tutorial/firstexample.html One of the first examples is a feet-to-meter converter.

At some point, the padding of the widgets is set by looping through the children of the mainframe.

foreach w [winfo children .c] {grid configure $w -padx 5 -pady 5}

Q1: How can I do this with ltk ? Is there a function that returns the list of the children of a widget ?

No, there is no such function. But I don't think I ever needed it, as I have the references to all widgets I created on the Lisp side anyway. Just use (list label-1 label-2 ...) in your loop instead of the call to children.

Q2: The *cursor* variable lists "X_cursor" as its first element, but tk reports an error.

(with-ltk nil (pack (make-instance 'button :text "some" :cursor "X_cursor" :width 15)))

=> Tcl/Tk error: bad cursor spec "x_cursor"

This is the sole cursor in *cursor* that produces an error. I am using gnu/linux on debian squeeze stable and tk 8.5.

Ah, probably the only cursor which starts with a capital lettter, I need to fix this. Thanks for pointing that out.

Finally, here is my attempt at building the converter. It seems to work, I welcome any comments or advices.

(defun calculate (arg) (let* ((*read-eval* nil) (num (read-from-string arg))) (if (numberp num) (format nil "~,4f" (* 0.3048 num)) "" )))

(defun converter-ltk () (with-ltk () (let* ((mainframe (make-instance 'frame :padding "\"3 3 12 12\"")) (feet-entry (make-instance 'entry :width 7 :master mainframe)) (label-1 (make-instance 'label :master mainframe)) (label-2 (make-instance 'label :text "feet" :master mainframe)) (label-3 (make-instance 'label :text "is equivalent to" :master mainframe)) (label-4 (make-instance 'label :text "meters" :master mainframe)) (calc (make-instance 'button :text "Calculate" :master mainframe :command (lambda () (setf (text label-1) (calculate (text feet-entry))))))) (bind feet-entry "<Return>" (lambda (evt) (declare (ignore evt)) (setf (text label-1) (calculate (text feet-entry))))) (wm-title *tk* "Feet to Meters") (grid mainframe 0 0 :sticky "nesw") (grid-columnconfigure mainframe 0 :weight 1) (grid-rowconfigure mainframe 0 :weight 1) (grid feet-entry 1 2 :sticky "we") (grid label-1 2 2 :sticky "we") (grid label-2 1 3 :sticky "w") (grid label-3 2 1 :sticky "e") (grid label-4 2 3 :sticky "w") (grid calc 3 3 :sticky "w") ; (loop for child in (children mainframe "winfo") ;; ?? ; do (configure child :padx 5 :pady 5)) ;; ?? (focus feet-entry))))

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