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scopedobject - Create and manipulate a scoped \[incr Tcl\]
class object.
SYNOPSIS
scopedobject objName ?options?
INHERITANCE
None
STANDARD OPTIONS
Name: enterscopecommand:
Command-Line Switch: -enterscopecommand
Specifies a Tcl command to invoke
when an object enters scope (i.e. when it is created..). The
default is {}.
Name: enterscopecommand:
Command-Line Switch: -enterscopecommand
Specifies a Tcl command to invoke
when an object exits scope (i.e. when it is deleted..). The default
is {}.
DESCRIPTION
The scopedobject command creates a base class for
defining Itcl classes which posses scoped behavior like Tcl
variables. The objects are only accessible within the procedure in
which they are instantiated and are deleted when the procedure
returns. This class was designed to be a general purpose base class
for supporting scoped incr Tcl classes. The options include the
execute a Tcl script command when an object enters and exits its
scope.
METHODS
The scopedobject command creates a new Tcl command whose
name is pathName. This command may be used to invoke various
operations on the object. It has the following general form:
pathName option ?arg arg ...?
Option and the args determine the exact behavior of
the command. The following commands are possible for scopedobject
objects:
OBJECT-SPECIFIC METHODS
- pathName cget option
- Returns the current value of the configuration option given by
option. Option may have any of the values accepted by
the scopedobject command.
- pathName configure ?option? ?value
option value ...?
- Query or modify the configuration options of the object. If no
option is specified, returns a list describing all of the
available options for pathName. If option is
specified with no value, then the command returns a list
describing the one named option (this list will be identical to the
corresponding sublist of the value returned if no option is
specified). If one or more option-value pairs are specified,
then the command modifies the given objects option(s) to have the
given value(s); in this case the command returns an empty string.
Option may have any of the values accepted by the
scopedobject command.
EXAMPLE
The scopedobject was primarily meant
to be a base class. The following is an example of usage without
inheritance:
proc scopedobject_demo {} {
scopedobject #auto \
-exitscopecommand {puts "enter scopedobject_demo"} \
-exitscopecommand {puts "exit scopedobject_demo"}
}
scopedobject_demo
AUTHOR
John A. Tucker
KEYWORDS
scopedobject, object