Ascertaining attributes of a Tk object

beretboy has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

If I have a function that is being passed a Tk widget object, and only the object, how can I figure out various attributes (height, width, which position its in on the main window grid) about it?

"Sanity is the playground of the unimaginative" -Unknown

Considered: beretboy: "Please Reap. Lo and behold I found the answer within minutes of posting."
Unconsidered: davido: Final vote: (keep/edit/delete) => 20/2/4. Keeps blocked reaping. Others will find node useful.

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Re: Ascertaining attributes of a Tk object by beretboy (Chaplain) on Jul 01, 2005 at 15:44 UTC
This is suprisingly hard to find reading the Tk docs, but very clearly laid out in Chapter 13 of Mastering Perl/Tk: `$widget->cget(-option)` Will return the current setting of the option. "Sanity is the playground of the unimaginative" -Unknown	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Ascertaining attributes of a Tk object by zentara (Archbishop) on Jul 02, 2005 at 12:18 UTC
You may be interested in Widget Dump by esserte. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh	[reply]

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