[cells-devel] Re: Celtk: background not getting set/sent for entry widget: SOLVED !

[Frank Goenninger]

Heya -

solved!

It does not depend on the order of the parameters. Was a simple bug I  
had in my code... - Sorry for that ;-)

Frank


Am 06.01.2007 um 23:49 schrieb Frank Goenninger:

> Am 06.01.2007 um 23:09 schrieb Frank Goenninger:
>
>> Me again - Hi!
>>
>> When creating an entry widget as
>>
>> (mk-entry :id :data-entry
>> 		  :width 40
>> 		  :parent-x 65
>> 		  :parent-y 115
>> 		  :background (c_? (required-field-color (fm-parent self))))
>>
>> where the background depends on the value of the parent's required- 
>> field-color slot I never get any background color set. No, the  
>> dependency does not cause this - I get the same effect when  
>> directly specifying a color ...
>>
>> I then tried to narrow this down and found out that Celtk never  
>> passes the background option to Tk via tk-format-now...
>
> make-tk-instance calls tk-format-now with the following string:
>
> entry .msg-workarea.data-entry -width 40 -textvariable .msg- 
> workarea.data-entry
>
> Does this imply the :background should appear before the placing  
> parameters ??
>
> ...
>
> Frank