Tk_Name

Tk_Uid
Tk_Name(tkwin)

char *
Tk_PathName(tkwin)

Tk_Window
Tk_NameToWindow(interp, pathName, tkwin)

ARGUMENTS

Tk_Window tkwin (in)

Token for window.

Tcl_Interp *interp (out)

Interpreter to use for error reporting.

char *pathName (in)

Character string containing path name of window.

Each window managed by Tk has two names, a short name that identifies
a window among children of the same parent, and a path name that
identifies the window uniquely among all the windows belonging to the
same main window. The path name is used more often in Tk than the
short name; many commands, like bind, expect path names as
arguments.

The Tk_Name macro returns a window's
short name, which is the same as the name argument
passed to Tk_CreateMainWindow
or Tk_CreateTopLevelWindow or Tk_CreateChildWindow when
the window was created. The value is returned
as a Tk_Uid, which may be used just like a string pointer but also has
the properties of a unique identfier
(See the Tk_GetUid manual entry for details).

The Tk_PathName macro returns a
hierarchical name for tkwin.
Path names have a structure similar to file names in Unix but with
dots between elements instead of slashes: the main window for
an application (one created by calling Tk_CreateMainWindow
or by calling Tk_CreateTopLevelWindow with a NULL parent
argument) has the path name ``.''; its children have names like
``.a'' and ``.b''; their children have names like ``.a.aa'' and
``.b.bb''; and so on. A window is considered to be be a child of
another window for naming purposes if the second window was named
as the first window's parent when the first window was created.
This is not always the same as the X window hierarchy. For
example, a pop-up
is created as a child of the root window, but its logical parent will
usually be a window within the application.

The procedure Tk_NameToWindow returns the token for a window
given its path name (the pathName argument) and another window
belonging to the same main window (tkwin). It normally
returns a token for the named window, but if no such window exists
Tk_NameToWindow leaves an error message in interp->result
and returns NULL. The tkwin argument to Tk_NameToWindow
is needed because path names are only unique within a single
application hierarchy. If, for example, a single process has opened
two main windows, each will have a separate naming hierarchy and the
same path name might appear in each of the hierarchies. Normally
tkwin is the main window of the desired hierarchy, but this
need not be the case: any window in the desired hierarchy may be used.

KEYWORDS