From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
To: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>,
Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Buttons in help buffer that displays contents of variables
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2023 19:34:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <IU8glhLxjCXAwI5ZRmWFzn7mVDHvmGMkbOAc2yCluUNchI9TuKAe1BJjNkEqEq31b6BykwOUxFL-VZsszWCVYCjjlDqlz0dVb34pjeHh1G8=@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_d_8UBgS6DRcCN4CrRsJqSo1adkcfLksbkHV0nkfgJAxzoXw@mail.gmail.com>
----- Original Message -------
On Sunday, July 23rd, 2023 at 7:45 PM, Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jul 2023 at 06:14, Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com wrote:
>
> > What does the button.el use as object to push to the action associated function
> > that would be sensible. Would it be "action" ?
Does the function associated with the button be restricted to a single argument,
meaning that users cannot pass any additional data to it ?
> The documentation quoted upthread states the argument is named BUTTON.
> It is easy to conclude that the action function, when called, will
> receive as its argument a reference to the button object that was
> clicked.
>
> This pattern is widespread in GUI frameworks. It lets you create a
> bunch of slightly different buttons and assign them all the same
> single action, and it will be able to do slightly different things for
> each button.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-23 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-22 14:40 Buttons in help buffer that displays contents of variables Heime
2023-07-22 19:18 ` Heime
2023-07-22 20:14 ` Stephen Berman
2023-07-22 20:24 ` Heime
2023-07-22 20:48 ` Stephen Berman
2023-07-22 21:24 ` Heime
2023-07-22 21:46 ` Stephen Berman
2023-07-22 22:02 ` Heime
2023-07-22 22:13 ` Heime
2023-07-22 22:28 ` Stephen Berman
2023-07-22 22:42 ` Heime
2023-07-22 22:50 ` Stephen Berman
2023-07-22 23:13 ` Heime
2023-07-23 7:45 ` Yuri Khan
2023-07-23 19:34 ` Heime [this message]
2023-07-23 19:57 ` Yuri Khan
2023-07-23 20:05 ` Heime
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