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(*                 MLTk, Tcl/Tk interface of Objective Caml            *)
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(*    Francois Rouaix, Francois Pessaux, Jun Furuse and Pierre Weis    *)
(*               projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt                    *)
(*            Jacques Garrigue, Kyoto University RIMS                  *)
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(*  Copyright 2002 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et   *)
(*  en Automatique and Kyoto University.  All rights reserved.         *)
(*  This file is distributed under the terms of the GNU Library        *)
(*  General Public License, with the special exception on linking      *)
(*  described in file LICENSE found in the Objective Caml source tree. *)
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(* $Id: textvariable.mli,v 1.6 2005/03/25 23:56:35 kswadi Exp $ *)

(* Support for Tk -textvariable option *)
open Widget
open Protocol

type textVariable
      (* TextVariable is an abstract type *)

val create : ?on: 'a widget -> unit -> textVariable
      (* Allocation of a textVariable with lifetime associated to widget 
         if a widget is specified *)
val set : textVariable -> string -> unit
      (* Setting the val of a textVariable *)
val get : textVariable -> string
      (* Reading the val of a textVariable *)
val name : textVariable -> string
      (* Its tcl name *)

val cCAMLtoTKtextVariable : textVariable -> tkArgs
      (* Internal conversion function *)

val handle : textVariable -> callback:(unit -> unit) -> unit
      (* Callbacks on variable modifications *)

val coerce : string -> textVariable

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val free : textVariable -> unit
