Variables within frame names

[rubberscissors]

Using Tk, I've created a series of buttons for a series of slots, and I've grouped the buttons into groups of 2. These buttons are packaged in frames as in the example below:

frame .slot1and2
button .slot1and2.slot1board1

Later, I call up a proceedure to cycle through different board types, and I pass values indicating slot group and slot depending on the button being clicked and I want to assign variables to the numbers in the frame/button names:

proc cycle { s1 s2 s3 } {

pack forget .slot$s1and$s2.slot$s3board1

}

The example above obviously doesn't work, but I've tried:

pack forget .slot{$s1}and{$s2}.slot{$s3}board1

and

pack forget .slot$s1\and$s2\.slot$s3\board1

The example with the slashes seems to come closest to working, but I get an error complaining that the path:

.slot1|nd2.slot1board1

is a bad path - the 'a' in 'and' gets converted to a garbage character...I changed the 'a' to another letter, thinking \a may be a special character...I changed it to 'f' but it still gives me an error. Does anyone know the correct syntax?

 

[rubberscissors]

I figured it out...\f is a special character as well. I changed it to something different and it seems OK now.

 

[ulis]

I tried that which worked fine:

pack [frame .slot1and2]
pack [button .slot1and2.slot1board1 -text .slot1and2.slot1board1]

proc cycle { s1 s2 s3 } {
pack forget .slot${s1}and${s2}.slot${s3}board1
}

update
after 2000
cycle 1 2 1

ulis