I agree; I've found that in most cases, I really need to do arithmetic
on TimeTick values. I think that in the past, I instigated the
current facility to "unparse" the timeticks back into the raw form.
> So there is obviously a need to control if automatic formatting should
> happen or not. The question is how to control this in a flexible (and
> readable) way. Are there any ideas out there?
An approach you might consider is what was in tclnm some time ago; the
formatting functions were actually TCL function invocations which
would be passed the "raw" values, the OID, and the syntax and would
return a string. An option which could be applied to an operation
would be to override the default formatting function with one which
the use could specify. It was then pretty easy to supply a "null"
formatting fuction that just returned an integer value.
louie