NAME¶
iwidgets::dialogshell - Create and manipulate a dialog shell widget
SYNOPSIS¶
iwidgets::dialogshell pathName ?
options?
INHERITANCE¶
itk::Toplevel <- iwidgets::Shell <- iwidgets::Dialogshell
STANDARD OPTIONS¶
background cursor foreground
See the "options" manual entry for details on the standard options.
INHERITED OPTIONS¶
height master modality width
See the "shell" manual entry for details on the above inherited
options.
title
See the "Toplevel" manual entry for details on the above inherited
options.
Name: buttonBoxPadX
Class: Pad
Command-Line Switch: -buttonboxpadx
- Specifies a non-negative padding distance to leave between
the button group and the outer edge of the button box in the x direction.
The value may be given in any of the forms accpetable to
Tk_GetPixels. The default is 5 pixels.
Name: buttonBoxPadY
Class: Pad
Command-Line Switch: -buttonboxpady
- Specifies a non-negative padding distance to leave between
the button group and the outer edge of the button box in the y direction.
The value may be given in any of the forms accpetable to
Tk_GetPixels. The default is 5 pixels.
Name: buttonBoxPos
Class: Position
Command-Line Switch: -buttonboxpos
- Attaches buttons to the given side of the dialog: n,
s, e or w. The default is s.
Name: padX
Class: Pad
Command-Line Switch: -padx
- Specifies a padding distance for the childsite in the
X-direction in any of the forms acceptable to Tk_GetPixels. The
default is 10.
Name: padY
Class: Pad
Command-Line Switch: -pady
- Specifies a padding distance for the childsite in the
Y-direction in any of the forms acceptable to Tk_GetPixels. The
default is 10.
Name: separator
Class: Separator
Command-Line Switch: -separator
- Specifies whether a line is drawn to separate the buttons
from the dialog box contents in any of the forms acceptable to
Tcl_GetBoolean. The default is true.
Name: thickness
Class: Thickness
Command-Line Switch: -thickness
- Specifies the thickness of the separator in any of the
forms acceptable to Tk_GetPixels. The default is 3 pixels.
DESCRIPTION¶
The
iwidgets::dialogshell command creates a dialog shell which is a top
level widget composed of a button box, separator, and child site area. The
class also has methods to control button construction.
METHODS¶
The
iwidgets::dialogshell command create a new Tcl command whose name is
pathName. This command may be used to invoke various operations on the
widget. It has the following general form:
pathName option ?arg arg ...?
Option and the
args determine the exact behavior of the command.
The following commands are possible for dialogshell widgets:
INHERITED METHODS¶
activate center deactivate
See the "shell" manual entry for details on the above inherited
methods.
ASSOCIATED METHODS¶
add buttonconfigure default delete
hide index insert invoke
show
See the "buttonbox" manual entry for details on the associated
methods.
- pathName cget option
- Returns the current value of the configuration option given
by option. Option may have any of the values accepted by the
iwidgets::dialogshell command.
- pathName childsite
- Returns the pathname of the child site widget.
- pathName configure ?option? ?value
option value ...?
- Query or modify the configuration options of the widget. If
no option is specified, returns a list describing all of the
available options for pathName (see Tk_ConfigureInfo for
information on the format of this list). If option is specified
with no value, then the command returns a list describing the one
named option (this list will be identical to the corresponding sublist of
the value returned if no option is specified). If one or more
option-value pairs are specified, then the command modifies the
given widget option(s) to have the given value(s); in this case the
command returns an empty string. Option may have any of the values
accepted by the iwidgets::dialogshell command.
COMPONENTS¶
Name: dschildsite
Class: frame
- The dschildsite component is the user child site for the
dialog shell. See the "frame" widget manual entry for details on
the dschildsite component item.
Name: separator
Class: frame
- The separator component devides the area between the user
child site and the button box. See the "frame" widget manual
entry for details on the separator component item.
Name: bbox
Class: ButtonBox
- The bbox component is the button box containing the buttons
for the dialog shell. See the "ButtonBox" widget manual entry
for details on the bbox component item.
EXAMPLE¶
package require Iwidgets 4.0
iwidgets::dialogshell .ds -modality none
.ds add OK -text "OK"
.ds add Cancel -text "Cancel"
.ds default OK
.ds activate
AUTHOR¶
Mark L. Ulferts
KEYWORDS¶
dialogshell, dialog, shell, widget