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iwidgets::dialogshell - Create and manipulate a dialog shell wid- get

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 inher-

ited options.

Widget-specific 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 direc- tion. 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 direc- tion. 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 con- struction.

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 defaultdelete

hide
index insert invoke show

See the «buttonbox» manual entry for details on the associated

methods.

Widget-specific 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 iwid- gets::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 avail- able 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

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