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iwidgets::promptdialog - Create and manipulate a prompt dialog widget

Synopsis

iwidgets::promptdialog pathName ?options?

Inheritance

itk::Toplevel <- iwidgets::Dialogshell <- iwidgets::Dialog <- iwidgets::Promptdialog

Standard Options

background borderWidth cursor exportSelection

foreground
highlightColor highlightThickness insertBackground insertBorderWidth insertOffTime insertOnTime insertWidth
relief
selectBackground selectBorderWidth selectForeground

See the «options» manual entry for details on the standard

options.

Associated Options

show

See the «entry» widget manual entry for details on the above

associated options.

invalid
textBackground textFont validate

See the «entryfield» widget manual entry for details on the above

associated options.
labelFont labelPos labelText

See the «labeledwidget» widget manual entry for details on the

above associated options.

Inherited Options

buttonBoxPadX buttonBoxPadY buttonBoxPos padX

padY
separator thickness

See the «dialogshell» widget manual entry for details on the

above inherited options.
height master modality width

See the «shell» widget manual entry for details on the above

inherited options.
title

See the «Toplevel» widget manual entry for details on the above

inherited options.
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Description

The iwidgets::promptdialog command creates a prompt dialog simi-

lar to the OSF/Motif standard prompt dialog composite widget.

The promptdialog is derived from the dialog class and is composed

of a EntryField with commands to manipulate the dialog buttons.

Methods

The iwidgets::promptdialog command creates a new Tcl command

whose name is pathName. This command may be used to invoke vari- ous 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 promptdialog widgets:

Associated Methods

delete get icursor index insert scan selection xview

See the «entry» widget manual entry for details on the above

associated methods.
clear

See the «entryfield» widget manual entry for details on the above

associated methods.

Inherited Methods

add buttonconfigure defaulthide

invoke
show

See the «buttonbox» widget manual entry for details on the above

inherited methods.
childsite

See the «dialogshell» widget manual entry for details on the

above inherited methods.
activate center deactivate

See the «shell» widget manual entry for details on the above

inherited 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::promptdialog command.
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::promptdialog command.

Components

Name: prompt

Class: Entryfield

The prompt component is the entry field for user input in the

prompt dialog. See the «entryfield» widget manual entry for details on the prompt component item.

Example

package require Iwidgets 4.0
option add *textBackground white

iwidgets::promptdialog .pd -modality global -title Password -labeltext Password: -show * .pd hide Apply

if {[.pd activate]} {
puts «Password entered: [.pd get]"
} else {
puts «Password prompt cancelled"
}

Author

Mark L. Ulferts

Keywords

promptdialog, dialog, dialogshell, shell, widget

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