iwidgets2.2.0 User Commands - dialogshell
NAME
dialogshell - Create and manipulate a dialog shell widget
SYNOPSIS
dialogshell pathName ?options?
INHERITANCE
itk::Toplevel <- Shell <- Dialogshell
STANDARD OPTIONS
background cursor foreground
See the "options" manual entry for details on the standard
options.
INHERITED OPTIONS
master modality title
See the "shell" 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 but-
ton 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 but-
ton 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 but-
tons 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 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 but-
ton construction.
METHODS
The 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 com-
mand. The following commands are possible for dialogshell
widgets:
INHERITED METHODS
activate center deactivate
See the "shell" manual entry for details on the above inher-
ited methods.
ASSOCIATED METHODS
add buttonconfigure defaultdelete
hide index insert invoke
show
See the "buttonbox" manual entry for details on the associ-
ated 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 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 correspond-
ing 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 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 com-
ponent 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
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