dialogshell
dialogshell(1) [incr Widgets] dialogshell(1)
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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
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.
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
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-direc-
tion 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-direc-
tion 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.
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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 button construction.
METHODS
The dialogshell command create a new Tcl command whose name is path-
Name. 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 meth-
ods.
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
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 infor-
mation 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 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
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
Tk dialogshell(1)
