tixListNoteBook - Create and manipulate tixListNoteBook widgets
SYNOPSIS
tixListNoteBook pathName ?options?
STANDARD OPTIONS
The ListNoteBook widget supports all the standard options of a frame widget.
See the options(n) manual entry for details on the standard options.
WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
Name: dynamicGeometry
Class: DynamicGeometry
Switch: -dynamicgeometry
If set to false, the size of the ListNotebook will match the size of the
largest page. If set to true, the size of the ListNotebook will match the
size of the current page (therefore, the size may change when the user
selects different pages). The default value is false. A setting of true
is discouraged.
Name: ipadX
Class: Pad
Switch: -ipadx
The amount of internal horizontal paddings around the sides of the
page subwidgets.
Name: ipadY
Class: Pad
Switch: -ipady
The amount of internal vertical paddings around the sides of the
page subwidgets.
SUBWIDGETS
Name: hlist
Class: TixHList
The HList widget that displays the names of the pages.
In addition, all the page subwidgets created as a result of the
add command can be accessed by the subwidget command. They
are identified by the pageName parameter to the add
command.
DESCRIPTION
The tixListNoteBook command creates a new window (given by the
pathName argument) and makes it into a ListNoteBook widget.
Additional options, described above, may be specified on the command
line or in the option database to configure aspects of the
ListNoteBook widget such as its cursor and relief.
The ListNoteBook widget is very similar to the TixNoteBook widget: it
can be used to display many windows in a limited space using a
"notebook" metaphore. The notebook is divided into a stack of pages
(windows). At one time only one of these pages can be shown. The user
can navigate through these pages by choosing the name of the desired
page in the hlist subwidget.
WIDGET COMMANDS
The tixListNoteBook command creates a new Tcl command whose name is
command may be used to invoke various operations on the widget. It has
the following general form:
pathName option ?arg arg ...?
PathName is the name of the command, which is the same as the
determine the exact behavior of the command. The following commands
are possible for ListNoteBook widgets:
- pathName add pageName ?option value ...?
- Adds a new ListNotebook page subwidget into the ListNoteBook widget.
pageName must be the name of an existing entry of the
hlist subwidget. You must create the entry before calling the
add command. Please refer to the tixHList(n) manual entry
for adding entries in an HList widget.
Additional parameters may be supplied to configure this page
subwidget. Possible options are:
- -createcmd
- Specifies a TCL command to be called the first time a page is shown on
the screen. This option can be used to delay the creation of the
contents of a page until necessary. Therefore, it can be used to speed
up interface creation process especially when there are a large number
of pages in a ListNoteBook widget.
- -raisecmd
- Specifies a TCL command to be called whenever this page is raised by
the user.
When successful, this command returns the pathname of the newly
created page.
- pathName cget option
- Returns the current value of the configuration option given by
option.Option may have any of the values accepted by the
tixListNoteBook 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
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 tixListNoteBook command.
- pathName delete pageName?
- Deletes the page identified by pageName.
- pathName pagecget pageName option
- Returns the current value of the configuration option given by
option in the page given by pageName. Option may
have any of the values accepted by the add widget command.
- pathName pageconfigure pageName ?option? ?value ...?
- When no option is given, prints out the values of all options of this
page. If option is specified with no value, then the
command returns the current value of that option. If one or more
option-value pairs are specified, then the command modifies the
command returns an empty string. Option may be any of options
accepted by the add widget command.
- pathName pages
- Returns a list of the names of all the pages.
- pathName raise pageName
- Raise the page identified by pageName.
- pathName raised
- Returns the name of the currently raised page.
- pathName subwidget name ?args?
- When no options are given, this command returns the pathname of the
subwidget of the specified name.
When options are given, the widget command of the specified subwidget
will be called with these options.
EXAMPLE
tixListNoteBook .n; pack .n
.n subwidget hlist add page1 -text "Page 1"
.n subwidget hlist add page2 -text "Page 2"
set page1 [.n add page1]
set page2 [.n add page2]
button $page1.b -text "On page1"
button $page2.b -text "On page2"
pack $page1.b
pack $page2.b
.n raise page2
BINDINGS
When the user activates an entry in the hlist subwidget, the
page associated with that entry will be raised to the front. This can
be done by using the mouse or keyboard. The hlist subwidget
operates with its -selectmode option set to single. See the
event bindings of the HList widget for more details.
KEYWORDS
Tix(n), tixHList(n)
Last modified Sun Jan 19 22:34:32 EST 1997 ---
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