tixOptionMenu - Create and manipulate tixOptionMenu widgets
SYNOPSIS
tixOptionMenu pathName ?options?
SUPER-CLASS
The TixOptionMenu class is derived from the TixLabelWidget
class and inherits all the commands, options and
subwidgets of its super-class.
STANDARD OPTIONS
The OptionMenu widget supports all the standard Tix widget
options. See the Tix-Options(n) manual entry for details on the
standard Tix widget options.
WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
Name: command
Class: Command
Switch: -command
Specifies the command to be called when the -value option of
the OptionMenu is changed. The command will be called with one
arguments -- the new value of the OptionMenu widget.
Name: disableCallback
Class: DisableCallback
Switch: -disablecallback
A boolean value indicating whether callbacks should be disabled. When
set to true, the TCL command specified by the -command option
is not executed when the -value of the OptionMenu widget
changes.
Name: dynamicGeometry
Class: DynamicGeometry
Switch: -dynamicgeometry
A boolean value indicating whether the size of the menubutton
subwidget should change dynamically to match the width of the
currently selected menu entry. If set to false (the default), the the
size of the menubutton subwidget will be wide enough to display every
menu entry fully and does not change when the user selects different
entries.
Name: label
Class: Label
Switch: -label
Specifies the string to display as the label of this OptionMenu widget.
Name: labelSide
Class: LabelSide
Switch: -labelside
Specifies where the label should be displayed relative to the entry
subwidget. Valid options are: top, left, right,
bottom, none or acrosstop.
Name: state
Class: State
Switch: -state
Specifies the whether the OptionMenu widget is normal or disabled. Only
the values "normal" and "disabled" are recognized.
Name: value
Class: Value
Switch: -value
Specifies the value of the OptionMenu. The value of the OptionMenu
widget is the name of the item currently displayed by its
menubutton subwidget.
Name: variable
Class: Variable
Switch: -variable
Specifies the global variable in which the value of the OptionMenu
should be stored. The value of the OptionMenu will be automatically
updated when this variable is changed.
SUBWIDGETS
Name: menu
Class: Menu
The menu subwidget, which is popped up when the user press the
menubutton subwidget.
Name: menubutton
Class: Menubutton
The menubutton subwidget.
DESCRIPTION
The tixOptionMenu command creates a new window (given by
the pathName argument) and makes it into a OptionMenu
widget. Additional options, described above, may be specified on the
command line or in the option database to configure aspects of the
OptionMenu such as its cursor and relief.
WIDGET COMMANDS
The tixOptionMenu command creates a new Tcl command whose
window. This 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
args determine the exact behavior of the command. The following
commands are possible for OptionMenu widgets:
- pathName add type name ?option value ...?
- Adds a new item into the OptionMenu widget. type must be either
command or separator. The options may be any of the
valid options for the command or separator menu entry
types for the TK menu widget class, except -command.
- pathName cget option
- Returns the current value of the configuration option given by
option. Option may have any of the values accepted by the
tixOptionMenu 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 tixOptionMenu command.
- pathName delete name
- Deletes the menu entry identified by name.
- pathName disable name
- Disables the menu entry identified by name.
- pathName enable name
- Enables the menu entry identified by name.
- pathName entrycget name option
- Returns the current value of the configuration option given by
option in the menu entry identified by name. Option
may have any of the values accepted by the add widget command.
- pathName entryconfigure name ?option? ?value option value ...?
- Query or modify the configuration options of the menu entry identified
by name. If no option is specified, returns a list
describing all of the available options for the menu entry (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 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
add widget command.
- pathName entries
- Returns the names of all the entries currently in the OptionMenu
widget.
- 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.
KEYWORDS
Tix(n)
Last modified Sun Jan 19 22:34:34 EST 1997 ---
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