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NAME
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
[-command 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.
[-disablecallback 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. [-dynamicgeometry 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.
[-label label] Specifies the string to display as the label of this OptionMenu widget.
[-labelside labelSide] Specifies where the label should be displayed relative to the entry subwidget.
Valid options are: top, left, right, bottom, none or acrosstop. [-state state] Specifies the whether the
OptionMenu widget is normal or disabled. Only the values "normal" and "disabled" are recognized.
[-value 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. [-variable 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 name is the same as the path name of the
OptionMenu's 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 OptionMenu widget's path name. Option and
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)
Tix 4.0 TIX(3)