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NAME
tixSelect - Create and manipulate tixSelect widgets
SYNOPSIS
tixSelect pathName ?options?
SUPER-CLASS
The TixSelect class is derived from the TixLabelWidget class and inherits all the commands, options and
subwidgets of its super-class.
STANDARD OPTIONS
The Select 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
[-allowzero allowZero] A boolean value that specifies whether the selection can be empty. When set to
false, at least one button subwidget must be selected at any time.
Note: When the Select widget is first constructed, the default selection is always empty, even if
-allowzero is set to false. [-buttontype buttonType] The type of buttons to be used as subwidgets inside
the Select widget. By default, the standard Tk button widget class is used. [-command command]
Specifies the TCL command to be executed when the -value of the Select widget is changed. This command
will be invoked with two arguments. The first is the name of the button subwidget that has toggled. The
second is a boolean value indicating whether the button subwidget is selected. This command is executed
only when the -disableCallback option is set to false. [-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 Select widget changes.
Name: orientation
Class: Orientation
Switch: -orientation
Alias: -orient
Specifies the orientation of the button subwidgets. Only the values horizontal and vertical are
recognized. This is a static option and it can only be assigned during the creation of the widget.
[-label label] Specifies the string to display as the label of this Select widget.
[-labelside labelSide] Specifies where the label should be displayed relative to the Select
widget. Valid options are: top, left, right, bottom, none or acrosstop. [-padx padX] Specifies
the horizontal padding between two neighboring button subwidgets. This is a static option and it
can only be assigned during the creation of the widget. [-padx padY] Specifies the vertical
padding between two neighboring button subwidgets. This is a static option and it can only be
assigned during the creation of the widget. [-radio radio] A boolean value that specifies whether
the Select widget should act as a radio-box. When set to true, at most one button subwidget can be
selected at any time. This is a static option and it can only be assigned during the creation of
the widget. [-selectedbg selectedBg] Specifies the background color of all the selected button
subwidgets. [-state state] Specifies the state of all the buttons inside the Select widget. Only
the values normal and disabled are recognized. When the state is set to disabled, all user actions
on this Select widget are ignore. [-validatecmd validateCmd] Specifies a TCL command to be called
when the -value of the Select widget is about to change. This command is called with one parameter
-- the new -value entered by the user. This command is to validate this new value by returning a
value it deems valid. [-value value] The value of a Select widget is a list of the names of the
button subwidgets that have been selected by the user.
When you assign the value of a Select widget using the "config -value" widget command, the TCL
command specified by the -command option will be invoked if some button subwidgets are toggled.
[-variable variable] Specifies the global variable in which the value of the Select widget should
be stored. The value of a Select widget is stored as a list of the names of the button subwidgets
that have been selected by the user. The value of the Select widget will be automatically updated
when this variable is changed.
SUBWIDGETS
Name: label
Class: Label
The label subwidget.
In addition, all the button subwidgets created as a result of the add widget command can be accessed by
the subwidget command. They are identified by the buttonName parameter to the add widget command. Here is
an example:
set s [tixSelect .s] pack $s $s add eat -text Eat $s add sleep -text Sleep $s subwidget eat config
-fg green $s subwidget sleep config -fg red
DESCRIPTION
The tixSelect command creates a new window (given by the pathName argument) and makes it into a Select
widget. Additional options, described above, may be specified on the command line or in the option
database to configure aspects of the Select widget such as its cursor and relief.
The Select widget is a container of button subwidgets. It can be used to provide radio-box or check-box
style of selection options for the user.
WIDGET COMMANDS
The tixSelect command creates a new Tcl command whose name is the same as the path name of the Select
widget'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 Select widget's path name. Option and the
args determine the exact behavior of the command. The following commands are possible for Select
widgets:
pathName add buttonName ?option value ... ?
Adds a new button subwidget with the name buttonName into the Select widget. Additional
configuration options can be given to configure the new button subwidget.
pathName cget option
Returns the current value of the configuration option given by option. Option may have any of the
values accepted by the tixSelect 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 tixSelect
command.
pathName invoke buttonName
Invokes the button subwidget with the name buttonName.
pathName subwidget name ?args?
When no options are given, 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.
BINDINGS
When the user presses the left mouse button over the a button subwidget, it will be toggled and the
-value option of the tixSelect widget will be changed.
EXAMPLE
The following example creates a radio-box style iconbar for the user to choose one value among eat, work
or sleep.
set s [tixSelect .s -radio true -allowzero false] $s add eat -bitmap [tix getbitmap eat] $s add work
-bitmap [tix getbitmap work] $s add sleep -bitmap [tix getbitmap sleep]
KEYWORDS
Tix(n), Container Widget
Tix 4.0 TIX(3)