ActiveTcl User Guide

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get iwidgets::dialogshell pathName ?options? itk::Toplevel <- iwidgets::Shell <- iwidgets::Dialogshell
background cursor foreground

See the options manual entry for details on the standard op-

tions.
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 inherit-

ed 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 direc- tion. 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 direc- tion. 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-direction

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-direction

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 ac-

ceptable to Tk_GetPixels. The default is 3 pixels. _________________________________________________________________

The iwidgets::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 con- struction. erations on the widget. It has the following general form:

pathName option ?arg arg ...?

Option and the args determine the exact behavior of the command.

activate center deactivate

See the shell manual entry for details on the above inherited

methods.
add buttonconfigure defaultdelete

hide
index insert invoke show

See the buttonbox manual entry for details on the associated

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 iwidgets::dialogshell command. pathName childsite Returns the pathname of the child site widget. path-

Name configure ?option? ?value option value ...? Query or modify

the configuration options of the widget. If no option is speci- fied, 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 com- mand returns a list describing the one named option (this list will be identical to the corresponding sublist of the value re- turned 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 ac- cepted by the iwidgets::dialogshell command.

Name: dschildsite

Class: frame

shell. See the frame widget manual entry for details on the dschildsite component item.

Name: separator

Class: frame

site and the button box. See the frame widget manual entry for details on the separator component item.

Name: bbox

Class: ButtonBox

the dialog shell. See the ButtonBox widget manual entry for details on the bbox component item.

package require Iwidgets 4.0
iwidgets::dialogshell .ds -modality none

.ds add OK -text OK"
.ds add Cancel -text Cancel"
.ds default OK

.ds activate

Mark L. Ulferts dialogshell, dialog, shell, widget

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