ActiveTcl User Guide

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widget iwidgets::messagedialog pathName ?options? itk::Toplevel <- iwidgets::Shell <- iwidgets::Dialogshell <- iwidgets::Dialog <- iwidgets::Messagedialog
background bitmap cursor font foreground image text

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

tions.
buttonBoxPadX buttonBoxPadY buttonBoxPos padX

padY
separator thickness

See the dialogshell widget manual entry for details on the

above inherited options.

master
modality

See the shell widget manual entry for details on the above in-

herited options.
title

See the Toplevel widget manual entry for details on the above

inherited options.

Name: imagePos

Class: Position

Command-Line Switch: -imagepos

Specifies the image position relative to the message text: n, s,

e, or w. The default is w.

Name: textPadX

Class: Pad

Command-Line Switch: -textpadx

Specifies a non-negative value indicating how much extra space to

request for the message text in the X direction. The value may have any of the forms acceptable to Tk_GetPixels.

Name: textPadY

Class: Pad

Command-Line Switch: -textpady

Specifies a non-negative value indicating how much extra space to

request for the message text in the X direction. The value may have any of the forms acceptable to Tk_GetPixels. _________________________________________________________________

The iwidgets::messagedialog command creates a message dialog com-

posite widget. The messagedialog is derived from the Dialog class and is composed of an image and associated message text with commands to manipulate the dialog buttons.

The iwidgets::messagedialog command creates a new Tcl command

whose name is pathName. This command may be used to invoke vari- ous operations on the widget. It has the following general form:

pathName option ?arg arg ...?

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

The following commands are possible for messagedialog widgets:

add buttonconfigure defaulthide insert invoke show

See the buttonbox widget manual entry for details on the above

inherited methods.
childsite

See the dialogshell widget manual entry for details on the

above inherited methods.
activate center deactivate

See the dialogshell widget manual entry for details on the

above inherited methods. pathName cget option Returns the cur- rent value of the configuration option given by option. Option may have any of the values accepted by the iwidgets::messagedia*- log 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 informa- tion 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 iwidgets::messagedialog command.

Name: image

Class: Label

The image component is the bitmap or image of the message dialog.

See the label widget manual entry for details on the image com-

ponent item.

Name: message

Class: Label

The message component provides the textual portion of the message

dialog. See the label widget manual entry for details on the message component item.

package require Iwidgets 4.0
#
# Standard question message dialog used for confirmation. #
iwidgets::messagedialog .md -title Message Dialog -text Are you sure ? \ -bitmap questhead -modality global

.md buttonconfigure OK -text Yes
.md buttonconfigure Cancel -text No

if {[.md activate]} {
.md configure -text Are you really sure ?" if {[.md activate]} {
puts stdout Yes"
} else {
puts stdout No"
}
} else {
puts stdout No"
}

destroy .md

#
# Copyright notice with automatic deactivation. #
iwidgets::messagedialog .cr -title Copyright -bitmap @dsc.xbm -imagepos n \ -text Copyright 1995 DSC Communications Corporation\n \ All rights reserved"

.cr hide Cancel

.cr activate
after 10000 .cr deactivate"

Mark L. Ulferts messagedialog, dialog, dialogshell, shell, widget

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