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widget iwidgets::promptdialog pathName ?options? itk::Toplevel <- iwidgets::Dialogshell <- iwidgets::Dialog <- iwidgets::Prompt- dialog

background borderWidth cursor exportSelection

foreground
highlightColor highlightThickness insertBackground insertBorderWidth insertOffTime insertOnTime insertWidth
relief
selectBackground selectBorderWidth selectForeground

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

tions.
show

See the entry widget manual entry for details on the above as-

sociated options.

invalid
textBackground textFont validate

See the entryfield widget manual entry for details on the above

associated options.
labelFont labelPos labelText

See the labeledwidget widget manual entry for details on the

above associated options.
buttonBoxPadX buttonBoxPadY buttonBoxPos padX

padY
separator thickness

See the dialogshell widget manual entry for details on the

above inherited options.
height master modality width

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.
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The iwidgets::promptdialog command creates a prompt dialog simi-

lar to the OSF/Motif standard prompt dialog composite widget.

The promptdialog is derived from the dialog class and is composed

of a EntryField with commands to manipulate the dialog buttons.

The iwidgets::promptdialog 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 promptdialog widgets:

delete get icursor index insert scan selection xview

See the entry widget manual entry for details on the above as-

sociated methods.
clear

See the entryfield widget manual entry for details on the above

associated methods.
add buttonconfigure defaulthide

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 shell widget manual entry for details on the above in-

herited methods. accepted by the iwidgets::promptdialog command. pathName config*- ure ?option? ?value option value ...? Query or modify the con- figuration options of the widget. If no option is specified, re- turns 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 iwidgets::promptdialog command.

Name: prompt

Class: Entryfield

The prompt component is the entry field for user input in the

prompt dialog. See the entryfield widget manual entry for de- tails on the prompt component item.

package require Iwidgets 4.0
option add *textBackground white

iwidgets::promptdialog .pd -modality global -title Password -labeltext Password: -show * .pd hide Apply

if {[.pd activate]} {
puts Password entered: [.pd get]"
} else {
puts Password prompt cancelled"
}

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

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