Commands Related to tile Themes

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Csaba Nemethi

csaba.nemethi@t-online.de

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Overview

The commands described in this reference page should only be invoked when using the package Tablelist_tile.  They enable you to set and query the current theme, to retrieve a list of the available themes, and to make sure that your widgets will have a theme-specific appearance.

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The tablelist::setTheme Command

NAME
tablelist::setTheme - Set the current theme

SYNOPSIS
tablelist::setTheme theme
DESCRIPTION
This command sets the current theme to theme, loading it if necessary.  It is simply an alias for ttk::setTheme or tile::setTheme, depending on the tile version loaded into the interpreter.  (The tile::setTheme command was renamed to ttk::setTheme in tile version 0.8.)

Being just an alias for a tile library procedure, the tablelist::setTheme command does exactly the same as the original one: It loads the package implementing the given theme if needed, sets the theme to the specified one, and saves the latter in the variable ttk::currentTheme or tile::currentTheme, depending on the current tile version.

KEYWORDS
tablelist, theme, tile

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The tablelist::getCurrentTheme Command

NAME
tablelist::getCurrentTheme - Get the current theme

SYNOPSIS
tablelist::getCurrentTheme
DESCRIPTION
This command returns the value of the variable ttk::currentTheme or tile::currentTheme, depending on the tile version loaded into the interpreter.  (The namespace containing the variable currentTheme was changed in tile version 0.8 from tile to ttk.)

KEYWORDS
tablelist, theme, tile

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The tablelist::getThemes Command

NAME
tablelist::getThemes - Get the themes registered in the package database

SYNOPSIS
tablelist::getThemes
DESCRIPTION
This command returns a list of the themes registered in the package database.  It is simply an alias for ttk::themes or tile::availableThemes, depending on the tile version loaded into the interpreter.  (The tile::availableThemes command was renamed to ttk::themes in tile version 0.8.)

KEYWORDS
tablelist, theme, tile

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The tablelist::setThemeDefaults Command

NAME
tablelist::setThemeDefaults - Set theme-specific default values of some tablelist configuration options

SYNOPSIS
tablelist::setThemeDefaults
DESCRIPTION
This command populates the array tablelist::themeDefaults with theme-specific default values of a series of Tablelist configuration options.  The array names are the command-line names of the options, and the corresponding array values are the default values of these configuration options for the currently set tile theme.

The options whose names and values are written into the array tablelist::themeDefaults are: -background, -foreground, -disabledforeground, -stripebackground, -selectbackground, -selectforeground, -selectborderwidth, -font, -labelbackground, -labelforeground, -labelfont, -labelborderwidth, -labelpady, -arrowcolor, -arrowdisabledcolor, and -arrowstyle.  In addition, the command sets some other array elements to theme-specific default values of the background and foreground colors of the column labels in disabled, active, and pressed states.  (Tablelist needs the label colors for handling sort arrows and images with transparent background in the column labels.)

The tablelist::setThemeDefaults command is invoked by Tablelist_tile automatically whenever a tablelist widget is createad or the <<ThemeChanged>> virtual event is received by a tablelist widget.  In the latter case, the widget is reconfigured, using the new default values of those options that were not set explicitly to values different from the corresponding defaults.

Besides being used by the Tablelist_tile code, this command can also be invoked in Tcl scripts, still before creating any tile-based tablelist widget.  By calling it explicitly and using the values written by it into the array tablelist::themeDefaults, you can make sure that classical Tk widgets, e.g., listbox and text, will have a theme-specific appearance, just like the tile widgets.  For example, you can add some common configuration options to the option database as follows:

tablelist::setThemeDefaults
if {$tile::currentTheme eq "aqua"} {
    option add *Listbox.selectBackground \
               $tablelist::themeDefaults(-selectbackground)
    option add *Listbox.selectForeground \
               $tablelist::themeDefaults(-selectforeground)
} else {
    option add *selectBackground  $tablelist::themeDefaults(-selectbackground)
    option add *selectForeground  $tablelist::themeDefaults(-selectforeground)
}
option add *selectBorderWidth     $tablelist::themeDefaults(-selectborderwidth)
KEYWORDS
tablelist, theme, tile

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