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NAME
tixControl - Create and manipulate tixControl widgets
SYNOPSIS
tixControl pathName ?options?
SUPER-CLASS
The TixControl class is derived from the TixLabelWidget class and inherits all the
commands, options and subwidgets of its super-class.
STANDARD OPTIONS
The Control 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
[-allowempty allowEmpty] Specifies whether the Control widget should allow the empty
string as a valid input. [-autorepeat autorepeat] Specifies whether the Control widget
should have autorepeat behavior. If set to be "true", the value of the Control widget
will be automatically incremented or decremented when the user holds down the mouse button
over the arrow buttons. Only values "true" and "false" will be recognized.
[-command command] Specifies the command to be called when the -value option of the
Control widget is changed. The command will be called with one arguments -- the new value
of the Control widget. [-decrcmd decrCmd] Specifies a TCL command to be called when the
the user presses the down-arrow button subwidget. This command is called with one
parameter -- the current -value of this Control widget. This command is to decrement this
value by one step, according to its own definition of "decrement", and return the
decremented value, which will be stored in the -value of this Control widget.
[-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 Control widget changes.
[-disableforeground disableForeground] The foreground color to use for of the entry
subwidget when the Control widget is disabled. [-incrcmd incrCmd] Specifies a TCL command
to be called when the the user presses the up-arrow button subwidget. This command is
called with one parameter -- the current -value of this Control widget. This command is to
increment this value by one step, according to its own definition of "increment", and
return the incremented value, which will be stored in the -value of this Control widget.
[-initwait initwait] Specifies how long the Control widget should wait initially before it
starts to automatically increment or decrement its value in the autorepeat mode. In
milliseconds. [-integer integer] A Boolean value specifying whether only integer numbers
are accepted. [-label label] Specifies the string to display as the label of this Control
widget. [-labelside labelSide] Specifies where the label should be displayed relative to
the entry subwidget. Valid options are: top, left, right, bottom, none or acrosstop.
Name: max
Class: Max
Switch: -max
Alias: -ulimit
Specifies the upper limit of the value of the Control widget. When set to empty
string, the Control widget has no upper limit.
Name: min
Class: Min
Switch: -min
Alias: -llimit
Specifies the lower limit of the value of the Control widget.When set to empty
string, the Control widget has no lower limit. [-repeatrate repeatRate] Specifies
how often the value of the Control widget should be incremented or decremented when
it is in the autorepeat mode. In milliseconds. [-selectmode selectMode] Specifies
how the Control widget should react to <KeyPress> events. When set to "immediate",
any user keyboard inputs will immediately change the -value option. When set to
"normal", the user keyboard inputs will be copied to the -value option only if the
<Return> key is pressed or the keyboard focus is changed. The use of the immediate
mode is discouraged. For effective use of the Control widget, one should use the
normal mode together with the update widget command (see below). [-state state]
Specifies the whether the Control widget is normal or disabled. Only the values
"normal" and "disabled" are recognized. [-step step] Specifies by how much the
value of the Control widget should be incremented or decrmented when the user press
the arrow buttons. [-validatecmd validateCmd] Specifies a TCL command to be called
when the -value of the Control 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]
Specifies the value of the Control widget. [-variable variable] Specifies the
global variable in which the value of the Control widget should be stored. The
value of the Control widget will be automatically updated when this variable is
changed.
SUBWIDGETS
Name: decr
Class: Button
The down arrow button.
Name: entry
Class: Entry
The entry that shows the value of this Control widget.
Name: incr
Class: Button
The up arrow button.
Name: label
Class: Label
The label subwidget.
DESCRIPTION
The tixControl command creates a new window (given by the pathName argument) and makes it
into a Control widget. Additional options, described above, may be specified on the
command line or in the option database to configure aspects of the Control widget such as
its cursor and relief.
The Control widget is also known as the SpinBox widget. It is generally used to control a
value. The user can adjust the value by pressing the two arrow buttons or by entering the
value directly into the entry. The new value will be checked against the user-defined
upper and lower limits.
WIDGET COMMANDS
The tixControl command creates a new Tcl command whose name is the same as the path name
of the Control 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 Control widget's path name.
Option and the args determine the exact behavior of the command. The following commands
are possible for Control widgets:
pathName cget option
Returns the current value of the configuration option given by option. Option may
have any of the values accepted by the tixControl 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 tixControl command.
pathName decr
Decrements the value of the Control widget by the step specified by the -step
option.
pathName incr
Increments the value of the Control widget by the step specified by the -step
option.
pathName invoke
Causes the command specified by the -command option to be invoked.
pathName update
If the user has modified the entry using keyboard inputs, the update command will
update the -value of this Control widget. When the Control widget's -selectmode
option is set to "normal", one should call the update command on this widget before
examining its -value option. This command has no effect in if the -selectmode
option is set to "immediate".
pathName subwidget name ?args?
When no options are given, this command 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 up/down arrow buttons (or press the <Up> and <Down> arrow keys
on the keyboard), the value of the tixControl widget is adjusted according to the
-validatecmd, -incrcmd, -decrcmd, -step, -max and -min options.
KEYWORDS
Tix(n)