NAME

       iwidgets::messagedialog - Create and manipulate a message dialog widget

SYNOPSIS

       iwidgets::messagedialog pathName ?options?

INHERITANCE

       itk::Toplevel <- iwidgets::Shell <- iwidgets::Dialogshell <- iwidgets::Dialog <- iwidgets::Messagedialog

STANDARD OPTIONS

       background      bitmap         cursor          font
       foreground      image          text

       See the "options" manual entry for details on the standard options.

INHERITED OPTIONS

       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 inherited options.

       title

       See the "Toplevel" widget manual entry for details on the above inherited options.

WIDGET-SPECIFIC 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.

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DESCRIPTION

       The  iwidgets::messagedialog  command  creates  a  message dialog composite 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.

METHODS

       The  iwidgets::messagedialog  command creates a new Tcl command whose name is pathName.  This command may
       be used to invoke various 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:

INHERITED METHODS

       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.

WIDGET-SPECIFIC 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::messagedialog 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
              iwidgets::messagedialog command.

COMPONENTS

       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 component 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.

EXAMPLE

        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"

AUTHOR

       Mark L. Ulferts

KEYWORDS

       messagedialog, dialog, dialogshell, shell, widget