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