NAME

       toplevel - Create and manipulate toplevel widgets

SYNOPSIS

       toplevel pathName ?options?

STANDARD OPTIONS

       -borderwidth          -highlightcolor      -pady
       -cursor               -highlightthickness  -relief
       -highlightbackground  -padx                -takefocus

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

WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS

       Command-Line Name:-background
       Database Name:  background
       Database Class: Background

              This option is the same as the standard background option except that its value may
              also be specified as an empty string.  In this case, the  widget  will  display  no
              background  or  border,  and  no  colors will be consumed from its colormap for its
              background and border.

       Command-Line Name:-class
       Database Name:  class
       Database Class: Class

              Specifies a class for the window.  This class will be used when querying the option
              database  for  the window's other options, and it will also be used later for other
              purposes such as bindings.  The class option may not be changed with the  configure
              widget command.

       Command-Line Name:-colormap
       Database Name:  colormap
       Database Class: Colormap

              Specifies  a colormap to use for the window.  The value may be either new, in which
              case a new colormap is created for the window and its  children,  or  the  name  of
              another  window  (which  must  be  on  the  same screen and have the same visual as
              pathName), in which case the new window will use the colormap  from  the  specified
              window.   If  the colormap option is not specified, the new window uses the default
              colormap of its screen.  This option may not be changed with the  configure  widget
              command.

       Command-Line Name:-container
       Database Name:  container
       Database Class: Container

              The  value must be a boolean.  If true, it means that this window will be used as a
              container in which some other application will  be  embedded  (for  example,  a  Tk
              toplevel  can  be  embedded  using  the  -use option).  The window will support the
              appropriate window manager protocols for things like geometry requests.  The window
              should  not  have any children of its own in this application.  This option may not
              be changed with the configure widget command.

       Command-Line Name:-height
       Database Name:  height
       Database Class: Height

              Specifies the desired height for the window in  any  of  the  forms  acceptable  to
              Tk_GetPixels.   If  this  option is less than or equal to zero then the window will
              not request any size at all.

       Command-Line Name:-menu
       Database Name:  menu
       Database Class: Menu

              Specifies a menu widget to be used as a menubar. On the Macintosh, the menubar will
              be  displayed across the top of the main monitor. On Microsoft Windows and all UNIX
              platforms, the menu will appear across the toplevel window as part  of  the  window
              dressing maintained by the window manager.

       Command-Line Name:-screen
       Database Name:
       Database Class:

              Specifies  the  screen on which to place the new window.  Any valid screen name may
              be used, even one associated with a different display.  Defaults to the same screen
              as  its  parent.   This  option  is special in that it may not be specified via the
              option database, and it may not be modified with the configure widget command.

       Command-Line Name:-use
       Database Name:  use
       Database Class: Use

              This option is used for embedding. If the value is not an empty string, it must  be
              the window identifier of a container window, specified as a hexadecimal string like
              the ones returned by the winfo id command. The toplevel widget will be created as a
              child  of  the  given  container instead of the root window for the screen.  If the
              container window is in a Tk application, it must be a frame or toplevel widget  for
              which the -container option was specified.  This option may not be changed with the
              configure widget command.

       Command-Line Name:-visual
       Database Name:  visual
       Database Class: Visual

              Specifies visual information for the new window in any of  the  forms  accepted  by
              Tk_GetVisual.  If this option is not specified, the new window will use the default
              visual for its screen.  The visual option may not be modified  with  the  configure
              widget command.

       Command-Line Name:-width
       Database Name:  width
       Database Class: Width

              Specifies  the  desired  width  for  the  window  in any of the forms acceptable to
              Tk_GetPixels.  If this option is less than or equal to zero then  the  window  will
              not request any size at all.
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DESCRIPTION

       The  toplevel  command  creates  a  new  toplevel widget (given by the pathName argument).
       Additional options, described above, may be specified on the command line or in the option
       database  to  configure  aspects  of the toplevel such as its background color and relief.
       The toplevel command returns the path name of the new window.

       A toplevel is similar to a frame except that it is created as a top-level window:   its  X
       parent  is  the root window of a screen rather than the logical parent from its path name.
       The primary purpose of a toplevel is to serve as a container for dialog  boxes  and  other
       collections  of widgets.  The only visible features of a toplevel are its background color
       and an optional 3-D border to make the toplevel appear raised or sunken.

WIDGET COMMAND

       The toplevel command creates a new Tcl command whose name is the same as the path name  of
       the  toplevel'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 toplevel widget's path name.
       Option  and  the args determine the exact behavior of the command.  The following commands
       are possible for toplevel 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 toplevel 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 toplevel command.

BINDINGS

       When  a  new  toplevel  is  created,  it  has no default event bindings: toplevels are not
       intended to be interactive.

SEE ALSO

       frame(3tk)

KEYWORDS

       toplevel, widget