Ubuntu Manpage: widget - Standard options and commands supported by Tile widgets

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NAME

       widget - Standard options and commands supported by Tile widgets

DESCRIPTION

       This manual describes common widget options and commands.

STANDARD OPTIONS

       The  following options are supported by all Tile widgets: [-class (N/A)] Specifies the window class.  The
       class is used when querying the option database for the window's other options, to determine the  default
       bindtags  for  the  window,  and  to  select  the widget's default layout and style.  This is a read-only
       option: it may only be specified when the window is created, and may not be changed  with  the  configure
       widget command.  [-cursor cursor] Specifies the mouse cursor to be used for the widget.  See Tk_GetCursor
       and cursors(n) in the Tk reference manual for the  legal  values.   If  set  to  the  empty  string  (the
       default),  the cursor is inherited from the parent widget.  [-takefocus takeFocus] Determines whether the
       window accepts the focus during keyboard traversal.  Either 0, 1, a command prefix (to which  the  widget
       path  is  appended,  and  which  should  return  0  or 1), or the empty string.  See options(n) in the Tk
       reference manual for the full description.  [-style style] May be used to specify a custom widget style.

       The following options are supported by widgets that are controllable by a  scrollbar.   See  scrollbar(n)
       for  more  information  [-xscrollcommand xScrollCommand]  A  command  prefix,  used  to  communicate with
       horizontal scrollbars.
              When the view in the  widget's  window  changes,  the  widget  will  generate  a  Tcl  command  by
              concatenating the scroll command and two numbers.  Each of the numbers is a fraction between 0 and
              1 indicating a position in the document; 0 indicates the beginning, and 1 indicates the end.   The
              first  fraction  indicates  the first information in the widget that is visible in the window, and
              the second fraction indicates the information just after the last portion that is visible.

              Typically the xScrollCommand option consists of the path name of a scrollbar  widget  followed  by
              ``set'', e.g. ``.x.scrollbar set''.  This will cause the scrollbar to be updated whenever the view
              in the window changes.

              If this option is set to the empty string (the default), then no command will be executed.
       [-yscrollcommand yScrollCommand] A command prefix, used to communicate with vertical scrollbars.  See the
       description of -xscrollcommand above for details.

LABEL OPTIONS

The following options are supported by labels, buttons, and other button-like widgets: [-text text]
Specifies a text string to be displayed inside the widget (unless overridden by -textvariable).
[-textvariable textVariable] Specifies the name of variable whose value will be used in place of the
-text resource. [-underline underline] If set, specifies the integer index (0-based) of a character to
underline in the text string. The underlined character is used for mnemonic activation (see keynav(n)).
[-image image] Specifies an image to display. This is a list of 1 or more elements. The first element
is the default image name. The rest of the list is a sequence of statespec / value pairs as per style
map, specifying different images to use when the widget is in a particular state or combination of
states. All images in the list should have the same size. [-compound compound] Specifies how to display
the image relative to the text, in the case both -text and -image are present. Valid values are:

text Display text only.

image Display image only.

center Display text centered on top of image.

top

bottom

left

right Display image above, below, left of, or right of the text, respectively.

none The default; display the image if present, otherwise the text.
[-width width] If greater than zero, specifies how much space, in character widths, to allocate for the
text label. If less than zero, specifies a minimum width. If zero or unspecified, the natural width of
the text label is used.

COMPATIBILITY OPTIONS

       [-state state] May be set to normal or disabled to control the disabled state bit.  This is a  write-only
       option:  setting  it  changes  the  widget state, but the state widget command does not affect the -state
       option.

COMMANDS

pathName cget option
Returns the current value of the configuration option given by option.

pathName configure ?option? ?value option value ...?
Query or modify the configuration options of the widget. 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. If option is specified with no value, then the
command returns a list describing the named option: the elements of the list are the option name,
database name, database class, default value, and current value. If no option is specified,
returns a list describing all of the available options for pathName.

pathName instate statespec ?script?
Test the widget's state. If script is not specified, returns 1 if the widget state matches
statespec and 0 otherwise. If script is specified, equivalent to if {[pathName instate
stateSpec]} script

pathName state ?stateSpec?
Modify or inquire widget state. If stateSpec is present, sets the widget state: for each flag in
stateSpec, sets the corresponding flag or clears it if prefixed by an exclamation point.
Returns a new state spec indicating which flags were changed: set changes [pathName state spec] ;
pathName state $changes will restore pathName to the original state. If stateSpec is not
specified, returns a list of the currently-enabled state flags.

       The widget state is a bitmap of independent state flags.  Widget state flags include:

       active The mouse cursor is over the widget and pressing a mouse button will cause some action  to  occur.
              (aka "prelight" (Gnome), "hot" (Windows), "hover").

       disabled
              Widget is disabled under program control (aka "unavailable", "inactive")

       focus  Widget has keyboard focus

       pressed
              Widget is being pressed (aka "armed" in Motif).

       selected
              "On", "true", or "current" for things like checkbuttons and radiobuttons.

       background
              Windows  and  the  Mac have a notion of an "active" or foreground window.  The background state is
              set for widgets in a background window, and cleared for those in the foreground window.

       readonly
              Widget should not allow user modification.

       alternate
              A widget-specific alternate display format.  For example, used for checkbuttons  and  radiobuttons
              in the "tristate" or "mixed" state, and for buttons with -default active.

       invalid
              The  widget's  value  is invalid.  (Potential uses: scale widget value out of bounds, entry widget
              value failed validation.)

       A state specification or stateSpec is a list of state names,  optionally  prefixed  with  an  exclamation
       point (!)  indicating that the bit is off.

EXAMPLES

       set b [ttk::button .b]

       # Disable the widget: $b state disabled

       #  Invoke  the  widget  only  if it is currently pressed and enabled: $b instate {pressed !disabled} { .b
       invoke }

       # Reenable widget: $b state !disabled

KEYWORDS

       state, configure, option