tixButtonBox(n) Tix (4.0) tixButtonBox(n)
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NAME
tixButtonBox - Create and manipulate Tix ButtonBox widgets
SYNOPSIS
tixButtonBox pathName ?options?
STANDARD OPTIONS
anchor background cursor
relief borderWidth
See the options(n) manual entry for details on the standard
options.
WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
Name: orientation
Class: Orientation
Switch: -orientation
Alias: -orient
Static Option. Specifies the orientation of the button
subwidgets. Only the values "horizontal" and "vertical"
are recognized.
Name: padx
Class: Pad
Switch: -padx
Specifies the horizontal padding between two
neighboring button subwidgets in the ButtonBox widget.
Name: pady
Class: Pad
Switch: -pady
Specifies the vertical padding between two neighboring
button subwidgets in the ButtonBox widget.
Name: state
Class: State
Switch: -state
Specifies the state of all the buttons inside the
ButtonBox widget.
Note: Setting this option using the config widget
command will enable or disable all the buttons
subwidgets. Original states of the individual buttons
are not saved. Only the values "normal" and "disabled"
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are recognized.
SUBWIDGETS
All the button subwidgets created as a result of the add
command can be accessed by the subwidget command. They are
identified by the buttonName parameter to the add command.
Here is an example:
tixButtonBox .bbox
pack .bbox
.bbox add eat -text Eat
.bbox add sleep -text Sleep
.bbox subwidget eat config -fg green
.bbox subwidget sleep config -fg red
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DESCRIPTION
The tixButtonBox command creates a new window (given by the
pathName argument) and makes it into a ButtonBox widget.
Additional options, described above, may be specified on the
command line or in the option database to configure aspects
of the ButtonBox such as its cursor and relief.
The ButtonBox widget can be used as a container widget to
hold the ``action'' buttons in a dialog box.
WIDGET COMMAND
The tixButtonBox command creates a new Tcl command whose
name is the same as the path name of the ButtonBox'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 ButtonBox widget's path name. Option and the args
determine the exact behavior of the command. The following
commands are possible for ButtonBox widgets:
pathName add buttonName ?option value ...?
Add a new button subwidget with the name buttonName
into the ButtonBox widget. Additional configuration
options can be given to configure the new button
subwidget.
pathName cget option
Returns the current value of the configuration option
given by option. Option may have any of the values
accepted by the tixButtonBox command.
pathName configure ?option? ?value option value ...?
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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 tixButtonBox
command.
pathName invoke buttonName
Invoke the button subwidget with the name buttonName.
pathName subwidget name ?args?
When no additional arguments are given, returns the
pathname of the subwidget of the specified name.
When no additional arguments are given, the widget
command of the specified subwidget will be called with
these parameters.
BINDINGS
TixButtonBox widgets have no default bindings. The button
subwidgets retain their default Tk bindings.
KEYWORDS
Tix(n), Container Widgets
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