tabset(n) BLT Built-In Commands tabset(n)______________________________________________________________________________NAME
tabset - Create and manipulate tabset widgets
_________________________________________________________________SYNOPSIS
tabset pathName ?options?
DESCRIPTION
The tabset widget displays a series of overlapping folders. Only the
contents of one folder at a time is displayed. By clicking on the
tab's of a folder, you can view other folders. Each folder may contain
any Tk widget that can be automatically positioned and resized in the
folder.
There's no limit to the number of folders. Tabs can be tiered or
scrolled. Pages (i.e. embedded widgets) can be torn off and displayed
in another toplevel widget, and also restored. A tabset can also be
used as just a set of tabs, without a displaying any pages. You can
bind events to individual tabs, so it's easy to add features like "bal‐
loon help".
INTRODUCTION
Notebooks are a popular graphical paradigm. They allow you to organize
several windows that are too big to display at the same time as pages
of a notebook. For example, your application may display several X-Y
graphs at the same time. The graphs are too big to pack into the same
frame. Managing them in several toplevel widgets is also cumbersome
and clutters the screen. Instead, the tabset widget organizes the
graphs as folders in a notebook.
Only one page is visible at a time. When you click on a tab, the folder
corresponding to the tab is displayed in the tabset widget. The tab‐
set also lets you temporarily tear pages out of the notebook into a
separate toplevel widget, and put them back in the tabset later. For
example, you could compare two graphs side-by-side by tearing them out,
and then replace them when you are finished.
A tabset can contain any number of folders. If there are too many tabs
to view, you can arrange them as multiple tiers or scroll the tabs. You
can also attach Tk scrollbars to the tabset to scroll the tabs.
SYNTAX
The tabset command creates a new window using the pathName argument and
makes it into a tabset widget. tabset pathName ?option value?...
Additional options may be specified on the command line or in the
option database to configure aspects of the tabset such as its colors,
font, text, and relief. The tabset command returns its pathName argu‐
ment. At the time this command is invoked, there must not exist a win‐
dow named pathName, but pathName's parent must exist.
When first created, a new tabset contains no tabs. Tabs are added or
deleted using widget operations described below. It is not necessary
for all the tabs to be displayed in the tabset window at once; commands
described below may be used to change the view in the window. Tabsets
allow scrolling of tabs using the -scrollcommand option. They also
support scanning (see the scan operation). Tabs may be arranged along
any side of the tabset window using the -side option.
The size of the tabset window is determined the number of tiers of tabs
and the sizes of the Tk widgets embedded inside each folder. The
widest widget determines the width of the folder. The tallest deter‐
mines the height. If no folders contain an embedded widget, the size
is detemined solely by the size of the tabs.
You can override either dimension with the tabset's -width and -height
options.
INDICES
Indices refer to individual tabs/folders in the tabset. Many of the
operations for tabset widgets take one or more indices as arguments.
An index may take several forms:
number Unique node id of the tab.
@x,y Tab that covers the point in the tabset window specified by
x and y (in screen coordinates). If no tab covers that
point, then the index is ignored.
select The currently selected tab. The select index is typically
changed by either clicking on the tab with the left mouse
button or using the widget's invoke operation.
active The tab where the mouse pointer is currently located. The
label is drawn using its active colors (see the -active‐
background and -activeforeground options). The active
index is typically changed by moving the mouse pointer over
a tab or using the widget's activate operation. There can
be only one active tab at a time. If there is no tab
located under the mouse pointer, the index is ignored.
focus Tab that currently has the widget's focus. This tab is
displayed with a dashed line around its label. You can
change this using the focus operation. If no tab has focus,
then the index is ignored.
down Tab immediately below the tab that currently has focus, if
there is one. If there is no tab below, the current tab is
returned.
left Tab immediately to the left the tab that currently has
focus, if there is one. If there is no tab to the left,
the current tab is returned.
right Tab immediately to the right the tab that currently has
focus, if there is one. If there is no tab to the right,
the current tab is returned.
up Tab immediately above, if there is one, to the tab that
currently has focus. If there is no tab above, the current
tab is returned.
end Last tab in the tabset. If there are no tabs in the tabset
then the index is ignored.
Some indices may not always be available. For example, if the mouse is
not over any tab, "active" does not have an index. For most tabset
operations this is harmless and ignored.
OPERATIONS
All tabset operations are invoked by specifying the widget's pathname,
the operation, and any arguments that pertain to that operation. The
general form is:
pathName operation ?arg arg ...?
Operation and the args determine the exact behavior of the command.
The following operations are available for tabset widgets:
pathName activate index
Sets the active tab to the one indicated by index. The active
tab is drawn with its active colors (see the -activebackground
and -activeforeground options) and may be retrieved with the
index active. Only one tab may be active at a time. If index
is the empty string, then all tabs will be drawn with their nor‐
mal foreground and background colors.
pathName bind tagName ?sequence? ?command?
Associates command with tagName such that whenever the event
sequence given by sequence occurs for a tab with this tag, com‐
mand will be invoked. The syntax is similar to the bind command
except that it operates on tabs, rather than widgets. See the
bind manual entry for complete details on sequence and the sub‐
stitutions performed on command.
If all arguments are specified then a new binding is created,
replacing any existing binding for the same sequence and tag‐
Name. If the first character of command is + then command aug‐
ments an existing binding rather than replacing it. If no com‐
mand argument is provided then the command currently associated
with tagName and sequence (it's an error occurs if there's no
such binding) is returned. If both command and sequence are
missing then a list of all the event sequences for which bind‐
ings have been defined for tagName.
pathName cget option
Returns the current value of the configuration option given by
option. Option may have any of the values accepted by the con‐
figure operation described in the section WIDGET OPTIONS below.
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 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 and value are
described in the section WIDGET OPTIONS below.
pathName delete first ?last?
Deletes one or more tabs from the tabset. First and last are
the first and last indices, defining a range of tabs to be
deleted. If last isn't specified, then only the tab at first is
deleted.
pathName focus index
Designates a tab to get the widget's focus. This tab is dis‐
played with a dashed line around its label.
pathName get index
Returns the name of the tab. The value of index may be in any
form described in the section INDICES .
pathName index ?flag? string
Returns the node id of the tab specified by string. If flag is
-name, then string is the name of a tab. If flag is -index,
string is an index such as "active" or "focus". If flag isn't
specified, it defaults to -index.
pathName insert position name ?option value?...
Inserts new tabs into the tabset. Tabs are inserted just before
the tab given by position. Position may be either a number,
indicating where in the list the new tab should be added, or
end, indicating that the new tab is to be added the end of the
list. Name is the symbolic name of the tab. Be careful not to
use a number. Otherwise the tabset will confuse it with tab
indices. Returns a list of indices for all the new tabs.
pathName invoke index
Selects the tab given by index, maps the tab's embedded widget,
and invokes the Tcl command associated with the tab, if there
is one. The return value is the return value from the Tcl com‐
mand, or an empty string if there is no command associated
with the tab. This command is ignored if the tab's state (see
the -state option) is disabled.
pathName move index before|after index
Moves the tab index to a new position in the tabset.
pathName nearest x y
Returns the name of the tab nearest to given X-Y screen coordi‐
nate.
pathName perforation operation ?args?
This operation controls the perforation on the tab label.
pathName perforation highlight index boolean
pathName perforation invoke index
Invokes the command specified for perforations (see the
-perforationcommand widget option). Typically this com‐
mand places the page into a top level widget. The name of
the toplevel is the concatonation of the pathName, "-",
and the tabName. The return value is the return value
from the Tcl command, or an empty string if there is
no command associated with the tab. This command is
ignored if the tab's state (see the -state option) is
disabled.
pathName scan option args
This command implements scanning on tabsets. It has two forms,
depending on option:
pathName scan mark x y
Records x and y and the current view in the tabset win‐
dow; used with later scan dragto commands. Typically
this command is associated with a mouse button press in
the widget. It returns an empty string.
pathName scan dragto x y.
This command computes the difference between its x and y
arguments and the x and y arguments to the last scan mark
command for the widget. It then adjusts the view by 10
times the difference in coordinates. This command is
typically associated with mouse motion events in the wid‐
get, to produce the effect of dragging the list at high
speed through the window. The return value is an empty
string.
pathName see index
Scrolls the tabset so that the tab index is visible in the wid‐
get's window.
pathName size
Returns the number of tabs in the tabset.
pathName tab operation ?args?
pathName tab cget nameOrIndex option
Returns the current value of the configuration option
given by option. Option may have any of the values
accepted by the tab configure operation described in the
section TAB OPTIONS below.
pathName tab configure nameOrIndex ?nameOrIndex...? option?
?value option value ...?
Query or modify the configuration options of one or more
tabs. If no option is specified, this operation returns
a list describing all the available options for name‐
OrIndex. NameOrIndex can be either the name of a tab or
its index. Names of tabs take precedence over their
indices. That means a tab named focus is picked over the
"focus" tab.
If option is specified, but not value, then a list
describing the one named option is returned. If one or
more option-value pairs are specified, then each named
tab (specified by nameOrIndex) will have its configura‐
tions option(s) set the given value(s). In this last
case, the empty string is returned. Option and value are
described in the section TAB OPTIONS below.
pathName tab names ?pattern?
Returns the names of all the tabs matching the given pat‐
tern. If no pattern argument is provided, then all tab
names are returned.
pathName tab tearoff index ?newName?
Reparents the widget embedded into index, placing it
inside of newName. NewName is either the name of an new
widget that will contain the embedded widget or the name
of the tabset widget. It the last case, the embedded
widget is put back into the folder.
If no newName argument is provided, then the name of the
current parent of the embedded widget is returned.
pathName view args
This command queries or changes the position of the tabset in
the widget's window. It can take any of the following forms:
pathName view
Returns a list of two numbers between 0.0 and 1.0 that
describe the amount and position of the tabset that is
visible in the window. For example, if view is "0.2
0.6", 20% of the tabset's text is off-screen to the left,
40% is visible in the window, and 40% of the tabset is
off-screen to the right. These are the same values
passed to scrollbars via the -scrollcommand option.
pathName view moveto fraction
Adjusts the view in the window so that fraction of the
total width of the tabset text is off-screen to the left.
fraction must be a number between 0.0 and 1.0.
pathName view scroll number what
This command shifts the view in the window (left/top or
right/bottom) according to number and what. Number must
be an integer. What must be either units or pages or an
abbreviation of these. If what is units, the view
adjusts left or right by number scroll units (see the
-scrollincrement option). ; if it is pages then the view
adjusts by number widget windows. If number is negative
then tabs farther to the left become visible; if it is
positive then tabs farther to the right become visible.
WIDGET OPTIONS
Widget configuration options may be set either by the configure opera‐
tion or the Tk option command. The resource class is Tabset. The
resource name is the name of the widget.
option add *Tabset.Foreground white
option add *Tabset.Background blue
The following widget options are available:
-activebackground color
Sets the default active background color for tabs. A tab is
active when the mouse is positioned over it or set by the acti‐
vate operation. Individual tabs may override this option by
setting the tab's -activebackground option.
-activeforeground color
Sets the default active foreground color for tabs. A tab is
active when the mouse is positioned over it or set by the acti‐
vate operation. Individual tabs may override this option by
setting the tab's -activeforeground option.
-background color
Sets the background color of the tabset.
-borderwidth pixels
Sets the width of the 3-D border around the outside edge of the
widget. The -relief option determines how the border is to be
drawn. The default is 2.
-cursor cursor
Specifies the widget's cursor. The default cursor is "".
-dashes dashList
Sets the dash style of the focus outline. When a tab has the
widget's focus, it is drawn with a dashed outline around its
label. DashList is a list of up to 11 numbers that alternately
represent the lengths of the dashes and gaps on the cross hair
lines. Each number must be between 1 and 255. If dashList is
"", the outline will be a solid line. The default value is 5 2.
-font fontName
Sets the default font for the text in tab labels. Individual
tabs may override this by setting the tab's -font option. The
default value is *-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal-*-12-120-*.
-foreground color
Sets the default color of tab labels. Individual tabs may over‐
ride this option by setting the tab's -foreground option. The
default value is black.
-gap size
Sets the gap (in pixels) between tabs. The default value is 2.
-height pixels
Specifies the requested height of widget. If pixels is 0, then
the height of the widget will be calculated based on the size
the tabs and their pages. The default is 0.
-highlightbackground color
Sets the color to display in the traversal highlight region when
the tabset does not have the input focus.
-highlightcolor color
Sets the color to use for the traversal highlight rectangle that
is drawn around the widget when it has the input focus. The
default is black.
-highlightthickness pixels
Sets the width of the highlight rectangle to draw around the
outside of the widget when it has the input focus. Pixels is a
non-negative value and may have any of the forms acceptable to
Tk_GetPixels. If the value is zero, no focus highlight is drawn
around the widget. The default is 2.
-outerpad pixels
Padding around the exterior of the tabset and folder.
-pageheight pixels
Sets the requested height of the page. The page is the area
under the tab used to display the page contents. If pixels is
0, the maximum height of all embedded tab windows is used. The
default is 0.
-pagewidth pixels
Sets the requested width of the page. The page is the area
under the tab used to display the page contents. If pixels is
0, the maximum width of all embedded tab windows is used. The
default is 0.
-perforationcommand string
Specifies a Tcl script to be invoked to tear off the current
page in the tabset. This command is typically invoked when left
mouse button is released over the tab perforation. The default
action is to tear-off the page and place it into a new toplevel
window.
-relief relief
Specifies the 3-D effect for the tabset widget. Relief speci‐
fies how the tabset should appear relative to widget that it is
packed into; for example, raised means the tabset should appear
to protrude. The default is sunken.
-rotate theta
Specifies the degrees to rotate text in tab labels. Theta is a
real value representing the number of degrees to rotate the tick
labels. The default is 0.0 degrees.
-samewidth boolean
Indicates if each tab should be the same width. If true, each
tab will be as wide as the widest tab. The default is no.
-scrollcommand string
Specifies the prefix for a command for communicating with
scrollbars. Whenever the view in the widget's window changes,
the widget will generate a Tcl command by concatenating the
scroll command and two numbers. If this option is not speci‐
fied, then no command will be executed.
-scrollincrement pixels
Sets the smallest number of pixels to scroll the tabs. If pix‐
els is greater than 0, this sets the units for scrolling (e.g.,
when you the change the view by clicking on the left and right
arrows of a scrollbar).
-selectbackground color
Sets the color to use when displaying background of the selected
tab. Individual tabs can override this option by setting the
tab's -selectbackground option.
-selectcommand string
Specifies a default Tcl script to be associated with tabs. This
command is typically invoked when left mouse button is released
over the tab. Individual tabs may override this with the tab's
-command option. The default value is "".
-selectforeground color
Sets the default color of the selected tab's text label. Indi‐
vidual tabs can override this option by setting the tab's
-selectforeground option. The default value is black.
-selectpad pixels
Specifies extra padding to be displayed around the selected tab.
The default value is 3.
-side side
Specifies the side of the widget to place tabs. The following
values are valid for side. The default value is top.
top Tabs are drawn along the top.
left Tabs are drawn along the left side.
right Tabs are drawn along the right side.
both Tabs are drawn along the bottom side.
-slant slant
Specifies if the tabs should be slanted 45 degrees on the left
and/or right sides. The following values are valid for slant.
The default is none.
none Tabs are drawn as a rectangle.
left The left side of the tab is slanted.
right The right side of the tab is slanted.
both Boths sides of the tab are slanted.
-tabbackground color
Sets the default background color of tabs. Individual tabs can
override this option by setting the tab's -background option.
-tabborderwidth pixels
Sets the width of the 3-D border around the outside edge of the
tab. The -tabrelief option determines how the border is to be
drawn. The default is 2.
-tabforeground color
Specifies the color to use when displaying a tab's label. Indi‐
vidual tabs can override this option by setting the tab's -fore‐
ground option.
-tabrelief relief
Specifies the 3-D effect for both tabs and folders. Relief
specifies how the tabs should appear relative to background of
the widget; for example, raised means the tab should appear to
protrude. The default is raised.
-takefocus focus
Provides information used when moving the focus from window to
window via keyboard traversal (e.g., Tab and Shift-Tab). If
focus is 0, this means that this window should be skipped
entirely during keyboard traversal. 1 means that the this win‐
dow should always receive the input focus. An empty value means
that the traversal scripts decide whether to focus on the win‐
dow. The default is 1.
-tearoff boolean
-textside side
If both images and text are specified for a tab, this option
determines on which side of the tab the text is to be displayed.
The valid sides are left, right, top, and bottom. The default
value is left.
-tiers number
Specifies the maximum number of tiers to use to display the
tabs. The default value is 1.
-tile image
Specifies a tiled background for the widget. If image isn't "",
the background is tiled using image. Otherwise, the normal
background color is drawn (see the -background option). Image
must be an image created using the Tk image command. The
default is "".
-width pixels
Specifies the requested width of the widget. If pixels is 0,
then the width of the widget will be calculated based on the
size the tabs and their pages. The default is 0.
TAB OPTIONS
In addition to the configure operation, widget configuration options
may also be set by the Tk option command. The class resource name is
Tab.
option add *Tabset.Tab.Foreground white
option add *Tabset.name.Background blue
The following widget options are available:
-activebackground color
Sets the active background color for nameOrIndex. A tab is
active when the mouse is positioned over it or set by the acti‐
vate operation. This overrides the widget's -activebackground
option.
-activeforeground color
Sets the default active foreground color nameOrIndex. A tab is
"active" when the mouse is positioned over it or set by the
activate operation. Individual tabs may override this option by
setting the tab's -activeforeground option.
-anchor anchor
Anchors the tab's embedded widget to a particular edge of the
folder. This option has effect only if the space in the folder
surrounding the embedded widget is larger than the widget
itself. Anchor specifies how the widget will be positioned in
the extra space. For example, if anchor is center then the win‐
dow is centered in the folder ; if anchor is w then the window
will be aligned with the leftmost edge of the folder. The
default value is center.
-background color
Sets the background color for nameOrIndex. Setting this option
overides the widget's -tabbackground option.
-bindtags tagList
Specifies the binding tags for this tab. TagList is a list of
binding tag names. The tags and their order will determine how
commands for events in tabs are invoked. Each tag in the list
matching the event sequence will have its Tcl command executed.
Implicitly the name of the tab is always the first tag in the
list. The default value is all.
-command string
Specifies a Tcl script to be associated with nameOrIndex. This
command is typically invoked when left mouse button is released
over the tab. Setting this option overrides the widget's
-selectcommand option.
-data string
Specifies a string to be associated with nameOrIndex. This
value isn't used in the widget code. It may be used in Tcl
bindings to associate extra data (other than the image or text)
with the tab. The default value is "".
-fill fill
If the space in the folder surrounding the tab's embedded widget
is larger than the widget, then fill indicates if the embedded
widget should be stretched to occupy the extra space. Fill is
either none, x, y, both. For example, if fill is x, then the
widget is stretched horizontally. If fill is y, the widget is
stretched vertically. The default is none.
-font fontName
Sets the font for the text in tab labels. If fontName is not
the empty string, this overrides the tabset's -font option. The
default value is "".
-foreground color
Sets the color of the label for nameOrIndex. If color is not
the empty string, this overrides the widget's -tabforeground
option. The default value is "".
-image imageName
Specifies the image to be drawn in label for nameOrIndex. If
image is "", no image will be drawn. Both text and images may
be displayed at the same time in tab labels. The default value
is "".
-ipadx pad
Sets the padding to the left and right of the label. Pad can be
a list of one or two screen distances. If pad has two elements,
the left side of the label is padded by the first distance and
the right side by the second. If pad has just one distance,
both the left and right sides are padded evenly. The default
value is 0.
-ipady pad
Sets the padding to the top and bottom of the label. Pad can be
a list of one or two screen distances. If pad has two elements,
the top of the label is padded by the first distance and the
bottom by the second. If pad has just one distance, both the
top and bottom sides are padded evenly. The default value is 0.
-padx pad
Sets the padding around the left and right of the embedded wid‐
get, if one exists. Pad can be a list of one or two screen dis‐
tances. If pad has two elements, the left side of the widget is
padded by the first distance and the right side by the second.
If pad has just one distance, both the left and right sides are
padded evenly. The default value is 0.
-pady pad
Sets the padding around the top and bottom of the embedded wid‐
get, if one exists. Pad can be a list of one or two screen dis‐
tances. If pad has two elements, the top of the widget is
padded by the first distance and the bottom by the second. If
pad has just one distance, both the top and bottom sides are
padded evenly. The default value is 0.
-selectbackground color
Sets the color to use when displaying background of the selected
tab. If color is not the empty string, this overrides the wid‐
get's -selectbackground option. The default value is "".
-shadow color
Sets the shadow color for the text in the tab's label. Drop
shadows are useful when both the foreground and background of
the tab have similar color intensities. If color is the empty
string, no shadow is drawn. The default value is "".
-state state
Sets the state of the tab. If state is disable the text of the
tab is drawn as engraved and operations on the tab (such as
invoke and tab tearoff) are ignored. The default is normal.
-stipple bitmap
Specifies a stipple pattern to use for the background of the
folder when the window is torn off. Bitmap specifies a bitmap
to use as the stipple pattern. The default is BLT.
-text text
Specifies the text of the tab's label. The exact way the text
is drawn may be affected by other options such as -state or
-rotate.
-window pathName
Specifies the widget to be embedded into the tab. PathName must
be a child of the tabset widget. The tabset will "pack" and
manage the size and placement of pathName. The default value is
"".
-windowheight pixels
Sets the requested height of the page. The page is the area
under the tab used to display the page contents. If pixels is
0, the maximum height of all embedded tab windows is used. The
default is 0.
-windowwidth pixels
Sets the requested width of the page. The page is the area
under the tab used to display the page contents. If pixels is
0, the maximum width of all embedded tab windows is used. The
default is 0.
DEFAULT BINDINGS
BLT automatically generates class bindings that supply tabsets their
default behaviors. The following event sequences are set by default for
tabsets (via the class bind tag Tabset):
<ButtonPress-2>
<B2-Motion>
<ButtonRelease-2>
Mouse button 2 may be used for scanning. If it is pressed and
dragged over the tabset, the contents of the tabset drag at high
speed in the direction the mouse moves.
<KeyPress-Up>
<KeyPress-Down>
The up and down arrow keys move the focus to the tab immediately
above or below the current focus tab. The tab with focus is
drawn with the a dashed outline around the tab label.
<KeyPress-Left>
<KeyPress-Right>
The left and right arrow keys move the focus to the tab immedi‐
ately to the left or right of the current focus tab. The tab
with focus is drawn with the a dashed outline around the tab
label.
<KeyPress-space>
<KeyPress-Return>
The space and return keys select the current tab given focus.
When a folder is selected, it's command is invoked and the
embedded widget is mapped.
Each tab, by default, also has a set of bindings (via the tag all).
These bindings may be reset using the tabset's bind operation.
<Enter>
<Leave>
When the mouse pointer enters a tab, it is activated (i.e. drawn
in its active colors) and when the pointer leaves, it is redrawn
in its normal colors.
<ButtonRelease-1>
Clicking with the left mouse button on a tab causes the tab to
be selected and its Tcl script (see the -command or -selectcom‐
mand options) to be invoked. The folder and any embedded widget
(if one is specified) is automatically mapped.
<ButtonRelease-3>
<Control-ButtonRelease-1>
Clicking on the right mouse button (or the left mouse button
with the Control key held down) tears off the current page into
its own toplevel widget. The embedded widget is re-packed into a
new toplevel and an outline of the widget is drawn in the
folder. Clicking again (toggling) will reverse this operation
and replace the page back in the folder.
BIND TAGS
You can bind commands to tabs that are triggered when a particular
event sequence occurs in them, much like canvas items in Tk's canvas
widget. Not all event sequences are valid. The only binding events
that may be specified are those related to the mouse and keyboard (such
as Enter, Leave, ButtonPress, Motion, and KeyPress).
It is possible for multiple bindings to match a particular event. This
could occur, for example, if one binding is associated with the tab
name and another is associated with the tab's tags (see the -bindtags
option). When this occurs, all the matching bindings are invoked. A
binding associated with the tab name is invoked first, followed by one
binding for each of the tab's bindtags. If there are multiple matching
bindings for a single tag, then only the most specific binding is
invoked. A continue command in a binding script terminates that
script, and a break command terminates that script and skips any
remaining scripts for the event, just as for the bind command.
The -bindtags option for tabs controls addition tag names that can be
matched. Implicitly the first tag for each tab is its name. Setting
the value of the -bindtags option doesn't change this.
EXAMPLE
You create a tabset widget with the tabset command.
# Create a new tabset
tabset .ts -relief sunken -borderwidth 2
A new Tcl command .ts is also created. This command can be used to
query and modify the tabset. For example, to change the default font
used by all the tab labels, you use the new command and the tabset's
configure operation.
# Change the default font.
.ts configure -font "fixed"
You can then add folders using the insert operation.
# Create a new folder "f1"
.ts insert 0 "f1"
This inserts the new tab named "f1" into the tabset. The index 0 indi‐
cates location to insert the new tab. You can also use the index end
to append a tab to the end of the tabset. By default, the text of the
tab is the name of the tab. You can change this by configuring the
-text option.
# Change the label of "f1"
.ts tab configure "f1" -text "Tab #1"
The insert operation lets you add one or more folders at a time.
.ts insert end "f2" -text "Tab #2" "f3" "f4"
The tab on each folder contains a label. A label may display both an
image and a text string. You can reconfigure the tab's attributes
(foreground/background colors, font, rotation, etc) using the tab con‐
figure operation.
# Add an image to the label of "f1"
set image [image create photo -file stopsign.gif]
.ts tab configure "f1" -image $image
.ts tab configure "f2" -rotate 90
Each folder may contain an embedded widget to represent its contents.
The widget to be embedded must be a child of the tabset widget. Using
the -window option, you specify the name of widget to be embedded. But
don't pack the widget, the tabset takes care of placing and arranging
the widget for you.
graph .ts.graph
.ts tab configure "f1" -window ".ts.graph" \
-fill both -padx 0.25i -pady 0.25i
The size of the folder is determined the sizes of the Tk widgets embed‐
ded inside each folder. The folder will be as wide as the widest wid‐
get in any folder. The tallest determines the height. You can use the
tab's -pagewidth and -pageheight options override this.
Other options control how the widget appears in the folder. The -fill
option says that you wish to have the widget stretch to fill the avail‐
able space in the folder.
.ts tab configure "f1" -fill both -padx 0.25i -pady 0.25i
Now when you click the left mouse button on "f1", the graph will be
displayed in the folder. It will be automatically hidden when another
folder is selected. If you click on the right mouse button, the embed‐
ded widget will be moved into a toplevel widget of its own. Clicking
again on the right mouse button puts it back into the folder.
If you want to share a page between two different folders, the -command
option lets you specify a Tcl command to be invoked whenever the folder
is selected. You can reset the -window option for the tab whenever
it's clicked.
.ts tab configure "f2" -command {
.ts tab configure "f2" -window ".ts.graph"
}
.ts tab configure "f1" -command {
.ts tab configure "f1" -window ".ts.graph"
}
If you have many folders, you may wish to stack tabs in multiple tiers.
The tabset's -tiers option requests a maximum number of tiers. The
default is one tier.
.ts configure -tiers 2
If the tabs can fit in less tiers, the widget will use that many.
Whenever there are more tabs than can be displayed in the maximum num‐
ber of tiers, the tabset will automatically let you scroll the tabs.
You can even attach a scrollbar to the tabset.
.ts configure -scrollcommand { .sbar set } -scrollincrement 20
.sbar configure -orient horizontal -command { .ts view }
By default tabs are along the top of the tabset from left to right.
But tabs can be placed on any side of the tabset using the -side
option.
# Arrange tabs along the right side of the tabset.
.ts configure -side right -rotate 270
KEYWORDS
tabset, widget
BLT 2.4 tabset(n)
