labelframe(n) Tk Built-In Commands labelframe(n)______________________________________________________________________________NAMElabelframe - Create and manipulate labelframe widgets
SYNOPSISlabelframe pathName ?options?
STANDARD OPTIONS-borderwidth-highlightbackground -pady
-cursor-highlightcolor-relief
-font-highlightthickness-takefocus
-foreground-padx-text
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 win-
dow 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 speci-
fied window. If the colormap option is not specified, the new
window uses the same colormap as its parent. 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 win-
dow manager protocols for things like geometry requests. The
window should not have any children of its own in this applica-
tion. 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:-labelanchor
Database Name: labelAnchor
Database Class: LabelAnchor
Specifies where to place the label. A label is only displayed if
the -text option is not the empty string. Valid values for this
option are (listing them clockwise) nw, n, ne, en, e, es, se,
s,sw, ws, w and wn. The default value is nw.
Command-Line Name:-labelwidget
Database Name: labelWidget
Database Class: LabelWidget
Specifies a widget to use as label. This overrides any -text
option. The widget must exist before being used as -labelwidget
and if it is not a descendant of this window, it will be raised
above it in the stacking order.
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 speci-
fied, the new window will use the same visual as its parent.
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.
_________________________________________________________________DESCRIPTION
The labelframe command creates a new window (given by the pathName
argument) and makes it into a labelframe widget. Additional options,
described above, may be specified on the command line or in the option
database to configure aspects of the labelframe such as its background
color and relief. The labelframe command returns the path name of the
new window.
A labelframe is a simple widget. Its primary purpose is to act as a
spacer or container for complex window layouts. It has the features of
a frame plus the ability to display a label.
WIDGET COMMAND
The labelframe command creates a new Tcl command whose name is the same
as the path name of the labelframe's window. This command may be used
to invoke various operations on the widget. It has the following gen-
eral form:
pathName option ?arg arg ...?
PathName is the name of the command, which is the same as the label-
frame widget's path name. Option and the args determine the exact
behavior of the command. The following commands are possible for frame
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
labelframe 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 avail-
able 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 labelframe command.
BINDINGS
When a new labelframe is created, it has no default event bindings:
labelframes are not intended to be interactive.
SEE ALSOframe(n), label(n)KEYWORDS
labelframe, widget
Tk 8.4 labelframe(n)
