NAME

iwidgets::selectiondialog - Create and manipulate a selection dialog widget

SYNOPSIS

iwidgets::selectiondialog pathName ?options?

INHERITANCE

itk::Toplevel <- iwidgets::Shell <- iwidgets::Dialogshell <- iwidgets::Dialog <- iwidgets::Selectiondialog

STANDARD OPTIONS

activeBackground background borderWidth cursor exportSelection foreground highlightColor highlightThickness insertBackground insertBorderWidth insertOffTime insertOnTime insertWidth selectBackground selectBorderWidth selectForeground

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

ASSOCIATED OPTIONS

textBackground textFont

See the entryfield widget manual entry for details on the above associated options.

labelFont

See the labeledwidget widget manual entry for details on the above associated options.

activeRelief elementBorderWidth jump troughColor

See the "scrollbar" widget class manual entry for details on the above associated options.

textBackground textFont

See the "scrolledlistbox" widget class manual entry for details on the above associated options. childsitepos itemsCommand itemsLabel itemsOn selectionCommand selectionLabel selectionOn

See the selectionbox widget manual entry for details on the above associated options.

INHERITED OPTIONS

buttonBoxPadX buttonBoxPadY buttonBoxPos padX padY separator thickness

See the dialogshell widget manual entry for details on the above inherited options.

height master modality width

See the shell widget manual entry for details on the above inherited options.

title

See the toplevel widget manual entry for details on the above inherited options.

DESCRIPTION

The iwidgets::selectiondialog command creates a selection box similar to the OSF/Motif standard selection dialog composite widget. The selectiondialog is derived from the Dialog class and is composed of a selectionbox with commands to manipulate the dialog buttons.

METHODS

The iwidgets::selectiondialog command creates a new Tcl command whose name is pathName. This command may be used to invoke various operations on the widget. It has the following general form: 

pathName option ?arg arg ...?
Option and the args determine the exact behavior of the command. The following commands are possible for selectiondialog widgets:

ASSOCIATED METHODS

childsite clear get insert selectitem

See the selectionbox widget manual entry for details on the above associated methods.

curselection delete index nearest scan selection size

See the listbox widget manual entry for details on the above associated methods.

INHERITED METHODS

add buttonconfigure default hide invoke show

See the buttonbox widget manual entry for details on the above inherited methods.

activate center deactivate

See the shell widget manual entry for details on the above inherited methods.

WIDGET-SPECIFIC METHODS

pathName cget option
Returns the current value of the configuration option given by option. Option may have any of the values accepted by the iwidgets::selectiondialog 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 iwidgets::selectiondialog command.

COMPONENTS

Name: selectionbox Class: Selectionbox

The selectionbox component is the selection box for the selection dialog. See the selectionbox widget manual entry for details on the selectionbox component item.

EXAMPLE

 package require Iwidgets 4.0
 iwidgets::selectiondialog .sd 
 .sd activate

AUTHOR

Mark L. Ulferts

KEYWORDS

selectiondialog, selectionbox, dialog, dialogshell, shell, widget