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 stan-
dard 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 neigh-
boring button subwidgets in the ButtonBox widget.
Name: pady
Class: Pad
Switch: -pady
Specifies the vertical padding between two neigh-
boring 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 sub-
widgets. Original states of the individual buttons
are not saved. Only the values "normal" and "dis-
abled" 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 wid-
get. 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 win-
dow. 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 follow-
ing 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 ...?
Query or modify the configuration options of the
widget. If no option is specified, returns a list
describing all of the available options for path-
Name (see Tk_ConfigureInfo for information on the
format of this list). If option is specified with
no value, then the command returns a list describ-
ing the one named option (this list will be identi-
cal 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 button-
Name.
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