tix(n)
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NAME
tix - Manipulate Tix internal state
SYNOPSIS
tix option ?arg arg ...?
CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
The Tix application context supports the following config-
uration options. Usually, these options are set using the
X resource database, i.e., in the user's .Xdefault file.
For example, to choose a different color scheme for the
Tix widgets, these two lines can be added to the user's
.Xdefault file:
*TixScheme: Gray
*TixFontSet: 14Point
Name: binding
Class: Binding
Switch: -binding
This is an obsolete option.
Name: debug
Class: Debug
Switch: -debug
Specifies whether the Tix widgets should run in
debug mode.
Name: tixFontSet
Class: TixFontSet
Switch: -fontset
Specifies the fontset to use for the Tix widgets.
Valid options are TK, 12Point and 14Point. TK spec-
ifies that the standard TK fonts should be used.
The default value is 14Point.
Name: tixScheme
Class: TixScheme
Switch: -scheme
Specifies the color scheme to use for the Tix wid-
gets. Valid options are TK, Gray, Blue, Bisque,
SGIGray and TixGray. The default value is TixGray.
If you want the standard TK color scheme, you can
use the value TK. If you want to use the TK 3.6
bisque color scheme, you can use the value Bisque.
Name: tixSchemePriority
Class: TixSchemePriority
Switch: -schemepriority
Specifies the priority level of the TK options set
by th Tix schemes. Please refer to the TK option(n)
manual page for a discussion of the priority level
of Tix options. The default value is 79, which
makes the Tix schemes at a higher priority than the
settings in the .Xdefaults file. If you want to
allow the Tix schemes to be overridden by the set-
tings in the .Xdefaults file, you can set the fol-
lowing line in you .Xdefaults file:
*TixSchemePriority: 21
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DESCRIPTION
The tix command provides access to miscellaneous elements
of Tix's internal state and the Tix application context.
Most of the information manipulated by this command per-
tains to the application as a whole, or to a screen or
display, rather than to a particular window. The command
can take any of a number of different forms depending on
the option argument. The legal forms are:
tix addbitmapdir directory
Tix maintains a list of directory under which which
the tix getimage and tix getbitmap commands will
search for image files. The standard bitmap direc-
tory is $TIX_LIBRARY/bitmaps. The addbitmapdir com-
mand adds directory into this list. By using this
command, the image files of an applications can
also be located using the tix getimage ot tix get-
bitmap command.
tix cget option
Returns the current value of the configuration
option given by option. Option may be any of the
options described in the CONFIGURATION OPTIONS sec-
tion.
tix configure ?option? ?value option value ...?
Query or modify the configuration options of the
Tix application context. If no option is specified,
returns a list describing all of the available
options (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 option(s) to have the
given value(s); in this case the command returns an
empty string. Option may be any of the options
described in the CONFIGURATION OPTIONS section.
tix filedialog ?class?
Returns the file selection dialog that may be
shared among different modules of this application.
This command will create a file selection dialog
widget when it is called the first time. This dia-
log will be returned by all subsequent calls to tix
filedialog. An optional class parameter can be
passed to specified what type of file selection
dialog widget is desired. Possible options are tix-
FileSelectDialog or tixExFileSelectDialog.
tix getbitmap name
Locates a bitmap file of the name name.xpm or name
in one of the bitmap directories (see the
addbitmapdir command above). By using tix get-
bitmap, you can advoid hard coding the pathnames of
the bitmap files in your application. When success-
ful, it returns the complete pathname of the bitmap
file, prefixed with the character @. The returned
value can be used to configure the -bitmap option
of the TK and Tix widgets.
tix getimage name
Locates an image file of the name name.xpm,
name.xbm or name.ppm in one of the bitmap directo-
ries (see the addbitmapdir command above). If more
than one file with the same name (but different
extensions) exist, then the image type is chosen
according to the depth of the X display: xbm images
are chosen on monochrome displays and color images
are chosen on color displays. By using tix getim-
age, you can advoid hard coding the pathnames of
the image files in your application. When success-
ful, this command returns the name of the newly
created image, which can be used to configure the
-image option of the TK and Tix widgets.
tix option ?args ...?
Manipulates the options manitained by the Tix
scheme mechanism. Available options are:
active_bg active_fg bg
bold_font dark1_bg dark1_fg
dark2_bg dark2_fg disabled_fg
fg fixed_font font
inactive_bg inactive_fg input1_bg
input2_bg italic_font light1_bg
light1_fg light2_bg light2_fg
menu_font output1_bg output2_bg
select_bg select_fg selector
The arguments to the tix option command can take
the following form(s):
tix option get option
Returns the current value of option.
tix resetoptions newScheme newFontSet ?newScmPrio?
Resets the scheme and fontset of the Tix applica-
tion to newScheme and newFontSet, respectively.
This affects only those widgets created after this
call. Therefore, it is best to call the resetop-
tions command before the creation of any widgets in
a Tix application.
The optional parameter newScmPrio can be given to
reset the priority level of the TK options set by
the Tix schemes.
BUGS
Because of the way TK handles the X option database, after
tixwish has started up, it is not possible to reset the
color schemes and font sets using the tix config command.
Instead, the tix resetoptions command must be used.
The tk_setPalette command does not work very well under
Tix. To use it, one must follow these steps:
tix resetoptions TK TK
tk_setPalette lightblue
KEYWORDS
file selection dialog