tixTList(n)
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NAME
tixTList - Create and manipulate Tix Tabular List widgets
SYNOPSIS
tixTList pathName ?options?
SUPER-CLASS
None.
STANDARD OPTIONS
background borderWidth cursor foreground
font height highlightColor highlightThickness
relief selectBackground selectForeground
xScrollCommand yScrollCommand width
See the options(n) manual entry for details on the stan-
dard options.
WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
Name: browsecmd
Class: BrowseCmd
Switch: -browsecmd
Specifies a TCL command to be executed when the
user browses through the entries in the TList wid-
get.
Name: command
Class: Command
Switch: -command
Specifies the TCL command to be executed when the
user invokes a list entry in the TList widget. Nor-
mally the user invokes a list entry by double-
clicking it or pressing the Return key.
Name: foreground
Class: Foreground
Switch: -foreground
Alias: -fg
Specifies the default foreground color for the list
entries.
Name: height
Class: Height
Switch: -height
Specifies the desired height for the window in num-
ber of characters.
Name: itemType
Class: ItemType
Switch: -itemtype
Specifies the default type of display item for this
TList widget. When you call the insert widget com-
mands, display items of this type will be created
if the -itemtype option is not specified .
Name: orient
Class: Orient
Switch: -orient
Specifies the order of tabularizing the list
entries. When set to "vertical", the entries are
arranged in a column, from top to bottom. If the
entries cannot be contained in one column, the
remaining entries will go to the next column, and
so on. When set to "horizontal", the entries are
arranged in a row, from left to right. If the
entries cannot be contained in one row, the remain-
ing entries will go to the next row, and so on.
Name: padX
Class: Pad
Switch: -padx
The default horizontal padding for list entries.
Name: padY
Class: Pad
Switch: -padx
The default vertical padding for list entries.
Name: selectBackground
Class: SelectBackground
Switch: -selectbackground
Specifies the background color for the selected
list entries.
Name: selectBorderWidth
Class: BorderWidth
Switch: -selectborderwidth
Specifies a non-negative value indicating the width
of the 3-D border to draw around selected items.
The value may have any of the forms acceptable to
Tk_GetPixels.
Name: selectForeground
Class: SelectForeground
Switch: -selectforeground
Specifies the foreground color for the selected
list entries.
Name: selectMode
Class: SelectMode
Switch: -selectmode
Specifies one of several styles for manipulating
the selection. The value of the option may be
arbitrary, but the default bindings expect it to be
either single, browse, multiple, or extended; the
default value is single.
Name: sizeCmd
Class: SizeCmd
Switch: -sizecmd
Specifies a TCL script to be called whenever the
TList widget changes its size. This command can be
useful to implement "user scroll bars when needed"
features.
Name: state
Class: State
Switch: -state
Specifies whether the TList command should react to
user actions. When set to "normal", the TList
reacts to user actions in the normal way. When set
to "disabled", the TList can only be scrolled, but
its entries cannot be selected or activated.
Name: width
Class: Width
Switch: -width
Specifies the desired width for the window in char-
acters.
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DESCRIPTION
The tixTList command creates a new window (given by the
pathName argument) and makes it into a TList widget.
Additional options, described above, may be specified on
the command line or in the option database to configure
aspects of the TList widget such as its cursor and relief.
The TList widget can be used to display data in a tabular
format. The list entries of a TList widget are similar to
the entries in the Tk listbox widget. The main differences
are (1) the TList widget can display the list entries in a
two dimensional format and (2) you can use graphical
images as well as multiple colors and fonts for the list
entries.
Each list entry is identified by an index, which can be in
the following forms:
number An integer that indicates the position of
the entry in the list. 0 means the first
position, 1 means the second position, and
so on.
end Indicates the end of the listbox. For some
commands this means just after the last
entry; for other commands it means the last
entry.
@x,y Indicates the element that covers the point
in the listbox window specified by x and y
(in pixel coordinates). If no element covers
that point, then the closest element to that
point is used.
DISPLAY ITEMS
Each list entry in an TList widget is associated with a
display item. The display item determines what visual
information should be displayed for this list entry.
Please see the DItem(n) manual page for a list of all dis-
play items.
When a list entry is created by the insert command, the
type of its display item is determined by the -itemtype
option passed to these commands. If the -itemtype is omit-
ted, then by default the type specified by this TList wid-
get's -itemtype option is used.
WIDGET COMMAND
The tixTList command creates a new Tcl command whose name
is the same as the path name of the TList widget's window.
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 TList widget's path name. Option and the args deter-
mine the exact behavior of the command. The following
commands are possible for TList widgets:
pathName anchor set index
Sets the anchor to the list entry identified by
index. The anchor is the end of the selection that
is fixed while dragging out a selection with the
mouse.
pathName anchor clear
Removes the anchor, if any, from this TList widget.
This only removes the surrounding highlights of the
anchor entry and does not affect its selection sta-
tus.
pathName cget option
Returns the current value of the configuration
option given by option. Option may have any of the
values accepted by the tixTList 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 tixTList command.
pathName delete from ?to?
Deletes one or more list entries between the two
entries specified by the indices from and to. If to
is not specified, deletes the single entry speci-
fied by from.
pathName dragsite set index
Sets the dragsite to the list entry identified by
index. The dragsite is used to indicate the source
of a drag-and-drop action. Currently drag-and-drop
functionality has not been implemented in Tix yet.
pathName dragsite clear
Remove the dragsite, if any, from the this TList
widget. This only removes the surrounding high-
lights of the dragsite entry and does not affect
its selection status.
pathName dropsite set index
Sets the dropsite to the list entry identified by
index. The dropsite is used to indicate the target
of a grag-and-drop action. Currently drag-and-drop
functionality has not been implemented in Tix yet.
pathName dropsite clear
Remove the dropsite, if any, from the this TList
widget. This only removes the surrounding high-
lights of the dropsite entry and does not affect
its selection status.
pathName entrycget index option
Returns the current value of the configuration
option given by option for the entry indentfied by
index. Option may have any of the values accepted
by the insert widget command.
pathName entryconfigure index ?option? ?value option value
...?
Query or modify the configuration options of the
list entry indentfied by index. If no option is
specified, returns a list describing all of the
available options for index (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 spec-
ified). If one or more option-value pairs are spec-
ified, 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
have any of the values accepted by the insert wid-
get command. The exact set of options depends on
the value of the -itemtype option passed to the the
insert widget command when this list entry is cre-
ated.
pathName insert index ?option value ...?
Creates a new list entry at the position indicated
by index. The following configuration options can
be given to configure the list entry:
-itemtype type
Specifies the type of display item to be
display for the new list entry. type must be
a valid display item type. Currently the
available display item types are image,
imagetext, text, and window. If this option
is not specified, then by default the type
specified by this TList widget's -itemtype
option is used.
-state Specifies whether this entry can be selected
or invoked by the user. Must be either nor-
mal or disabled.
The insert widget command accepts additional configuration
options to configure the display item associated with this
list entry. The set of additional configuration options
depends on the type of the display item given by the
-itemtype option. Please see the DItem(n) manual page for
a list of the configuration options for each of the dis-
play item types.
pathName info option arg ...
Query information about the TList widget. option
can be one of the following:
pathName info anchor index
; Returns the index of the current anchor,
if any, of the TList widget. If the anchor
is not set, returns the empty string.
pathName info dragsite index
Returns the index of the current dragsite,
if any, of the TList widget. If the dragsite
is not set, returns the empty string.
pathName info dropsite index
Returns the index of the current dropsite,
if any, of the TList widget. If the dropsite
is not set, returns the empty string.
pathName info selection
Returns a list of selected elements in the
TList widget. If no entries are selectd,
returns an empty string.
pathName nearest x y
Given an (x,y) coordinate within the TList window,
this command returns the index of the TList element
nearest to that coordinate.
pathName see index
Adjust the view in the TList so that the entry
given by index is visible. If the entry is already
visible then the command has no effect; if the
entry is near one edge of the window then the TList
scrolls to bring the element into view at the edge;
otherwise the TList widget scrolls to center the
entry.
pathName selection option arg ...
This command is used to adjust the selection within
a TList widget. It has several forms, depending on
option:
pathName selection clear ?from? ?to?
When no extra arguments are given, deselects
all of the list entrie(s) in this TList wid-
get. When only from is given, only the list
entry identified by from is deselected. When
both from and to are given, deselects all of
the list entrie(s) between between from and
to, inclusive, without affecting the selec-
tion state of entries outside that range.
pathName selection includes index
Returns 1 if the list entry indicated by
index is currently selected; returns 0 oth-
erwise.
pathName selection set from ?to?
Selects all of the list entrie(s) between
between from and to, inclusive, without
affecting the selection state of entries
outside that range. When only from is given,
only the list entry identified by from is
selected.
pathName xview args
This command is used to query and change the hori-
zontal position of the information in the widget's
window. It can take any of the following forms:
pathName xview
Returns a list containing two elements.
Each element is a real fraction between 0
and 1; together they describe the horizontal
span that is visible in the window. For
example, if the first element is off-screen
to the left, the middle 40% is visible in
the window, and 40% of the entry is off-
screen to the right. These are the same val-
ues passed to scrollbars via the -xscroll-
command option.
pathName xview index
Adjusts the view in the window so that the
list entry identified by index is aligned to
the left edge of the window.
pathName xview moveto fraction
Adjusts the view in the window so that frac-
tion of the total width of the TList is off-
screen to the left. fraction must be a frac-
tion between 0 and 1.
pathName xview scroll number what
This command shifts the view in the window
left or right according to number and what.
Number must be an integer. What must be
either units or pages or an abbreviation of
one of these. If what is units, the view
adjusts left or right by number character
units (the width of the 0 character) on the
display; if it is pages then the view
adjusts by number screenfuls. If number is
negative then characters farther to the left
become visible; if it is positive then char-
acters farther to the right become visible.
pathName yview ?args?
This command is used to query and change the verti-
cal position of the entries in the widget's window.
It can take any of the following forms:
pathName yview
Returns a list containing two elements, both
of which are real fractions between 0 and 1.
The first element gives the position of the
list element at the top of the window, rela-
tive to the TList as a whole (0.5 means it
is halfway through the TList, for example).
The second element gives the position of the
list entry just after the last one in the
window, relative to the TList as a whole.
These are the same values passed to scroll-
bars via the -yscrollcommand option.
pathName yview index
Adjusts the view in the window so that the
list entry given by index is displayed at
the top of the window.
pathName yview moveto fraction
Adjusts the view in the window so that the
list entry given by fraction appears at the
top of the window. Fraction is a fraction
between 0 and 1; 0 indicates the first entry
in the TList, 0.33 indicates the entry one-
third the way through the TList, and so on.
pathName yview scroll number what
This command adjust the view in the window
up or down according to number and what.
Number must be an integer. What must be
either units or pages. If what is units,
the view adjusts up or down by number lines;
if it is pages then the view adjusts by num-
ber screenfuls. If number is negative then
earlier entries become visible; if it is
positive then later entries become visible.
BINDINGS
[1] If the -selectmode is "browse", when the user drags
the mouse pointer over the list entries, the entry
under the pointer will be highlighted and the
-browsecmd procedure will be called with one param-
eter, the index of the highlighted entry. Only one
entry can be highlighted at a time. The -command
procedure will be called when the user double-
clicks on a list entry.
[2] If the -selectmode is "single", the entries will
only be highlighted by mouse <ButtonRelease-1>
events. When a new list entry is highlighted, the
-browsecmd procedure will be called with one param-
eter indicating the highlighted list entry. The
-command procedure will be called when the user
double-clicks on a list entry.
[3] If the -selectmode is "multiple", when the user
drags the mouse pointer over the list entries, all
the entries under the pointer will be highlighted.
However, only a contiguous region of list entries
can be selected. When the highlighted area is
changed, the -browsecmd procedure will be called
with an undefined parameter. It is the responsibil-
ity of the -browsecmd procedure to find out the
exact highlighted selection in the TList. The -com-
mand procedure will be called when the user double-
clicks on a list entry.
[4] If the -selectmode is "extended", when the user
drags the mouse pointer over the list entries, all
the entries under the pointer will be highlighted.
The user can also make disjointed selections using
<Control-ButtonPress-1>. When the highlighted area
is changed, the -browsecmd procedure will be called
with an undefined parameter. It is the responsibil-
ity of the -browsecmd procedure to find out the
exact highlighted selection in the TList. The -com-
mand procedure will be called when the user double-
clicks on a list entry.
EXAMPLE
This example demonstrates how to use an TList to store a
list of numbers:
set image [tix getimage folder]
tixTList .t -orient vertical
.t insert end -itemtype imagetext -image $image -text one
.t insert end -itemtype imagetext -image $image -text two
.t insert end -itemtype imagetext -image $image -text three
.t insert end -itemtype imagetext -image $image -text four
.t insert end -itemtype imagetext -image $image -text five
.t insert end -itemtype imagetext -image $image -text six
pack .t -expand yes -fill both
KEYWORDS
Tix(n), Tabular Listbox, Display Items