tixFileEntry - Create and manipulate tixFileEntry widgets
SYNOPSIS
tixFileEntry pathName ?options?
SUPER-CLASS
The TixFileEntry class is derived from the TixLabelWidget
class and inherits all the commands, options and
subwidgets of its super-class.
STANDARD OPTIONS
The FileEntry widget supports all the standard options of a frame
widget. See the options(n) manual entry for details on the
standard options.
WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
Name: command
Class: Command
Switch: -command
Specifies the command to be called when the -value option of
the FileEntry is changed. This usually happens when the user inputs a
filename into the entry subwidget and hits the <Return> key. The
command will be called with one arguments -- the new value of the
FileEntry widget.
Name: dialogType
Class: DialogType
Switch: -dialogtype
Specifies which type of file selection dialog should be popped up when
the user invokes the button subwidget. Current only two values
are valid: tixFileSelectDialog or tixExFileSelectDialog.
Name: disableCallback
Class: DisableCallback
Switch: -disablecallback
A boolean value indicating whether callbacks should be disabled. When
set to true, the TCL command specified by the -command option
is not executed when the -value of the FileEntry widget
changes.
Name: disableForeground
Class: DisableForeground
Switch: -disableforeground
The foreground color to use for of the entry subwidget when the
FileEntry widget is disabled.
Name: fileBitmap
Class: FileBitmap
Switch: -filebitmap
Specifies the bitmap to display in side the button subwidget.
Name: label
Class: Label
Switch: -label
Specifies the string to display as the label of this FileEntry widget.
Name: labelSide
Class: LabelSide
Switch: -labelside
Specifies where the label should be displayed relative to the entry
subwidget. Valid options are: top, left, right,
bottom, none or acrosstop.
Name: state
Class: State
Switch: -state
Specifies the whether the FileEntry widget is normal or disabled. Only
the values "normal" and "disabled" are recognized.
Name: validateCmd
Class: ValidateCmd
Switch: -validatecmd
Specifies a TCL command to be called when the -value of the
FileEntry widget is about to change. This command is called
with one parameter -- the new -value entered by the user. This
command is to validate this new value by returning a value it deems
valid.
Name: value
Class: Value
Switch: -value
Specifies the value of the FileEntry.
Name: variable
Class: Variable
Switch: -variable
Specifies the global variable in which the value of the FileEntry
should be stored. The value of the FileEntry will be automatically
updated when this variable is changed.
SUBWIDGETS
Name: button
Class: Button
The button subwidget next to the entry subwidget.
Name: entry
Class: Entry
The entry subwidget in which the user can type in a filename.
DESCRIPTION
The tixFileEntry command creates a new window (given by
the pathName argument) and makes it into a FileEntry
widget. Additional options, described above, may be specified on the
command line or in the option database to configure aspects of the
FileEntry such as its cursor and relief.
The FileEntry widget can be used to input a filename. The user can
type in the filename manually. Alternatively, the user can press the
button widget that sits next to the entry, which will bring up a file
selection dialog of the type specified by the -dialogtype option.
WIDGET COMMANDS
The tixFileEntry command creates a new Tcl command whose
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
args determine the exact behavior of the command. The following
commands are possible for FileEntry 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
tixFileEntry 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 tixFileEntry command.
- pathName invoke
- Forces the FileEntry widget to act as if the user has pressed the
<return> key inside the entry subwidget.
- pathName filedialog
- Returns the pathname of the file dialog box associated with this
FileEnt widget.
- pathName subwidget name ?args?
- When no options are given, this command returns the pathname of the
subwidget of the specified name.
When options are given, the widget command of the specified subwidget
will be called with these options.
KEYWORDS
Tix(n)
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