iwidgets::shell(1) [incr Widgets] iwidgets::shell(1)______________________________________________________________________________NAME
iwidgets::shell - Create and manipulate a shell widget
SYNOPSIS
iwidgets::shell pathName ?options?
INHERITANCE
itk::Toplevel <- iwidgets::Shell
STANDARD OPTIONS
background cursor foreground
See the "options" manual entry for details on the standard options.
INHERITED OPTIONS
title
See the "Toplevel" manual entry for details on the above inherited
options.
WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
Name: height
Class: Height
Command-Line Switch: -height
Specifies the height of the shell. The value may be specified
in any of the forms acceptable to Tk_GetPixels. A value of zero
causes the height to be adjusted to the required value based on
the size requests of the components placed in the childsite.
Otherwise, the height is fixed. The default is zero. NOTE:
This may cause some amount of flickering on slower machines. To
prevent it simply set the width and height to a appropriate
value.
Name: master
Class: Window
Command-Line Switch: -master
Defines the shell as being a transient window with the master
window given by the master option. The master window should be
either another existing toplevel window or {} for no master.
The default is {} for shells and "." for dialogs.
Name: modality
Class: Modality
Command-Line Switch: -modality
Allows the shell to grab control of the screen in one of three
different ways: application, system, or none. Application modal
prevents any other toplevel windows within the application which
are direct children of '.' from gaining focus. System modal
locks the screen and prevents all windows from gaining focus
regardless of application. A modality of none performs no grabs
at all. The default is none.
Name: padX
Class: Pad
Command-Line Switch: -padx
Specifies a padding distance for the childsite in the X-direc‐
tion in any of the forms acceptable to Tk_GetPixels. The
default is 10.
Name: padY
Class: Pad
Command-Line Switch: -pady
Specifies a padding distance for the childsite in the Y-direc‐
tion in any of the forms acceptable to Tk_GetPixels. The
default is 10.
Name: width
Class: Width
Command-Line Switch: -width
Specifies the width of the shell. The value may be specified in
any of the forms acceptable to Tk_GetPixels. A value of zero
causes the width to be adjusted to the required value based on
the size requests of the components placed in the childsite.
Otherwise, the width is fixed. The default is zero. NOTE: This
may cause some amount of flickering on slower machines. To pre‐
vent it simply set the width and height to a appropriate value.
______________________________________________________________________________DESCRIPTION
The iwidgets::shell command creates a shell which is a top level widget
which supports modal operation.
METHODS
The iwidgets::shell command create 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 shell widgets:
WIDGET-SPECIFIC METHODS
pathName activate
Display the shell and wait based on the modality. For applica‐
tion and system modal activations, perform a grab operation, and
wait for the result. The result may be returned via an argument
to the deactivate method.
pathName center ?widget?
Centers the shell with respect to another widget. The widget
argument is optional. If provided, it should be the path of
another widget with to center upon. If absent, then the shell
will be centered on the screen as a whole.
pathName cget option
Returns the current value of the configuration option given by
option. Option may have any of the values accepted by the iwid‐
gets::shell command.
pathName childsite
Returns the pathname of the child site widget.
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 avail‐
able 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::shell command.
pathName deactivate ?arg?
Deactivate the display of the shell. The method takes an
optional argument to be passed to the activate method which
returns the value. The optional argument is only effective for
application and system modal dialogs.
COMPONENTS
Name: shellchildsite
Class: frame
The shellchildsite component is the user child site for the
shell. See the "frame" widget manual entry for details on the
shellchildsite component item.
EXAMPLE
package require Iwidgets 4.0
iwidgets::shell .sh -modality application -padx 20 -pady 20 -title
Shell
pack [label [.sh childsite].l -text SHELL]
.sh center
.sh activate
AUTHOR
Mark L. Ulferts Kris Raney
KEYWORDS
shell, widget
Tkiwidgets::shell(1)
