tix(n) Tix Built-In Commands tix(n)NAMEtix - Manipulate internal states of the Tix library
SYNOPSIStix option ?arg arg ...?
CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
This manual page descripts the tix command, which manipulates the
internal states of the Tix library. If you're looking for a general
introduction to the Tix library, please refer to the TixIntro manual
page.
The Tix application context supports the following configuration
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
[-binding binding] This is an obsolete option. [-debug debug] Speci‐
fies whether the Tix widgets should run in debug mode. [-fontset tix‐
FontSet] Specifies the fontset to use for the Tix widgets. Valid
options are WmDefault, TK, TkWin, 12Point and 14Point. TK specifies
that the standard TK fonts should be used. The default value is WmDe‐
fault. [-scheme tixScheme] Specifies the color scheme to use for the
Tix widgets. Valid options are WmDefault, TK, TkWin, Gray, Blue,
Bisque, SGIGray and TixGray. If you want the standard TK color scheme,
you can use the value TK. The default value is WmDefault.
' [-schemepriority tixSchemePriority] 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 settings in the .Xdefaults file, you
can set the following line in you .Xdefaults file: *TixSchemePriority:
21
DESCRIPTION
The tix command provides access to miscellaneous elements of Tix's
internal state and the Tix application context. Most of the informa‐
tion manipulated by this command pertains 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 directory is $TIX_LIBRARY/bitmaps. The
addbitmapdir command 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 getbitmap 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 CON‐
FIGURATION OPTIONS section.
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 informa‐
tion 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 dif‐
ferent modules of this application. This command will create a
file selection dialog widget when it is called the first time.
This dialog will be returned by all subsequent calls to tix
filedialog. An optional class parameter can be passed to speci‐
fied what type of file selection dialog widget is desired. Pos‐
sible options are tixFileSelectDialog 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 getbitmap, you can advoid hard coding the pathnames of
the bitmap files in your application. When successful, 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 directories (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 getimage, you can advoid hard coding the pathnames of the
image files in your application. When successful, 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 initstyle
Init the style defaults for Tix. Prior to Tix 8.4 this was done
by simply package requiring Tix, but this call is now required
to explicitly use Tix style.
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 application to
newScheme and newFontSet, respectively. This affects only those
widgets created after this call. Therefore, it is best to call
the resetoptions command before the creation of any widgets in a
Tix application.
The optional parameter newScmPrio can be given to reset the pri‐
ority level of the TK options set by the Tix schemes.
BUGS
[1] In this release of Tix, the following configuration options have
been disabled. Assigning values to them will cause no effect:
-binding -debug -fontset -scheme -schemepriority In addition,
the following options to the tix command have been disabled.
Invoking the tix command with these options will cause no
effect: resetoptions
[2] 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
Tix 8.4 tix(n)
