tixLabelFrame(n) Tix Built-In Commands tixLabelFrame(n)______________________________________________________________________________NAMEtixLabelFrame - Create and manipulate tixLabelFrame widgets
SYNOPSIStixLabelFrame pathName ?options?
SUPER-CLASS
The TixLabelFrame class is derived from the TixLabelWidget class and
inherits all the commands, options and subwidgets of its super-class.
STANDARD OPTIONS
The LabelFrame widget supports all the standard options of a frame wid‐
get. See the options(n) manual entry for details on the standard
options.
WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
[-label label] Specifies the string to display as the label of this
LabelFrame widget. [-labelside labelSide] Specifies where the label
should be displayed relative to the entry subwidget. Valid options are:
top, left, right, bottom, none or acrosstop. [-padx padX] Specifies
the amount of the horizontal padding around the frame subwidget. Must
be a valid non-negative integer number. [-pady padY] Specifies the
amount of the vertical padding around the frame subwidget.
SUBWIDGETS
Name: frame
Class: Frame
The frame subwidget.
Name: label
Class: Label
The label subwidget.
_________________________________________________________________DESCRIPTION
The tixLabelFrame command creates a new window (given by the pathName
argument) and makes it into a LabelFrame widget. Additional options,
described above, may be specified on the command line or in the option
database to configure aspects of the LabelFrame such as its cursor and
relief.
CREATING WIDGETS INSIDE A LABELFRAME
The LabelFrame widget packages a frame widget and a label into one mega
widget. To create widgets inside a LabelFrame widget, one must create
the new widgets relative to the frame subwidget and manage them inside
the frame subwidget. An error will be generated if one tries to create
widgets as immediate children of the LabelFrame. For example: the fol‐
lowing is correct code, which creates new widgets inside the frame sub‐
widget:
tixLabelFrame .f
set f [.f subwidget frame]
button $f.b -text hi
pack $f.b
The following example code is incorrect because it tries to create
immediate children of the LabelFrame .f:
tixLabelFrame .f
# wrong!
button .f.b -text hi
pack .f.b
WIDGET COMMANDS
The tixLabelFrame command creates a new Tcl command whose name is the
same as the path name of the LabelFrame'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 Label‐
Frame widget's path name. Option and the args determine the exact
behavior of the command. The following commands are possible for Label‐
Frame 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 tixLa‐
belFrame 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 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 tixLabelFrame command.
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.
KEYWORDSTix(n)Tix 4.0 tixLabelFrame(n)
