tixOptionMenu(n) Tix Built-In Commands tixOptionMenu(n)NAMEtixOptionMenu - Create and manipulate tixOptionMenu widgets
SYNOPSIStixOptionMenu pathName ?options?
SUPER-CLASS
The TixOptionMenu class is derived from the TixLabelWidget class and
inherits all the commands, options and subwidgets of its super-class.
STANDARD OPTIONS
The OptionMenu widget supports all the standard Tix widget options. See
the Tix-Options(n) manual entry for details on the standard Tix widget
options.
WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
[-command command] Specifies the command to be called when the -value
option of the OptionMenu is changed. The command will be called with
one arguments -- the new value of the OptionMenu widget. [-disable‐
callback 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 OptionMenu wid‐
get changes. [-dynamicgeometry dynamicGeometry] A boolean value indi‐
cating whether the size of the menubutton subwidget should change
dynamically to match the width of the currently selected menu entry. If
set to false (the default), the the size of the menubutton subwidget
will be wide enough to display every menu entry fully and does not
change when the user selects different entries. [-label label] Speci‐
fies the string to display as the label of this OptionMenu 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. [-state state] Specifies the whether the
OptionMenu widget is normal or disabled. Only the values "normal" and
"disabled" are recognized. [-value value] Specifies the value of the
OptionMenu. The value of the OptionMenu widget is the name of the item
currently displayed by its menubutton subwidget. [-variable variable]
Specifies the global variable in which the value of the OptionMenu
should be stored. The value of the OptionMenu will be automatically
updated when this variable is changed.
SUBWIDGETS
Name: menu
Class: Menu
The menu subwidget, which is popped up when the user press the
menubutton subwidget.
Name: menubutton
Class: Menubutton
The menubutton subwidget.
DESCRIPTION
The tixOptionMenu command creates a new window (given by the pathName
argument) and makes it into a OptionMenu widget. Additional options,
described above, may be specified on the command line or in the option
database to configure aspects of the OptionMenu such as its cursor and
relief.
WIDGET COMMANDS
The tixOptionMenu command creates a new Tcl command whose name is the
same as the path name of the OptionMenu'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 Option‐
Menu widget's path name. Option and the args determine the exact behav‐
ior of the command. The following commands are possible for OptionMenu
widgets:
pathName add type name ?option value ...?
Adds a new item into the OptionMenu widget. type must be either
command or separator. The options may be any of the valid
options for the command or separator menu entry types for the TK
menu widget class, except -command.
pathName cget option
Returns the current value of the configuration option given by
option. Option may have any of the values accepted by the tixOp‐
tionMenu 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 tixOptionMenu command.
pathName delete name
Deletes the menu entry identified by name.
pathName disable name
Disables the menu entry identified by name.
pathName enable name
Enables the menu entry identified by name.
pathName entrycget name option
Returns the current value of the configuration option given by
option in the menu entry identified by name. Option may have any
of the values accepted by the add widget command.
pathName entryconfigure name ?option? ?value option value ...?
Query or modify the configuration options of the menu entry
identified by name. If no option is specified, returns a list
describing all of the available options for the menu entry (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 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 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 add
widget command.
pathName entries
Returns the names of all the entries currently in the OptionMenu
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 sub‐
widget will be called with these options.
KEYWORDSTix(n)Tix 4.0 tixOptionMenu(n)
