NAME
tixFileSelectBox - Create and manipulate Tix FileSelectBox widgets
SYNOPSIS
tixFileSelectBox pathName ?options?
STANDARD OPTIONS
The FileSelectBox 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
Specifies the command to execute when the user browses through the
files. By default, if the -browsecmd is specified, the browse command
will be executed when the user clicks on a filename in the Files
listbox. Specifies the command to execute when the FileSelectBox is
invoked. This command is executed with one parameter : the filename
selected by the user.
Name: directory
Class: Directory
Switch: -directory
Alias: -dir
Specifies the directory to look for files. By default this will
be the current working directory of the program and will be
changed as the user browses through the directories. 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 ExFileSelectBox widget changes.
Specifies the matching pattern of the file names that should be
listed in the Files listbox. For example "*.c" matches all the
filenames that end with ".c". If this option is set to the empty
string, the default pattern "*" will be used.
Name: value
Class: Value
Switch: -value
Alias: -selection
Specifies the name of the filename currently selected by the
user.
SUBWIDGETS
Name: dirlist
Class: TixScrolledListBox
The scrolled listbox that shows the directories.
Name: filelist
Class: TixScrolledListBox
The scrolled listbox that shows the files.
Name: filter
Class: TixComboBox
The ComboBox listbox that shows the filter string.
Name: selection
Class: TixComboBox
The ComboBox listbox that shows the file selection.
DESCRIPTION
The tixFileSelectBox command creates a new window (given by the
pathName argument) and makes it into a FileSelectBox widget.
Additional options, described above, may be specified on the command
line or in the option database to configure aspects of the
FileSelectBox such as its cursor and relief.
The FileSelectBox is similar to the standard Motif(TM) file-selection
box. It is generally used for the user to choose a file. FileSelectBox
stores the files mostly recently selected into a ComboBox widget so
that they can be quickly selected again. The tixFileSelectDialog widget
is a combination of the FileSelectBox widget and a dialog widget.
WIDGET COMMAND
The tixFileSelectBox command creates a new Tcl command whose name is
the same as the path name of the FileSelectBox’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
FileSelectBox widget’s path name. Option and the args determine the
exact behavior of the command. The following commands are possible for
FileSelectBox 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
tixFileSelectBox 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
tixFileSelectBox command.
pathName filter
Updates the files listed in the FileSelectBox according to the
filtering pattern sepcified in the filter subwidget.
pathName invoke
Execute the command specified by the -command option with the
filename stored in the selection subwidget.
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.
DEFAULT BINDINGS
TIX automatically creates class bindings for FileSelectBoxes that give
them the following default behavior:
[1] Mouse button 1 in the Directory listbox will change the filter
string to the selected directory.
[2] Mouse button 1 in the Files listbox will change the filename
that appears in the Selection entry. It will also trigger the
-browsecmd if the option has been specified.
[3] The current directory will be changed by (1) double clicking the
Directory listbox or (2) invoking the Filter ComboBox. Please
refer to the man page of tixComboBox for the default bindings of
the ComboBoxes and how they can be invoked.
[4] The command specified by the option -command will be invoked by
(1) double clicking the Files listbox or (2) invoking Selection
ComboBox.
KEYWORDS
tixFileSelectBox, tixComboBox, tixFileSelectDialog, Tix(n),