NAME
tixLabelFrame - Create and manipulate tixLabelFrame widgets
SYNOPSIS
tixLabelFrame 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
widget. See the options(n) manual entry for details on the standard
options.
WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
Specifies the string to display as the label of this LabelFrame widget.
Specifies where the label should be displayed relative to the entry
subwidget. Valid options are: top, left, right, bottom, none or
acrosstop. Specifies the amount of the horizontal padding around the
frame subwidget. Must be a valid non-negative integer number.
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
following is correct code, which creates new widgets inside the frame
subwidget:
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
LabelFrame widget’s path name. Option and the args determine the exact
behavior of the command. The following commands are possible for
LabelFrame 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
tixLabelFrame 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
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.
KEYWORDS
Tix(n)