Tk::DialogBox - create and manipulate a dialog screen.
use Tk::DialogBox ... $d = $top->DialogBox(-title => "Title", -buttons => ["OK", "Cancel"]); $w = $d->add(Widget, args)->pack; ... $button = $d->Show;
User Contributed Perl Documentation DialogBox(3)
NAME
Tk::DialogBox - create and manipulate a dialog screen.
SYNOPSIS
use Tk::DialogBox
...
$d = $top->DialogBox(-title => "Title", -buttons => ["OK", "Cancel"]);
$w = $d->add(Widget, args)->pack;
...
$button = $d->Show;
DESCRIPTION
DialogBox is very similar to Dialog except that it allows any widget in
the top Frame. DialogBox creates two Frames, top and bottom. The bottom
Frame shows all the specified Buttons, lined up from left to right. The
top Frame acts as a container for all other widgets that can be added
with the add() method.
OPTIONS
The options recognized by DialogBox are as follows:
-title
Specify the title of the DialogBox. If this is not set, then the
name of the program is used.
-buttons
The button names to display in the bottom Frame. This is a
reference to an array of strings containing the text to put on each
Button. There is no default value for this. If you do not specify
any button names, no Buttons are displayed.
-default_button
Specifies the default Button that is considered invoked when user
presses <Return> on the DialogBox. This Button is highlighted. If
no default Button is specified, then the first element of the array
whose reference is passed to the -buttons option is used as the
default.
-cancel_button
Specifies the Button that is considered invoked when the user
closes the DialogBox using the window manager's close button. If
the -cancel_button option is not given, and if there's only one
button configured, then this button is also used as the cancel
button. Otherwise no button is considered as the cancel button; in
such a case Show just returns "undef" when the user closes the
DialogBox.
-command
A callback which is executed after invoking an action to close the
DialogBox, but before restoring focus and grab information. The
selected button is passed as the first argument.
-focus
Specify the widget to receive the initial focus after popping up
the DialogBox. By default the -default_button widget receives the
initial focus.
-showcommand
A callback which is executed before displaying the DialogBox and
waiting for user input. The DialogBox itself is passed as the first
argument.
METHODS
DialogBox supports only two methods as of now:
add(widget, options)
Add the widget indicated by widget. Widget can be the name of any
Tk widget (standard or contributed). options are the options that
the widget accepts. The widget is advertized as a subwidget of
DialogBox. The name of widget is lower-cased and used as the
advertised name. If multiple instances of widget are created in the
DialogBox, then only the last one gets the advertised name. add()
does not automatically pack() or grid() widget into the DialogBox.
Show(?-global?)
Displays the Dialog until the user invokes one of the Buttons in
the bottom Frame. If the grab type -global is specified, then Show
uses that grab; otherwise it defaults to a local grab. Returns the
name of the Button invoked.
The actual Dialog is shown using the Popup method. Any other
options supplied to Show are passed to Popup, and can be used to
position the Dialog on the screen. Please read Tk::Popup for
details.
Exit()
Close the dialogbox, by emulating a click on the default button.
ADVERTISED WIDGETS
top The subwidget reference to the top half of the DialogBox widget,
the Frame containing widgets added by the add method.
bottom
The subwidget reference to the bottom half of the DialogBox widget,
the Frame containing the Button widgets.
B_"button-text"
Individual subwidget references to the Buttons in the DialogBox
widget. The subwidget name is the string B_ concatenated with the
Button's -text value.
BUGS
There is no way of removing a widget once it has been added to the top
Frame, unless you access the top subwidget and go through the child
widgets.
There is no control over the appearance of the Buttons in the bottom
Frame nor is there any way to control the placement of the two Frames
with respect to each other.
AUTHOR
Rajappa Iyer rsi@earthling.net
This code is distributed under the same terms as Perl.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+----------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+----------------------------+
|Availability | library/perl-5/perl-tk-532 |
+---------------+----------------------------+
|Stability | Volatile |
+---------------+----------------------------+
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from
http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SR/SREZIC/Tk-804.036.tar.gz.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at http://search.cpan.org/~srezic/Tk.
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