frame - Create and manipulate 'frame' simple container widgets
frame pathName ?options?
frame(1t) Tk Built-In Commands frame(1t)
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NAME
frame - Create and manipulate 'frame' simple container widgets
SYNOPSIS
frame pathName ?options?
STANDARD OPTIONS
-borderwidth -highlightcolor -pady
-cursor -highlightthickness -relief
-highlightbackground -padx -takefocus
See the options manual entry for details on the standard options.
WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
Command-Line Name:-background
Database Name: background
Database Class: Background
This option is the same as the standard -background option
except that its value may also be specified as an empty string.
In this case, the widget will display no background or border,
and no colors will be consumed from its colormap for its back-
ground and border.
Command-Line Name:-class
Database Name: class
Database Class: Class
Specifies a class for the window. This class will be used when
querying the option database for the window's other options, and
it will also be used later for other purposes such as bindings.
The -class option may not be changed with the configure widget
command.
Command-Line Name:-colormap
Database Name: colormap
Database Class: Colormap
Specifies a colormap to use for the window. The value may be
either new, in which case a new colormap is created for the win-
dow and its children, or the name of another window (which must
be on the same screen and have the same visual as pathName), in
which case the new window will use the colormap from the speci-
fied window. If the -colormap option is not specified, the new
window uses the same colormap as its parent. This option may
not be changed with the configure widget command.
Command-Line Name:-container
Database Name: container
Database Class: Container
The value must be a boolean. If true, it means that this window
will be used as a container in which some other application will
be embedded (for example, a Tk toplevel can be embedded using
the -use option). The window will support the appropriate win-
dow manager protocols for things like geometry requests. The
window should not have any children of its own in this applica-
tion. This option may not be changed with the configure widget
command. Note that -borderwidth, -padx and -pady are ignored
when configured as a container since a container has no border.
Command-Line Name:-height
Database Name: height
Database Class: Height
Specifies the desired height for the window in any of the forms
acceptable to Tk_GetPixels. If this option is less than or
equal to zero then the window will not request any size at all.
Note that this sets the total height of the frame, any -border-
width or similar is not added. Normally -height should not be
used if a propagating geometry manager, such as grid or pack, is
used within the frame since the geometry manager will override
the height of the frame.
Command-Line Name:-visual
Database Name: visual
Database Class: Visual
Specifies visual information for the new window in any of the
forms accepted by Tk_GetVisual. If this option is not speci-
fied, the new window will use the same visual as its parent.
The -visual option may not be modified with the configure widget
command.
Command-Line Name:-width
Database Name: width
Database Class: Width
Specifies the desired width for the window in any of the forms
acceptable to Tk_GetPixels. If this option is less than or
equal to zero then the window will not request any size at all.
Note that this sets the total width of the frame, any -border-
width or similar is not added. Normally -width should not be
used if a propagating geometry manager, such as grid or pack, is
used within the frame since the geometry manager will override
the width of the frame.
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DESCRIPTION
The frame command creates a new window (given by the pathName argument)
and makes it into a frame widget. Additional options, described above,
may be specified on the command line or in the option database to con-
figure aspects of the frame such as its background color and relief.
The frame command returns the path name of the new window.
A frame is a simple widget. Its primary purpose is to act as a spacer
or container for complex window layouts. The only features of a frame
are its background color and an optional 3-D border to make the frame
appear raised or sunken.
WIDGET COMMAND
The frame command creates a new Tcl command whose name is the same as
the path name of the frame'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 frame
widget's path name. Option and the args determine the exact behavior
of the command. The following commands are possible for 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 frame
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 frame command.
BINDINGS
When a new frame is created, it has no default event bindings: frames
are not intended to be interactive.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | runtime/tk-8 |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
labelframe(n), toplevel(n), ttk::frame(n)
KEYWORDS
frame, widget
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 https://source-
forge.net/projects/tcl/files/Tcl/8.6.7/tk8.6.7-src.tar.gz/download.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at https://www.tcl.tk/.
Tk 8.4 frame(1t)