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Tk::Frame (3)

Name

Tk::Frame - Create and manipulate Frame widgets

Synopsis

$frame = $parent->Frame(?options?);

Description

User Contributed Perl Documentation                                   Frame(3)



NAME
       Tk::Frame - Create and manipulate Frame widgets

SYNOPSIS
       $frame = $parent->Frame(?options?);

STANDARD OPTIONS
       -borderwidth   -highlightbackground     -highlightthickness -takefocus
       -class    -highlightcolor     -relief -cursor

       See Tk::options for details of the standard options.

WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
       Name:     background
       Class:    Background
       Switch:   -background
           This option is the same as the standard background option except
           that its value may also be specified as an undefined value.  In
           this case, the widget will display no background or border, and no
           colors will be consumed from its colormap for its background and
           border.

       Name:     colormap
       Class:    Colormap
       Switch:   -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 window
           and its children, or the name of another window (which must be on
           the same screen and have the same visual as $widget), in which case
           the new window will use the colormap from the specified 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 method.

       Name:     container
       Class:    Container
       Switch:   -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 window manager
           protocols for things like geometry requests.  The window should not
           have any children of its own in this application.  This option may
           not be changed with the configure method.

       Name:     height
       Class:    Height
       Switch:   -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.

       Name:     visual
       Class:    Visual
       Switch:   -visual
           Specifies visual information for the new window in any of the forms
           accepted by Tk_GetVisual.  If this option is not specified, the new
           window will use the same visual as its parent.  The visual option
           may not be modified with the configure method.

       Name:     width
       Class:    Width
       Switch:   -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.

DESCRIPTION
       The Frame method creates a new window (given by the $widget 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
       configure 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 METHODS
       The Frame method creates a widget object.  This object supports the
       configure and cget methods described in Tk::options which can be used
       to enquire and modify the options described above.  The widget also
       inherits all the methods provided by the generic Tk::Widget class.

BINDINGS
       When a new frame is created, it has no default event bindings: frames
       are not intended to be interactive.

KEYWORDS
       frame, widget



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.



perl v5.32.0                      2013-11-15                          Frame(3)