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Tk::NoteBook (3)

Name

Tk::NoteBook - display several windows in limited space with notebook metaphor.

Synopsis

use Tk::NoteBook;
...
$w = $frame->NoteBook();
$page1 = $w->add("page1", options);
$page2 = $w->add("page2", options);
...
$page2 = $w->add("page2", options);

Description

User Contributed Perl Documentation                                NoteBook(3)



NAME
       Tk::NoteBook - display several windows in limited space with notebook
       metaphor.

SYNOPSIS
         use Tk::NoteBook;
         ...
         $w = $frame->NoteBook();
         $page1 = $w->add("page1", options);
         $page2 = $w->add("page2", options);
         ...
         $page2 = $w->add("page2", options);

DESCRIPTION
       The NoteBook widget provides a notebook metaphor to display several
       windows in limited space. The notebook is divided into a stack of pages
       of which only one is displayed at any time. The other pages can be
       selected by means of choosing the visual "tabs" at the top of the
       widget. Additionally, the <Tab> key may be used to traverse the pages.
       If -underline is used, Alt- bindings will also work.

       The widget takes all the options that a Frame does. In addition, it
       supports the following options:

       -dynamicgeometry
           If set to false (default and recommended), the size of the NoteBook
           will match the size of the largest page. Otherwise the size will
           match the size of the current page causing the NoteBook to change
           size when different pages of different sizes are selected.

       -ipadx
           The amount of internal horizontal padding around the pages.

       -ipady
           The amount of internal vertical padding around the pages.

       -backpagecolor
           The background color of the tabs and back page.

       -disabledforeground
           XXX

       -focuscolor
           The color of the focus border around the tabs.

       -font
           The font of the tab labels.

       -inactivebackground
           XXX

       -tabpadx
           Horizonzal padding around the tab label.

       -tabpady
           Vertical padding around the tab label.

METHODS
       The following methods may be used with a NoteBook object in addition to
       standard methods.

       add(pageName, options)
           Adds a page with name pageName to the notebook. Returns an object
           of type Frame. The recognized options are:

           -anchor
               Specifies how the information in a tab is to be displayed. Must
               be one of n, ne, e, se, s, sw, w, nw or center.

           -bitmap
               Specifies a bitmap to display on the tab of this page. The
               bitmap is displayed only if none of the -label or -image
               options are specified.

           -image
               Specifies an image to display on the tab of this page. The
               image is displayed only if the -label option is not specified.

           -label
               Specifies the text string to display on the tab of this page.

           -justify
               When there are multiple lines of text displayed in a tab, this
               option determines the justification of the lines.

           -createcmd
               Specifies a callback to be called the first time the page is
               shown on the screen. This option can be used to delay the
               creation of the contents of a page until necessary. It can be
               useful in situations where there are a large number of pages in
               a NoteBook widget; with -createcmd you do not have to make the
               user wait until all pages are constructed before displaying the
               first page.

           -raisecmd
               Specifies a callback to be called whenever this page is raised
               by the user.

           -state
               Specifies whether this page can be raised by the user. Must be
               either normal or disabled.

           -underline
               Specifies the integer index of a character to underline in the
               tab. This option is used by the default bindings to implement
               keyboard traversal for menu buttons and menu entries. 0
               corresponds to the first character of text displayed on the
               widget, 1 to the next character and so on.

           -wraplength
               This option specifies the maximum line length of the label
               string on this tab. If the line length of the label string
               exceeds this length, then it is wrapped onto the next line so
               that no line is longer than the specified length. The value may
               be specified in any standard forms for screen distances. If
               this value is less than or equal to 0, then no wrapping is
               done: lines will break only at newline characters in the text.

       delete(pageName)
           Deletes the page identified by pageName.

       pagecget(pageName, -option)
           Returns the current value of the configuration option given by
           -option in the page given by pageName. Option may have any of the
           values accepted in the add method.

       pageconfigure(pageName, options)
           Like configure for the page indicated by pageName. Options may be
           any of the options accepted by the add method.

       pages
           Returns a list consisting of the names of all currently defined
           pages, i.e., those created with the add method.

       page_widget(pageName)
           Returns the page with name pageName.

       raise(pageName)
           Raise the page identified by pageName.

       raised()
           Returns the name of the currently raised page.

       geometryinfo
           Return the dimensions of the tab area.

       identify(x,y)
           Identify the tab's page name under the specified coordinates.
           Return an empty string if there's no tab.

       info("pages")
           Return a list of all pages.

       info("focus")
           Return the page name of the tab with the current focus.

       info("focusnext")
           Return the page name of the tab which would receive the next focus.

       info("focusprev")
           Return the page name of the tab which had the previous focus.

       info("active")
           Return the page name of the active tab.

BUGS
       The options "-width" and "-height" do not work.

AUTHORS
       Rajappa Iyer  <rsi@earthling.net> Nick Ing-Simmons
       <nick@ni-s.u-net.com>

       This code and documentation was derived from NoteBook.tcl in Tix4.0
       written by Ioi Lam. It may be distributed under the same conditions as
       Perl itself.



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                       NoteBook(3)