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authordkf <dkf@noemail.net>2008-06-30 22:56:59 (GMT)
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'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
'\"
-'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: ConfigWidg.3,v 1.20 2007/12/13 15:23:42 dgp Exp $
+'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: ConfigWidg.3,v 1.21 2008/06/30 22:57:00 dkf Exp $
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.so man.macros
.TH Tk_ConfigureWidget 3 4.1 Tk "Tk Library Procedures"
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Display containing widget whose record is being freed; needed in
order to free up resources.
.BE
.SH DESCRIPTION
-.PP
+.PP
Note: \fBTk_ConfigureWidget\fR should be replaced with the new
\fBTcl_Obj\fR based API \fBTk_SetOptions\fR. The old interface is
retained for backward compatibility.
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ typedef struct {
int \fIoffset\fR;
int \fIspecFlags\fR;
Tk_CustomOption *\fIcustomPtr\fR;
-} Tk_ConfigSpec;
+} \fBTk_ConfigSpec\fR;
.CE
The \fItype\fR field indicates what type of configuration option this is
(e.g. \fBTK_CONFIG_COLOR\fR for a color value, or \fBTK_CONFIG_INT\fR for
@@ -358,7 +358,6 @@ is an empty string then the target will be set to NULL.
\fBTK_CONFIG_WINDOW\fR
The value must be a window path name. It is translated to a
\fBTk_Window\fR token and the token is stored in the target.
-
.SH "GROUPED ENTRIES"
.PP
In some cases it is useful to generate multiple resources from
@@ -376,7 +375,6 @@ Each of the entries after the first must have a NULL value in its
\fIargvName\fR field; this indicates that the entry is to be grouped
with the entry that precedes it. Only the \fItype\fR and \fIoffset\fR
fields are used from these follow-on entries.
-
.SH "FLAGS"
.PP
The \fIflags\fR argument passed to \fBTk_ConfigureWidget\fR is used
@@ -436,13 +434,11 @@ once, save the value, and provide it before calling
.TP
\fBTK_CONFIG_OPTION_SPECIFIED\fR
This bit is
-.VS 8.5
deprecated. It used to be set and cleared by \fBTk_ConfigureWidget\fR
so that callers could detect what entries were specified in
\fIargv\fR, but it was removed because it was inherently
thread-unsafe. Code that wishes to detect what options were specified
should use \fBTk_SetOptions\fR instead.
-.VE 8.5
.PP
The \fBTK_CONFIG_MONO_ONLY\fR and \fBTK_CONFIG_COLOR_ONLY\fR flags are typically
used to specify different default values for
@@ -475,7 +471,6 @@ for which this entry is valid. When calling \fBTk_ConfigureWidget\fR,
\fIflags\fR will have a single one of these bits set to select the
entries for the desired widget type. For a working example of
this feature, see the code in tkButton.c.
-
.SH TK_OFFSET
.PP
The \fBTk_Offset\fR macro is provided as a safe way of generating
@@ -483,7 +478,6 @@ the \fIoffset\fR values for entries in Tk_ConfigSpec structures.
It takes two arguments: the name of a type of record, and the
name of a field in that record. It returns the byte offset of
the named field in records of the given type.
-
.SH TK_CONFIGUREINFO
.PP
The \fBTk_ConfigureInfo\fR procedure may be used to obtain
@@ -519,7 +513,6 @@ if \fIargvName\fR had been NULL.
.PP
The \fIflags\fR argument to \fBTk_ConfigureInfo\fR is used to restrict
the \fIspecs\fR entries to consider, just as for \fBTk_ConfigureWidget\fR.
-
.SH TK_CONFIGUREVALUE
.PP
\fBTk_ConfigureValue\fR takes arguments similar to \fBTk_ConfigureInfo\fR;
@@ -532,7 +525,6 @@ not a valid option name), \fBTCL_ERROR\fR is returned and an error message
is left in \fIinterp->result\fR.
This procedure is typically called to implement \fBcget\fR widget
commands.
-
.SH TK_FREEOPTIONS
.PP
The \fBTk_FreeOptions\fR procedure may be invoked during widget cleanup
@@ -545,7 +537,6 @@ it contains a null pointer) then no resource is freed for that
entry.
After freeing a resource, \fBTk_FreeOptions\fR sets the
corresponding field of the widget record to null.
-
.SH "CUSTOM OPTION TYPES"
.PP
Applications can extend the built-in configuration types with additional
@@ -556,22 +547,22 @@ typedef struct Tk_CustomOption {
Tk_OptionParseProc *\fIparseProc\fR;
Tk_OptionPrintProc *\fIprintProc\fR;
ClientData \fIclientData\fR;
-} Tk_CustomOption;
+} \fBTk_CustomOption\fR;
-typedef int Tk_OptionParseProc(
- ClientData \fIclientData\fR,
- Tcl_Interp *\fIinterp\fR,
- Tk_Window \fItkwin\fR,
- char *\fIvalue\fR,
- char *\fIwidgRec\fR,
- int \fIoffset\fR);
+typedef int \fBTk_OptionParseProc\fR(
+ ClientData \fIclientData\fR,
+ Tcl_Interp *\fIinterp\fR,
+ Tk_Window \fItkwin\fR,
+ char *\fIvalue\fR,
+ char *\fIwidgRec\fR,
+ int \fIoffset\fR);
-typedef char *Tk_OptionPrintProc(
- ClientData \fIclientData\fR,
- Tk_Window \fItkwin\fR,
- char *\fIwidgRec\fR,
- int \fIoffset\fR,
- Tcl_FreeProc **\fIfreeProcPtr\fR);
+typedef char *\fBTk_OptionPrintProc\fR(
+ ClientData \fIclientData\fR,
+ Tk_Window \fItkwin\fR,
+ char *\fIwidgRec\fR,
+ int \fIoffset\fR,
+ Tcl_FreeProc **\fIfreeProcPtr\fR);
.CE
The Tk_CustomOption structure contains three fields, which are pointers
to the two procedures and a \fIclientData\fR value to be passed to those
@@ -624,7 +615,6 @@ Tk_CustomOption structure has been created for them, options of this
new type may be manipulated with Tk_ConfigSpec entries whose \fItype\fR
fields are \fBTK_CONFIG_CUSTOM\fR and whose \fIcustomPtr\fR fields point
to the Tk_CustomOption structure.
-
.SH EXAMPLES
.PP
Although the explanation of \fBTk_ConfigureWidget\fR is fairly
@@ -635,10 +625,8 @@ The library implementation of frames
(tkFrame.c) has a simple configuration table, and the library
implementation of buttons (tkButton.c) has a much more complex
table that uses many of the fancy \fIspecFlags\fR mechanisms.
-
.SH "SEE ALSO"
Tk_SetOptions(3)
-
.SH KEYWORDS
anchor, bitmap, boolean, border, cap style, color, configuration options,
cursor, custom, double, font, integer, join style, justify, millimeters,