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diff --git a/doc/frame.n b/doc/frame.n new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c9a3340 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/frame.n @@ -0,0 +1,134 @@ +'\" +'\" Copyright (c) 1990-1994 The Regents of the University of California. +'\" Copyright (c) 1994-1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc. +'\" +'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution +'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. +'\" +'\" +'\" SCCS: @(#) frame.n 1.30 97/10/31 12:58:48 +'\" +.so man.macros +.TH frame n 8.0 Tk "Tk Built-In Commands" +.BS +'\" Note: do not modify the .SH NAME line immediately below! +.SH NAME +frame \- Create and manipulate frame widgets +.SH SYNOPSIS +\fBframe\fR \fIpathName\fR ?\fIoptions\fR? +.SO +\-borderwidth \-highlightbackground \-highlightthickness \-takefocus +\-cursor \-highlightcolor \-relief +.SE +.SH "WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS" +.OP \-background background Background +This option is the same as the standard \fBbackground\fR 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 background +and border. +.OP \-class 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 \fBclass\fR option may not be changed with the \fBconfigure\fR +widget command. +.OP \-colormap colormap Colormap +Specifies a colormap to use for the window. +The value may be either \fBnew\fR, 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 \fIpathName\fR), in which case the new window will use the colormap +from the specified window. +If the \fBcolormap\fR option is not specified, the new window +uses the same colormap as its parent. +This option may not be changed with the \fBconfigure\fR +widget command. +.VS "" br +.OP \-container container 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 \fB\-use\fR 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 \fBconfigure\fR +widget command. +.VE +.OP \-height height Height +Specifies the desired height for the window in any of the forms +acceptable to \fBTk_GetPixels\fR. +If this option is less than or equal to zero then the window will +not request any size at all. +.OP \-visual visual Visual +Specifies visual information for the new window in any of the +forms accepted by \fBTk_GetVisual\fR. +If this option is not specified, the new window will use the same +visual as its parent. +The \fBvisual\fR option may not be modified with the \fBconfigure\fR +widget command. +.OP \-width width Width +Specifies the desired width for the window in any of the forms +acceptable to \fBTk_GetPixels\fR. +If this option is less than or equal to zero then the window will +not request any size at all. +.BE + +.SH DESCRIPTION +.PP +The \fBframe\fR command creates a new window (given by the +\fIpathName\fR 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 \fBframe\fR command returns the +path name of the new window. +.PP +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. + +.SH "WIDGET COMMAND" +.PP +The \fBframe\fR 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: +.CS +\fIpathName option \fR?\fIarg arg ...\fR? +.CE +\fIPathName\fR is the name of the command, which is the same as +the frame widget's path name. \fIOption\fR and the \fIarg\fRs +determine the exact behavior of the command. The following +commands are possible for frame widgets: +.TP +\fIpathName \fBcget\fR \fIoption\fR +Returns the current value of the configuration option given +by \fIoption\fR. +\fIOption\fR may have any of the values accepted by the \fBframe\fR +command. +.TP +\fIpathName \fBconfigure\fR ?\fIoption\fR? \fI?value option value ...\fR? +Query or modify the configuration options of the widget. +If no \fIoption\fR is specified, returns a list describing all of +the available options for \fIpathName\fR (see \fBTk_ConfigureInfo\fR for +information on the format of this list). If \fIoption\fR is specified +with no \fIvalue\fR, 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 \fIoption\fR is specified). If +one or more \fIoption\-value\fR 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. +\fIOption\fR may have any of the values accepted by the \fBframe\fR +command. + +.SH BINDINGS +.PP +When a new frame is created, it has no default event bindings: +frames are not intended to be interactive. + +.SH KEYWORDS +frame, widget |