tix - Manipulate Tix internal state
SYNOPSIS
tix option ?arg arg ...?
CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
The Tix application context supports the following configuration
options. Usually, these options are set using the X resource database,
different color scheme for the Tix widgets, these two lines can be
*TixScheme: Gray
*TixFontSet: 14Point
Name: binding
Class: Binding
Switch: -binding
This is an obsolete option.
Name: debug
Class: Debug
Switch: -debug
Specifies whether the Tix widgets should run in debug mode.
Name: tixFontSet
Class: TixFontSet
Switch: -fontset
Specifies the fontset to use for the Tix widgets. Valid options are
TK, 12Point and 14Point. TK specifies that the
standard TK fonts should be used. The default value is 14Point.
Name: tixScheme
Class: TixScheme
Switch: -scheme
Specifies the color scheme to use for the Tix widgets. Valid options
are TK, Gray, Blue, Bisque, SGIGray and
TixGray. The default value is TixGray. If you want the
standard TK color scheme, you can use the value TK. If you want
to use the TK 3.6 bisque color scheme, you can use the value Bisque.
Name: tixSchemePriority
Class: TixSchemePriority
Switch: -schemepriority
Specifies the priority level of the TK options set by th Tix
schemes. Please refer to the TK option(n) manual page for a
discussion of the priority level of Tix options. The default value is
79, which makes the Tix schemes at a higher priority than the
settings in the .Xdefaults file. If you want to allow the Tix schemes
to be overridden by the settings in the .Xdefaults file, you can set
the following line in you .Xdefaults file:
*TixSchemePriority: 21
DESCRIPTION
The tix command provides access to miscellaneous elements of
the information manipulated by this command pertains to the
application as a whole, or to a screen or display, rather than to a
particular window. The command can take any of a number of different
forms depending on the option argument. The legal forms are:
- pathName cget option
- Returns the current value of the configuration option given by
option. Option may be any of the options described in the
CONFIGURATION OPTIONS section.
- tix configure ?option? ?value option value ...?
- Query or modify the configuration options of the Tix application
context. If no option is specified, returns a list describing
all of the available options (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 option(s) to have the given value(s); in this case
the command returns an empty string. Option may be any of the
options described in the CONFIGURATION OPTIONS section.
- tix filedialog ?class?
- Returns the file selection dialog that may be shared among different
modules of this application. This command will create a file selection
dialog widget when it is called the first time. This dialog will be
returned by all subsequent calls to tix filedialog. An optional
class parameter can be passed to specified what type of file
selection dialog widget is desired. Possible options are
tixFileSelectDialog or tixExFileSelectDialog.
- tix option ?args ...?
- Manipulates the options manitained by the Tix scheme
mechanism. Available options are:
active_bg
active_fg
bg
bold_font
dark1_bg
dark1_fg
dark2_bg
dark2_fg
disabled_fg
fg
fixed_font
font
inactive_bg
inactive_fg
input1_bg
input2_bg
italic_font
light1_bg
light1_fg
light2_bg
light2_fg
menu_font
output1_bg
output2_bg
select_bg
select_fg
selector
The arguments to the tix option command can take the
following form(s):
Returns the current value of option.
- tix resetoptions newScheme newFontSet ?newScmPrio?
- Resets the scheme and fontset of the Tix application to
newScheme and newFontSet, respectively. This affects only
those widgets created after this call. Therefore, it is best to
call the resetoptions command before the creation of any
widgets in a Tix application.
The optional parameter newScmPrio can be given to reset the
priority level of the TK options set by the Tix schemes.
BUGS
Because of the way TK handles the X option database, after tixwish has
started up, it is not possible to reset the color schemes and font
sets using the tix config command. Instead, the tix
resetoptions command must be used.
The tk_setPalette command does not work very well under Tix. To use
it, one must follow these steps:
tix resetoptions TK TK
tk_setPalette lightblue
KEYWORDS
file selection dialog
Last modified Feb 24 00:13