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tix - Manipulate Tix internal state
tix option ?arg
arg ...?
The Tix application context supports the following
configuration options. Usually, these options are set using the X resource
database, i.e., in the user's .Xdefault file. For example, to choose a different
color scheme for the Tix widgets, these two lines can be added to the
user's .Xdefault file:
*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
The tix command provides access to miscellaneous
elements of Tix's internal state and the Tix application context. Most
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:
- tix addbitmapdir directory
- Tix
maintains a list of directory under which which the tix getimage and tix
getbitmap commands will search for image files. The standard bitmap directory
is $TIX_LIBRARY/bitmaps. The addbitmapdir command adds directory into this
list. By using this command, the image files of an applications can also
be located using the tix getimage ot tix getbitmap command.
- tix 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 getbitmap name
- Locates a bitmap file of the name name.xpm or name in
one of the bitmap directories (see the addbitmapdir command above). By
using tix getbitmap, you can advoid hard coding the pathnames of the bitmap
files in your application. When successful, it returns the complete pathname
of the bitmap file, prefixed with the character @. The returned value
can be used to configure the -bitmap option of the TK and Tix widgets.
- tix
getimage name
- Locates an image file of the name name.xpm, name.xbm or name.ppm
in one of the bitmap directories (see the addbitmapdir command above).
If more than one file with the same name (but different extensions) exist,
then the image type is chosen according to the depth of the X display:
xbm images are chosen on monochrome displays and color images are chosen
on color displays. By using tix getimage, you can advoid hard coding the
pathnames of the image files in your application. When successful, this
command returns the name of the newly created image, which can be used
to configure the -image option of the TK and Tix widgets.
- 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):
- tix option get option
- 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.
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
file
selection dialog
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