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See the "options" manual entry for details on the standard options.
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See the "Toplevel" manual entry for details on the above inherited options.
Name: height Class: Height Command-Line Switch: -heightSpecifies the height of the shell. The value may be specified in any of the forms acceptable to Tk_GetPixels. A value of zero causes the height to be adjusted to the required value based on the size requests of the components placed in the childsite. Otherwise, the height is fixed. The default is zero. NOTE: This may cause some amount of flickering on slower machines. To prevent it simply set the width and height to a appropriate value.
Name: master Class: Window Command-Line Switch: -masterDefines the shell as being a transient window with the master window given by the master option. The master window should be either another existing toplevel window or {} for no master. The default is {} for shells and "." for dialogs.
Name: modality Class: Modality Command-Line Switch: -modalityAllows the shell to grab control of the screen in one of three different ways: application, system, or none. Application modal prevents any other toplevel windows within the application which are direct children of '.' from gaining focus. System modal locks the screen and prevents all windows from gaining focus regardless of application. A modality of none performs no grabs at all. The default is none.
Name: padX Class: Pad Command-Line Switch: -padxSpecifies a padding distance for the childsite in the X-direction in any of the forms acceptable to Tk_GetPixels. The default is 10.
Name: padY Class: Pad Command-Line Switch: -padySpecifies a padding distance for the childsite in the Y-direction in any of the forms acceptable to Tk_GetPixels. The default is 10.
Name: width Class: Width Command-Line Switch: -widthSpecifies the width of the shell. The value may be specified in any of the forms acceptable to Tk_GetPixels. A value of zero causes the width to be adjusted to the required value based on the size requests of the components placed in the childsite. Otherwise, the width is fixed. The default is zero. NOTE: This may cause some amount of flickering on slower machines. To prevent it simply set the width and height to a appropriate value. E
The iwidgets::shell command creates a shell which is a top level widget which supports modal operation.
The iwidgets::shell command create a new Tcl command whose name is pathName. This command may be used to invoke various operations on the widget. It has the following general form: C pathName option ?arg arg ...? Option and the args determine the exact behavior of the command. The following commands are possible for shell widgets:
pathName activate Display the shell and wait based on the modality. For application and system modal activations, perform a grab operation, and wait for the result. The result may be returned via an argument to the deactivate method.
pathName center ?widget? Centers the shell with respect to another widget. The widget argument is optional. If provided, it should be the path of another widget with to center upon. If absent, then the shell will be centered on the screen as a whole.
pathName cget option Returns the current value of the configuration option given by option. Option may have any of the values accepted by the iwidgets::shell command.
pathName childsite Returns the pathname of the child site widget.
pathName configure ?option? ?value option value ...? Query or modify the configuration options of the widget. If no option is specified, returns a list describing all of the available options for pathName (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 widget option(s) to have the given value(s); in this case the command returns an empty string. Option may have any of the values accepted by the iwidgets::shell command.
pathName deactivate ?arg? Deactivate the display of the shell. The method takes an optional argument to be passed to the activate method which returns the value. The optional argument is only effective for application and system modal dialogs.
Name: shellchildsite Class: frameThe shellchildsite component is the user child site for the shell. See the "frame" widget manual entry for details on the shellchildsite component item.