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diff --git a/tix/man/tix.n b/tix/man/tix.n new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..1b2921e88a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/tix/man/tix.n @@ -0,0 +1,256 @@ +'\" +'\" Copyright (c) 1996, Expert Interface Technologies +'\" +'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution +'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. +'\" +'\" The file man.macros and some of the macros used by this file are +'\" copyrighted: (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California. +'\" (c) 1994-1995 Sun Microsystems, Inc. +'\" The license terms of the Tcl/Tk distrobution are in the file +'\" license.tcl. +.so man.macros +.HS tix tix 4.0 +.BS +' +.SH NAME +tix \- Manipulate Tix internal state +' +.SH SYNOPSIS +\fBtix\fR \fIoption \fR?\fIarg arg ...\fR? +' +'---------------------------------------------------------------------- +.SH "CONFIGURATION OPTIONS" +' +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 \fB\.Xdefault\fR file. For example, to choose a +different color scheme for the Tix widgets, these two lines can be +added to the user's \fB\.Xdefault\fR file: +.PP +.nf + *TixScheme: Gray + *TixFontSet: 14Point +.fi +' +'----------BEGIN +.LP +.nf +Name: \fBbinding\fR +Class: \fBBinding\fR +Switch: \fB\-binding\fR +.fi +.IP +This is an obsolete option. +'----------END +' +'----------BEGIN +.LP +.nf +Name: \fBdebug\fR +Class: \fBDebug\fR +Switch: \fB\-debug\fR +.fi +.IP +Specifies whether the Tix widgets should run in debug mode. +'----------END +' +' +'----------BEGIN +.LP +.nf +Name: \fBtixFontSet\fR +Class: \fBTixFontSet\fR +Switch: \fB\-fontset\fR +.fi +.IP +Specifies the fontset to use for the Tix widgets. Valid options are +\fBTK\fR, \fB12Point\fR and \fB14Point\fR. \fBTK\fR specifies that the +standard TK fonts should be used. The default value is \fB14Point\fR. +'----------END +' +'----------BEGIN +.LP +.nf +Name: \fBtixScheme\fR +Class: \fBTixScheme\fR +Switch: \fB\-scheme\fR +.fi +.IP +Specifies the color scheme to use for the Tix widgets. Valid options +are \fBTK\fR, \fBGray\fR, \fBBlue\fR, \fBBisque\fR, \fBSGIGray\fR and +\fBTixGray\fR. The default value is \fBTixGray\fR. If you want the +standard TK color scheme, you can use the value \fBTK\fR. If you want +to use the TK 3.6 bisque color scheme, you can use the value \fBBisque\fR. +'----------END +' +' +'----------BEGIN +.LP +.nf +Name: \fBtixSchemePriority\fR +Class: \fBTixSchemePriority\fR +Switch: \fB\-schemepriority\fR +.fi +.IP +Specifies the priority level of the TK options set by th Tix +schemes. Please refer to the TK \fBoption(n)\fR 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: +.nf +*TixSchemePriority: 21 +.fi +'----------END +' +.BE + +.SH DESCRIPTION +.PP +The \fBtix\fR command provides access to miscellaneous elements of +Tix's internal state and the Tix \fBapplication context\fR. 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 \fIoption\fR argument. The legal forms are: +' +.TP +\fBtix \fBaddbitmapdir\fR \fIdirectory\fR +' +Tix maintains a list of directory under which which the \fBtix +getimage\fR and \fBtix getbitmap\fR commands will search for image +files. The standard bitmap directory is +\fB$TIX_LIBRARY/bitmaps\fR. The \fBaddbitmapdir\fR command adds +\fIdirectory\fR into this list. By using this command, the image files +of an applications can also be located using the \fBtix getimage\fR ot +\fBtix getbitmap\fR command. +' +.TP +\fBtix \fBcget\fR \fIoption\fR +' +Returns the current value of the configuration option given by +\fIoption\fR. \fIOption\fR may be any of the options described in the +\fBCONFIGURATION OPTIONS\fR section. +' +.TP +\fBtix \fBconfigure\fR ?\fIoption\fR? \fI?value option value ...\fR? +' +Query or modify the configuration options of the Tix application +context. If no \fIoption\fR is specified, returns a list describing +all of the available options (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 option(s) to have the given value(s); in this case +the command returns an empty string. \fIOption\fR may be any of the +options described in the \fBCONFIGURATION OPTIONS\fR section. +' +' +.TP +\fBtix filedialog \fR?\fIclass\fR? +' +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 \fBtix filedialog\fR. An optional +\fIclass\fR parameter can be passed to specified what type of file +selection dialog widget is desired. Possible options are +\fBtixFileSelectDialog\fR or \fBtixExFileSelectDialog.\fR +' +.TP +\fBtix getbitmap \fIname\fR +' +Locates a bitmap file of the name \fIname\fR.xpm or \fIname\fR in one +of the bitmap directories (see the \fBaddbitmapdir\fR command +above). By using \fBtix getbitmap\fR, 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 \fB@\fR. The returned value can be used to configure the +\fB\-bitmap\fR option of the TK and Tix widgets. +' +.TP +\fBtix getimage \fIname\fR +' +Locates an image file of the name \fIname\fR.xpm, \fIname\fR.xbm or +\fIname\fR.ppm in one of the bitmap directories (see the +\fBaddbitmapdir\fR 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 \fBtix getimage\fR, 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 \fB\-image\fR option of the TK and Tix widgets. +' +' +.TP +\fBtix \fBoption\fR ?\fIargs ...\fR? +' +Manipulates the options manitained by the Tix scheme +mechanism. Available options are: + +.nf +.ta 4c 8c 12c +\fCactive_bg\fR \fCactive_fg\fR \fCbg\fR +\fCbold_font\fR \fCdark1_bg\fR \fCdark1_fg\fR +\fCdark2_bg\fR \fCdark2_fg\fR \fCdisabled_fg\fR +\fCfg\fR \fCfixed_font\fR \fCfont\fR +\fCinactive_bg\fR \fCinactive_fg\fR \fCinput1_bg\fR +\fCinput2_bg\fR \fCitalic_font\fR \fClight1_bg\fR +\fClight1_fg\fR \fClight2_bg\fR \fClight2_fg\fR +\fCmenu_font\fR \fCoutput1_bg\fR \fCoutput2_bg\fR +\fCselect_bg\fR \fCselect_fg\fR \fCselector\fR +.ta 4c +.fi +' + +The arguments to the \fBtix \fBoption\fR command can take the +following form(s): +.RS +.TP +\fBtix option get\fR \fIoption\fR +' +Returns the current value of \fIoption\fR. +.RE +' +' +.TP +\fBtix \fBresetoptions\fR \fInewScheme newFontSet\fR ?\fInewScmPrio\fR? +' +' +Resets the scheme and fontset of the Tix application to +\fInewScheme\fR and \fInewFontSet\fR, respectively. This affects only +those widgets created \fBafter\fR this call. Therefore, it is best to +call the \fBresetoptions\fR command \fBbefore\fR the creation of any +widgets in a Tix application. + +The optional parameter \fInewScmPrio\fR can be given to reset the +priority level of the TK options set by the Tix schemes. +' +' +.SH 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 \fBtix config\fR command. Instead, the \fBtix +resetoptions\fR command must be used. +' +.PP +The tk_setPalette command does not work very well under Tix. To use +it, one must follow these steps: +.RS +\fC +.nf + +tix resetoptions TK TK +tk_setPalette lightblue +.fi +\fR +.RE +' +.SH KEYWORDS +file selection dialog |