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- NAME
- toplevel - Create and manipulate toplevel widgets
- SYNOPSIS
- toplevel pathName ?options?
- STANDARD OPTIONS
- -borderwidth or -bd,
borderWidth, BorderWidth
- -cursor, cursor, Cursor
- -highlightbackground,
highlightBackground, HighlightBackground
- -highlightcolor,
highlightColor, HighlightColor
- -highlightthickness,
highlightThickness, HighlightThickness
- -padx, padX, Pad
- -pady, padY, Pad
- -relief, relief, Relief
- -takefocus, takeFocus,
TakeFocus
- WIDGET-SPECIFIC
OPTIONS
- -background, background,
Background
- -class, class,
Class
- -colormap, colormap,
Colormap
- -container, container,
Container
- -height, height,
Height
- -menu, menu,
Menu
- -screen, ,
- -use, use, Use
- -visual, visual,
Visual
- -width, width,
Width
- DESCRIPTION
- WIDGET COMMAND
- pathName
cget option
- pathName
configure ?option? ?value option value
...?
- BINDINGS
- SEE ALSO
- KEYWORDS
toplevel - Create and manipulate toplevel widgets
toplevel pathName ?options?
- -borderwidth or -bd,
borderWidth, BorderWidth
- -cursor, cursor,
Cursor
- -highlightbackground,
highlightBackground, HighlightBackground
- -highlightcolor,
highlightColor, HighlightColor
- -highlightthickness,
highlightThickness, HighlightThickness
- -padx, padX, Pad
- -pady, padY, Pad
- -relief, relief,
Relief
- -takefocus, takeFocus,
TakeFocus
- Command-Line Name: -background
- Database Name: background
- Database Class: Background
- This option is the same as the standard background
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.
- Command-Line Name: -class
- Database Name: class
- Database 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
class option may not be changed with the configure
widget command.
- Command-Line Name: -colormap
- Database Name: colormap
- Database Class: Colormap
- Specifies a colormap to use for the window. The value may be
either new, 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 pathName),
in which case the new window will use the colormap from the
specified window. If the colormap option is not specified,
the new window uses the default colormap of its screen. This option
may not be changed with the configure widget command.
- Command-Line Name: -container
- Database Name: container
- Database Class: 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
-use 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 configure widget
command.
- Command-Line Name: -height
- Database Name: height
- Database Class: Height
- Specifies the desired height for the window in any of the forms
acceptable to Tk_GetPixels. If this option is
less than or equal to zero then the window will not request any
size at all.
- Command-Line Name: -menu
- Database Name: menu
- Database Class: Menu
- Specifies a menu widget to be used as a menubar. On the
Macintosh, the menubar will be displayed across the top of the main
monitor. On Microsoft Windows and all UNIX platforms, the menu will
appear across the toplevel window as part of the window dressing
maintained by the window manager.
- Command-Line Name: -screen
- Database Name:
- Database Class:
- Specifies the screen on which to place the new window. Any
valid screen name may be used, even one associated with a different
display. Defaults to the same screen as its parent. This option is
special in that it may not be specified via the option database,
and it may not be modified with the configure widget
command.
- Command-Line Name: -use
- Database Name: use
- Database Class: Use
- This option is used for embedding. If the value isn't an empty
string, it must be the window identifier of a container window,
specified as a hexadecimal string like the ones returned by the
winfo id command. The
toplevel widget will be created as a child of the given container
instead of the root window for the screen. If the container window
is in a Tk application, it must be a frame or toplevel widget for
which the -container option was specified. This option may
not be changed with the configure widget command.
- Command-Line Name: -visual
- Database Name: visual
- Database Class: Visual
- Specifies visual information for the new window in any of the
forms accepted by Tk_GetVisual. If this option is
not specified, the new window will use the default visual for its
screen. The visual option may not be modified with the
configure widget command.
- Command-Line Name: -width
- Database Name: width
- Database Class: Width
- Specifies the desired width for the window in any of the forms
acceptable to Tk_GetPixels. If this option is
less than or equal to zero then the window will not request any
size at all.
The toplevel command creates a new toplevel widget (given by
the pathName argument). Additional options, described above,
may be specified on the command line or in the option database to
configure aspects of the toplevel such as its background color and
relief. The toplevel command returns the path name of the
new window.
A toplevel is similar to a frame except that it is created as a
top-level window: its X parent is the root window of a screen
rather than the logical parent from its path name. The primary
purpose of a toplevel is to serve as a container for dialog boxes
and other collections of widgets. The only visible features of a
toplevel are its background color and an optional 3-D border to
make the toplevel appear raised or sunken.
The toplevel command creates a new Tcl command whose name is
the same as the path name of the toplevel's window. This command
may be used to invoke various operations on the widget. It has the
following general form:
pathName option ?arg arg ...?
PathName is the name of the command, which is the same as
the toplevel widget's path name. Option and the args
determine the exact behavior of the command. The following commands
are possible for toplevel widgets:
- pathName cget
option
- Returns the current value of the configuration option given by
option. Option may have any of the values accepted by
the toplevel command.
- 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
toplevel command.
When a new toplevel is created, it has no default event bindings:
toplevels are not intended to be interactive.
frame
toplevel, widget
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Copyright © 1994-1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Copyright © 1995-1997 Roger E. Critchlow Jr.