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toplevel(n) |
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toplevel − Create and manipulate toplevel widgets
toplevel pathName ?options?
−borderwidth |
−highlightbackground |
−highlightthickness−takefocus | ||
−cursor |
−highlightcolor |
−relief |
See the options manual entry for details on the standard options.
[−background 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.
[−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.
[−colormap 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.
[−container 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.
[−height 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.
[−menu menu] Specifies a menu
widget to be used as a menubar. On the │
Macintosh, the menubar will be displayed accross the top of
the main │ monitor. On Microsoft Windows
and all UNIX platforms, the menu will │
appear accross the toplevel window as part of the window
dressing │ maintained by the window
manager. [−screen ] 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.
[−use use] This option is used for
embedding. If the value isn’t an │
empty string, it must be the 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.
[−visual 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.
[−width 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.
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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.
toplevel, widget
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