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fileselectiondialog - Create and manipulate a file selection dia- log widget

Synopsis

fileselectiondialog pathName ?options?

Inheritance

itk::Toplevel <- Shell <- Dialogshell <- Dialog <- Fileselection- dialog

Standard Options

activeBackground
background borderWidthcursor
foreground
highlightColor highlightThicknessinsertBackground
insertBorderWidth
insertOffTime insertOnTimeinsertWidth
selectBackground
selectBorderWidthselectForeground

See the «options» manual entry for details on the standard

options.

Associated Options

textBackground textFont

See the «entryfield» widget manual entry for details on the above

associated options.
childSitePos directory dirsLabel dirSearchCommand

dirsOn
filesLabel filesLabelOn fileSearchCommand
filesOn
fileType filterLabel filterOn
invalid
mask noMatchString selectionLabel selectionOn

See the «fileselectionbox» widget manual entry for details on the

above associated options.
labelFont

See the «labeledwidget» widget manual entry for details on the

above associated options.
textBackground textFont

See the «scrolledlistbox» widget manual entry for details on the

above associated options.
activeRelief elementBorderWidth jumptroughColor

See the «scrollbar» widget class manual entry for details on the

above associated options.

Inherited Options

buttonBoxPadX buttonBoxPadY buttonBoxPos padX

padY
separator thickness

See the «dialogshell» widget manual entry for details on the

above inherited options.
height master modality width

See the «shell» widget manual entry for details on the above

inherited options.
title

See the «Toplevel» widget manual entry for details on the above

inherited options.
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Description

The fileselectiondialog command creates a file selection dialog

similar to the OSF/Motif standard composite widget. The filese- lectiondialog is derived from the Dialog class and is composed of a FileSelectionBox with attributes set to manipulate the dialog buttons.

Methods

The fileselectiondialog command creates 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:

Option and the args determine the exact behavior of the command.

The following commands are possible for fileselectiondialog

widgets:

Associated Methods

get
childsite filter

See the «fileselectionbox» class manual entry for details on the

associated methods.

Inherited Methods

add buttonconfigure defaulthide insert invoke show

See the «buttonbox» widget manual entry for details on the above

inherited methods.
activate center deactivate

See the «shell» widget manual entry for details on the above

inherited methods.

Widget-specific Methods

pathName cget option

Returns the current value of the configuration option given by

option. Option may have any of the values accepted by the files- electiondialog 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 avail- able 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 fileselectiondialog command.

Components

Name: fsb

Class: Fileselectionbox

The fsb component is the file selection box for the file selec-

tion dialog. See the «fileselectionbox» widget manual entry for details on the fsb component item.

Example

#
# Non-modal example
#
proc okCallback {} {
puts «You selected [.nmfsd get]"
.nmfsd deactivate
}

fileselectiondialog .nmfsd -title Non-Modal
.nmfsd buttonconfigure OK -command okCallback

.nmfsd activate

#
# Modal example
#
fileselectiondialog .mfsd -modality application .mfsd center

if {[.mfsd activate]} {
puts «You selected [.mfsd get]"
} else {
puts «You cancelled the dialog"
}

Author

Mark L. Ulferts

Keywords

fileselectiondialog, fileselectionbox, dialog, dialogshell, shell, widget


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