Contents

• Contents
• Preface
  • About This Manual 
  • About This Document 
  • Organization of This Manual  
• Introduction 
  • What is Tix 
    • Tix for Application Programmers 
    • Tix for Widget Developers 
  • Getting Started: the TixControl Widget 
    • Creating a TixControl Widget 
    • Accessing The Value of a TixControl Widget 
    • Disabling Callbacks Temporarily 
    • Validating User Inputs 
  • Accessing The Components Inside Mega Widgets 
    • Subwidgets 
    • Subwidget Names 
    • The subwidget Method 
    • Chaining the subwidget Method 
    • Configuring Subwidget Options Using the -options Switch 
    • Configuring Subwidget Options Using the Tk Option Database 
    • Caution: Restricted Access 
  • Another Tix Widget: TixComboBox 
    • Creating a TixComboBox Widget 
    • Controlling the Style of the TixComboBox 
    • Static Options 
    • Monitoring the User's Browsing Actions 
  • The TixSelect Widget 
    • Creating A TixSelect Widget 
    • Label and Orientation 
    • Creating the Button Subwidgets and Configuring Their Appearance 
    • Accessing the Button Subwidgets 
    • Specifying Selection Rules 
    • Accessing the Value of a TixSelect Widget 
    • Specifying Complex Selection Rules 
• Container Widgets 
  • TixNoteBook 
    • Adding Pages to a TixNoteBook 
    • Keyboard Accelerators 
    • Delaying the Creation of New Pages 
    • Changing Page Tabs and Deleting Pages 
  • PanedWindow 
    • Adding Panes Inside a TixPanedWindow Widget 
    • Putting Widgets Inside the Panes 
    • Setting the Order of the Panes 
    • Changing the Sizes of the Panes 
  • The Family of Scrolled Widgets 
    • The Scrolled Listbox Widget 
    • Other Scrolled Widgets 
• Tabular Listbox and Display Items 
  • tixTList - The Tix Tabular Listbox Widget 
  • Display Items 
    • Advantages of Display Items 
    • Display Items and Display Styles 
  • Creating Display Items in the TixTList Widget 
    • Creating Display Items 
    • Setting the Styles of the Display Items 
    • Configuring and Deleting the Items 
    • Choosing the Orientation and Number of Rows or Columns 
    • Event Handling 
    • Selection 
• Hierarchical Listbox 
  • TixHList - The Tix Hierarchical Listbox Widget 
    • Creating a Hierarchical List 
    • Creating Entries in a HList Widget 
    • Controlling the Layout of the Entries 
    • Handling the Selection and User Event 
  • Creating Collapsible Tree Structures with TixTree 
• Selecting Files and Directories 
  • File Selection Dialog Widgets 
    • Using the TixFileSelectDialog Widget 
    • The Subwidget in the TixFileSelectDialog 
    • The TixExFileSelectDialog Widget 
    • Specifying File Types for TixExFileSelectDialog 
    • 5.1.5 The tix filedialog Command 
  • Selecting Directories with the TixDirTree and TixDirList Widgets 
• Tix Object Oriented Programming 
  • Introduction to Tix Object Oriented Programming 
    • Widget Classes and Widget Instances 
    • What is in a Widget Instance 
    • Variables 
    • Methods 
    • Component Widgets 
  • Widget Class Declaration 
    • Using the tixWidgetClass Command 
  • Writing Methods 
    • Declaring Public Methods 
  • Standard Initialization Methods 
    • The InitWidgetRec Method 
    • Chaining Methods 
    • The tixChainMethod call 
    • The ConstructWidget Method 
    • The SetBindings Method 
  • Declaring and Using Variables 
    • Initialization of Public Variables 
    • Type Checker 
    • Public Variable Configuration Methods 
    • Configuration Methods and Public Variable Initialization 
  • Summary of Widget Instance Initialization 
  • Loading the New Classes