NAME
tixExFileSelectBox - Create and manipulate tixExFileSelectBox widgets
SYNOPSIS
tixExFileSelectBox pathName ?options?
SUPER-CLASS
The TixExFileSelectBox class does not have a super-class.
STANDARD OPTIONS
TixExFileSelectBox supports all the standard options of a frame widget.
See the options(n) manual entry for details on the standard options.
WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
Specifies a command to call whenever the user browses on a filename in
the file listbox (usually by single-clicking on the filename). The
command is called with one argument, the complete pathname of the file.
Specifies the command to be called when the user chooses on a filename
the file listbox (usually by double-clicking on the filename). The
command is called with one argument, the complete pathname of the file.
Specifies a dialog box which contains this ExFileSelectBox widget. The
dialog box must be a widget of the class TixShell or its descendant
classes. This is an internal option and should not be used by
application programmers. Specifies the TCL command to be called when a
file listing is needed for a particular directory. If this option is
not specified, by default the ExFileSelectBox widget will attempt to
read the directory as a Unix directory. On special occasions, the
application programmer may want to supply a special method for reading
directories: for example, when he needs to list remote files. In this
case, the -dircmd option can be used. The specified command accepts
three arguments: the first is the name of the directory to be listed;
the second is a list of file patterns, the third is a Boolean value
indicating whether hidden files should be listed. This command returns
a list of names of the files of this directory which match with the
file patterns.
Name: directory
Class: Directory
Switch: -directory
Alias: -dir
Specifies the current directory whose files and sub-directories
are displayed in the ExFileSelectBox. A boolean value
indicating whether callbacks should be disabled. When set to
true, the TCL command specified by the -command option is not
executed when the -value of the ExFileSelectBox widget changes.
Specifies the file types that can be selected from the "List
Files of Type:" ComboBox subwidget. The value of this option
must be a TCL list; each item of this list must in turn be a
list of two elements. The first element is a list of file
patterns. The second element is a string that describe these
file patterns. For example:
tixExFileSelectBox .box -filetypes {
{{*} {All files}}
{{*.txt} {Text files}}
{{*.c *.h} {C source files}}
}
Specifies whether hidden directories should be shown. By
default, a directory name starting with a period "." is
considered as a hidden directory. Specifies whether the file
pattern(s) to match with the files in the current directory. One
or more file patterns can be given at the same time. For
example, {*.c *.h} will match all files that have either the
".h" or ".c" extensions.
Name: value
Class: Value
Switch: -value
Alias: -selection
Specifies the name of the filename currently selected by the
user.
SUBWIDGETS
Name: cancel
Class: Button
The button widget with the "Cancel" label.
Name: dir
Class: TixComboBox
The ComboBox subwidget under the "Directories" heading.
Name: dirlist
Class: TixDirList
The DirList subwidget that shows the hierarchical list of
directories.
Name: file
Class: TixComboBox
The ComboBox subwidget under the "Files" heading.
Name: filelist
Class: TixScrolledListBox
The ScrolledListBox subwidget that shows the list of filenames.
Name: hidden
Class: Checkbutton
The checkbutton widget with the "Show Hidden Files" label.
Name: ok
Class: Button
The button widget with the "OK" label.
Name: types
Class: TixComboBox
The ComboBox subwidget under the "List Files of Type" heading.
DESCRIPTION
The tixExFileSelectBox command creates a new window (given by the
pathName argument) and makes it into a ExFileSelectBox widget.
Additional options, described above, may be specified on the command
line or in the option database to configure aspects of the
ExFileSelectBox such as its cursor and relief.
The ExFileSelectBox widget is usually embedded in a
tixExFileSelectDialog widget. It provides an convenient method for the
user to select files. The style of the ExFileSelectBox widget is very
similar to the standard file dialog in MS Windows 3.1.
WIDGET COMMANDS
The tixExFileSelectBox command creates a new Tcl command whose name is
the same as the path name of the ExFileSelectBox’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
ExFileSelectBox widget’s path name. Option and the args determine the
exact behavior of the command. The following commands are possible for
ExFileSelectBox 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
tixExFileSelectBox 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
tixExFileSelectBox command.
pathName filter
Forces the ExFileSelectBox widget to re-filter all the filenames
according to the -pattern option.
pathName invoke
Forces the ExFileSelectBox widget to perform actions as if the
user has pressed the "OK" button.
pathName subwidget name ?args?
When no options are given, this command returns the pathname of
the subwidget of the specified name.
When options are given, the widget command of the specified
subwidget will be called with these options.
KEYWORDS
Tix(n)