| ActiveTcl User Guide |

# selectiondialog - Create and manipulate a selection dialog widget

## SYNOPSIS

selectiondialog pathName ?options?

## INHERITANCE

itk::Toplevel <- Shell <- Dialogshell <- Dialog <- Selectiondialog

## STANDARD OPTIONS

activeBackground exportSelection insertBackground insertWidth | background foreground insertBorderWidth selectBackground | borderWidth highlightColor insertOffTime selectBorderWidth | cursor highlightThickness insertOnTime selectForeground

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.

labelFont |  |  |

See the "labeledwidget" widget manual entry for details on the above associated options.

activeRelief | elementBorderWidth | jump | troughColor

See the "scrollbar" widget class manual entry for details on the above associated options.

textBackground | textFont |  |

See the "scrolledlistbox" widget class manual entry for details on the above associated options. childsitepos itemsCommand itemsLabel itemsOn selectionCommand selectionLabel selectionOn

See the "selectionbox" widget manual entry for details on the above associated options.

## INHERITED OPTIONS

buttonBoxPadX padY | buttonBoxPadY separator | buttonBoxPos thickness | padX

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.

## DESCRIPTION

The selectiondialog command creates a selection box similar to the OSF/Motif standard selection dialog composite widget. The selectiondialog is derived from the Dialog class and is composed of a selectionbox with commands to manipulate the dialog buttons.

## METHODS

The selectiondialog 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:

    pathName option ?arg arg ...?

Option and the args determine the exact behavior of the command. The following commands are possible for selectiondialog widgets:

## ASSOCIATED METHODS

childsite selectitem | clear | get | insert

See the "selectionbox" widget manual entry for details on the above associated methods.

curselection scan | delete selection | index size | nearest

See the "listbox" widget manual entry for details on the above associated methods.

## INHERITED METHODS

add invoke | buttonconfigure show | default | hide

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 selectiondialog 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 selectiondialog command.

## COMPONENTS

    Name:                   selectionbox
    Class:                  Selectionbox

The selectionbox component is the selection box for the selection dialog. See the "selectionbox" widget manual entry for details on the selectionbox component item.

## EXAMPLE

     selectiondialog .sd
     .sd activate

## AUTHOR

Mark L. Ulferts

## KEYWORDS

selectiondialog, selectionbox, dialog, dialogshell, shell, widget