| ActiveTcl User Guide |

# dialog - Create and manipulate a dialog widget

## SYNOPSIS

dialog pathName ?options?

## INHERITANCE

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

## STANDARD OPTIONS

background | cursor | foreground |

See the "options" manual entry for details on the standard options.

## INHERITED OPTIONS

buttonBoxPadX padY | buttonBoxPadY separator | buttonBoxPos thickness | padX

See the "dialogshell" manual entry for details on the above inherited options.

height | master | modality | width

See the "shell" manual entry for details on the above inherited options.

title |  |  |

See the "Toplevel" manual entry for details on the above inherited options.

## DESCRIPTION

The dialog command creates a dialog box providing standard buttons and a child site for use in derived classes. The buttons include ok, apply, cancel, and help. Methods and Options exist to configure the buttons and their containing box.

## METHODS

The dialog 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 dialog widgets:

## INHERITED METHODS

add index | buttonconfigure insert | default invoke | hide show

See the "buttonbox" manual entry for details on the above inherited methods.

childsite |  |  |

See the "dialogshell" manual entry for details on the above inherited methods.

activate | center | deactivate |

See the "shell" 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 dialog 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 dialog command.

## EXAMPLE

     dialog .d -modality global
     .d buttonconfigure OK -command {puts OK; .d deactivate 1}
     .d buttonconfigure Apply -command {puts Apply}
     .d buttonconfigure Cancel -command {puts Cancel; .d deactivate 0}
     .d buttonconfigure Help -command {puts Help}

     listbox [.d childsite].lb -relief sunken
     pack [.d childsite].lb -expand yes -fill both

     if {[.d activate]} {
         puts "Exit via OK button"
     } else {
         puts "Exit via Cancel button"
     }

## AUTHORS

Mark L. Ulferts

Bret A. Schuhmacher

## KEYWORDS

dialog, dialogshell, shell, widget