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NAME
  SelectColor - Color selection widget

CREATION
  SelectColor pathName ?option value...?

WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS

  -color | -parent
  -placement | -title
  -type

WIDGET COMMAND
  pathName cget option
  pathName configure ?option? ?value option value ...?
  SelectColor::dialog pathName ?option value ...?
  SelectColor::menu pathName placement ?option value ...?
  SelectColor::setcolor index color

DESCRIPTION

SelectColor provides a simple way to select color. It can be displayed as a dialog box or as a menubutton.

WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS

-color
  Specifies the color value of the widget.

-parent
  Parent of the Dialog. Dialog is centered in its parent. If empty, it is centered in root window.

-placement
  Where to place the popup color dialog when displaying it. Must be any of: at, center, left, right, above, or below. If -parent is specified, placement will be in relation to the parent widget.

-title
  Title of the Dialog toplevel.

-type (read-only)
  Specifies the type of the SelectColor widget. Must be dialog or popup.
  If type option is dialog, SelectColor::create directly creates the dialog, displays it and return an empty string if cancel button is pressed or if dialog is destroyed, and the selected color if ok button is pressed. In all cases, dialog is destroyed.
  If type option is popup, SelectColor::create creates a small, popup dialog with a small set of predefined colors and a button to activate a full color dialog.

WIDGET COMMAND

pathName cget option
  Returns the current value of the configuration option given by option. Option may have any of the values accepted by the creation 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. 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 creation command. Read-only options are not be modified.

SelectColor::dialog pathName ?option value ...?
  Creates a dialog for the user to select a custom color.

SelectColor::menu pathName placement ?option value ...?
  Creates a small, popup dialog for the user to select from a predefined list of colors with an additional button to display a full color dialog.

  placement can be any of at, center, left, right, above, or below. If -parent is specified, placement will be in relation to the parent widget.

SelectColor::setcolor index color
  Set the value of user predefined color at index index to color. index must be between 0 and 10.