Tcl/Tk in a Nutshell

Name

tix

tix operation [arg arg...]

Access aspects of Tix’s internal state and the Tix application context.

Application- Context Options

Several of Tix’s internal settings are manipulated using the cget and configure operations, which operate in the same manner as the identically named widget methods. The settings that can be set this way are as follows:

-debug boolean

Whether Tix widget should run in debug mode.

-fontset fontSet

The font set to use as defaults for Tix widgets. Valid values are TK (standard Tk fonts), 12Point, and 14Point (the default).

-scheme scheme

Color scheme to use for the Tix widgets. Valid values are TK (standard Tk colors), Gray, Blue, Bisque, SGIGray, and TixGray (the default).

-schemepriority priority

Priority level of the options set by the Tix schemes. See the Tk Option command for a discussion of priority levels. The default is 79.

Operations

tix addbitmapdir directory

Add directory to the list of directories searched by the getimage and getbitmap operations for bitmap and image files.

tix filedialog [class]

Returns the pathname of a file selection mega-widget that can be shared among different modules of the application. The mega-widget will be created when this operation is first called. The class argument may be used to specify the mega-widget class of the file selection dialog, either tixFileSelectDialog (the default) or tixExFileSelectDialog.

tix getbitmap name

Search the bitmap directories for a file with the name name.xbm or name. If found, return the full pathname ...