Tcl/Tk in a Nutshell

Name

Form

tixForm operation [arg arg...]

Communicate with the Tix Form geometry manager that arranges widgets inside their master according to various attachment rules. The tixForm command can take the following forms:

tixForm slave [slave...] [options]

Same as tixForm configure.

tixForm check master

Return 1 if there is a circular dependency in the attachments for masters slaves, 0 otherwise.

tixForm configure slave [slave...] [options]

Configure how the slave window slave should be managed by its Form geometry master. Supported options are as follows:

-bottom attachment

Attachment for bottom edge of the slave. (Abbreviation: -b)

-bottomspring weight

Weight of the spring at the bottom edge of the slave. (Abbreviation: -bs)

-fill fill

Direction slave should fill. Fill may be x, y, both, or none.

-in master

Insert the slave in master window master, which must either be the slave’s parent (the default) or a descendant of the slave’s parent.

-left attachment

Attachment for left edge of the slave. (Abbreviation: -l)

-leftspring weight

Weight of the spring at the left edge of the slave. (Abbreviation: -ls)

-padbottom amount

How much external padding to add to the bottom side of the slave. (Abbreviation: -bp)

-padleft amount

How much external padding to add to the left side of the slave. (Abbreviation: -lp)

-padright amount

How much external padding to add to the right side of the slave. (Abbreviation: -rp)

-padtop amount

How much external padding to add to the top side of the slave. (Abbreviation: -tp)

-padx amount ...