frame - Create and manipulate 'frame' simple container widgets
-borderwidth -highlightcolor -pady
-cursor -highlightthickness -relief
-highlightbackground -padx -takefocus
See the options manual entry for details on the standard
options.
Command-Line Name: -background
Database Name: background
Database Class: Background
- This option is the same as the standard -background option except
that its value may also be specified as an empty string. In this case, the
widget will display no background or border, and no colors will be
consumed from its colormap for its background and border.
Command-Line Name: -class
Database Name: class
Database Class: Class
- Specifies a class for the window. This class will be used when querying
the option database for the window's other options, and it will also be
used later for other purposes such as bindings. The -class option
may not be changed with the configure widget command.
Command-Line Name: -colormap
Database Name: colormap
Database Class: Colormap
- Specifies a colormap to use for the window. The value may be either
new, in which case a new colormap is created for the window and its
children, or the name of another window (which must be on the same screen
and have the same visual as pathName), in which case the new window
will use the colormap from the specified window. If the -colormap
option is not specified, the new window uses the same colormap as its
parent. This option may not be changed with the configure widget
command.
Command-Line Name: -container
Database Name: container
Database Class: Container
- The value must be a boolean. If true, it means that this window will be
used as a container in which some other application will be embedded (for
example, a Tk toplevel can be embedded using the -use option). The
window will support the appropriate window manager protocols for things
like geometry requests. The window should not have any children of its own
in this application. This option may not be changed with the
configure widget command. Note that -borderwidth,
-padx and -pady are ignored when configured as a container
since a container has no border.
Command-Line Name: -height
Database Name: height
Database Class: Height
- Specifies the desired height for the window in any of the forms acceptable
to Tk_GetPixels. If this option is less than or equal to zero then
the window will not request any size at all. Note that this sets the total
height of the frame, any -borderwidth or similar is not added.
Normally -height should not be used if a propagating geometry
manager, such as grid or pack, is used within the frame
since the geometry manager will override the height of the frame.
Command-Line Name: -visual
Database Name: visual
Database Class: Visual
- Specifies visual information for the new window in any of the forms
accepted by Tk_GetVisual. If this option is not specified, the new
window will use the same visual as its parent. The -visual option
may not be modified with the configure widget command.
Command-Line Name: -width
Database Name: width
Database Class: Width
- Specifies the desired width for the window in any of the forms acceptable
to Tk_GetPixels. If this option is less than or equal to zero then
the window will not request any size at all. Note that this sets the total
width of the frame, any -borderwidth or similar is not added.
Normally -width should not be used if a propagating geometry
manager, such as grid or pack, is used within the frame
since the geometry manager will override the width of the frame.
The frame command creates a new window (given by the
pathName argument) and makes it into a frame widget. Additional
options, described above, may be specified on the command line or in the
option database to configure aspects of the frame such as its background
color and relief. The frame command returns the path name of the new
window.
A frame is a simple widget. Its primary purpose is to act as a
spacer or container for complex window layouts. The only features of a frame
are its background color and an optional 3-D border to make the frame appear
raised or sunken.
The frame command creates a new Tcl command whose name is
the same as the path name of the frame's window. This command may be used to
invoke various operations on the widget. It has the following general
form:
pathName option ?arg arg ...?
PathName is the name of the command, which is the same as
the frame widget's path name. Option and the args determine
the exact behavior of the command. The following commands are possible for
frame widgets:
- pathName
cget option
- Returns the current value of the configuration option given by
option. Option may have any of the values accepted by the
frame 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 frame command.
When a new frame is created, it has no default event bindings:
frames are not intended to be interactive.