tixButtonBox(n)

Hey bestie 💖, welcome to the tixButtonBox(n) page — the Tix Built-In Commands manual entry for making a ButtonBox widget. This is your group-chat translation, but every option, command, and tiny detail is staying right where it belongs. Periodt.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

tixButtonBox — Create and manipulate Tix ButtonBox widgets

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

tixButtonBox pathName ?options?

🧸 STANDARD OPTIONS 🧸

• -anchor
• -background
• -cursor
• -relief
• -borderWidth

See the options manual entry for details on the standard options. iykyk 💅

🎀 WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS 🎀

• -orientation orientation — Static Option. Specifies the orientation of the button subwidgets. Only the values "horizontal" and "vertical" are recognized.
• -padx padx — Specifies the horizontal padding between two neighboring button subwidgets in the ButtonBox widget.
• -pady pady — Specifies the vertical padding between two neighboring button subwidgets in the ButtonBox widget.
• -state state — Specifies the state of all the buttons inside the ButtonBox widget.

Note, bestie: setting this option using the config widget command will enable or disable all the buttons subwidgets. Original states of the individual buttons are not saved. Only the values "normal" and "disabled" are recognized. No cap 🫶

🦋 SUBWIDGETS 🦋

All the button subwidgets created as a result of the add command can be accessed by the subwidget command. They are identified by the buttonName parameter to the add command. Here is an example:

set bbox [tixButtonBox .bbox]
pack $bbox
$bbox add eat   -text Eat
$bbox add sleep -text Sleep
$bbox subwidget eat   config -fg green
$bbox subwidget sleep config -fg red

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

The tixButtonBox command creates a new window (given by the pathName argument) and makes it into a ButtonBox widget. Additional options, described above, may be specified on the command line or in the option database to configure aspects of the ButtonBox such as its cursor and relief.

The ButtonBox widget can be used as a container widget to hold the “action” buttons in a dialog box. Main character container energy, literally ✨

👑 WIDGET COMMAND 👑

The tixButtonBox command creates a new Tcl command whose name is the same as the path name of the ButtonBox'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 ButtonBox widget's path name. Option and the args determine the exact behavior of the command. The following commands are possible for ButtonBox widgets:

• pathName add buttonName ?option value ...? — Add a new button subwidget with the name buttonName into the ButtonBox widget. Additional configuration options can be given to configure the new button subwidget.
• pathName cget option — Returns the current value of the configuration option given by option. Option may have any of the values accepted by the tixButtonBox 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 tixButtonBox command.
• pathName invoke buttonName — Invoke the button subwidget with the name buttonName.
• pathName subwidget name ?args? — When no additional arguments are given, returns the pathname of the subwidget of the specified name.

When no additional arguments are given, the widget command of the specified subwidget will be called with these parameters. Yes, that's the same phrase twice 😭 — I'm keeping it because details are sacred, bestie.

🌈 BINDINGS 🌈

TixButtonBox widgets have no default bindings. The button subwidgets retain their default Tk bindings.

⭐ KEYWORDS ⭐

Tix(n), Container Widgets

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