tixDirTree(n)

🎀 NAME 🎀

tixDirTree — Create and manipulate tixDirTree widgets.

Okay bestie, welcome to the tixDirTree(n) page from the Tix Built-In Commands crew 💅. This is literally all about making and controlling a tixDirTree widget, and we're gonna get into every flag, subwidget, command, and tiny detail. No skipping. Periodt. ✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

tixDirTree pathName ?options?

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🦋 SUPER-CLASS 🦋

The TixDirTree class is derived from the TixScrolledHList class and inherits all the commands, options and subwidgets of its super-class. So yeah, it's giving "I got it from my mama" energy. 🫶

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🌸 STANDARD OPTIONS 🌸

TixDirTree supports all the standard options of a frame widget. See the options(n) manual entry for details on the standard options. That's the whole tea — go check options(n) if you need the frame-widget basics. 🎀

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💅 WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS 💅

• -browsecmd browseCmd — Specifies a command to call whenever the user browses on a directory (usually by single-clicking on the name of the directory). The command is called with one argument, the complete pathname of the directory. So like, a little "hey, they're looking at this one" callback. 👀
• -command command — Specifies the command to be called when the user activates on a directory (usually by double-clicking on the name of the directory). The command is called with one argument, the complete pathname of the directory. Double-click? That's the main-character activation moment. ⭐
• -dircmd dircmd — Specifies the TCL command to be called when a directory listing is needed for a particular directory. If this option is not specified, by default the DirTree widget will attempt to read the directory as a Unix directory. On special occasions, the application programmer may want to supply a special method for reading directories: for example, when he needs to list remote directories. In this case, the -dircmd option can be used.

The specified command accepts two arguments: the first is the name of the directory to be listed; the second is a Boolean value indicating whether hidden sub-directories should be listed. This command returns a list of names of the sub-directories of this directory. For example:

proc read_dir {dir show_hidden} {
    if {$dir == "C:\"} {
        return {DOS NORTON WINDOWS}
    } else {
        return {}
    }
}

• -disablecallback disableCallback — A boolean value indicating whether callbacks should be disabled. When set to true, the TCL command specified by the -command option is not executed when the -value of the DirTree widget changes. It's the "not now, bestie" switch. 🙈
• -showhidden showHidden — Specifies whether hidden directories should be shown. By default, a directory name starting with a period "." is considered as a hidden directory. This rule can be overridden by supplying an alternative -dircmd option. Sneaky little dot-directories, we see you. 🕵️‍♀️
• -value — Name: value; Class: Value; Switch: -value; Alias: -directory. Specifies the name of the current directory to be displayed in the DirTree widget. This is the "where are we right now" option. 📍

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🧚 SUBWIDGETS 🧚

• Name: hlist; Class: TixHList — The hierarchical listbox that displays the directory listing. This is the actual list-view moment. 🗂️
• Name: hsb; Class: Scrollbar — The horizontal scrollbar subwidget.
• Name: vsb; Class: Scrollbar — The vertical scrollbar subwidget.

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

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

The DirTree widget displays a list view of a directory, its previous directories and its sub-directories. The user can choose one of the directories displayed in the list or change to another directory. It's basically a little directory neighborhood map, and the user gets to pick which house to walk into. 🏡✨

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⭐ WIDGET COMMANDS ⭐

The tixDirTree command creates a new Tcl command whose name is the same as the path name of the DirTree'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 DirTree widget's path name. Option and the args determine the exact behavior of the command. The following commands are possible for DirTree 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 tixDirTree command.
• pathName chdir dir — Change the current directory to dir. Simple. Iconic. Moves you right along. 🚶‍♀️
• 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 tixDirTree command. It's giving full configuration control, and honestly? Obsessed. 🔥
• pathName subwidget name ?args? — When no options are given, this command returns the pathname of the subwidget of the specified name. When options are given, the widget command of the specified subwidget will be called with these options. Subwidget access: unlocked. 🦋

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🎯 BINDINGS 🎯

The mouse and keyboard bindings of the DirTree widget are the same as the bindings of the HList widget. So if you know HList, you already know the vibe. No cap. ⌨️🖱️

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🔑 KEYWORDS 🔑

Tix(n)

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Okay that's the whole page, bestie 💖 — the footer stamps this as Tix 4.0 and the manual page is tixDirTree(n). No separate date showed up in this copy, and I'm not out here inventing one. Bye bestie, go browse some directories! 🫶✨