tk_dialog(n)

🎀 NAME 🎀

tk_dialog(n) — okay bestie, this is the Tk Built-In Commands page for tk_dialog, and the official vibe is: Create modal dialog and wait for response. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

tk_dialog window title text bitmap default string string ...

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

This procedure is part of the Tk script library. It is largely deprecated by tk_messageBox — that's the official caveat, bestie, so take it as the deprecation vibe check. 😭 Its arguments describe a dialog box:

• window — name of the top-level window to use for the dialog. Any existing window by this name is destroyed — yep, gone, periodt.
• title — text that appears in the window manager's title bar for the dialog.
• text — the message that appears in the top portion of the dialog box.
• bitmap — if non-empty, this specifies a bitmap (in a form suitable for Tk_GetBitmap) to display in the top portion of the dialog, to the left of the text. If it's an empty string, then no bitmap is displayed in the dialog.
• default — if this is an integer greater than or equal to zero, it gives the index of the button that is the default button for the dialog (0 for the leftmost button, and so on). If it's negative or an empty string, then there will not be any default button.
• string — there will be one button for each of these arguments. Each string specifies text to display in a button, in order from left to right.

After creating a dialog box, tk_dialog waits for the user to select one of the buttons either by clicking on the button with the mouse or by typing return to invoke the default button (if any). Then it returns the index of the selected button: 0 for the leftmost button, 1 for the button next to it, and so on. If the dialog's window is destroyed before the user selects one of the buttons, then -1 is returned.

While waiting for the user to respond, tk_dialog sets a local grab. This prevents the user from interacting with the application in any way except to invoke the dialog box. 🫶

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🧚 EXAMPLE 🧚

set reply [tk_dialog .foo "The Title" "Do you want to say yes?" \
        questhead 0 Yes No "I'm not sure"]

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

tk_messageBox(n)

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👑 KEYWORDS 👑

bitmap, dialog, modal

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Footer energy, bestie: this is from Tk version 4.1, manual page tk_dialog(n). The original didn't print a date, so I'm not inventing one — no fake facts on my watch 💖✨