LabFrame(3)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					       LabFrame(3)

NAME

       Tk::LabFrame - labeled frame.

SYNOPSIS

	   use Tk::LabFrame;

	   $f = $parent->LabFrame(?-label=>text, -labelside=>where, ...?);

DESCRIPTION

       LabFrame is exactly like Frame and additionaly allows to add a label to the frame.

WIDGET-OPTIONS
       LabFrame supports the same options as the Frame widget.

       Additional options of LabFrame are:

       -font => font
	   Specifies the label's font

       -foreground => color
	   Specifies the label's foreground color

       -label => text
	   The text of the label to be placed with the Frame.

       -labelside => where
	   Where can be one of left, right, top, bottom or acrosstop.  The first four work as might be expected and place the label to the left,
	   right, above or below the frame respectively. The acrosstop creates a grooved frame around the central frame and puts the label near
	   the northwest corner such that it appears to "overwrite" the groove.

       -labelvariable => scalar_ref
	   Specifies a reference to a variable and used as an alternative to -label. If the value of the variable changes, then the widget will be
	   updated automatically to reflect the change. Used like -textvariable.

ADVERTISED SUBWIDGETS

       See "Subwidget" in Tk::mega how to use advertised widgets.

       border
	     Frame used to display the border

       frame
	     Frame used to create new LabFrame children.

       label
	     Label used for displaying text

EXAMPLE

       Run the following test program to see this in action:

	   use strict;
	   use Tk;
	   require Tk::LabFrame;
	   require Tk::LabEntry;

	   my $test = 'Test this';
	   my $mw = Tk::MainWindow->new;
	   my $f = $mw->LabFrame(-label => "This is a label",
				  -labelside => "acrosstop");
	   $f->LabEntry(-label => "Testing", -textvariable => $test)->pack;
	   $f->pack;
	   Tk::MainLoop;

BUGS

       Perhaps LabFrame should be subsumed within the generic pTk labeled widget mechanism.

AUTHOR

       Rajappa Iyer rsi@earthling.net

       This code is derived from LabFrame.tcl and LabWidg.tcl in the Tix4.0 distribution by Ioi Lam. The code may be redistributed under the same
       terms as Perl.

perl v5.12.1							    2007-05-05							       LabFrame(3)