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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script to display a dialog box every 5 seconds Post 302579189 by zaxxon on Monday 5th of December 2011 04:12:11 AM
Old 12-05-2011
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tk_chooseColor(1T)					       Tk Built-In Commands						tk_chooseColor(1T)

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NAME
tk_chooseColor - pops up a dialog box for the user to select a color. SYNOPSIS
tk_chooseColor ?option value ...? _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
The procedure tk_chooseColor pops up a dialog box for the user to select a color. The following option-value pairs are possible as command line arguments: -initialcolor color Specifies the color to display in the color dialog when it pops up. color must be in a form acceptable to the Tk_GetColor function. -parent window Makes window the logical parent of the color dialog. The color dialog is displayed on top of its parent window. -title titleString Specifies a string to display as the title of the dialog box. If this option is not specified, then a default title will be dis- played. If the user selects a color, tk_chooseColor will return the name of the color in a form acceptable to Tk_GetColor. If the user cancels the operation, both commands will return the empty string. EXAMPLE
button .b -bg [tk_chooseColor -initialcolor gray -title "Choose color"] KEYWORDS
color selection dialog ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +--------------------+-----------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Availability | SUNWTk | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Interface Stability | Uncommitted | +--------------------+-----------------+ NOTES
Source for Tk is available on http://opensolaris.org. Tk 4.2 tk_chooseColor(1T)
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