iwidgets::scrolledcanvas(1) [incr Widgets] iwidgets::scrolledcanvas(1)
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NAME
iwidgets::scrolledcanvas - Create and manipulate scrolled canvas widgets
SYNOPSIS
iwidgets::scrolledcanvas pathName ?options?
INHERITANCE
itk::Widget <- iwidgets::Labeledwidget <- iwidgets::Scrolledwidget <- iwidgets::Scrolledcanvas
STANDARD OPTIONS
activeBackground background borderWidth cursor
exportSelection font foreground highlightColor
highlightThickness insertBorderWidth insertOffTime insertOnTime
insertWidth relief selectBackground selectBorderWidth
selectForeground
See the "options" manual entry for details on the standard options.
ASSOCIATED OPTIONS
closeEnough confine scrollRegion xScrollIncrement
yScrollIncrement
See the "canvas" widget manual entry for details on the above associated options.
activeRelief elementBorderWidth jumptroughColor
See the "scrollbar" widget manual entry for details on the above associated options.
INHERITED OPTIONS
disabledForeground labelBitmap labelFontlabelImage
labelMargin labelPos labelText labelVariable
state sticky
See the "labeledwidget" class manual entry for details on the inherited options.
WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
Name: autoMargin
Class: AutoMargin
Command-Line Switch: -automargin
Specifies the autoresize extra margin to reserve. This option is only effective with autoresize turned on. The default is 10.
Name: autoResize
Class: AutoResize
Command-Line Switch: -autoresize
Automatically adjusts the scrolled region to be the bounding box covering all the items in the canvas following the execution of any
method which creates or destroys items. Thus, as new items are added, the scrollbars adjust accordingly.
Name: height
Class: Height
Command-Line Switch: -height
Specifies the height of the scrolled canvas widget in any of the forms acceptable to Tk_GetPixels. The default height is 30 pixels.
Name: hscrollMode
Class: ScrollMode
Command-Line Switch: -hscrollmode
Specifies the the display mode to be used for the horizontal scrollbar: static, dynamic, or none. In static mode, the scroll bar is
displayed at all times. Dynamic mode displays the scroll bar as required, and none disables the scroll bar display. The default is
static.
Name: sbWidth
Class: Width
Command-Line Switch: -sbwidth
Specifies the width of the scrollbar in any of the forms acceptable to Tk_GetPixels. The default width is 15 pixels..
Name: scrollMargin
Class: ScrollMargin
Command-Line Switch: -scrollmargin
Specifies the distance between the canvas and scrollbar in any of the forms acceptable to Tk_GetPixels. The default is 3 pixels.
Name: textBackground
Class: Background
Command-Line Switch -textbackground
Specifies the background color for the canvas. This allows the background within the canvas to be different from the normal back-
ground color.
Name: vscrollMode
Class: ScrollMode
Command-Line Switch: -vscrollmode
Specifies the the display mode to be used for the vertical scrollbar: static, dynamic, or none. In static mode, the scroll bar is
displayed at all times. Dynamic mode displays the scroll bar as required, and none disables the scroll bar display. The default is
static.
Name: width
Class: Width
Command-Line Switch: -width
Specifies the width of the scrolled canvas widget in any of the forms acceptable to Tk_GetPixels. The default height is 30 pixels.
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DESCRIPTION
The iwidgets::scrolledcanvas command creates a scrolled canvas with additional options to manage horizontal and vertical scrollbars. This
includes options to control which scrollbars are displayed and the method, i.e. statically or dynamically.
METHODS
The iwidgets::scrolledcanvas command creates a new Tcl command whose name is pathName. This command may be used to invoke various opera-
tions on the widget. It has the following general form: pathName option ?arg arg ...? Option and the args determine the exact behavior of
the command. The following commands are possible for scrolledcanvas widgets:
ASSOCIATED METHODS
addtag bbox bind canvasx
canvasy coords create dchars
delete dtag find focus
gettags icursor index insert
itemconfigure lower move postscript
raise scale scan select
type xview yview
See the "canvas" manual entry for details on the associated methods.
WIDGET-SPECIFIC METHODS
pathName cget option
Returns the current value of the configuration option given by option. Option may have any of the values accepted by the iwid-
gets::scrolledcanvas command.
pathName childsite
Returns the child site widget path name.
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 iwidgets::scrolledcanvas command.
pathName justify direction
Justifies the canvas contents via the scroll bars in one of four directions: left, right, top, or bottom.
COMPONENTS
Name: canvas
Class: Canvas
The canvas component is the canvas widget. See the "canvas" widget manual entry for details on the canvas component item.
Name: horizsb
Class: Scrollbar
The horizsb component is the horizontal scroll bar. See the "ScrollBar" widget manual entry for details on the horizsb component
item.
Name: vertsb
Class: Scrollbar
The vertsb component is the vertical scroll bar. See the "ScrollBar" widget manual entry for details on the vertsb component item.
EXAMPLE
package require Iwidgets 4.0
iwidgets::scrolledcanvas .sc
.sc create rectangle 100 100 400 400 -fill red
.sc create rectangle 300 300 600 600 -fill green
.sc create rectangle 200 200 500 500 -fill blue
pack .sc -padx 10 -pady 10 -fill both -expand yes
AUTHOR
Mark L. Ulferts
KEYWORDS
scrolledcanvas, canvas, widget
Tk iwidgets::scrolledcanvas(1)