Iwidgets 2.2.0 User Commands Man Page -- scrolledcanvas (n)
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NAME

scrolledcanvas - Create and manipulate scrolled canvas widgets

SYNOPSIS

scrolledcanvas pathName ?options?

INHERITANCE

itk::Widget <- Labeledwidget <- scrolledcanvas

STANDARD OPTIONS

activeBackground
background borderWidthcursor
exportSelection font
foreground highlightColor
highlightThickness
insertBorderWidthinsertOffTimeinsertOnTime insertWidth relief repeatDelay repeatInterval
selectBackground
selectBorderWidthselectForeground

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

labelBitmap labelFont labelImage labelMargin
labelPos
labelText labelVariable

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 background 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.

DESCRIPTION

The 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 scrolledcanvas command creates a new Tcl command whose name is pathName. This command may be used to invoke various operations 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 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 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:
scrCanvas
Class:
Canvas

The scrCanvas component is the canvas widget. See the "canvas" widget manual entry for details on the scrCanvas component item.

Name:
hSB
Class:
Scrollbar

The hSB component is the horizontal scroll bar. See the "ScrollBar" widget manual entry for details on the hSB component item.

Name:
vSB
Class:
Scrollbar

The vSB component is the vertical scroll bar. See the "ScrollBar" widget manual entry for details on the vSB component item.

EXAMPLE

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

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