fileselectiondialog - Create and manipulate a file selection dialog widget

fileselectiondialog pathName ?options?

itk::Toplevel <- Shell <- Dialogshell <- Dialog <- Fileselectiondialog

activeBackground	background	borderWidth	cursor
foreground	highlightColor	highlightThickness	insertBackground
insertBorderWidth	insertOffTime	insertOnTime	insertWidth
selectBackground	selectBorderWidth	selectForeground

See the "options" manual entry for details on the standard options.

textBackground	textFont

See the "entryfield" widget manual entry for details on the above associated options.

childSitePos	directory	dirsLabel	dirSearchCommand
dirsOn	filesLabel	filesLabelOn	fileSearchCommand
filesOn	fileType	filterLabel	filterOn
invalid	mask	noMatchString	selectionLabel
selectionOn

See the "fileselectionbox" widget manual entry for details on the above associated options.

labelFont

See the "labeledwidget" widget manual entry for details on the above associated options.

textBackground	textFont

See the "scrolledlistbox" widget manual entry for details on the above associated options.

activeRelief	elementBorderWidth	jump	troughColor

See the "scrollbar" widget class manual entry for details on the above associated options.

buttonBoxPadX	buttonBoxPadY	buttonBoxPos	padX
padY	separator	thickness

See the "dialogshell" widget manual entry for details on the above inherited options.

height	master	modality	width

See the "shell" widget manual entry for details on the above inherited options.

title 

See the "Toplevel" widget manual entry for details on the above inherited options.

The fileselectiondialog command creates a file selection dialog similar to the OSF/Motif standard composite widget. The fileselectiondialog is derived from the Dialog class and is composed of a FileSelectionBox with attributes set to manipulate the dialog buttons.

The fileselectiondialog 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 fileselectiondialog widgets:

get	childsite	filter

See the "fileselectionbox" class manual entry for details on the associated methods.

add	buttonconfigure	default	hide
insert	invoke	show	

See the "buttonbox" widget manual entry for details on the above inherited methods.

activate	center	deactivate

See the "shell" widget manual entry for details on the above inherited 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 fileselectiondialog command.

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 fileselectiondialog command.

Name:	fsb
Class:	Fileselectionbox

The fsb component is the file selection box for the file selection dialog. See the "fileselectionbox" widget manual entry for details on the fsb component item.

# # Non-modal example # proc okCallback {} { puts "You selected [.nmfsd get]" .nmfsd deactivate }

fileselectiondialog .nmfsd -title Non-Modal .nmfsd buttonconfigure OK -command okCallback

.nmfsd activate

# # Modal example # fileselectiondialog .mfsd -modality application .mfsd center

if {[.mfsd activate]} { puts "You selected [.mfsd get]" } else { puts "You cancelled the dialog" }

Mark L. Ulferts

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