scrolledhtml - Create and manipulate a scrolled text widget with the capability of displaying HTML formatted documents.

scrolledhtml pathName ?options?

itk::Widget <- Labeledwidget <- Scrolledtext <- Scrolledhtml

activeBackground	background	borderWidth	cursor
exportSelection	foreground	highlightColor	highlightThickness
insertBackground	insertBorderWidth	insertOffTime	insertOnTime
insertWidth	padX	padY	relief
repeatDelay	repeatInterval	selectBackground	selectBorderWidth
selectForeground	setGrid 

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

activeRelief	elementBorderWidth	jump	troughColor

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

spacing1	spacing2	spacing3	state
wrap

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

labelBitmap	labelFont	labelImage	labelMargin
labelPos	labelText	labelVariable 		height
hscrollMode	sbWidth	scrollMargin	visibleitems
vscrollMode	width

See the "scrolledtext" class manual entry for details on the inherited options.

Name:	feedback
Class:	FeedBack
Command-Line Switch:	-feedback

Specifies the callback command to use to give feedback on current status. The command is executed in the form command <number of characters remaining>

Name:	fixedfont
Class:	FixedFont
Command-Line Switch:	-fixedfont

Specifies the name of the font to be used for fixed-width character text (such as <pre>...</pre> or <tt>...</tt>.) The size, style, and other font attributes are determined by the format tags in the document. The default is courier.

Name:	fontname
Class:	FontName
Command-Line Switch:	-fontname

Specifies the name of the font to be used for normal-width character spaced text. The size, style, and other font attributes are determined by the format tags in the document. The default is times.

Name:	fontsize
Class:	FontSize
Command-Line Switch:	-fontsize

Specifies the general size of the fonts used. One of small, medium, large, or huge. The default is medium.

Name:	foreground
Class:	Foreground
Command-Line Switch:	-foreground

Specifies the color of text other than hypertext links, in any of the forms acceptable to Tk_GetColor. This value may be overridden in a particular document by the text attribute of the Body HTML tag.

Name:	link
Class:	Link
Command-Line Switch:	-link

Specifies the default color of hypertext links in any of the forms acceptable to Tk_GetColor. This value may be overridden in a particular document by the link attribute of the Body HTML tag. The default is blue.

Name:	linkcommand
Class:	LinkCommand
Command-Line Switch:	-linkcommand

Specifies the command to execute when the user clicks on a hypertext link. Execution is of the form linkcommand href, where href is the value given in the href attribute of the A HTML tag.

Name:	alink
Class:	alink
Command-Line Switch:	-alink

Specifies the color of hypertext links when the cursor is over the link in any of the forms acceptable to Tk_GetColor. The default is red.

Name:	textBackground
Class:	Background
Command-Line Switch:	-textbackground

Specifies the background color for the text area in any of the forms acceptable to Tk_GetColor. This value may be overridden in a particular document by the bgcolor attribute of the Body HTML tag.

Name:	unknownimage
Class:	UnknownImage
Command-Line Switch:	-unknownimage

Specifies the name of the image file to display when an img specified in the html document cannot be loaded.

Name:	update
Class:	Update
Command-Line Switch:	-alink

A boolean value indicating whether to call update during html rendering.

The scrolledhtml command creates a scrolled text widget with the additional capability to display html formatted documents. An import method is provided to read an html document file, and a render method is provided to display a html formatted text string.

The scrolledhtml 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 scrolledhtml widgets:

bbox	compare	debug	delete	
dlineinfo	get	index	insert
mark	scan	search	see
tag	window	xview	yview

See the "text" manual entry for details on the standard methods.

export	clear

See the "scrolledhtml" manual entry for details on the 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 scrolledhtml 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 scrolledhtml command.

pathName import ?option? href

Load html formatted text from a file. Href must exist. If option is -link, href is assumed to be relative to the application's current working directory. Otherwise, href is assumed to be relative to the path of the last page loaded. Href is either a filename, or a reference of the form filename#anchorname. In the latter form, fIFilename and/or anchorname may be empty. If filename is empty, the current document is assumed. If anchorname is empty, the top of the document is assumed.

pathName pwd

Print the current working directory of the widget, i.e. the directory of the last page loaded.

pathName render htmltext ?wd?

Display HTML formatted text htmltext. Wd gives the base path to use for all links and images in the document. Wd defaults to the application's current working directory.

pathName title

Return the title of the current page, as given in the <title>...</title> field in the document.

This widget is compliant with HTML 3.2 with the following exceptions:

No features requiring a connection to an http server are supported.

Some image alignments aren't supported, because they are not supported by the text widget.

The <br> attributes dealing with image alignments aren't supported.

Automatic table sizing is not supported very well, due to limitations of the text widget

option add *textBackground white

scrolledhtml .sh -fontname helvetica -linkcommand "this import -link"

pack .sh -padx 10 -pady 10 -fill both -expand yes

.sh import ~/public_html/index.html

Cells in a table can be caused to overlap. ex: <table border width="100%"> <tr><td>cell1</td><td align=right rowspan=2>cell2</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2>cell3 w/ overlap</td> </table> It hasn't been fixed because 1) it's a pain to fix, 2) it will slow tables down by a significant amount, and 3) netscape has the same bug, as of V3.01.

Sam Shen

This code is based largely on his tkhtml.tcl code from tk inspect. Tkhtml is copyright 1995 Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Kris Raney

scrolledhtml, html, text, widget