ttk::widget(n)

NAME
ttk::widget - Standard options and commands supported by Tk themed widgets

DESCRIPTION
This manual describes common widget options and commands.

STANDARD OPTIONS
The following options are supported by all Tk themed widgets: [-class undefined undefined] Specifies the window class. The class is used when querying the option database for the window's other options, to determine the default bindtags for the window, and to select the widget's default layout and style. This is a read-only option: it may only be specified when the window is created, and may not be changed with the configure widget command. [-cursor cursor Cursor] Specifies the mouse cursor to be used for the widget. See Tk_GetCursor and cursors(n) in the Tk reference manual for the legal values. If set to the empty string (the default), the cursor is inherited from the parent widget. [-takefocus takeFocus TakeFocus] Determines whether the window accepts the focus during keyboard traversal. Either 0, 1, a command prefix (to which the widget path is appended, and which should return 0 or 1), or the empty string. See options(n) in the Tk reference manual for the full description. [-style style Style] May be used to specify a custom widget style.

SCROLLABLE WIDGET OPTIONS
The following options are supported by widgets that are controllable by a scrollbar. See scrollbar(n) for more information [-xscrollcommand xScrollCommand ScrollCommand] A command prefix, used to communicate with horizontal scrollbars.
    When the view in the widget's window changes, the widget will generate a Tcl command by concatenating the scroll command and two numbers. Each of the numbers is a fraction between 0 and 1 indicating a position in the document; 0 indicates the beginning, and 1 indicates the end. The first fraction indicates the first information in the widget that is visible in the window, and the second fraction indicates the information just after the last portion that is visible.

    Typically the -xscrollcommand option consists of the path name of a scrollbar widget followed by e.g. This will cause the scrollbar to be updated whenever the view in the window changes.

    If this option is set to the empty string (the default), then no command will be executed.
[-yscrollcommand yScrollCommand ScrollCommand] A command prefix, used to communicate with vertical scrollbars. See the description of -xscrollcommand above for details.

LABEL OPTIONS
The following options are supported by labels, buttons, and other button-like widgets: [-compound compound Compound] Specifies how to display the image relative to the text, in the case both -text and -image are present. Valid values are:

    text
        Display text only.

    image
        Display image only.

    center
        Display text centered on top of image.

    top

    bottom

    left

    right
        Display image above, below, left of, or right of the text, respectively.

    none
        The default; display the image if present, otherwise the text.
[-image image Image] Specifies an image to display. This is a list of 1 or more elements. The first element is the default image name. The rest of the list is a sequence of statespec / value pairs as per style map, specifying different images to use when the widget is in a particular state or combination of states. All images in the list should have the same size. [-padding padding Padding] Specifies the internal padding for the widget. The padding is a list of up to four length specifications left top right bottom. If fewer than four elements are specified, bottom defaults to top, right defaults to left, and top defaults to left. In other words, a list of three numbers specify the left, vertical, and right padding; a list of two numbers specify the horizontal and the vertical padding; a single number specifies the same padding all the way around the widget. [-text text Text] Specifies a text string to be displayed inside the widget (unless overridden by -textvariable). [-textvariable textVariable Variable] Specifies the name of a global variable whose value will be used in place of the -text resource. [-underline underline Underline] If set, specifies the integer index (0-based) of a character to underline in the text string. The underlined character is used for mnemonic activation. [-width width Width] If greater than zero, specifies how much space, in character widths, to allocate for the text label. If less than zero, specifies a minimum width. If zero or unspecified, the natural width of the text label is used.

COMPATIBILITY OPTIONS
This option is only available for themed widgets that have traditional Tk widgets. [-state state State] May be set to normal or disabled to control the disabled state bit. This is a write-only option: setting it changes the widget state, but the state widget command does not affect the -state option.

COMMANDS

pathName cget option
    Returns the current value of the configuration option given by option.

pathName configure ?option? ?value option value ...?
    Query or modify the configuration options of the widget. 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. If option is specified with no value, then the command returns a list describing the named option: the elements of the list are the option name, database name, database class, default value, and current value. If no option is specified, returns a list describing all of the available options for pathName.

pathName identify element x y
    Returns the name of the element under the point given by x and y, or an empty string if the point does not lie within any element. x and y are pixel coordinates relative to the widget. Some widgets accept other identify subcommands.

pathName instate statespec ?script?
    Test the widget's state. If script is not specified, returns 1 if the widget state matches statespec and 0 otherwise. If script is specified, equivalent to if {[pathName instate stateSpec]} script

pathName state ?stateSpec?
    Modify or inquire widget state. If stateSpec is present, sets the widget state: for each flag in stateSpec, sets the corresponding flag or clears it if prefixed by an exclamation point.
    Returns a new state spec indicating which flags were changed: set changes [pathName state spec] pathName state $changes will restore pathName to the original state. If stateSpec is not specified, returns a list of the currently-enabled state flags.

WIDGET STATES
The widget state is a bitmap of independent state flags. Widget state flags include:

active
    The mouse cursor is over the widget and pressing a mouse button will cause some action to occur. (aka (Gnome), (Windows),

disabled
    Widget is disabled under program control (aka

focus
    Widget has keyboard focus.

pressed
    Widget is being pressed (aka in Motif).

selected
    or for things like checkbuttons and radiobuttons.

background
    Windows and the Mac have a notion of an or foreground window. The background state is set for widgets in a background window, and cleared for those in the foreground window.

readonly
    Widget should not allow user modification.

alternate
    A widget-specific alternate display format. For example, used for checkbuttons and radiobuttons in the or state, and for buttons with -default active.

invalid
    The widget's value is invalid. (Potential uses: scale widget value out of bounds, entry widget value failed validation.)

hover
    The mouse cursor is within the widget. This is similar to the active state; it is used in some themes for widgets that provide distinct visual feedback for the active widget in addition to the active element within the widget.

A state specification or stateSpec is a list of state names, optionally prefixed with an exclamation point (!) indicating that the bit is off.

EXAMPLES
set b [ttk::button .b] # Disable the widget: $b state disabled # Invoke the widget only if it is currently pressed and enabled: $b instate {pressed !disabled} { .b invoke } # Reenable widget: $b state !disabled

SEE ALSO
ttk::intro(n), ttk::style(n)

KEYWORDS
state, configure, option