• 0.1 About This Manual
• 0.2 About This HTML Document
• 0.3 Other Formats Of This Document
• 0.4 Organization of This Manual

1 Introduction

• 1.1 What is Tix
  • 1.1.1 Tix for Application Programmers
  • 1.1.2 Tix for Widget Developers
• 1.2 Getting Started: the TixControl Widget
  • 1.2.1 Creating a TixControl Widget
  • 1.2.2 Accessing The Value of a TixControl Widget
    • 1.2.2.1 Disabling Callbacks Temporarily
  • 1.2.3 Validating User Inputs
• 1.3 Accessing The Components Inside Mega Widgets
  • 1.3.1 Subwidgets
  • 1.3.2 Subwidget Names
  • 1.3.3 The subwidget Method
  • 1.3.4 Chaining the subwidget Method
  • 1.3.5 Configuring Subwidget Options Using the -options Switch
  • 1.3.6 Configuring Subwidget Options Using the Tk Option Database
  • 1.3.7 Caution: Restricted Access
• 1.4 Another Tix Widget: TixComboBox
  • 1.4.1 Creating a TixComboBox Widget
  • 1.4.2 Controlling the Style of the TixComboBox
  • 1.4.3 Static Options
  • 1.4.4 Monitoring the User's Browsing Actions
• 1.5 The TixSelect Widget
  • 1.5.1 Creating A TixSelect Widget
    • 1.5.1.1 Label and Orientation
    • 1.5.1.2 Creating the Button Subwidgets and Configuring Their Appearance
    • 1.5.1.3 Accessing the Button Subwidgets
  • 1.5.2 Specifying Selection Rules
  • 1.5.3 Accessing the Value of a TixSelect Widget
  • 1.5.4 Specifying Complex Selection Rules

2 Container Widgets

• 2.1 TixNoteBook
  • 2.1.1 Adding Pages to a TixNoteBook
  • 2.1.2 Keyboard Accelerators
  • 2.1.3 Delaying the Creation of New Pages
  • 2.1.4 Changing Page Tabs and Deleting Pages
• 2.2 PanedWindow
  • 2.2.1 Adding Panes Inside a TixPanedWindow Widget
  • 2.2.2 Putting Widgets Inside the Panes
  • 2.2.3 Setting the Order of the Panes
  • 2.2.4 Changing the Sizes of the Panes
• 2.3 The Family of Scrolled Widgets
  • 2.3.1 The Scrolled Listbox Widget
  • 2.3.2 Other Scrolled Widgets

3 Tabular Listbox and Display Items

• 3.1 tixTList -- The Tix Tabular Listbox Widget
• 3.2 Display Items
  • 3.2.1 Advantages of Display Items
  • 3.2.2 Display Items and Display Styles
• 3.3 Creating Display Items in the TixTList Widget
  • 3.3.1 Creating Display Items
  • 3.3.2 Setting the Styles of the Display Items
  • 3.3.3 Configuring and Deleting the Items
  • 3.3.4 Choosing the Orientation and Number of Rows or Columns
  • 3.3.5 Event Handling
  • 3.3.6 Selection

4 Hierarchical Listbox

• 4.1 TixHList -- The Tix Hierarchical Listbox Widget
  • 4.1.1 Creating a Hierarchical List
  • 4.1.2 Creating Entries in a HList Widget
  • 4.1.3 Controlling the Layout of the Entries
  • 4.1.4 Handling the Selection and User Event
• 4.2 Creating Collapsible Tree Structures with TixTree

5 Selecting Files and Directories

• 5.1 File Selection Dialog Widgets
  • 5.1.1 Using the TixFileSelectDialog Widget
  • 5.1.2 The Subwidget in the TixFileSelectDialog
  • 5.1.3 The TixExFileSelectDialog Widget
  • 5.1.4 Specifying File Types for TixExFileSelectDialog
  • 5.1.5 The tix filedialog Command
• 5.2 Selecting Directories with the TixDirTree and TixDirList Widgets

6 Tix Object Oriented Programming

• 6.1 Introduction to Tix Object Oriented Programming
  • 6.1.1 Widget Classes and Widget Instances
  • 6.1.2 What is in a Widget Instance
    • 6.1.2.1 Variables
    • 6.1.2.2 Methods
    • 6.1.2.3 Component Widgets
• 6.2 Widget Class Declaration
  • 6.2.1 Using the tixWidgetClass Command
• 6.3 Writing Methods
  • 6.3.1 Declaring Public Methods
• 6.4 Standard Initialization Methods
  • 6.4.1 The InitWidgetRec Method
    • 6.4.1.1 Chaining Methods
    • 6.4.1.2 The tixChainMethod call
  • 6.4.2 The ConstructWidget Method
  • 6.4.3 The SetBindings Method
• 6.5 Declaring and Using Variables
  • 6.5.1 Initialization of Public Variables
    • 6.5.1.1 Type Checker
  • 6.5.2 Public Variable Configuration Methods
    • 6.5.2.1 Configuration Methods and Public Variable Initialization
• 6.6 Summary of Widget Instance Initialization
• 6.7 Loading the New Classes