LabFrame(3pm)
NAME
Tk::LabFrame - labeled frame.
SYNOPSIS
use Tk::LabFrame; $f = $parent->LabFrame(?-label=>text, -labelside=>where, ...?);
DESCRIPTION
LabFrame is exactly like Frame and additionaly allows to add a label to
the frame.
WIDGET-OPTIONS
LabFrame supports the same options as the Frame widget.
Additional options of LabFrame are:
- -font => font
- Specifies the label's font
- -foreground => color
- Specifies the label's foreground color
- -label => text
- The text of the label to be placed with the Frame.
- -labelside => where
- Where can be one of left, right, top, bottom or acrosstop. The
first four work as might be expected and place the label to the
left, right, above or below the frame respectively. The acrosstop creates a grooved frame around the central frame and puts the label near the northwest corner such that it appears to "overwrite" the
groove. - -labelvariable => scalar_ref
- Specifies a reference to a variable and used as an alternative to
-label. If the value of the variable changes, then the widget will be updated automatically to reflect the change. Used like
-textvariable.
ADVERTISED SUBWIDGETS
See "Subwidget" in Tk::mega how to use advertised widgets.
- border
- Frame used to display the border
- frame
- Frame used to create new LabFrame children.
- label
- Label used for displaying text
EXAMPLE
- Run the following test program to see this in action:
- use strict;
use Tk;
require Tk::LabFrame;
require Tk::LabEntry; - my $test = 'Test this';
my $mw = Tk::MainWindow->new;
my $f = $mw->LabFrame(-label => "This is a label",-labelside => "acrosstop"); - $f->LabEntry(-label => "Testing", -textvariable => \$test)->pack;
$f->pack;
Tk::MainLoop;
BUGS
Perhaps LabFrame should be subsumed within the generic pTk labeled
widget mechanism.
AUTHOR
Rajappa Iyer rsi@earthling.net
- This code is derived from LabFrame.tcl and LabWidg.tcl in the Tix4.0
distribution by Ioi Lam. The code may be redistributed under the same
terms as Perl.