scrolledcanvas - Create and manipulate scrolled canvas widgets

INHERITANCE

STANDARD OPTIONS

activeBackground exportSelection highlightThickness insertWidth selectForeground

background font insertBorderWidth relief

borderWidth foreground insertOffTime selectBackground

cursor highlightColor insertOnTime selectBorderWidth

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

ASSOCIATED OPTIONS

closeEnough yScrollIncrement

confine

scrollRegion

xScrollIncrement

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

activeRelief

elementBorderWidth

jump

troughColor

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

INHERITED OPTIONS

disabledForeground labelMargin state

labelBitmap labelPos

labelFont labelText

labelImage labelVariable

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

WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS

Name:                   autoMargin
Class:                  AutoMargin
Command-Line Switch:	-automargin

Specifies the autoresize extra margin to reserve. This option is only effective with autoresize turned on. The default is 10.

Name:                   autoResize
Class:                  AutoResize
Command-Line Switch:	-autoresize

Automatically adjusts the scrolled region to be the bounding box covering all the items in the canvas following the execution of any method which creates or destroys items. Thus, as new items are added, the scrollbars adjust accordingly.

Name:                   height
Class:                  Height
Command-Line Switch:	-height

Specifies the height of the scrolled canvas widget in any of the forms acceptable to Tk_GetPixels. The default height is 30 pixels.

Name:                   hscrollMode
Class:                  ScrollMode
Command-Line Switch:	-hscrollmode

Specifies the the display mode to be used for the horizontal scrollbar: static, dynamic, or none. In static mode, the scroll bar is displayed at all times. Dynamic mode displays the scroll bar as required, and none disables the scroll bar display. The default is static.

Name:                   sbWidth
Class:                  Width
Command-Line Switch:	-sbwidth

Specifies the width of the scrollbar in any of the forms acceptable to Tk_GetPixels. The default width is 15 pixels..

Name:                   scrollMargin
Class:                  ScrollMargin
Command-Line Switch:	-scrollmargin

Specifies the distance between the canvas and scrollbar in any of the forms acceptable to Tk_GetPixels. The default is 3 pixels.

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

Specifies the background color for the canvas. This allows the background within the canvas to be different from the normal background color.

Name:                   vscrollMode
Class:                  ScrollMode
Command-Line Switch:	-vscrollmode

Specifies the the display mode to be used for the vertical scrollbar: static, dynamic, or none. In static mode, the scroll bar is displayed at all times. Dynamic mode displays the scroll bar as required, and none disables the scroll bar display. The default is static.

Name:                   width
Class:                  Width
Command-Line Switch:	-width

Specifies the width of the scrolled canvas widget in any of the forms acceptable to Tk_GetPixels. The default height is 30 pixels.

DESCRIPTION

The scrolledcanvas command creates a scrolled canvas with additional options to manage horizontal and vertical scrollbars. This includes options to control which scrollbars are displayed and the method, i.e. statically or dynamically.

METHODS

The scrolledcanvas 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 ...?

ASSOCIATED METHODS

addtag canvasy delete gettags itemconfigure raise type

bbox coords dtag icursor lower scale xview

bind create find index move scan yview

canvasx dchars focus insert postscript select

See the "canvas" manual entry for details on the associated methods.

WIDGET-SPECIFIC METHODS