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<TITLE>tixDirSelectDialog - Create and manipulate directory selection dialogs.</TITLE>

<Center><H2>tixDirSelectDialog - Create and manipulate directory selection dialogs.</H2></Center><hr>

</pre><H3>SYNOPSIS</H3>

<B>tixDirSelectDialog<I> <I>pathName ?<I>options</I></B>?

</pre><H3>STANDARD OPTIONS</H3>

<B>TixDirSelectDialog</B></I> supports all the standard options of a

toplevel widget. See the <B>options(n)</B></I> manual entry for details on

the standard options.

</pre><H3>WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS</H3>

<P>

<pre><code><code><code>

Name:           <B>command</B></I>

Class:          <B>Command</B></I>

Switch:         <B>-command</B></I>

</code></code></code></pre>

<UL>

Specifies the command to be called when the user selects a directory

in the dialog box. The command is called with one extra argument, the

complete pathname of the directory. If the user cancels the selection,

this command is not called.

</UL>

</pre><H3>SUBWIDGETS</H3>

<P>

<pre><code><code><code>

Name:           <B>dirbox</B></I>

Class:          <B>TixDirSelectBox</B></I>

</code></code></code></pre>

<UL>

The DirSelectBox widget that consists of the main part of the dialog.

</UL>

<P>

<pre><code><code><code>

Name:           <B>cancel</B></I>

Class:          <B>Button</B></I>

</code></code></code></pre>

<UL>

The "Cancel" button.

</UL>

<P>

<pre><code><code><code>

Name:           <B>ok</B></I>

Class:          <B>Buton</B></I>

</code></code></code></pre>

<UL>

The "OK" button.

</UL>

</pre><HR>

</pre><H3>DESCRIPTION</H3>

<P>

The <B>tixDirSelectDialog</B></I> command creates a new window (given by

the <I>pathName</I></B> argument) and makes it into a DirSelectDialog

widget.  Additional options, described above, may be specified on the

command line or in the option database to configure aspects of the

DirSelectDialog such as its cursor and relief.

The DirSelectDialog widget presents the directories in the file system

in a dialog window. The user can use this dialog window to navigate

through the file system to select the desired directory.

</pre><H3>WIDGET COMMANDS</H3>

<P>

The <B>tixDirSelectDialog</B></I> command creates a new Tcl command whose

This command may be used to invoke various operations on the

widget. It has the following general form:

<pre>

<I>pathName option </I></B>?<I>arg arg ...</I></B>?

<P>

</pre>

<I>PathName</I></B> is the name of the command, which is the same as the

determine the exact behavior of the command. The following commands

are possible for DirSelectDialog widgets:

<DL>

<DT> <I>pathName <B>cget</B></I> <I>option</I></B>

</I></B>

<DD> Returns the current value of the configuration option given by

<I>option</I></B>. <I>Option</I></B> may have any of the values accepted by the

<B>tixDirSelectDialog</B></I> command.

</DL>

<DL>

<DT> <I>pathName <B>configure</B></I> ?<I>option</I></B>? <I>?value option value ...</I></B>?

</I></B>

<DD> Query or modify the configuration options of the widget.  If no

<I>option</I></B> is specified, returns a list describing all of the

available options for <I>pathName</I></B> (see <B>Tk_ConfigureInfo</B></I> for

information on the format of this list).  If <I>option</I></B> is specified

with no <I>value</I></B>, 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 <I>option</I></B> is specified).  If

one or more <I>option-value</I></B> 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.  <I>Option</I></B> may have

any of the values accepted by the <B>tixDirSelectDialog</B></I> command.

</DL>

<DL>

<DT> <I>pathName <B>popup</B></I>

</I></B>

<DD> Pops up the DirSelectDialog widget on the screen.

</DL>

<DL>

<DT> <I>pathName <B>subwidget <I> name ?args?</I></B>

</I></B>

<DD> When no options are given, this command returns the pathname of the

subwidget of the specified name.

When options are given, the widget command of the specified subwidget

will be called with these options.

</DL>

</pre><H3>EXAMPLE</H3>

<pre><code><code><code>

set dlg [tixDirSelectDialog .dlg -command SelectDir]

$dlg popup

proc SelectDir {dir} {

    puts "You have selected \\"$dir\\""

}

</code></code></code></pre>

</pre><H3>KEYWORDS</H3>

Tix(n)

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