March 1999
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
18h 21m
English
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Chapter 9. Tix
Tix, written by Ioi Lam, is not part of the core Tcl/Tk package, but can be obtained for free at http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/. This chapter covers Version 4.1.0.[2]
Tix Overview
Tix, which stands for the Tk interface extension, adds an object-oriented framework for defining new widget types from existing widget types. Instances of these new widget types are called mega-widgets. Tix includes over 40 predefined megawidget classes and several commands for designing new ones. Figure 9-1 shows some examples of the mega-widgets added by Tix.
Tix also adds a few new standard widgets, commands for
communicating with the Motif window manager, a form-based geometry
manager, and two new image types: compound and
pixmap.
Tix scripts are usually run using the supplied tixwish command interpreter. The command-line arguments for tixwish are the same as for Tk's wish. Tix can also be dynamically loaded into a running Tcl interpreter using the command:
package require Tix
if the system is properly configured for dynamic loading.
[2] At the time of writing, the Tix web site at http://www.xpi.com/tix was down due to lack of funding.
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