iwidgets::messagebox - Create and manipulate a messagebox text widget

labelBitmaplabelFontlabelImagelabelMarginlabelPoslabelTextlabelVariable

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

       activeReliefelementBorderWidthjumptroughColor

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

       heighthscrollModesbWidthscrollMargintextBackgroundvisibleItemsvscrollModewidth

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

       spacing1spacing2spacing3

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

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       Name:           itemMenu
       Class:          Menu

              This  is  the  popup  menu  that  gets  displayed  when  you  right-click  in the text area of the
              messagebox.  Its contents may be modified via the component command.

       Name:           text
       Class:          Scrolledtext

              The text component is the scrolledtext widget.  See the "scrolledtext"  widget  manual  entry  for
              details on the text component item.

       The iwidgets::messagebox command creates a scrolled information messages area widget.  Message types  can
       be  user  defined  and  configured.   Their options include foreground, background, font, bell, and their
       display mode of on or off.  This allows message types to defined as needed, removed when  no  longer  so,
       and modified when necessary.  An export method is provided for file I/O.

       The number of lines displayed may be limited with the default being 1000. When this limit is reached, the
       oldest  line  is removed.  A popup menu which appears when the right mouse button has been pressed in the
       message area has been predefined.  The contents of the popup menu by default support  clearing  the  area
       and  saving  its contents to a file.  Additional operations may be defined or existing operations removed
       by using the component command to access the popup menu.

        package require Iwidgets 4.0
        iwidgets::messagebox .mb -hscrollmode dynamic \
           -labeltext "Messages" -labelpos n \
           -height 120 -width 550 -savedir "/tmp" -textbackground #d9d9d9

        pack .mb -padx 5 -pady 5 -fill both -expand yes

        .mb type add ERROR -background red -foreground white -bell 1
        .mb type add WARNING -background yellow -foreground black
        .mb type add INFO -background white -foreground black

        .mb issue "This is an error message in red with a beep" ERROR
        .mb issue "This warning message in yellow" WARNING
        .mb issue "This is an informational message" INFO

       itk::Widget <- iwidgets::Labeledwidget <- iwidgets::Scrolledwidget <- iwidgets::Messagebox

       messagebox, scrolledtext, text, widget

Tk                                                                                       iwidgets::messagebox(1)

       The display characteristics of messages issued to the messagebox vary with the message type.   Types  are
       defined  by  the  user  and  they may be added, removed, and configured.  The options of the message type
       control the display include the following:

       -backgroundcolorColor specifies the background color to use for characters associated with the message  type.   It
              may have any of the forms accepted by Tk_GetColor.

       -bellboolean
              Specifies whether or not to ring the bell whenenver a message of this type is issued.  Boolean may
              have any of the forms accepted by Tk_GetBoolean.  The default is 0.

       -fontfontNameFontName  is  the  name  of  a  font  to use for drawing characters.  It may have any of the forms
              accepted by Tk_GetFontStruct.

       -foregroundcolorColor specifies the foreground color to use for characters associated with the message  type.   It
              may have any of the forms accepted by Tk_GetColor.

       -showboolean
              Specifies  whether  of  not to display this message type when issued.  Boolean may have any of the
              forms accepted by Tk_GetBoolean.  The default is 1.

       The iwidgets::messagebox 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: pathNameoption ?argarg...?   Option  and the args determine the exact behavior of the command.  The following commands are
       possible for messagebox widgets:

       iwidgets::messagebox - Create and manipulate a messagebox text widget

activeBackgroundactiveForegroundbackgroundborderWidthcursorexportSelectionfontforegroundhighlightColorhighlightThicknesspadXpadYreliefsetGrid

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

iwidgets::messageboxpathName ?options?

pathNamecgetoption
              Returns the current value of the configuration option given by option.  Option may have any of the
              values accepted by the iwidgets::messagebox command.

       pathNameclear
              Clear the messagebox of all messages.

       pathNameexportfilename
              Write text to a file.  If filename exists then contents are replaced with text widget contents.

       pathNameconfigure ?option? ?valueoptionvalue...?
              Query or modify the configuration options of the widget.  If no option  is  specified,  returns  a
              list describing all of the available options for pathName (see Tk_ConfigureInfo for information on
              the  format  of this list).  If option is specified with no value, 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 option is specified).  If one or more option-value 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.   Option  may  have  any  of  the  values  accepted  by  the
              iwidgets::messagebox command.

       pathNametypeoptionmsgtype ?argarg...?
              This  command  is  used to manipulate message types.  The behavior of the command depends  on  the
              option argument that follows the type keyword.  The following forms of the command are supported:

              pathNametypeaddmsgtype ?optionvalue...?
                     Adds  a new message type given by msgtype with the display properties defined by the option
                     value pairs.  See MESSAGE TYPES for information on the options that are supported.

              pathNametypecgetmsgtypeoption
                     Returns the value of a configuration option for a message  type.   Msgtype  identifies  the
                     message  type, and option specifies a particular configuration option, which must be one of
                     the ones listed in the section MESSAGE TYPES.

              pathNametypeconfiguremsgtype ?optionvalue...?
                     Query or modify the configuration options for a message type.  If no option  is  specified,
                     returns  a  list  describing all of the available options for the message type msgtype.  If
                     option is specified with no value, then the command returns a list describing the one named
                     option.  If one or more option-value pairs are specified, then  the  command  modifies  the
                     given  option(s)  to  have  the  given value(s);  in this case the command returns an empty
                     string.  See MESSAGE TYPES for information on the options  that  are  supported.   pathNametyperemovemsgtype Removes an existing message type given by msgtype.

       pathNameissuestring?level??tags?
              Print a string to the text area at the given level and with any additional tags specified.

       Name:           fileName
       Class:          FileName
       Command-Line Switch:           -filename

              Specifies  the filename to be displayed in the file selection dialog when it pops up during a save
              of the messagebox contents operation.

       Name:           maxLines
       Class:          MaxLines
       Command-Line Switch:           -maxlines

              Specifies the maximum number of lines allowed in the text area of the messagebox. When this  limit
              is reached, the oldest line will be deleted such that the total number of lines remains maxlines.

       Name:           saveDir
       Class:          SaveDir
       Command-Line Switch:           -savedir

              Specifies the default directory to display when the file selection dialog pops up during a save of
              the  messagebox  contents  operation.  If  this  parameter is not specified, then the files in the
              current working directory are displayed.

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