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5516.2.3 Tix Commands</A>
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59<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
60 <td><nobr><b><span class="typelabel">class</span>&nbsp;<tt id='l2h-4872' xml:id='l2h-4872' class="class">tixCommand</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
61 <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
62<dd>
63The <a class="ulink" href="http://tix.sourceforge.net/dist/current/man/html/TixCmd/tix.htm"
64 >tix commands</a>
65provide access to miscellaneous elements of <tt class="module"><a href="module-Tix.html">Tix</a></tt>'s internal
66state and the <tt class="module"><a href="module-Tix.html">Tix</a></tt> application context. Most of the information
67manipulated by these methods pertains to the application as a whole,
68or to a screen or display, rather than to a particular window.
69
70<P>
71To view the current settings, the common usage is:
72<div class="verbatim"><pre>
73import Tix
74root = Tix.Tk()
75print root.tix_configure()
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80<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
81 <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-4873' xml:id='l2h-4873' class="method">tix_configure</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
82 <td><var></var><big>[</big><var>cnf,</var><big>]</big><var> **kw</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
83<dd>
84Query or modify the configuration options of the Tix application
85context. If no option is specified, returns a dictionary all of the
86available options. If option is specified with no value, then the
87method returns a list describing the one named option (this list will
88be identical to the corresponding sublist of the value returned if no
89option is specified). If one or more option-value pairs are
90specified, then the method modifies the given option(s) to have the
91given value(s); in this case the method returns an empty string.
92Option may be any of the configuration options.
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97 <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-4874' xml:id='l2h-4874' class="method">tix_cget</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
98 <td><var>option</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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100Returns the current value of the configuration option given by
101<var>option</var>. Option may be any of the configuration options.
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106 <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-4875' xml:id='l2h-4875' class="method">tix_getbitmap</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
107 <td><var>name</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
108<dd>
109Locates a bitmap file of the name <code>name.xpm</code> or <code>name</code> in
110one of the bitmap directories (see the <tt class="method">tix_addbitmapdir()</tt>
111method). By using <tt class="method">tix_getbitmap()</tt>, you can avoid hard
112coding the pathnames of the bitmap files in your application. When
113successful, it returns the complete pathname of the bitmap file,
114prefixed with the character "<tt class="samp">@</tt>". The returned value can be used to
115configure the <code>bitmap</code> option of the Tk and Tix widgets.
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119<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline">
120 <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-4876' xml:id='l2h-4876' class="method">tix_addbitmapdir</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
121 <td><var>directory</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
122<dd>
123Tix maintains a list of directories under which the
124<tt class="method">tix_getimage()</tt> and <tt class="method">tix_getbitmap()</tt> methods will
125search for image files. The standard bitmap directory is
126<span class="file">$TIX_LIBRARY/bitmaps</span>. The <tt class="method">tix_addbitmapdir()</tt> method
127adds <var>directory</var> into this list. By using this method, the image
128files of an applications can also be located using the
129<tt class="method">tix_getimage()</tt> or <tt class="method">tix_getbitmap()</tt> method.
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134 <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-4877' xml:id='l2h-4877' class="method">tix_filedialog</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
135 <td><var></var><big>[</big><var>dlgclass</var><big>]</big><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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137Returns the file selection dialog that may be shared among different
138calls from this application. This method will create a file selection
139dialog widget when it is called the first time. This dialog will be
140returned by all subsequent calls to <tt class="method">tix_filedialog()</tt>. An
141optional dlgclass parameter can be passed as a string to specified
142what type of file selection dialog widget is desired. Possible
143options are <code>tix</code>, <code>FileSelectDialog</code> or
144<code>tixExFileSelectDialog</code>.
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149 <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-4878' xml:id='l2h-4878' class="method">tix_getimage</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
150 <td><var>self, name</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
151<dd>
152Locates an image file of the name <span class="file">name.xpm</span>, <span class="file">name.xbm</span> or
153<span class="file">name.ppm</span> in one of the bitmap directories (see the
154<tt class="method">tix_addbitmapdir()</tt> method above). If more than one file with
155the same name (but different extensions) exist, then the image type is
156chosen according to the depth of the X display: xbm images are chosen
157on monochrome displays and color images are chosen on color
158displays. By using <tt class="method">tix_getimage()</tt>, you can avoid hard coding
159the pathnames of the image files in your application. When successful,
160this method returns the name of the newly created image, which can be
161used to configure the <code>image</code> option of the Tk and Tix widgets.
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166 <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-4879' xml:id='l2h-4879' class="method">tix_option_get</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
167 <td><var>name</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
168<dd>
169Gets the options maintained by the Tix scheme mechanism.
170</dl>
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174 <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-4880' xml:id='l2h-4880' class="method">tix_resetoptions</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
175 <td><var>newScheme, newFontSet</var><big>[</big><var>,
176 newScmPrio</var><big>]</big><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
177<dd>
178Resets the scheme and fontset of the Tix application to
179<var>newScheme</var> and <var>newFontSet</var>, respectively. This affects only
180those widgets created after this call. Therefore, it is best to call
181the resetoptions method before the creation of any widgets in a Tix
182application.
183
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185The optional parameter <var>newScmPrio</var> can be given to reset the
186priority level of the Tk options set by the Tix schemes.
187
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189Because of the way Tk handles the X option database, after Tix has
190been has imported and inited, it is not possible to reset the color
191schemes and font sets using the <tt class="method">tix_config()</tt> method.
192Instead, the <tt class="method">tix_resetoptions()</tt> method must be used.
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