Quick
Tips
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To create a widget, drag it from the palette onto the grid, or select
a palette widget, and click on the grid. If you click or drag off the grid
new cells will be added as necessary. Frames can only be clicked onto the
grid once.
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To select a widget, click on it (or use the shift arrow keys).
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To configure a widget, select it, then:
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Use the tool-bar
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Use the option sheet - Double-click on the widget (or key control-w).
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Repeat the last change - key control-r
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To move a widget, drag it to another location.
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To copy a widget, Shift-drag it to another location.
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To Delete a widget, select it, then hit the delete key,
or press the delete button.
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To change a widget's size, make the widget stick to the sides
of its cell, and then change the size of the cell by Dragging its
row
or column handle (at the left or top of the canvas) or the row
or column gridline
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To change the span of a widget - select it, and drag its
resize handles.
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To do anything, first select the "Edit Menus" item from the "Edit"
menu in the menubar in the main window.
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For more help, refer to the menu editor page
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To add a new row or column - click on a grid line
to select it, and press the insert key, or the insert button. To add both,
click in a grid square to select both the row and column, and press the
insert key.
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To select a row or column
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Click on the row or column handle (it will turn the selection
color as set in the Preferences, on the Appear tab).
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Click on an empty cell.
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To delete a row or column - select it and press the delete
key or press the delete button.
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To configure a row or column - select it and select "Row &
Column Properties..." from the "Edit" menu in the menubar.
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To change row or column resizeability - select it and click on it.
The arrow shape reflects its resizability.
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To make a sub-grid, create a frame widget.
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Use sub-grids when widgets don't align on rows and columns
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To test the interface, key control-t.
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To stop the test, key control-k.
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For a project named foo
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The project is saved in the file foo.ui
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The tcl code is saved in the file foo.ui.tcl
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The procedure is called foo_ui,
and
is called with the name of the frame or toplevel it should be instantiated
in.
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If the application code is in a file called foo.tcl,
The application code will be run as part of testing the interface,
and must call foo_ui.
MAC
NOTE: interfaces built on the Macintosh will have a type and creator
of 'STui/Spec'. The resulting tcl file will have a type and creator of
'TEXT/WIsH'.
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All widgets in an interface are siblings in the widget hierarchy,
and named with the item_name option.
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For the widget options in the command property, The following substitutions
are made:
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%B
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The base portion of the widget name (e.g. the part of the name preceding
the final ".").
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%R
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The parent of all of the widgets
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%M
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The geometry master for this widget
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%W
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The complete pathname of the widget
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Additional Tcl code can be inserted into the user interface procedure after
all of the widgets have been created using the edit code option
of the edit menu.
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To select a widget, click on it.
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To select a row or column, click on its handle, or click in the
empty cell.
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To select a row or column gridline click on it.
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To select the nextwidget, key Shift-right-arrow.
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To select the previous widget, key Shift-left-arrow.
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To enter a sub-frame, key down-arrow.
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To enter a parent frame, key up-arrow.