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NAME
radiobutton - Create and manipulate radio-button widgets
SYNOPSIS
radiobutton pathName ?options?
DESCRIPTION
The radiobutton command creates a new window (given by the pathName argument) and makes it into a radiobutton widget. Additional options, described above, may be specified on the command line or in the option database to configure aspects of the radio button such as its colors, font, text, and initial relief. The radiobutton command returns its pathName argument. At the time this command is invoked, there must not exist a window named pathName, but pathName's parent must exist.
A radio button is a widget that displays a textual string or bitmap and a diamond called a selector. A radio button has all of the behavior of a simple button: it can display itself in either of three different ways, according to the state option; it can be made to appear raised, sunken, or flat; it can be made to flash; and it invokes a Tcl command whenever mouse button 1 is clicked over the check button.
In addition, radio buttons can be selected. If a radio button is selected then a special highlight appears in the selector and a Tcl variable associated with the radio button is set to a particular value. If the radio button is not selected then the selector is drawn in a different fashion. Typically, several radio buttons share a single variable and the value of the variable indicates which radio button is to be selected. When a radio button is selected it sets the value of the variable to indicate that fact; each radio button also monitors the value of the variable and automatically selects and deselects itself when the variable's value changes. By default the variable selectedButton is used; its contents give the name of the button that is selected, or the empty string if no button associated with that variable is selected. The name of the variable for a radio button, plus the variable to be stored into it, may be modified with options on the command line or in the option database. By default a radio button is configured to select itself on button clicks.
WIDGET COMMAND
The radiobutton 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:
pathName option ?arg arg ...?
Option and the args determine the exact behavior of the command. The following commands are possible for radiobutton widgets:
pathName activate
Change the radio button's state to active and redisplay the button using its active foreground and background colors instead of normal colors. This command is ignored if the radio button's state is disabled. This command is obsolete and will eventually be removed; use ``pathName configure -state active'' instead.
pathName configure ?option? ?value option value
pathName deselect
Deselect the radio button: redisplay it without a highlight in the selector and set the associated variable to an empty string. If this radio button was not currently selected, then the command has no effect.
pathName flash
Flash the radio button. This is accomplished by redisplaying the radio button several times, alternating between active and normal colors. At the end of the flash the radio button is left in the same normal/active state as when the command was invoked. This command is ignored if the radio button's state is disabled.
pathName invoke
Does just what would have happened if the user invoked the radio button with the mouse: select the button and invoke its associated Tcl command, if there is one. The return value is the return value from the Tcl command, or an empty string if there is no command associated with the radio button. This command is ignored if the radio button's state is disabled.
pathName select
Select the radio button: display it with a highlighted selector and set the associated variable to the value corresponding to this widget.
BINDINGS
Tk automatically creates class bindings for radio buttons that give them the following default behavior:
[1]
The radio button activates whenever the mouse passes over it and deactivates whenever the mouse leaves the radio button.
[2]
The radio button's relief is changed to sunken whenever mouse button 1 is pressed over it, and the relief is restored to its original value when button 1 is later released.
[3]
If mouse button 1 is pressed over the radio button and later released over the radio button, the radio button is invoked (i.e. it is selected and the command associated with the button is invoked, if there is one). However, if the mouse is not over the radio button when button 1 is released, then no invocation occurs.
The behavior of radio buttons can be changed by defining new bindings for individual widgets or by redefining the class bindings.
KEYWORDS
radio button, widget