fontButton

Name

fontButton -- A button to launch a font selection dialog.

Synopsis

fontButton [-option value...]

Screenshot

Options

-data

type: string

User defined data which can be retrieved via the cget subcommand.

-font

type: FONT

Font to be used.

-hasFocus

type: 1

This sets the focus to the widget. To unset the focus it must be set to another widet.

-heightGroup

type: string (default: "")

heightGroup can be an arbitrary string. All widgets with the same heightGroup request the same height. If packed with the fill flag set, they will have nevertheless different heights.

-name

type: string

Name of the widget, can be used to set options in an rc file.

-onButtonPress

type: string (default: "")

Tcl command which is executed if a mouse button is press inside the widget. Before evaluation the following percent strings are substituated: TABLE %% | % %w | widget name %t | type of event: one of buttonPress, button2Press or button3Press %x | x coordinate %y | y coordinate %b | button number %s | state of the buttons and modifiers (bitmask) TABLE

-onButtonRelease

type: string (default: "")

Tcl command which is executed if a mouse button is released inside the widget. Before evaluation the following percent strings are substituated: TABLE %% | % %w | widget name %t | type of event: always buttonRelease %x | x coordinate %y | y coordinate %b | button number %s | state of the buttons and modifiers (bitmask) TABLE

-onClicked

type: string (default: "")

Tcl command which is executed if the button is clicked. Before evaluation the following percent strings are substituted: TABLE %% | % %w | widget name. TABLE

-onPopupMenu

type: string (default: "")

Tcl command which is executed if the "popup-menu" signal is recieved, which is normally the case if the user presses Shift-F10. Before evaluation the following percent strings are substituated: %w by widget name.

-onRealize

type: string (default: "")

Tcl command whih is executed in the global scope if the widget has been realized. Before evaluation the following percent strings are substituated: TABLE %% | % %w | widget name. TABLE

-onShowHelp

type: string (default: "")

Tcl command which is executed in the global scope if the "show-help" signal is recieved, which is normally the case if the user presses F1 or Ctrl-F1. Before evaluation the following percent strings are substituated TABLE %% | % %w | widget name %h | help type: either "whatsThis" or "tooltip" TABLE

-relief

type: ONEOF normal, half, none (default: normal)

Relief of the button.

-sensitive

type: boolean (default: 1)

Whether or not the item is sensitve to user input.

-showSize

type: boolean (default: true)

Whether to show the size of the font.

-showStyle

type: boolean (default: true)

Whether to show the style of the font.

-sizeGroup

type: string (default: "")

sizeGroup can be an arbitrary string. All widgets with the same sizeGroup request the same size. If packed with the fill flag set, they will have nevertheless different sizes.

-title

type: string

Title of the font selection dialog.

-tooltip

type: string

Message that appear next to this widget when the mouse pointer is held over it for a short amount of time.

-visible

type: boolean (default: 1)

Whether or not the item is visible.

-widthGroup

type: string (default: "")

widthGroup can be an arbitrary string. All widgets with the same widthGroup request the same width. If packed with the fill flag set, they will have nevertheless different widths.

Description

A button widget which launches a font selection dialog. This command is available since GTK+ 2.4.

Commands

id cget option

Returns the value for one option. The option may have any of the values accepted by configure.

id configure [-option value...]

Configures the widget. Option may have any of the values accepted on creation of the widget.

id delete

Deletes the widget and the associated tcl command.

id onClicked

Executes the Tcl command associated with the button if there is one. This command is ignored if the button's state is not sensitive.

Example

set button [gnocl::fontButton -title "Gnocl default font" -font "Serif Sans 14"]
gnocl::window -title "fontButton" -child $button

results in

See also

colorButton, GtkFontButton