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6 Tk::Compound - Create multi-line compound images.
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9 use Tk::Compound;
10 $image = $widget->Compound(name,options);
11 $image->Line(options);
12 $image->Text(options);
13 $image->Bitmap(options);
14 $image->Image(options);
15 $image->Space(options);
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18 Compound image types can be used to create images that consists of mul‐
19 tiple horizontal lines; each line is composed of a series of items
20 (texts, bitmaps, images or spaces) arranged from left to right. Com‐
21 pound images are mainly used to embed complex drawings into widgets
22 that support the -image option. As shown in the EXAMPLE section below,
23 a compound image can be used to display a bitmap and a text string
24 simutaneously in a Tk Button widget.
25 Compound images can only be used on windows on the same display as, and
27 with the same pixel depth and visual as the $widget used to create
28 them.
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31 Compounds are created using $widget->Compound. Compounds support the
32 following options:
33 -background => color
35 Specifies the background color of the compound image. This color is
36 also used as the default background color for the bitmap items in
37 the compound image.
38 -borderwidth => pixels
40 Specifies a non-negative value indicating the width of the 3-D bor‐
41 der drawn around the compound image.
42 -font => font
44 Specifies the default font for the text items in the compound
45 image.
46 -foreground => color
48 Specifies the default foreground color for the bitmap and text
49 items in the compound image.
50 -padx => value
52 Specifies a non-negative value indicating how much extra space to
53 request for the compound image in the X-direction. The value may
54 have any of the forms acceptable to Tk_GetPixels(3).
55 -pady => value
57 Specifies a non-negative value indicating how much extra space to
58 request for the compound image in the Y-direction.
59 -relief => value
61 Specifies the 3-D effect desired for the background of the compound
62 image. Acceptable values are raised, sunken, flat, ridge, and
63 groove.
64 -showbackground => value
66 Specifies whether the background and the 3D borders should be
67 drawn. Must be a valid boolean value. By default the background is
68 not drawn and the compound image appears to have a transparent
69 background.
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72 When a compound image is created, Tk also creates a new object. This
73 object supports the configure and cget methods described in Tk::options
74 which can be used to enquire and modify the options described above.
75 The object also supports the following methods:
77 $compound->Line?(option = value ...>)?
79 Creates a new line at the bottom of the compound image. Lines sup‐
80 port the following options:
81 -anchor value
83 Specifies how the line should be aligned along the horizontal
84 axis. When the values are w, sw or nw, the line is aligned to
85 the left. When the values are c, s or n, the line is aligned to
86 the middle. When the values are e, se or ne, the line is
87 aligned to the right.
88 -padx => value
90 Specifies a non-negative value indicating how much extra space
91 to request for this line in the X-direction.
92 $compound->Itemtype?(option = value ...>)?
94 Creates a new item of the type Itemtype at the end of the last line
95 of the compound image. All types of items support these following
96 common options:
97 -anchor value
99 Specifies how the item should be aligned along the vertical
100 axis. When the values are n, nw or ne, the item is aligned to
101 the top of the line. When the values are c, w or e, the item is
102 aligned to the middle of the line. When the values are s, se
103 or sw, the item is aligned to the bottom of the line.
104 -padx => value
106 Specifies a non-negative value indicating how much extra space
107 to request for this item in the X-direction.
108 -pady => value
110 Specifies a non-negative value indicating how much extra space
111 to request for this item in the Y-direction.
112 item-type can be any of the following:
114 $compound->Bitmap?(option = value ...>)?
115 Creates a new bitmap item of at the end of the last line of the
116 compound image. Additional options accepted by the bitmap type are:
117 -background => color
119 Specifies the background color of the bitmap item.
120 -bitmap => name
122 Specifies a bitmap to display in this item, in any of the forms
123 acceptable to Tk_GetBitmap(3).
124 -foreground => color
126 Specifies the foreground color of the bitmap item.
127 $compound->Image?(option = value ...>)?
129 Creates a new image item of at the end of the last line of the com‐
130 pound image. Additional options accepted by the image type are:
131 -image => name
133 Specifies an image to display in this item. name must have been
134 created with the image create command.
135 $compound->Space?(option = value ...>)?
137 Creates a new space item of at the end of the last line of the com‐
138 pound image. Space items do not display anything. They just acts as
139 space holders that add additional spaces between items inside a
140 compound image. Additional options accepted by the image type are:
141 -width => value
143 Specifies the width of this space. The value may have any of
144 the forms acceptable to Tk_GetPixels(3).
145 -height => value
147 Specifies the height of this space. The value may have any of
148 the forms acceptable to Tk_GetPixels(3).
149 $compound->Text?(option = value ...>)?
151 Creates a new text item of at the end of the last line of the com‐
152 pound image. Additional options accepted by the text type are:
153 -background => color
155 Specifies the background color of the text item.
156 -font => name
158 Specifies the font to be used for this text item.
159 -foreground => color
161 Specifies the foreground color of the text item.
162 -justify value
164 When there are multiple lines of text displayed in a text item,
165 this option determines how the lines line up with each other.
166 value must be one of left, center, or right. Left means that
167 the lines' left edges all line up, center means that the lines'
168 centers are aligned, and right means that the lines' right
169 edges line up.
170 -text => string
172 Specifies a text string to display in this text item.
173 -underline value
175 Specifies the integer index of a character to underline in the
176 text item. 0 corresponds to the first character of the text
177 displayed in the text item, 1 to the next character, and so on.
178 -wraplength value
180 This option specifies the maximum line length of the label
181 string on this text item. If the line length of the label
182 string exceeds this length, it is wrapped onto the next line,
183 so that no line is longer than the specified length. The value
184 may be specified in any of the standard forms for screen dis‐
185 tances. If this value is less than or equal to 0 then no wrap‐
186 ping is done: lines will break only at newline characters in
187 the text.
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190 The following example creates a compound image with a bitmap and a text
191 string and places this image into a Button(n) widget. Notice that the
192 image must be created using the widget that it resides in.
193 my $b = $parent->Button;
195 my $c = $b->Compound;
196 $b->configure(-image => $c);
197 $c->Line;
198 $c->Bitmap(-bitmap => 'warning');
199 $c->Space(-width => 8);
200 $c->Text(-text => "Warning", -underline => 0);
201 $b->pack;
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204 image(n), Tix(n)
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