1BrowseEntry(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation BrowseEntry(3)
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6 Tk::BrowseEntry - entry widget with popup choices.
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9 use Tk::BrowseEntry;
10 $b = $frame->BrowseEntry(-label => "Label", -variable => \$var);
12 $b->insert("end", "opt1");
13 $b->insert("end", "opt2");
14 $b->insert("end", "opt3");
15 ...
16 $b->pack;
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19 The "BrowseEntry" class is derived from the "Frame" class and inherits
20 all the methods, options and subwidgets of its super-class. By
21 default, options and methods are delegated to the entry subwidget.
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24 BrowseEntry is a poor man's ComboBox. It may be considered an enhanced
25 version of LabEntry which provides a button to popup the choices of the
26 possible values that the Entry may take. BrowseEntry supports all the
27 options LabEntry supports except -textvariable. This is replaced by
28 -variable. Other options that BrowseEntry supports:
29 -arrowimage
31 Specifies the image to be used in the arrow button beside the entry
32 widget. The default is an downward arrow image in the file cbxar‐
33 row.xbm
34 -autolimitheight
36 If set to a true value, then the height of the listbox will be at
37 most the number of entries in the list. The overall maximum of
38 "-listheight" still applies.
39 -autolistwidth
41 If set to a true value, then the width of the listbox will match
42 the width of the largest entry.
43 -browsecmd
45 Specifies a function to call when a selection is made in the popped
46 up listbox. It is passed the widget and the text of the entry
47 selected. This function is called after the entry variable has been
48 assigned the value.
49 -browse2cmd
51 Like "-browsecmd", but the callback is called with the listbox
52 index instead of the selected value.
53 -buttontakefocus
55 Set the "-takefocus" option of the button subwidget.
56 -choices
58 Specifies the list of choices to pop up. This is a reference to an
59 array of strings specifying the choices.
60 -colorstate
62 The state of the widget is reflected by color. A non-editable entry
63 widget will get a light gray background, while an editable entry
64 will be almost white. [This may change]
65 -listcmd
67 Specifies the function to call when the button next to the entry is
68 pressed to popup the choices in the listbox. This is called before
69 popping up the listbox, so can be used to populate the entries in
70 the listbox.
71 -listheight
73 Set the height of the listbox. See also "-autolimitheight".
74 -listwidth
76 Specifies the width of the popup listbox.
77 -state
79 Specifies one of three states for the widget: normal, readonly, or
80 disabled. If the widget is disabled then the value may not be
81 changed and the arrow button won't activate. If the widget is
82 readonly, the entry may not be edited, but it may be changed by
83 choosing a value from the popup listbox. normal is the default.
84 -style
86 Set the "style" of the widget. Permitted values are "MSWin32" and
87 "unix". By default "-style" is set to the current platform. Widgets
88 with the "unix" style will look like a normal "BrowseEntry" widget,
89 whereas with the "MSWin32" style the arrow will look close to the
90 Windows' standard combobox widget, while moving the mouse the
91 entries will be highlighted, and probably includes other changes.
92 -variable
94 Specifies the variable in which the entered value is to be stored.
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97 insert(index, string)
98 Inserts the text of string at the specified index. This string then
99 becomes available as one of the choices.
100 delete(index1, index2)
102 Deletes items from index1 to index2.
103 get The get method is delegated to the choices listbox.
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107 The following widgets are advertised:
108 entry
110 The entry widget.
111 arrow
113 The button with the arrow image.
114 choices
116 The toplevel widget containing the choice listbox.
117 slistbox
119 The scrolled listbox with the choices.
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122 To make subclassing easier, the following methods may be overridden to
123 use other standard widgets in composing the mega widget:
124 LabEntryWidget
126 A widget class compatible with Tk::LabEntry used for the entry.
127 ButtonWidget
129 A widget class compatible with Tk::Button used for the arrow but‐
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131 ListboxWidget
133 A widget class compatible with Tk::Listbox used for the choices
134 listbox.
135 For example to use a "NumEntry" widget (from the Tk-GBARR CPAN distri‐
137 bution) instead of the normal "Entry" widget:
138 package Tk::NumBrowseEntry;
140 use base qw(Tk::BrowseEntry);
141 use Tk::NumEntry;
142 Construct Tk::Widget 'NumBrowseEntry';
143 sub LabEntryWidget { "NumEntry" }
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146 BrowseEntry should really provide more of the ComboBox options.
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149 Rajappa Iyer rsi@earthling.net
150 Chris Dean ctdean@cogit.com made additions.
152 More additions by Slaven Rezic slaven@rezic.de
154 This code was inspired by ComboBox.tcl in Tix4.0 by Ioi Lam and bears
156 more than a passing resemblance to ComboBox code. This may be distrib‐
157 uted under the same conditions as Perl.
158perl v5.8.8 2008-02-05 BrowseEntry(3)