5 More Widgets

This chapters presents widgets which are intended to be interactive: buttons to invoke actions, entries to enter text, scales to enter numbers, and listboxes to choose elements of lists.

• 5.1 Buttons and Actions

• 5.2 Checkbuttons, Radiobuttons, and Variables

• 5.3 Querying Tickle Objects
  • 5.3.1 Querying Configuration Options
  • 5.3.2 Querying Widget Parameters

• 5.4 Menus, Menuitems, and Menubuttons

• 5.5 Events
  • 5.5.1 Event Patterns
  • 5.5.2 Event Arguments
  • 5.5.3 Invoking Actions
  • 5.5.4 Appending and Deleting Event Bindings

• 5.6 More on Actions: Listeners

• 5.7 Entries and Focus

• 5.8 Scales

• 5.9 Listboxes and Scrollbars

• 5.10 Toplevel Widgets and Window Manager Commands

• 5.11 Selecting Files

• 5.12 Example: Help Popups
  • 5.12.1 Displaying Help
  • 5.12.2 The Listener Class
  • 5.12.3 AttachHelp
  • 5.12.4 Using Help Popups