Tablelist supports interactive cell editing with the aid of the Tk core entry, text, spinbox, checkbutton, and menubutton widgets. These widgets are automatically registered for cell editing, hence the only action needed for using one of them for editing the cells of a given column is as follows:
Use the tablelist widget's columnconfigure
subcommand to set the given column's -editable
option
to true and its -editwindow
option to entry
, text
,
spinbox
, checkbutton
, or
menubutton
, respectively. (These options
are supported at cell level, too, with the aid of the cellconfigure
subcommand.) Since the default value of the
-editwindow
column configuration option is
entry
, it is not necessary to set it explicitly
if the editing should take place with the aid of an embedded entry
widget.
tablelist::tablelist
command for details on the
editing process.-padx
and
-pady
options set to 2
, its
-wrap
option set to none
,
and its initial height set to the number of lines contained in
it. There is, however, an exception from this rule: If
the -wrap
option of the
cell's column was set to true and Tk version 8.5 or higher is being
used, then the text widget's -wrap
option will
be set to word
and its initial height will
equal the number of display lines (taking into account the
line wraps) contained in it. You can use the script
corresponding to the -editstartcommand
tablelist configuration option to override the initial settings
according to your needs.-wrap
option was set to
word
or char
(either by
Tablelist or from within the above-mentioned script) and Tk version
8.5 or higher is being used, then, whenever its width changes
(e.g., due to interactive column resizing), its height will be set
automatically to the number of display lines contained in it.
(The number of display lines is retrieved with the aid of the
count -displaylines
text widget
subcommand, introduced in Tk 8.5.)package require Wcb
or
package require wcb
) then the text
widget's height will be updated automatically whenever text is
inserted into or deleted from it, which makes the editing much more
user-friendly. This is achieved by using an appropriately
defined after-insert
and
after-delete
callback for the edit
window. You can use the script corresponding to the
-editstartcommand
tablelist configuration option to define further callbacks for the
text widget. (The above-mentioned callback is created via
wcb::cbappend
, after returning from that
script.)Tab
key is reserved for navigation between the
editable cells, but the user can insert a tabulator character into
the text widget by pressing Control-i
.Return
and KP_Enter
keys
insert a newline character into the text widget.
Control-j
can also be used for inserting a
newline. Control-Return
and
Control-KP_Enter
terminate the editing and destroy the
edit window.Control-Home
and Control-End
have their
well-known text widget-specific bindings, just like
Meta-<
and Meta->
if
tk_strictMotif
is false. Again, this is
different from the behavior of the other widgets used for
interactive cell editing. For jumping into the first/last
editable cell, the user can press
Alt-Home
/Alt-End
or
Meta-Home
/Meta-End
(Command-Home
/Command-End
on Mac OS
Classic and Mac OS X Aqua).-state
option
set to normal
, which makes the widget
editable. You can use the script corresponding to the
-editstartcommand
tablelist configuration option to set the state of the spinbox to
readonly
or define validations for it, as well
as for setting its (range of) values and its
-wrap
option.-borderwidth
, -font
,
-padx
, -pady
, and
-variable
options. In an X11 environment
it will be created with explicitly set values for its
-borderwidth
, -indicatoron
,
-image
, -selectimage
,
-selectcolor
, and -variable
options. You can use the script corresponding to the
-editstartcommand
tablelist configuration option to set any other options, like
-offvalue
and -onvalue
,
according to the internal values of the cells. Since
the default values of the -offvalue
and
-onvalue
checkbutton options are 0
and 1
, you don't need to change these options if the
cells have the same internal values 0
and
1
.-anchor
, -indicatoron
,
-justify
, -padx
,
-pady
, -relief
, and
-textvariable
options. In addition, a
menu with its -tearoff
option set to
0
and an appropriate script as the value of its
-postcommand
option is created and set as the
value of the menubutton's -menu
option.
In an X11 environment, the menu's appearance is adapted to that of
the tablelist widget by setting its
-background
, -foreground
,
-activebackground
,
-activeforeground
, and
-activeborderwidth
options to appropriate
values. You can use the script corresponding to the
-editstartcommand
tablelist configuration option to set any other options of the
menubutton and/or its associated menu. You will, however,
need this script in the first place for populating the menu,
preferably with radiobutton entries. For every radiobutton
entry added to the menu, the Tablelist implementation will make
sure that its value (which can be specified by setting the entry's
-value
or -label
option)
will be displayed in the menubutton as its text when the entry is
selected. (Tablelist achieves this by setting the menu
entry's -variable
option to the value of the
menubutton's -textvariable
option.) For
menu entries of types other than radiobutton (e.g., for command
entries) it is the responsibility of the application to make sure
that the selected entry's text will be shown in the menubutton (for
example, with the aid of the menu entry's
-command
option).