The tile theme engine is a compiled library extension for Tcl/Tk versions 8.4 or higher. Beginning with Tk 8.5a6, tile is integrated into the Tk core. For earlier Tk versions it can be downloaded from the address
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tktable//files/tile
Tablelist supports interactive cell editing with the aid of the
tile entry, spinbox, combobox, checkbutton, and menubutton widgets,
accessed as ttk::entry
,
ttk::spinbox
,
ttk::combobox
,
ttk::checkbutton
, and
ttk::menubutton
, respectively. The
version of the tile package must be 0.6 or higher (the tile spinbox
requires even tile 0.8.3 or later, or, alternatively, Tk 8.6 or
later). 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 ttk::entry
,
ttk::spinbox
,
ttk::combobox
,
ttk::checkbutton
, or
ttk::menubutton
, respectively. (These
options are supported at cell level, too, with the aid of the
cellconfigure
subcommand.)
One known limitation of the currently available tile versions is
that the style theme use
command
can only be used to set the current theme, but not to retrieve
it. For this reason, Tablelist makes use of the variable
ttk::currentTheme
or
tile::currentTheme
(depending on the tile
version), which is set by the ttk::setTheme
or
tile::setTheme
procedure. From this it
follows that the tile widgets used for interactive cell editing
will only be managed as expected if the platform-specific default
theme is either left unchanged or replaced with another theme by
invoking the procedure ttk::currentTheme
or
tile::setTheme
, depending on the current tile
version. (See also the tablelist::setTheme
command.)
-style
option. Apart from its
theme-specific appearance, it behaves just like its Tk core
counterpart.
If an application uses the tile entry widget for interactive cell editing and also the Wcb package (even if not for that widget), then the version of Wcb must be 3.1 or higher (because earlier Wcb releases didn't support any tile widgets).
-style
option and with its
-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. Apart from its
theme-specific appearance, it behaves just like its Tk core
counterpart.
If an application uses the tile spinbox widget for interactive cell editing and also the Wcb package (even if not for that widget), then the version of Wcb must be 3.2 or higher (because the support for the new tile spinbox widget was added to Wcb in its version 3.2).
-style
option and with its
-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 combobox to
readonly
or define validations for it, as well
as for populating its listbox component (with the aid of the
combobox widget's -values
option).
If an application uses the tile combobox widget for interactive cell editing and also the Wcb package (even if not for that widget), then the version of Wcb must be 3.1 or higher (because earlier Wcb releases didn't support any tile widgets).
-style
and
-variable
options. You can use the script
corresponding to the -editstartcommand
tablelist configuration option to set any other configuration
options, like -offvalue
and
-onvalue
, according to the internal
values of the cells. Since the default values of the
-offvalue
and -onvalue
tile
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
.-style
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).