TIP #63: Add -compound Option to Menu Entries
Vince Darley
TIP #63: ADD -COMPOUND OPTION TO MENU ENTRIES
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Version: $Revision: 1.1 $
Author: Vince Darley <vincen...@users.sourceforge.net>
State: Draft
Type: Project
Tcl-Version: 8.4
Vote: Pending
Created: Thursday, 27 September 2001
URL: http://purl.org/tcl/tip/63.html
WebEdit: http://purl.org/tcl/tip/edit/63
Post-History:
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ABSTRACT
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This TIP adds to menu entries the ability to display both textual
labels and images (or bitmaps) in exactly the same way as buttons and
menubuttons currently can, by adding a _-compound_ option.
RATIONALE
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Menu entries are very similar to labels in most respects, but they
currently lack the ability to show an image and a piece of text at the
same time. It is a useful piece of functionality currently missing from
Tk (certainly many standard applications make use of such menu entries,
e.g. Internet Explorer). The changes involved are relatively small.
A very similar TIP [TIP #11] was accepted without much argument.
PROPOSAL
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This TIP implements the change by adding an additional option
_-compound_ to menu entries which behaves identically to Tk's existing
_-compound_ option: it accepts the values _none_, _center_, _left_,
_right_, _top_, and _bottom_, and controls the relative placement of an
image to the text label in the entry.
A reference implementation exists, and is available from:
<URL:ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/pub/alpha/tcl/compoundmenu.diff> (note this
diff has Windows-style line endings). This implementation is known to
work on Windows, and since the changes are very, very similar on Unix
and MacOS I expect it to work there (except perhaps for simple editing
mistakes).
COPYRIGHT
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This document has been placed in the public domain.
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Chris Nelson
> ...
> This TIP adds to menu entries the ability to display both textual
> labels and images (or bitmaps) in exactly the same way as buttons and
> menubuttons currently can, by adding a _-compound_ option.
Works for me.
Chris
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