<TITLE>messagedialog - Create and manipulate a message dialog widget</TITLE>
<H1>messagedialog - Create and manipulate a message dialog widget</H1>

</pre><H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
<B>messagedialog<I> <I>pathName </I>?<I>options</I>?
</pre><H2>INHERITANCE</H2>
itk::Toplevel &lt;- Shell &lt;- Dialogshell &lt;- Dialog &lt;- Messagedialog
</pre><H2>STANDARD OPTIONS</H2>
<P>
<table cellpadding=5>
<td valign=top>
<B>anchor</B><br>
<B>font</B><br>
<B>text</B><br>
</td>
<td valign=top>
<B>background</B><br>
<B>foreground</B><br>
<B>wrapLength</B><br>
</td>
<td valign=top>
<B>bitmap</B><br>
<B>image</B><br>
</td>
<td valign=top>
<B>cursor</B><br>
<B>justify</B><br>
</td>
</table>
<P>
See the <A HREF="http://www.sco.com/Technology/tcl/man/tk_man/options.n.html"> "options" </A> manual entry for details on the standard options.
</pre><H2>INHERITED OPTIONS</H2>
<P>
<table cellpadding=5>
<td valign=top>
<B>buttonBoxPadX</B><br>
<B>padY</B><br>
</td>
<td valign=top>
<B>buttonBoxPadY</B><br>
<B>separator</B><br>
</td>
<td valign=top>
<B>buttonBoxPos</B><br>
<B>thickness</B><br>
</td>
<td valign=top>
<B>padX</B><br>
</td>
</table>
<P>
See the <A HREF="dialogshell.n.html"> "dialogshell" </A> widget manual entry for details on the above
inherited options.
<P>
<table cellpadding=5>
<td valign=top>
<B>master</B><br>
</td>
<td valign=top>
<B>modality</B><br>
</td>
<td valign=top>
<B>title</B><br>
</td>
<td valign=top>
</td>
</table>
<P>
See the "shell" widget manual entry for details on the above
inherited options.
<P>
</pre><H2>WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS</H2>
<P>
<pre>
Name:                   <B>imagePos</B>
Class:                  <B>Position</B>
Command-Line Switch:	<B>-imagepos</B>
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<UL>
Specifies the image position relative to the message text: <B>n</B>, <B>s</B>, 
<B>e</B>, or <B>w</B>.  The default is w.
</UL>
<P>
<pre>
Name:                   <B>textPadX</B>
Class:                  <B>Pad</B>
Command-Line Switch:	<B>-textpadx</B>
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<UL>
Specifies a non-negative value indicating how much extra space to request for 
the message text in the X direction.  The value may have any of the forms 
acceptable to Tk_GetPixels.
</UL>
<P>
<pre>
Name:                   <B>textPadY</B>
Class:                  <B>Pad</B>
Command-Line Switch:	<B>-textpady</B>
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<UL>
Specifies a non-negative value indicating how much extra space to request for 
the message text in the X direction.  The value may have any of the forms 
acceptable to Tk_GetPixels.
</UL>
<P>
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</pre><H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
<P>
The <B>messagedialog</B> command creates a message dialog composite widget. 
The messagedialog is derived from the Dialog class and is composed of 
an image and associated message text with commands to manipulate the 
dialog buttons.

</pre><H2>METHODS</H2>
<P>
The <B>messagedialog</B> command creates a new Tcl command whose
name is <I>pathName</I>.  This
command may be used to invoke various
operations on the widget.  It has the following general form:
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<I>pathName option </I>?<I>arg arg ...</I>?
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<I>Option</I> and the <I>arg</I>s
determine the exact behavior of the command.  The following
commands are possible for messagedialog widgets:

</pre><H2>INHERITED METHODS</H2>
<P>
<table cellpadding=5>
<td valign=top>
<B>add</B><br>
<B>insert</B><br>
</td>
<td valign=top>
<B>buttonconfigure</B><br>
<B>invoke</B><br>
</td>
<td valign=top>
<B>default</B><br>
<B>show</B><br>
</td>
<td valign=top>
<B>hide</B><br>
</td>
</table>
<P>
See the <A HREF="buttonbox.n.html"> "buttonbox" </A> widget manual entry for details on the above
inherited methods.
<P>
<table cellpadding=5>
<td valign=top>
<B>childsite</B><br>
</td>
<td valign=top>
</td>
<td valign=top>
</td>
<td valign=top>
</td>
</table>
<P>
See the <A HREF="dialogshell.n.html"> "dialogshell" </A> widget manual entry for details on the above
inherited methods.
<P>
<table cellpadding=5>
<td valign=top>
<B>activate</B><br>
</td>
<td valign=top>
<B>center</B><br>
</td>
<td valign=top>
<B>deactivate</B><br>
</td>
<td valign=top>
</td>
</table>
<P>
See the <A HREF="dialogshell.n.html"> "dialogshell" </A> widget manual entry for details on the above
inherited methods.
</pre><H2>WIDGET-SPECIFIC METHODS</H2>
<DL>
<DT> <I>pathName <B>cget</B> <I>option</I>
</I></B>
<DD> Returns the current value of the configuration option given
by <I>option</I>.
<I>Option</I> may have any of the values accepted by the <B>messagedialog</B>
command.
</DL>
<DL>
<DT> <I>pathName</I> <B>configure</B> ?<I>option</I>? ?<I>value option value ...</I>?
</I></B>
<DD> Query or modify the configuration options of the widget.
If no <I>option</I> is specified, returns a list describing all of
the available options for <I>pathName</I> (see <B>Tk_ConfigureInfo</B> for
information on the format of this list).  If <I>option</I> is specified
with no <I>value</I>, then the command returns a list describing the
one named option (this list will be identical to the corresponding
sublist of the value returned if no <I>option</I> is specified).  If
one or more <I>option-value</I> pairs are specified, then the command
modifies the given widget option(s) to have the given value(s);  in
this case the command returns an empty string.
<I>Option</I> may have any of the values accepted by the <B>messagedialog</B>
command.

</DL>
</pre><H2>COMPONENTS</H2>
<P>
<pre>
Name:                   <B>image</B>
Class:                  <B>Label</B>
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<UL>
The image component is the bitmap or image of the message dialog.  See 
the "label" widget manual entry for details on the image component item.
</UL>
<P>
<pre>
Name:                   <B>msg</B>
Class:                  <B>Label</B>
</pre>
<UL>
The msg component provides the textual portion of the message dialog.
See the "label" widget manual entry for details on the msg component item.
</UL>
</table>

</pre><H2>EXAMPLE</H2>
<pre>
 #
 # Standard question message dialog used for confirmation.
 #
 messagedialog .md -title "Message Dialog" -text "Are you sure ?" \\
	-bitmap questhead -modality global

 .md hide Help
 .md buttonconfigure OK -text Yes
 .md buttonconfigure Cancel -text No

 if {[.md activate]} {
    .md configure -text "Are you really sure ?"
    if {[.md activate]} {
	puts stdout "Yes"
    } else {
	puts stdout "No"
    }
 } else {
    puts stdout "No"
 }

 destroy .md

 #
 # Copyright notice with automatic deactivation.
 #
 messagedialog .cr -title "Copyright" -bitmap @dsc.xbm -imagepos n \\
     -text "Copyright 1995 DSC Communications Corporation\\n \\
	    All rights reserved"
 
 .cr hide Apply
 .cr hide Cancel
 .cr hide Help

 .cr activate
 after 10000 ".cr deactivate"
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</pre><H2>AUTHOR</H2>
<A HREF="mailto:mulferts@spd.dsccc.com">Mark L. Ulferts</A>
</pre><H2>KEYWORDS</H2>
messagedialog, dialog, dialogshell, shell, widget