ActiveTcl User Guide

Contents

• Overview
• The tablelist::getTablelistPath Command
• The tablelist::convEventFields Command

Overview

The commands described in this reference page are used in the default binding scripts associated with the binding tag TablelistBody.  It is recommended to use them also in individual binding scripts for the binding tag whose name is returned by the bodytag subcommand of the Tcl command associated with a tablelist widget (see the DEFAULT AND INDIVIDUAL BINDINGS FOR THE TABLELIST BODY section of the corresponding reference page for details).

The tablelist::getTablelistPath Command

NAME

tablelist::getTablelistPath - Get the path name of a tablelist widget from the path name of one of its descendants

SYNOPSIS

tablelist::getTablelistPath descendantPathName

DESCRIPTION

This command gets the path name of a tablelist widget from the path name descendantPathName of one of its descendants.

In a binding script, the descendant widget corresponds to the event field %W, which can be the tablelist's body, one of the separator frames, a label widget displaying an embedded image, or (a descendant of) an embedded window.  The return value is often assigned to the help variable tablelist::W.

KEYWORDS

tablelist, path name, binding script

The tablelist::convEventFields Command

NAME

tablelist::convEventFields - Convert event fields relative to a descendant of a tablelist widget

SYNOPSIS

tablelist::convEventFields descendantPathName x y

DESCRIPTION

This command gets the path name of a tablelist widget and the x and y coordinates relative to the latter from the path name descendantPathName of one of its descendants and from the x and y coordinates x, y relative to this descendant.  The command returns these values as the components of a list consisting of three elements.

In a binding script, the descendant widget corresponds to the event field %W, which can be the tablelist's body, one of the separator frames, a label widget displaying an embedded image, or (a descendant of) an embedded window.  Likewise, the arguments x and y correspond to the event fields %x and %y.  The three elements of the list returned by the command are usually assigned to the help variables tablelist::W, tablelist::x, and tablelist::y, by using the statement

foreach {tablelist::W tablelist::x tablelist::y} \
    [tablelist::convEventFields %W %x %y] {}

KEYWORDS

tablelist, event fields, binding script