LabFrame is exactly like Frame and additionaly allows to
add a label to the frame.
WIDGET-OPTIONS
LabFrame supports the same options as the
Frame widget.
Additional options of LabFrame are:
-font => font
Specifies the label's font
-foreground => color
Specifies the label's foreground color
-label => text
The text of the label to be placed with the Frame.
-labelside => where
Where can be one of left, right, top, bottom or acrosstop.
The first four work as might be expected and place the label to the
left, right, above or below the frame respectively. The acrosstop
creates a grooved frame around the central frame and puts the label
near the northwest corner such that it appears to ``overwrite'' the
groove.
-labelvariable => scalar_ref
Specifies a reference to a variable and used as an
alternative to -label. If the value of the variable changes,
then the widget will be updated automatically to reflect the
change. Used like -textvariable.
ADVERTISED SUBWIDGETS
See ``Subwidget'' in Tk::mega how to use advertised widgets.
border
Frame used to display the border
frame
Frame used to create new LabFrame children.
label
Label used for displaying text
EXAMPLE
Run the following test program to see this in action:
use strict;
use Tk;
require Tk::LabFrame;
require Tk::LabEntry;
my $test = 'Test this';
my $mw = Tk::MainWindow->new;
my $f = $mw->LabFrame(-label => "This is a label",
-labelside => "acrosstop");
$f->LabEntry(-label => "Testing", -textvariable => \$test)->pack;
$f->pack;
Tk::MainLoop;
BUGS
Perhaps LabFrame should be subsumed within the generic pTk
labeled widget mechanism.
This code is derived from LabFrame.tcl and LabWidg.tcl in the Tix4.0
distribution by Ioi Lam. The code may be redistributed under the same
terms as Perl.
