21、Exploring Tk and Tix Widgets: A Comprehensive Guide

Exploring Tk and Tix Widgets: A Comprehensive Guide

1. Introduction

Tk and Tix offer a wide range of interesting widget classes. This guide will introduce you to most of these widgets, their commonly used configuration options, and methods. To make it easier to look up properties and methods later, they are provided in a separate reference.

2. Widget Properties

2.1 Fonts

Font values can be specified in the XLFD format, which consists of 14 fields separated by hyphens. On the X Windows system, you can use utilities like fontsel and xlsfonts to find available font combinations. You mainly need to focus on the foundry, family, weight, slant, and points fields.

Here’s an example of setting the