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dateentry - Create and manipulate a dateentry widget

Synopsis

dateentry pathName ?options?

Inheritance

itk::Widget <- LabeledWidget <- Datefield <- Dateentry

Standard Options

background borderWidth cursor exportSelection

foreground
highlightColor highlightThicknessinsertBackground
justify
relief

See the «options» manual entry for details on the standard

options.

Inherited Options

disabledForeground
labelBitmap labelFontlabelImage labelMargin labelPos labelText labelVariable state

See the «labeledwidget» class manual entry for details on these

inherited options.
command iq state textBackground textFont

See the «datefield» class manual entry for details on these

inherited options.

Associated Options

backwardImage buttonForeground commandcurrentDateFont dateFont dayFont days forwardImage

outline
selectColor selectThickness startDay titleFont weekdayBackground weekendBackground

See the «calendar» manual entry for details on the associated

options.

Widget-specific Options

Name: grab

Class: Grab

Command-Line Switch: -grab

Specifies the grab level, local or global, to be obtained before

bringing up the popup calendar. The default is global. For more information concerning grab levels, consult the documentation for

Tk's grab command.

Name: icon

Class: Icon

Command-Line Switch: -icon

Specifies the calendar icon image to be used in the dateentry.

This image must have been created previously with the image cre-

ate command. Should one not be provided, then one will be gener- ated, pixmap if possible, bitmap otherwise.
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Description

The dateentry command creates a quicken style date entry field

with a popup calendar by combining the datefield and calendar widgets together. This allows a user to enter the date via the keyboard or by using the mouse and selecting the calendar icon which brings up a popup calendar.

Methods

The dateentry command creates a new Tcl command whose name is

pathName. This command may be used to invoke various operations on the widget. It has the following general form:

Option and the args determine the exact behavior of the command.

The following commands are possible for dateentry widgets:

Inherited Methods

get
isvalid show

See the «datefield» manual entry for details on the associated

methods.

Widget-specific Methods

pathName cget option

Returns the current value of the configuration option given by

option. Option may have any of the values accepted by the dateentry command.
pathName configure ?option? ?value option value ...?

Query or modify the configuration options of the widget. If no

option is specified, returns a list describing all of the avail- able options for pathName (see Tk_ConfigureInfo for information on the format of this list). If option is specified with no value, 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 option is specified). If one or more option-value 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. Option may have any of the values accepted by the dateentry command.

Components

Name: label

Class: Label

The label component provides a label component to used to iden-

tify the date. See the «label» widget manual entry for details on the label component item.

Name: iconbutton

Class: Label

The iconbutton component provides a labelbutton component to act

as a lightweight button displaying the calendar icon. Upon pressing the labelbutton, the calendar appears. See the «label" widget manual entry for details on the labelbutton component item.

Name: date

Class: Entry

The date component provides the entry field for date input and

display. See the «entry» widget manual entry for details on the date component item.

Example

dateentry .de
pack .de

Author

Mark L. Ulferts

Keywords

dateentry, widget

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