Copyright © 2008, 2009 Arndt Roger Schneider

Gestalt Items 1.2
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Gestalt Items 1.2

Application Gestalt Items

Arndt Roger Schneider

<arndt.roger@web.de>

Copyright © 2008, 2009 Arndt Roger Schneider

This book is published under the Creative Common License.

The copyright holders make no representation about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided “as is” without expressed or implied warranty.

Trademark Notice

Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Windows 95 are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

Apple Inc., MacOS, OS X, AQUA, Xcode, iTunes are tradmarks of Apple Inc.

Bitstream, Bitstream Vera are trademarks of Bitstream Inc.

Higher level composite windows written in Tcl/Tk. With support for Ruby, Python, Lisp.

Predominantly based on Tk Canvas, PathCanvas or Zinc. Fully convertible into Scalable Vector Graphics.

Table of Contents

Revision Control
Requirements
Gestalt Items Installation
Software License

1. Introduction

Introduction

Usage (Disclaimer)

Goolbar Items at a Glance

Compared to Menus
Captions
Photo Icons
Glyphs
Vectors and embedded Controls

Goolbar Items

Command
Checkbutton and Radiobutton
Separator and Variable Space

Goolbar Properties
Common Item Properties
Command Properties
Radiobutton Properties
Checkbutton Properties
The Method Elements

Option Database Entries

3. Palettes

Introduction
Usage
Properties
Complexity and Limits

4. Customize Toolbar

Introduction
Usage
Properties

5. Editable Listbox

Introduction
Usage
Properties

Introduction

Stripes - Labels and Messages

Stripes and Frames

Stripes and Frame Groups

Active Controls

Introduction
Unsupported Tcl/Tk Properties
Button
Menubutton
Indicators
Groups
Groups managed by sibling Frames
Groups and AQUA®

Gestalt Items

Goolbar
Stripes and Gooleditor
Stripes and Galette
Stripes and Gistbox

Stripes and the Runtime Library

Rtl_gridwin
Rtl_combobox
Rtl_question
Rtl_chooseFont
Rtlxsizer and Rtlysizer
Rtl_mlistbox
Rtl_tabset

The »Template« Way

Stripes and Menus

Tk's Dialog under X Window System

Activate and Deactivate

How the Screen Shots were taken under X Window System

Focus Management

Complexity and Limits

Open Issues

7. Resolution

Introduction

Resolution and Images

Vector Graphics

An Vector Graphic Primeur

Vector Signature

Drawing window
Tags
Position: x and y
Vector Size

A. Reference

Gistbox — Create and manipulate gistbox windows
Goolbar — Create and manipulate goolbar windows
Galette — Create and manipulate galette windows
Zoolbar — Create and manipulate zoolbar windows
Gooleditor — Create and manipulate gooleditor windows
Gstripes — Create and manipulate gstripes windows

List of Figures

2.1. Goolbar AQUA® Selected
2.2. Goolbar AQUA® Unselected
2.3. Goolbar Inside Gooleditor
2.4. Goolbar Context Menu
2.5. Goolbar Internal Structure
2.6. An Active Command (1-Pressed)
2.7. A Selected Radiobutton featuring a Gradient
2.8. Goolbar Show and related Properties
2.9. Goolbar Decoration Properties
2.10. Goolbar Colour Properties
2.11. Common Item Properties
2.12. Command Property
2.13. Radiobutton Properties
2.14. Checkbutton Properties
2.15. Goolbar with »fullHeight«
2.16. Goolbar with Gradients
3.1. Galette for TkPath
3.2. Structure of a Galette
3.3. Galette Properties
3.4. Disabled Galette
4.1. Gooleditor
4.2. Gooleditor Properties
4.3. Another X11 Gooleditor
5.1. Gistbox
5.2. Gistbox Structure
5.3. Gistbox Colour Properties
5.4. Gistbox Listbox Properties
5.5. Gistbox Interaction Properties
5.6. Gistbox Geometry Properties
5.7. Gistbox Highlighting
6.1. A Contour
6.2. A Contour and constituting Frames
6.3. Contour with Splines
6.4. Three items using add
6.5. …displaying the added Frames
6.6. Three items using add and minus
6.7. Touching gridded Frames
6.8. Contour from touching Frames
6.9. A Button
6.10. A disabled Button
6.11. Focus Frame
6.12. An active Button
6.13. A Square Button
6.14. A Button with a red Border
6.15. A default Button
6.16. A disabled default Button
6.17. An active default Button with Focus
6.18. A Menubutton
6.19. An active Menubutton
6.20. A posted Menu
6.21. A disabled Menubutton
6.22. An active Menubutton with Focus
6.23. A centered Checkbutton
6.24. A selected left aligned Checkbutton
6.25. A disabled right aligned selected Checkbutton
6.26. An active left aligned Radiobutton with Focus
6.27. A selected centered Radiobutton
6.28. A disabled right aligned Radiobutton
6.29. An active Checkbutton
6.30. A right aligned active Checkbutton with Focus
6.31. Background Colour
6.32. Vanilla Tcl/Tk Radio-Group
6.33. A striped Radio-Group (The same as before)
6.34. A Button Group
6.35. A disabled Group
6.36. Using Background with Groups
6.37. A vanilla Tcl/Tk Group under AQUA®
6.38. A striped Group under AQUA®
6.39. Hand-crafted Gradients under AQUA®
6.40. A striped Gooleditor
6.41. Galette
6.42. Gistbox with Focus
6.43. Gistbox under AQUA® with Focus
6.44. A striped Rtl_gridwin
6.45. Rtl_combobox under X Window System
6.46. Rtl_combobox under AQUA®
6.47. Font Chooser under X Window System
6.48. Font Chooser under AQUA®
6.49. Rtlysizer with Gstripes
6.50. Rtlysizer with Gstripes under AQUA®
6.51. Cascading Rtl_mlistbox with aquahead
6.52. Rtl_tabset with a Radial Gradient
6.53. A striped Menu with Radiobuttons
6.54. A striped Menu with a Checkbutton
6.55. Sunken Gradient for Selection
6.56. tk_GetOpenFile with Gstripes
6.57. tk_messageBox with Gstripes
6.58. tk_messageBox with Gstripes and Tile
6.59. An Deactivated Dialog
A.1. Gistbox
A.2. Goolbar: Normal, Selection, Active, Focus
A.3. Goolbar: »Working« Active, Focus and Selected
A.4. Goolbar: »Generate« Disabled
A.5. Gooleditor

List of Examples

1. Extending auto_path
2.1. Activated Toggle Button
2.2. Create a named Goolbar item
2.3. Visible and Invisible Items
2.4. Foreground and Background Image
2.5. Vector Signature
2.6. Lisp Code to calculate Vector Icons
2.7. Separators and Variable Space
2.8. Query for Items
2.9. Toolbar using »fullHeight«
2.10. Toolbar using gradients
3.1. Accessing a Goolbar
4.1. customizeToolbar
4.2. A Customize Dialog
5.1. Instantiation
5.2. Instantiation with Rtl_mlistbox
5.3. Modifying the internal Rtl_mlistbox after Instantiation
5.4. Predefine the internal Rtl_mlistbox
5.5. Default »+« and »-« Commands
5.6. Single Entry Property
6.1. A »stripesCommand«
6.2. Using Gstripes
6.3. Hijacking a Message
6.4. Use The Map Event for hijacking
6.5. Custom Contour Signature
6.6. Custom Contour Inner Contour
6.7. Custom Hollow Contour
6.8. Contours
6.9. Notify about modified Property
6.10. An Image from a Bitmap
6.11. Redefine Button Radius
6.12. Radiobutton State Changed
6.13. Making of a Radio group
6.14. Sibling Management
6.15. Hijacking sibling groups
6.16. Manipulating The Gstripes Cache
6.17. Goolbar with Gstripes
6.18. Activate Gstripes for Gistbox
6.19. Activate Gstripes for a Rtl_gridwin
6.20. An adjustCommand for Rtl_gridwin
6.21. The default layout for Rtl_gridwin
6.22. AQUA® Column Header
6.23. Radial Gradients in a Rtl_tabset
6.24. Namespace and Window Class
6.25. Using indices with stripes
6.26. Modifying hijacked windows
6.27. Mixed Stripes
6.28. Defining a Glyph
6.29. Active and disabled Images
6.30. Keyboard keys and Accelerators
6.31. Package gstripestkfdialog
6.32. Package gstripesdialog
6.33. A tk_messageBox
6.34. Layout definition for tk_messageBox
6.35. Traversing a Window hierarchy
6.36. FocusIn
6.37. FocusOut
6.38. Using Focus and traverso
6.39. FocusIn
6.40. FocusOut
6.41. nilstripes for High Performance
6.42. Disable Gstripes Completely
6.43. Disable Gstripes Selectively
7.1. Pimage shrink and zoom
7.2. tk scaling
7.3. TkPath Transformation
7.4. TkZinc 3.3.6 transformation
7.5. Font size in Pixels
7.6. Using Resolution Independent Measurement
7.7. Test Resolution Independency
7.8. Using winfo pixels
7.9. A Zoolbar vector
7.10. Windows Embedded in Zinc
7.11. Windows Embedded in Tk Canvas
A.1. Standard »+« Command
A.2. Standard »-« Command
A.3. Notify after modifications
A.4. gistbox uses Rtl_mlistbox
A.5. Rtl_mlistbox uses Hugelist
A.6. Single Entry Property
A.7. Implicit Visible Items
A.8. Explicit Visible Items
A.9. Hide Toolbar
A.10. Calling a Gooleditor
A.11. activeforeground inside of a vector ...«
A.12. ...focus-ring management inside of a vector ...
A.13. Using add of goolbar
A.14. Implicit Visible Items
A.15. Explicit Visible Items
A.16. Calling a Gooleditor
A.17. Hide Toolbar
A.18. Implicit Visible Items
A.19. Explicit Visible Items
A.20. Hide Toolbar
A.21. Calling a Gooleditor
A.22. Use nilstripes for high Performance
A.23. An adjustCommand for Rtl_gridwin
A.24. Indicators

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