NAME

Tk::Multi::Manager - Tk composite widget managing Tk::Multi slaves

SYNOPSIS

 use Tk::Multi::Manager ;
 use Tk::Multi::Text ; # if you use MultiText as a slave

 my $manager = yourWindow -> MultiManager 
  (
   menu => $menu_ref , # optionnal
   title => "windows", # optionnal
   help => "Explain what your set of widget do" #optionnal
  ) -> pack ();

 # Don't pack it, the managet will do it
 my $w1 = $manager -> newSlave
  (
   'type' => 'MultiText', 
   'title' => 'a_label',
   help => "Explain what your slave widget does" #optionnal
  );

DESCRIPTION

The manager is a composite widget made of a menu cascade of check buttons and slaves which can be Tk::Multi::Text.

The user can add windows to the manager. Each window visibility is controled by a check button in the menu cascade. The check button actually tells the packer to forget the window. note that the window object is not destroyed.

The main menu bar will feature a 'Help' menu on the right. If the main help which explain the purpose of the Multi::Manager and its slaves is provided when creating the widget, the Help sub-menu will feature a 'global' label.

Each slave widget which is created with a help will have its own label in the help menu.

Multi widgets

This package features the following Multi widgets:

• Tk::Multi::Text
• Tk::Multi::Canvas
• Tk::Multi::Frame

Constructor configuration options

menu

The widget may use a 'menu' argument which will be used to create a menu item and releveant sub-menus to control the sub-window. If not provided, the widget will create a its own menu.

title

The optionnal title argument contains the title of the menu created by the manager.

help

The argument may be a string or a sub reference.

When the help menu is invoked, either the help string will be displayed in a Tk::Dialog box or the sub will be run. In this case it is the user's responsability to provide a readable help from the sub.

Methods

newSlave(...) ;

Create a new slave to manager. Returns the slave widget object. Parameters are:

• type: specifies the kind of Multi widget (e.g. MultiText).
• title: specifies the title of the widget (mandatory).
• before: specify that you want this new slave to be packed before (well, above) another widget. This parameter will be set to the 'title' of this other widget.
• side: when set to 'top', the widget will be packed on top of the others. (default to 'bottom').
• hidden: specifies whether the widget is to be packed right now or not (default 0)
• destroyable: a 'destroy' button is created if this parameter is defined (default no). Returns the slave widget reference.
• help: This argument may be specified like the help parameter defined above for the constructor.

getSlave('name of the slave');

Return the slave widget or undef.

hide('name of the slave');

Hide the slave.

show('name of the slave');

Show the slave.

destroySlave( 'name of the slave') ;

Destroy the slave

AUTHOR

Dominique Dumont, domi@komarr.grenoble.hp.com

Copyright (c) 1997-1998,2004 Dominique Dumont. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

perl(1), Tk(3), Tk::Multi::Text, Tk::Multi::Canvas, Tk::Multi::Frame, Tk::Multi::Toplevel