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'\" Copyright (c) 1990-1994 The Regents of the University of California.
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'\" Copyright (c) 1994-1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
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'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
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.so man.macros
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.TH message n 4.0 Tk "Tk Built-In Commands"
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.BS
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'\" Note: do not modify the .SH NAME line immediately below!
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.SH NAME
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message \- Create and manipulate message widgets
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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\fBmessage\fR \fIpathName \fR?\fIoptions\fR?
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.SO
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\-anchor \-background \-borderwidth
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\-cursor \-font \-foreground
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\-highlightbackground \-highlightcolor \-highlightthickness
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\-padx \-pady \-relief
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\-takefocus \-text \-textvariable
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.SE
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.SH "WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS"
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.OP \-aspect aspect Aspect
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Specifies a non-negative integer value indicating desired
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aspect ratio for the text. The aspect ratio is specified as
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100*width/height. 100 means the text should
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be as wide as it is tall, 200 means the text should
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be twice as wide as it is tall, 50 means the text should
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be twice as tall as it is wide, and so on.
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Used to choose line length for text if \fBwidth\fR option
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is not specified.
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Defaults to 150.
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.OP \-justify justify Justify
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Specifies how to justify lines of text.
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Must be one of \fBleft\fR, \fBcenter\fR, or \fBright\fR. Defaults
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to \fBleft\fR.
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This option works together with the \fBanchor\fR, \fBaspect\fR,
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\fBpadX\fR, \fBpadY\fR, and \fBwidth\fR options to provide a variety
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of arrangements of the text within the window.
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The \fBaspect\fR and \fBwidth\fR options determine the amount of
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screen space needed to display the text.
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The \fBanchor\fR, \fBpadX\fR, and \fBpadY\fR options determine where this
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rectangular area is displayed within the widget's window, and the
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\fBjustify\fR option determines how each line is displayed within that
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rectangular region.
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For example, suppose \fBanchor\fR is \fBe\fR and \fBjustify\fR is
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\fBleft\fR, and that the message window is much larger than needed
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for the text.
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The text will be displayed so that the left edges of all the lines
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line up and the right edge of the longest line is \fBpadX\fR from
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the right side of the window; the entire text block will be centered
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in the vertical span of the window.
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.OP \-width width Width
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Specifies the length of lines in the window.
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The value may have any of the forms acceptable to \fBTk_GetPixels\fR.
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If this option has a value greater than zero then the \fBaspect\fR
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option is ignored and the \fBwidth\fR option determines the line
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length.
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If this option has a value less than or equal to zero, then
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the \fBaspect\fR option determines the line length.
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.BE
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.PP
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The \fBmessage\fR command creates a new window (given by the
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\fIpathName\fR argument) and makes it into a message widget.
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Additional
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options, described above, may be specified on the command line
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or in the option database
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to configure aspects of the message such as its colors, font,
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text, and initial relief. The \fBmessage\fR command returns its
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\fIpathName\fR argument. At the time this command is invoked,
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there must not exist a window named \fIpathName\fR, but
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\fIpathName\fR's parent must exist.
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.PP
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A message is a widget that displays a textual string. A message
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widget has three special features. First, it breaks up
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its string into lines in order to produce a given aspect ratio
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for the window. The line breaks are chosen at word boundaries
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wherever possible (if not even a single word would fit on a
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line, then the word will be split across lines). Newline characters
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in the string will force line breaks; they can be used, for example,
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to leave blank lines in the display.
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.PP
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The second feature of a message widget is justification. The text
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may be displayed left-justified (each line starts at the left side of
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the window), centered on a line-by-line basis, or right-justified
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(each line ends at the right side of the window).
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.PP
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The third feature of a message widget is that it handles control
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characters and non-printing characters specially. Tab characters
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are replaced with enough blank space to line up on the next
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8-character boundary. Newlines cause line breaks. Other control
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characters (ASCII code less than 0x20) and characters not defined
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in the font are displayed as a four-character sequence \fB\ex\fIhh\fR where
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\fIhh\fR is the two-digit hexadecimal number corresponding to
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the character. In the unusual case where the font does not contain
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all of the characters in
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.QW 0123456789abcdef\ex
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then control characters and undefined characters are not displayed at all.
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.SH "WIDGET COMMAND"
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.PP
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The \fBmessage\fR command creates a new Tcl command whose
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name is \fIpathName\fR. This
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command may be used to invoke various
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operations on the widget. It has the following general form:
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.CS
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\fIpathName option \fR?\fIarg arg ...\fR?
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.CE
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\fIOption\fR and the \fIarg\fRs
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determine the exact behavior of the command. The following
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commands are possible for message widgets:
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.TP
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\fIpathName \fBcget\fR \fIoption\fR
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Returns the current value of the configuration option given
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by \fIoption\fR.
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\fIOption\fR may have any of the values accepted by the \fBmessage\fR
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command.
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.TP
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\fIpathName \fBconfigure\fR ?\fIoption\fR? ?\fIvalue option value ...\fR?
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Query or modify the configuration options of the widget.
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If no \fIoption\fR is specified, returns a list describing all of
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the available options for \fIpathName\fR (see \fBTk_ConfigureInfo\fR for
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information on the format of this list). If \fIoption\fR is specified
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with no \fIvalue\fR, then the command returns a list describing the
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one named option (this list will be identical to the corresponding
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sublist of the value returned if no \fIoption\fR is specified). If
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one or more \fIoption\-value\fR pairs are specified, then the command
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modifies the given widget option(s) to have the given value(s); in
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this case the command returns an empty string.
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\fIOption\fR may have any of the values accepted by the \fBmessage\fR
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command.
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.SH "DEFAULT BINDINGS"
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.PP
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When a new message is created, it has no default event bindings:
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messages are intended for output purposes only.
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.SH BUGS
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.PP
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Tabs do not work very well with text that is centered or right-justified.
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The most common result is that the line is justified wrong.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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label(n)
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.SH KEYWORDS
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message, widget
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