Overview of Item Types

Button Items

Button items are widgets that can be pressed and let go. If the pointer is over the button when the mouse button is released, an associated script will be fired. Buttons are created with widget commands of the following form:

pathName create button [option value option value ...]
Buttons are one of several widgets that are designed to mirror the functionality and usage of the standard widgets in Java's Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT). When buttons are created, they automatically get the tag "Button". Buttons have default event handlers which define their behavior. These event handlers are defined on the tag "Button" for the "Run" event mode. See the section on Default Bindings for more details about the event bindings.

The following options are supported for buttons:

-command [14] Callback that is executed when button is pressed

-fill [23] Specifies fill color of button

-font [24] Specifies font to use for text

-pen [45] Specifies pen color of button

-relief [49] Specifies how border should be rendered (raised, flat, sunken, ridge, groove)

-state [53] State of the button (normal, active, or disabled)

-text [56] The text of the button

Pad++ Reference Manual - 20 JUN 1997

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