TIP: 152
Title: New -detail Option for tk_messageBox
Version: $Revision: 1.7 $
Author: Mats Bengtsson <[email protected]>
State: Final
Type: Project
Tcl-Version: 8.5
Vote: Done
Created: 26-Aug-2003
Obsoletes: 25
Post-History:
Keywords: Tk
~ Abstract
This TIP proposes a new option for the '''tk_messageBox''' for text
that is less significant than the '''-message''' text.
~ Rationale
Several platforms have a native feature of alert dialogs that includes
messages with both a bold or large font, and a text in fine print,
which gives more detail to the actual message. Both Mac OS 8/9 and
Mac OS X include such a feature. This TIP suggests that this should
be intruduced on all platforms, with the text to be displayed in that
format specified using a new option '''-detail'''. In those cases where
it is not straightforward to distinguish between the '''-message''' and
'''-detail''' option contents, they should be combined into a single piece
of text in a way that makes sense on the platform.
~ Reference Implementation
The proposed change is now implemented as a loadable extension (in C)
on Mac OS X
[http://hem.fyristorg.com/matben/download/MovableAlerts.dmg].
The following images show the present (8.4.4) message box on AquaTk,
and the proposed one.
#image:152before This is the present tk_messageBox.
#image:152after This is the native tk_messageBox.
~ Copyright
This document has been placed in the public domain