TIP:		152
Title:		New -detail Option for tk_messageBox
Version:	$Revision: 1.7 $
Author:		Mats Bengtsson <matben@privat.utfors.se>
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
