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See docs at http://incrtcl.sourceforge.net/iwidgets/iwidgets/notebook.html and http://purl.org/tcl/home/man/iwidgets3.0/notebook.n.html

See also Notebook App.

BWidgets has a notebook widget as well. Michael McLennan wrote one for the BOOK Effective Tcl - Writing Better Programs in Tcl and Tk - source code available at [L1 ]. Also Donal Fellows has written a notebook [L2 ]. RS used the BWidget "page manager" to create a vertical-tab notebook, which conveniently can hold e.g. 26 single-letter tabs.

Rohan Pall Wow, this page is popular ;) So here's my two cents: I keep examples of each little Tcl/Tk component. This way I don't forget how to do something. Here is my BWidgets NoteBook example. If I remember correctly, I think I learnt this from Bryan Oakley in a comp.lang.tcl newsgroup posting.

BWidgets is an excellent package.

The code has been tested with BWidget 1.4.1 on

Windows98 the first release, not second edition
a custom version of Linux (means I don't remember what I did to it ;)

  package require BWidget

  set nb [NoteBook .nb -side top]
  $nb insert 0 foo -text "foo"
  $nb insert 1 bar -text "bar"

  set pane [$nb getframe foo]
  label $pane.hello -text "hello world"
  pack $pane.hello -fill both -expand 1

  set pane [$nb getframe bar]
  button $pane.fizz -text testing
  pack $pane.fizz -fill both -expand true

  pack $nb -fill both -expand 1
  $nb raise foo

Michael Jacobson Oct 8, 2002 ~ I was trying to get the BWidgets NoteBook to work with a popup menu displayed on the active tab when you right clicked on the tab. I thought I would document how to do it below.

 package require BWidget

 ## create a notebook with 2 text panes
 NoteBook .n
 .n insert 0 text1 -text Text1
 .n insert 1 text2 -text Text2
 foreach panel {text1 text2} {
        set pane [.n getframe $panel]
        text $pane.t
        pack $pane.t -fill both -expand 1
 }
 pack .n
 .n raise text1

 ## make a popup menu for the tabs (just add commands)
 menu .popup -tearoff 0 -activeborderwidth 0
 .popup add command -label "mess 1" -command [list puts "in mess 1"]
 .popup add command -label "mess 2" -command [list puts "in mess 2"]
 .popup add separator
 .popup add command -label "mess n" -command [list puts "in mess n"] 

 ## bind right mouse button to the popup menus
 .n bindtabs <Button-3> [list popup .popup %X %Y]

 proc popup {win X Y pane} {
        # check to see if current click is on the top tab
        if {[string equal [.n raise] $pane]} {
                tk_popup $win $X $Y
        }
 }

Pure Tcl/Tk code notebook from D. Richard Hipp The source text is about 210 lines (not counting the 40 lines or so of code needed to implement the demo.) The widget will run on Tk4.1 or later. [But it doesn't avail itself of namespaces?]

http://www.hwaci.com/sw/tk/notebook.tcl

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