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| TIP: | 152 |
| Title: | New -detail Option for tk_messageBox |
| Version: | $Revision: 1.4 $ |
| Author: | Mats Bengtsson <matben at privat dot utfors dot se> |
| State: | Draft |
| Type: | Project |
| Tcl-Version: | 8.5 |
| Vote: | In progress |
| Created: | Tuesday, 26 August 2003 |
| Obsoletes: | TIP #25 |
| Keywords: | Tk |
This TIP proposes a new option for the tk_messageBox for text that is less significant than the -message text.
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.
The proposed change is now implemented as a loadable extension (in C) on Mac OS X [1].
The follwing images show the present (8.4.4) message box on AquaTk, and the proposed one.
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This is not necessarily the current version of this TIP.