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entry(n)		     Tk Built-In Commands		      entry(n)

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NAME
       entry - Create and manipulate entry widgets

SYNOPSIS
       entry pathName ?options?

STANDARD OPTIONS
       -background	     -highlightbackground -insertontime-selectforeground
       -borderwidth	     -highlightcolor	  -insertwidth-takefocus
       -cursor		     -highlightthickness  -justify-textvariable
       -exportselection	     -insertbackground	  -relief-xscrollcommand
       -font		     -insertborderwidth	  -selectbackground
       -foreground	     -insertofftime	  -selectborderwidth

       See the options manual entry for details on the standard options.

WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
       [-invalidcommand	 or -invcmd invalidCommand] Specifies a script to eval │
       when validateCommand returns 0.	Setting it to {} disables this feature │
       (the  default).	The best use of this option is to set it to bell.  See │
       Validation below for more information.  [-show show] If this option  is
       specified, then the true contents of the entry are not displayed in the
       window.	Instead, each character in the entry's value will be displayed
       as  the	first  character  in  the value of this option, such as ``*''.
       This is useful, for example, if the entry is to	be  used  to  enter  a
       password.   If  characters  in  the entry are selected and copied else‐
       where, the information copied will be what is displayed, not  the  true
       contents	 of the entry.	[-state state] Specifies one of two states for
       the entry:  normal or disabled.	If the	entry  is  disabled  then  the
       value  may not be changed using widget commands and no insertion cursor
       will be displayed, even if the input focus is in the  widget.   [-vali‐ │
       date validate]  Specifies  the mode in which validation should operate: │
       none, focus, focusin, focusout, key, or	all.   It  defaults  to	 none. │
       When you want validation, you must explicitly state which mode you wish │
       to  use.	  See  Validation  below  for  more.	[-validatecommand   or │
       -vcmd validateCommand] Specifies a script to eval when you want to val‐ │
       idate the input into the entry widget.  Setting it to {} disables  this │
       feature	(the  default).	  This command must return a valid tcl boolean │
       value.  If it returns 0 (or the valid tcl boolean equivalent)  then  it │
       means you reject the new edition and it will not occur and the invalid‐ │
       Command will be evaluated if it is set. If it returns 1, then  the  new │
       edition	 occurs.    See	  Validation   below   for  more  information.
       [-width width] Specifies an integer value indicating the desired	 width
       of  the	entry window, in average-size characters of the widget's font.
       If the value is less than or equal to zero, the	widget	picks  a  size
       just large enough to hold its current text.
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DESCRIPTION
       The entry command creates a new window (given by the pathName argument)
       and makes it into  an  entry  widget.   Additional  options,  described
       above,  may  be specified on the command line or in the option database
       to configure aspects of the entry such as its colors, font, and relief.
       The entry command returns its pathName argument.	 At the time this com‐
       mand is invoked, there must not exist  a	 window	 named	pathName,  but
       pathName's parent must exist.

       An  entry  is  a widget that displays a one-line text string and allows
       that string to be edited using widget commands described	 below,	 which
       are  typically  bound to keystrokes and mouse actions.  When first cre‐
       ated, an entry's string is empty.   A  portion  of  the	entry  may  be
       selected	 as  described	below.	If an entry is exporting its selection
       (see the exportSelection option), then it will observe the standard X11
       protocols  for  handling the selection;	entry selections are available
       as type STRING.	Entries also observe the standard Tk rules for dealing
       with the input focus.  When an entry has the input focus it displays an
       insertion cursor to indicate where new characters will be inserted.

       Entries are capable of displaying strings that  are  too	 long  to  fit
       entirely	 within	 the widget's window.  In this case, only a portion of
       the string will be displayed;  commands described below may be used  to
       change the view in the window.  Entries use the standard xScrollCommand
       mechanism for interacting with scrollbars (see the description  of  the
       xScrollCommand  option  for  details).	They also support scanning, as
       described below.

VALIDATION								       │
       Validation works by setting the	validateCommand	 option	 to  a	script │
       which will be evaluated according to the validate option as follows:    │

       none								       │
		 Default.  This means no validation will occur.		       │

       focus								       │
		 validateCommand  will	be  called  when the entry receives or │
		 loses focus.						       │

       focusin								       │
		 validateCommand will be called when the entry receives focus. │

       focusout								       │
		 validateCommand will be called when the entry loses focus.    │

       key								       │
		 validateCommand will be called when the entry is edited.      │

       all								       │
		 validateCommand will be called for all above conditions.      │

       It is posible to perform percent substitutions on  the  validateCommand │
       and  invalidCommand, just as you would in a bind script.	 The following │
       substitutions are recognized:					       │

       %d								       │
	    Type of action: 1 for insert, 0  for  delete,  or  -1  for	focus, │
	    forced or textvariable validation.				       │

       %i								       │
	    Index of char string to be inserted/deleted, if any, otherwise -1. │

       %P								       │
	    The value of the entry should edition occur.  If you are configur‐ │
	    ing the entry widget to have a new textvariable, this will be  the │
	    value of that textvariable.					       │

       %s								       │
	    The current value of entry before edition.			       │

       %S								       │
	    The text string being inserted/deleted, if any, {} otherwise.      │

       %v								       │
	    The type of validation currently set.			       │

       %V								       │
	    The	 type of validation that triggered the callback (key, focusin, │
	    focusout, forced).						       │

       %W								       │
	    The name of the entry widget.				       │

       In general, the textVariable and validateCommand can  be	 dangerous  to │
       mix.  Any problems have been overcome so that using the validateCommand │
       will not interfere with the traditional behavior of the	entry  widget. │
       Using  the  textVariable	 for read-only purposes will never cause prob‐ │
       lems.  The danger comes when you try set the textVariable to  something │
       that  the  validateCommand  would  not accept, which causes validate to │
       become none (the invalidCommand will not be triggered).	The same  hap‐ │
       pens when an error occurs evaluating the validateCommand.	       │

       Primarily,  an error will occur when the validateCommand or invalidCom‐ │
       mand encounters an error in its script while evaluating or validateCom‐ │
       mand  does  not	return a valid tcl boolean value.  The validate option │
       will also set itself to none when you edit the entry widget from within │
       either  the  validateCommand or the invalidCommand.  Such editions will │
       override the one that was being validated.  If you  wish	 to  edit  the │
       entry  widget  (for  example  set it to {}) during validation and still │
       have the validate option set, you should include the command	       │
		   after idle {%W config -validate %v}			       │
       in the validateCommand or invalidCommand (whichever one you were	 edit‐ │
       ing the entry widget from).  It is also recommended to not set an asso‐ │
       ciated textVariable during validation, as that can cause the entry wid‐ │
       get to become out of sync with the textVariable.

WIDGET COMMAND
       The  entry  command  creates  a new Tcl command whose name is pathName.
       This command may be used to invoke various operations  on  the  widget.
       It has the following general form:
	      pathName option ?arg arg ...?
       Option and the args determine the exact behavior of the command.

       Many  of	 the  widget  commands for entries take one or more indices as
       arguments.  An index specifies a particular character  in  the  entry's
       string, in any of the following ways:

       number	   Specifies  the character as a numerical index, where 0 cor‐
		   responds to the first character in the string.

       anchor	   Indicates the anchor point for the selection, which is  set
		   with the select from and select adjust widget commands.

       end	   Indicates  the  character  just  after  the last one in the
		   entry's string.  This is equivalent to specifying a numeri‐
		   cal index equal to the length of the entry's string.

       insert	   Indicates the character adjacent to and immediately follow‐
		   ing the insertion cursor.

       sel.first   Indicates the first character in the selection.  It	is  an
		   error  to use this form if the selection isn't in the entry
		   window.

       sel.last	   Indicates the character just after  the  last  one  in  the
		   selection.	It  is an error to use this form if the selec‐
		   tion isn't in the entry window.

       @number	   In this form, number is treated as an x-coordinate  in  the
		   entry's  window;   the character spanning that x-coordinate
		   is used.  For example, ``@0'' indicates the left-most char‐
		   acter in the window.

       Abbreviations  may  be  used  for any of the forms above, e.g. ``e'' or
       ``sel.f''.  In general, out-of-range indices are automatically  rounded
       to the nearest legal value.

       The following commands are possible for entry widgets:

       pathName bbox index
	      Returns  a  list	of four numbers describing the bounding box of
	      the character given by index.  The first	two  elements  of  the
	      list  give  the  x and y coordinates of the upper-left corner of
	      the screen area covered by the character (in pixels relative  to
	      the  widget) and the last two elements give the width and height
	      of the character, in pixels.  The bounding box may  refer	 to  a
	      region outside the visible area of the window.

       pathName cget option
	      Returns  the  current value of the configuration option given by
	      option.  Option may have any of the values accepted by the entry
	      command.

       pathName configure ?option? ?value option value ...?
	      Query  or modify the configuration options of the widget.	 If no
	      option is specified, returns a list describing all of the avail‐
	      able  options for pathName (see Tk_ConfigureInfo for information
	      on the format of this list).  If option  is  specified  with  no
	      value,  then the command returns a list describing the one named
	      option (this list will be identical to the corresponding sublist
	      of  the  value  returned	if no option is specified).  If one or
	      more option-value pairs are specified, then the command modifies
	      the  given widget option(s) to have the given value(s);  in this
	      case the command returns an empty string.	 Option may  have  any
	      of the values accepted by the entry command.

       pathName delete first ?last?
	      Delete one or more elements of the entry.	 First is the index of
	      the first character to delete, and last  is  the	index  of  the
	      character	 just  after  the  last	 one to delete.	 If last isn't
	      specified it defaults to first+1, i.e.  a	 single	 character  is
	      deleted.	This command returns an empty string.

       pathName get
	      Returns the entry's string.

       pathName icursor index
	      Arrange for the insertion cursor to be displayed just before the
	      character given by index.	 Returns an empty string.

       pathName index index
	      Returns the numerical index corresponding to index.

       pathName insert index string
	      Insert the characters of string just before the character	 indi‐
	      cated by index.  Returns an empty string.

       pathName scan option args
	      This  command  is used to implement scanning on entries.	It has
	      two forms, depending on option:

	      pathName scan mark x
		     Records x and the current view in the entry window;  used
		     in	 conjunction  with  later scan dragto commands.	 Typi‐
		     cally this command is  associated	with  a	 mouse	button
		     press in the widget.  It returns an empty string.

	      pathName scan dragto x
		     This  command computes the difference between its x argu‐
		     ment and the x argument to the last scan mark command for
		     the widget.  It then adjusts the view left or right by 10
		     times the difference in x-coordinates.  This  command  is
		     typically associated with mouse motion events in the wid‐
		     get, to produce the effect of dragging the entry at  high
		     speed  through  the window.  The return value is an empty
		     string.

       pathName selection option arg
	      This command is used to adjust the selection  within  an	entry.
	      It has several forms, depending on option:

	      pathName selection adjust index
		     Locate  the end of the selection nearest to the character
		     given by index, and adjust that end of the	 selection  to
		     be	 at  index (i.e including but not going beyond index).
		     The other end of the selection is made the	 anchor	 point
		     for  future  select  to commands.	If the selection isn't
		     currently in the entry, then a new selection  is  created
		     to	 include  the  characters  between  index and the most
		     recent selection anchor  point,  inclusive.   Returns  an
		     empty string.

	      pathName selection clear
		     Clear  the	 selection  if it is currently in this widget.
		     If the selection isn't in this widget  then  the  command
		     has no effect.  Returns an empty string.

	      pathName selection from index
		     Set the selection anchor point to just before the charac‐
		     ter  given	 by  index.   Doesn't  change  the  selection.
		     Returns an empty string.

	      pathName selection present
		     Returns  1	 if  there  is	are characters selected in the
		     entry, 0 if nothing is selected.

	      pathName selection range start end
		     Sets the selection to  include  the  characters  starting
		     with  the	one  indexed  by start and ending with the one
		     just before end.  If end refers to the same character  as
		     start  or	an  earlier one, then the entry's selection is
		     cleared.

	      pathName selection to index
		     If index is before the anchor point, set the selection to
		     the  characters  from  index  up to but not including the
		     anchor point.  If index is the same as the anchor	point,
		     do	 nothing.  If index is after the anchor point, set the
		     selection to the characters from the anchor point	up  to
		     but  not including index.	The anchor point is determined
		     by the most recent select from or select  adjust  command
		     in	 this  widget.	 If the selection isn't in this widget
		     then a new selection is created  using  the  most	recent
		     anchor  point specified for the widget.  Returns an empty
		     string.

       pathName validate						       │
	      This command is used to force an evaluation of the  validateCom‐ │
	      mand  independent	 of  the  conditions specified by the validate │
	      option.  This is done by temporarily setting the validate option │
	      to all.  It returns 0 or 1.

       pathName xview args
	      This command is used to query and change the horizontal position
	      of the text in the widget's window.  It can take any of the fol‐
	      lowing forms:

	      pathName xview
		     Returns  a list containing two elements.  Each element is
		     a real fraction between 0 and 1;  together they  describe
		     the  horizontal  span that is visible in the window.  For
		     example, if the first element is .2 and the  second  ele‐
		     ment  is .6, 20% of the entry's text is off-screen to the
		     left, the middle 40% is visible in the window, and 40% of
		     the  text is off-screen to the right.  These are the same
		     values  passed  to	 scrollbars  via  the  -xscrollcommand
		     option.

	      pathName xview index
		     Adjusts  the  view	 in  the  window so that the character
		     given by index is displayed at the left edge of the  win‐
		     dow.

	      pathName xview moveto fraction
		     Adjusts  the  view	 in  the  window so that the character
		     fraction of the way through the text appears at the  left
		     edge  of the window.  Fraction must be a fraction between
		     0 and 1.

	      pathName xview scroll number what
		     This command shifts the view in the window left or	 right
		     according to number and what.  Number must be an integer.
		     What must be either units or pages or an abbreviation  of
		     one of these.  If what is units, the view adjusts left or
		     right by number average-width characters on the  display;
		     if	 it  is	 pages then the view adjusts by number screen‐
		     fuls.  If number is negative then characters  farther  to
		     the  left become visible;	if it is positive then charac‐
		     ters farther to the right become visible.

DEFAULT BINDINGS
       Tk automatically creates class bindings for entries that give them  the
       following default behavior.  In the descriptions below, ``word'' refers
       to a contiguous group of letters, digits, or ``_'' characters,  or  any
       single character other than these.

       [1]    Clicking	mouse  button  1  positions  the insertion cursor just
	      before the character underneath the mouse cursor, sets the input
	      focus  to	 this  widget, and clears any selection in the widget.
	      Dragging with mouse button 1 strokes out a selection between the
	      insertion cursor and the character under the mouse.

       [2]    Double-clicking  with  mouse button 1 selects the word under the
	      mouse and positions the insertion cursor at the beginning of the
	      word.  Dragging after a double click will stroke out a selection
	      consisting of whole words.

       [3]    Triple-clicking with mouse button 1 selects all of the  text  in
	      the  entry  and  positions the insertion cursor before the first
	      character.

       [4]    The ends of the selection can be adjusted by dragging with mouse
	      button  1 while the Shift key is down;  this will adjust the end
	      of the selection that was nearest to the mouse cursor when  but‐
	      ton 1 was pressed.  If the button is double-clicked before drag‐
	      ging then the selection will  be	adjusted  in  units  of	 whole
	      words.

       [5]    Clicking	mouse button 1 with the Control key down will position
	      the insertion cursor in the entry without affecting  the	selec‐
	      tion.

       [6]    If  any  normal  printing characters are typed in an entry, they
	      are inserted at the point of the insertion cursor.

       [7]    The view in the entry can be adjusted  by	 dragging  with	 mouse
	      button  2.   If  mouse  button  2	 is clicked without moving the
	      mouse, the selection is copied into the entry at the position of
	      the mouse cursor.

       [8]    If  the  mouse  is dragged out of the entry on the left or right
	      sides while button 1 is pressed, the  entry  will	 automatically
	      scroll  to  make	more  text visible (if there is more text off-
	      screen on the side where the mouse left the window).

       [9]    The Left and Right keys move the insertion cursor one  character
	      to  the  left  or	 right;	  they also clear any selection in the
	      entry and set the selection anchor.  If Left or Right  is	 typed
	      with the Shift key down, then the insertion cursor moves and the
	      selection is extended to include the  new	 character.   Control-
	      Left  and	 Control-Right move the insertion cursor by words, and
	      Control-Shift-Left and Control-Shift-Right  move	the  insertion
	      cursor  by  words	 and also extend the selection.	 Control-b and
	      Control-f behave the  same  as  Left  and	 Right,	 respectively.
	      Meta-b  and  Meta-f behave the same as Control-Left and Control-
	      Right, respectively.

       [10]   The Home key, or Control-a, will move the	 insertion  cursor  to
	      the beginning of the entry and clear any selection in the entry.
	      Shift-Home moves the insertion cursor to the  beginning  of  the
	      entry and also extends the selection to that point.

       [11]   The End key, or Control-e, will move the insertion cursor to the
	      end of the entry and clear any selection in the  entry.	Shift-
	      End  moves  the  cursor  to the end and extends the selection to
	      that point.

       [12]   The Select key and Control-Space set the selection anchor to the
	      position of the insertion cursor.	 They don't affect the current
	      selection.   Shift-Select	 and  Control-Shift-Space  adjust  the
	      selection	 to  the  current  position  of	 the insertion cursor,
	      selecting from the anchor to the insertion cursor if  there  was
	      not any selection previously.

       [13]   Control-/ selects all the text in the entry.

       [14]   Control-\ clears any selection in the entry.

       [15]   The  F16	key (labelled Copy on many Sun workstations) or Meta-w
	      copies the selection in the widget to the clipboard, if there is
	      a selection.

       [16]   The F20 key (labelled Cut on many Sun workstations) or Control-w
	      copies the selection in the widget to the clipboard and  deletes
	      the  selection.	If  there  is  no selection in the widget then
	      these keys have no effect.

       [17]   The F18 key (labelled Paste on many Sun  workstations)  or  Con‐
	      trol-y  inserts the contents of the clipboard at the position of
	      the insertion cursor.

       [18]   The Delete key deletes the selection, if there  is  one  in  the
	      entry.   If  there  is no selection, it deletes the character to
	      the right of the insertion cursor.

       [19]   The BackSpace key and Control-h delete the selection,  if	 there
	      is  one  in the entry.  If there is no selection, it deletes the
	      character to the left of the insertion cursor.

       [20]   Control-d deletes the character to the right  of	the  insertion
	      cursor.

       [21]   Meta-d deletes the word to the right of the insertion cursor.

       [22]   Control-k	 deletes all the characters to the right of the inser‐
	      tion cursor.

       [23]   Control-t reverses the order of the two characters to the	 right
	      of the insertion cursor.

       If the entry is disabled using the -state option, then the entry's view
       can still be adjusted and text in the entry can still be selected,  but
       no  insertion  cursor  will be displayed and no text modifications will
       take place.

       The behavior of entries can be changed by  defining  new	 bindings  for
       individual widgets or by redefining the class bindings.

KEYWORDS
       entry, widget

ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────┐
       │  ATTRIBUTE TYPE    │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
       ├────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
       │Availability	    │ SUNWTk	      │
       ├────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
       │Interface Stability │ External	      │
       └────────────────────┴─────────────────┘
NOTES
       Source for Tk is available in the SUNWTkS package.

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