Interactive Tablelist Cell Editing Using the Tsw Package

For Tablelist Version 7.8

by

Csaba Nemethi

csaba.nemethi@t-online.de

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Overview

The toggle switch widget package Tsw is a library extension for Tcl/Tk versions 8.6 or higher, written in pure Tcl/Tk code.  Its download location is

https://www.nemethi.de

Tablelist supports interactive cell editing with the aid of the toggleswitch widget implemented in the package mentioned above.  The steps needed for using this widget for editing the cells of a given column are as follows:

  1. Register the toggleswitch widget for interactive cell editing by invoking the tablelist::addToggleswitch command described below.
  2. Use the tablelist widget's columnconfigure subcommand to set the given column's -editable option to true and its -editwindow option to the value returned by the command mentioned above.  (These options are supported at cell level, too, with the aid of the cellconfigure subcommand.)

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The tablelist::addToggleswitch Command

NAME
tablelist::addToggleswitch – Register the toggleswitch widget for interactive cell editing
SYNOPSIS
tablelist::addToggleswitch ?name?
DESCRIPTION
This command registers the toggleswitch widget for interactive cell editing in tablelist widgets.  The optional argument specifies the name to be used for the toggleswitch widget as the value of the -editwindow column or cell configuration option.  It may be any string that is different from the Tk core and tile edit window names.  The default is toggleswitch.  The command returns its name argument.
The temporary embedded toggleswitch widget used for interactive cell editing will be created with its -size option set to 1.  You can use the script corresponding to the -editstartcommand tablelist configuration option to override the initial settings according to your needs.
KEYWORDS
tablelist, editing, Tsw, toggleswitch

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