A Balloon
that pops up over a widget to provide help. When the user moves the
cursor inside a widget to which a Balloon widget has been bound, a
small pop-up window with a descriptive message will be shown on the
screen.
The ComboBox
widget is similar to the combo box control in MS Windows. The user can
select a choice by either typing in the entry subwdget or selecting
from the listbox subwidget.
The Control
widget is also known as the SpinBox widget. The user can
adjust the value by pressing the two arrow buttons or by entering the
value directly into the entry. The new value will be checked against
the user-defined upper and lower limits.
The LabelEntry
widget packages an entry widget and a label into one mega widget. It
can be used be used to simplify the creation of ``entry-form'' type of
interface.
The LabelFrame
widget packages a frame widget and a label into one mega widget. To
create widgets inside a LabelFrame widget, one creates the new widgets
relative to the frame subwidget and manage them inside the
frame subwidget.
The PopupMenu
widget can be used as a replacement of the tk_popup
command. The advantage of the TixPopupMenu widget
is it requires less application code to manipulate.