NAME

Tk::LabFrame - labeled frame.

SYNOPSIS

    use Tk::LabFrame;
    $f = $top->LabFrame(-label => "Something",
                        -labelside => 'acrosstop');

DESCRIPTION

LabFrame is exactly like Frame except that it takes two additional options:

-label The text of the label to be placed with the Frame.

-labelside Can be one of left, right, top, bottom or acrosstop. The first four work as might be expected and place the label to the left, right, above or below the frame respectively. The last one creates a grooved frame around the central frame and puts the label near the northwest corner such that it appears to "overwrite" the groove. Run the following test program to see this in action:

    use Tk;
    require Tk::LabFrame;
    require Tk::LabEntry;

    my $test = 'Test this';
    $top = MainWindow->new;
    my $f = $top->LabFrame(-label => "This is a label",
                           -labelside => "acrosstop");
    $f->LabEntry(-label => "Testing", -textvariable => \$test)->pack;
    $f->pack;
    MainLoop;
    

BUGS

Perhaps LabFrame should be subsumed within the generic pTk labeled widget mechanism.

AUTHOR

Rajappa Iyer rsi@earthling.net

This code is derived from LabFrame.tcl and LabWidg.tcl in the Tix4.0 distribution by Ioi Lam. The code may be redistributed under the same terms as Perl.