The tile theme engine is a compiled library extension for Tcl/Tk version 8.4 or higher. Beginning with Tk 8.5a6, tile is integrated into the Tk core. For earlier Tk versions it can be downloaded from the address
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tktable/
Tablelist supports interactive cell editing with the aid of the tile
entry, combobox, and checkbutton widgets, accessed as
ttk::entry, ttk::combobox, and
ttk::checkbutton, respectively. The version of the
tile package must be 0.6 or higher. Due to the rapidly growing
strategic importance of the tile library, these widgets are automatically
registered for cell editing, hence the only action needed for using one of
them for editing the cells of a given column is as follows:
Use the tablelist widget's columnconfigure
subcommand to set the given column's -editable option to true
and its -editwindow option to
ttk::entry, ttk::combobox, or
ttk::checkbutton, respectively. (These options are
supported at cell level, too, with the aid of the cellconfigure
subcommand.)
One known limitation of the currently available tile versions is that
the style theme use command can only be used
to set the current theme, but not to retrieve it. For this reason,
Tablelist makes use of the variable ttk::currentTheme or
tile::currentTheme (depending on the tile version), which
is set by the ttk::setTheme or
tile::setTheme procedure. From this it follows that
the tile widgets used for interactive cell editing will only be managed as
expected if the platform-specific default theme is either left unchanged or
replaced with another theme by invoking the procedure
ttk::currentTheme or tile::setTheme,
depending on the current tile version. (See also the tablelist::setTheme
command.)
-style option. Apart from its theme-specific
appearance, it behaves just like its Tk core counterpart.
If an application uses the tile entry widget for interactive cell editing and also the Wcb package (even if not for that widget), then the version of Wcb must be 3.1 or higher (because earlier Wcb releases didn't support any tile widgets).
-style option and with its -state
option set to normal, which makes the widget
editable. You can use the script corresponding to the
-editstartcommand
tablelist configuration option to set the state of the combobox to
readonly or define validations for it, as well as for
populating its listbox component (with the aid of the combobox widget's
-values option).
If an application uses the tile combobox widget for interactive cell editing and also the Wcb package (even if not for that widget), then the version of Wcb must be 3.1 or higher (because earlier Wcb releases didn't support any tile widgets).
-style and -variable options.
You can use the script corresponding to the -editstartcommand
tablelist configuration option to set any other configuration options, like
-offvalue and -onvalue, according
to the internal values of the cells. Since the default values
of the -offvalue and -onvalue tile
checkbutton options are 0 and 1, you don't need
to change these options if the cells have the same internal values
0 and 1.