NAME
       toplevel - Create and manipulate toplevel widgets

SYNOPSIS
       toplevel pathName ?options?

STANDARD OPTIONS
       -borderwidth          -highlightcolor      -pady
       -cursor               -highlightthickness  -relief
       -highlightbackground  -padx                -takefocus

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

WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
       Command-Line Name:-background
       Database Name:  background
       Database Class: Background

              This option is the same as the standard background option except
              that its value may also be specified as  an  empty  string.   In
              this  case, the widget will display no background or border, and
              no colors will be consumed from its colormap for its  background
              and border.

       Command-Line Name:-class
       Database Name:  class
       Database Class: Class

              Specifies  a class for the window.  This class will be used when
              querying the option database for the window's other options, and
              it  will also be used later for other purposes such as bindings.
              The class option may not be changed with  the  configure  widget
              command.

       Command-Line Name:-colormap
       Database Name:  colormap
       Database Class: Colormap

              Specifies  a  colormap  to use for the window.  The value may be
              either new, in which case a new colormap is created for the win-
              dow  and its children, or the name of another window (which must
              be on the same screen and have the same visual as pathName),  in
              which  case the new window will use the colormap from the speci-
              fied window.  If the colormap option is not specified,  the  new
              window uses the default colormap of its screen.  This option may
              not be changed with the configure widget command.

       Command-Line Name:-container
       Database Name:  container
       Database Class: Container

              The value must be a boolean.  If true, it means that this window
              will be used as a container in which some other application will
              be embedded (for example, a Tk toplevel can  be  embedded  using
              the  -use option).  The window will support the appropriate win-
              dow manager protocols for things like  geometry  requests.   The
              window  should not have any children of its own in this applica-
              tion.  This option may not be changed with the configure  widget
              command.

       Command-Line Name:-height
       Database Name:  height
       Database Class: Height

              Specifies  the desired height for the window in any of the forms
              acceptable to Tk_GetPixels.  If this  option  is  less  than  or
              equal  to zero then the window will not request any size at all.

       Command-Line Name:-menu
       Database Name:  menu
       Database Class: Menu

              Specifies a menu widget to be used as a menubar. On  the  Macin-
              tosh,  the  menubar will be displayed across the top of the main
              monitor. On Microsoft Windows and all UNIX platforms,  the  menu
              will  appear  across  the  toplevel window as part of the window
              dressing maintained by the window manager.

       Command-Line Name:-screen
       Database Name:
       Database Class:

              Specifies the screen on which to  place  the  new  window.   Any
              valid  screen  name may be used, even one associated with a dif-
              ferent display.  Defaults to the  same  screen  as  its  parent.
              This  option  is special in that it may not be specified via the
              option database, and it may not be modified with  the  configure
              widget command.

       Command-Line Name:-use
       Database Name:  use
       Database Class: Use

              This  option  is used for embedding. If the value isn't an empty
              string, it must be the window identifier of a container  window,
              specified  as a hexadecimal string like the ones returned by the
              winfo id command. The toplevel widget will be created as a child
              of  the  given  container  instead  of  the  root window for the
              screen.  If the container window is in a Tk application, it must
              be  a  frame  or toplevel widget for which the -container option
              was specified.  This option may not be changed with the  config-
              ure widget command.

       Command-Line Name:-visual
       Database Name:  visual
       Database Class: Visual

              Specifies  visual  information  for the new window in any of the
              forms accepted by Tk_GetVisual.  If this option  is  not  speci-
              fied, the new window will use the default visual for its screen.
              The visual option may not be modified with the configure  widget
              command.

       Command-Line Name:-width
       Database Name:  width
       Database Class: Width

              Specifies  the  desired width for the window in any of the forms
              acceptable to Tk_GetPixels.  If this  option  is  less  than  or
              equal  to zero then the window will not request any size at all.


DESCRIPTION
       The toplevel command creates a new toplevel widget (given by the  path-
       Name  argument).  Additional options, described above, may be specified
       on the command line or in the option database to configure  aspects  of
       the  toplevel  such  as  its background color and relief.  The toplevel
       command returns the path name of the new window.

       A toplevel is similar to a frame except that it is created  as  a  top-
       level  window:  its X parent is the root window of a screen rather than
       the logical parent from its  path  name.   The  primary  purpose  of  a
       toplevel  is to serve as a container for dialog boxes and other collec-
       tions of widgets.  The only visible features  of  a  toplevel  are  its
       background color and an optional 3-D border to make the toplevel appear
       raised or sunken.


WIDGET COMMAND
       The toplevel command creates a new Tcl command whose name is  the  same
       as the path name of the toplevel's window.  This command may be used to
       invoke various operations on the widget.  It has the following  general
       form:
              pathName option ?arg arg ...?
       PathName  is the name of the command, which is the same as the toplevel
       widget's path name.  Option and the args determine the  exact  behavior
       of  the command.  The following commands are possible for toplevel wid-
       gets:

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


BINDINGS
       When a new toplevel is created,  it  has  no  default  event  bindings:
       toplevels are not intended to be interactive.


SEE ALSO
       frame(n)


KEYWORDS
