NAME
       frame - Create and manipulate frame widgets

SYNOPSIS
       frame 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  same colormap as its parent.  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:-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 same  visual  as  its  parent.
              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 frame command creates a new window (given by the pathName argument)
       and makes it into a frame widget.  Additional options, described above,
       may  be specified on the command line or in the option database to con-
       figure aspects of the frame such as its background  color  and  relief.
       The frame command returns the path name of the new window.

       A  frame is a simple widget.  Its primary purpose is to act as a spacer
       or container for complex window layouts.  The only features of a  frame
       are  its  background color and an optional 3-D border to make the frame
       appear raised or sunken.


WIDGET COMMAND
       The frame command creates a new Tcl command whose name is the  same  as
       the  path  name  of  the  frame'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 frame
       widget's path name.  Option and the args determine the  exact  behavior
       of the command.  The following commands are possible for frame widgets:

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


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


SEE ALSO
       labelframe(n), toplevel(n)


KEYWORDS
