label(n)

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NAME

       label - Create and manipulate label widgets

SYNOPSIS

       label pathName ?options?

STANDARD OPTIONS

       -activebackground     -disabledforeground  -padx
       -activeforeground     -font                -pady
       -anchor               -foreground          -relief
       -background           -highlightbackground -takefocus
       -bitmap               -highlightcolor      -text
       -borderwidth          -highlightthickness  -textvariable
       -compound             -image               -underline
       -cursor               -justify             -wraplength

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

WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS

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

              Specifies a desired height for the label.  If an image or bitmap
              is being displayed in the label then  the  value  is  in  screen
              units  (i.e.  any  of the forms acceptable to Tk_GetPixels); for
              text it is in lines of text.  If this  option  isn't  specified,
              the  label's  desired  height  is  computed from the size of the
              image or bitmap or text being displayed in it.

       Command-Line Name:-state
       Database Name:  state
       Database Class: State

              Specifies one of three states for the label:  normal, active, or
              disabled.   In  normal  state  the button is displayed using the
              foreground and background options.  In active state the label is
              displayed   using   the  activeForeground  and  activeBackground
              options.  In the disabled state the disabledForeground and back-
              ground options determine how the button is displayed.

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

              Specifies  a desired width for the label.  If an image or bitmap
              is being displayed in the label then  the  value  is  in  screen
              units  (i.e.  any  of the forms acceptable to Tk_GetPixels); for
              text it is in characters.  If this option isn't  specified,  the
              label's  desired width is computed from the size of the image or
              bitmap or text being displayed in it.
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DESCRIPTION

       The label command creates a new window (given by the pathName argument)
       and makes it into a label widget.  Additional options, described above,
       may be specified on the command line or in the option database to  con-
       figure aspects of the label such as its colors, font, text, and initial
       relief.  The label command returns its pathName argument.  At the  time
       this  command is invoked, there must not exist a window named pathName,
       but pathName's parent must exist.

       A label is a widget that displays a textual string,  bitmap  or  image.
       If  text  is  displayed,  it  must  all be in a single font, but it can
       occupy multiple lines on the screen (if  it  contains  newlines  or  if
       wrapping  occurs because of the wrapLength option) and one of the char-
       acters may optionally be underlined using the  underline  option.   The
       label  can  be  manipulated  in a few simple ways, such as changing its
       relief or text, using the commands described below.

WIDGET COMMAND

       The label command creates a new Tcl command  whose  name  is  pathName.
       This  command  may  be used to invoke various operations on the widget.
       It has the following general form:
              pathName option ?arg arg ...?
       Option and the args determine the exact behavior of the  command.   The
       following commands are possible for label 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 label
              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 label command.

BINDINGS

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

KEYWORDS

       label, widget

Tk                                    4.0                             label(n)