WJG (22/Jan/09) A few lines from the manual give some incation
A canvas displays any number of items, which may be rectangles, circles, lines, text, bezier paths or standard widgets. Items may be manipulated (e.g. moved, scaled, rotated or re-colored) and commands may be associated with items with the bind command. For example, a particular command may be associated with the <button>-event so that the command is invoked whenever a button is pressed with the mouse cursor over an item. This means that items in a canvas can have behaviors defined by the Tcl scripts bound to them. Each canvas item has an integer value as uniq ID, which is returned on item creation. Furthermore each item may be associated with one or more tags. All canvas commands which operate on canvas items accept a tag-or-id-expression. This expression may contain tags or IDs combined with the operators (in descending order) ! (not), & (and), ^ (xor), | (or) and parenthezised subexpressions. E.g. "t1|(t2^t3)" or "!t2".
D. McC 2009 Jan 22: Are there things the standard Tk canvas can do that the gnocl canvas can't? If so, what?
RLH -- That would be a good list to make what Gnocl has or hasn't versus Tk.
WJG (23/Jan/09) Straight from the docs. This are the current opts and cmds for the gnocl::canvas widget.
Options
-antialiased
type: boolean (default: 1)
Whether the canvas is antialiased. This cannot be changed after creation.
-background
type: color
Background color of the canvas.
-centerScroll
type: boolean
Whether to center the scrolling region in the canvas window when it is smaller than the canvas' allocation.
-data
type: string
User defined data which can be retrieved via the cget subcommand.
-hasFocus
type: boolean (default: 1)
This sets the focus to the widget. To unset the focus it must be set to another widget.
-height
type: integer
Height of the widget.
-name
type: string
Name of the widget, can be used to set options in an rc file.
-onButtonPress
type: string (default: "")
Tcl command which (if non-empty) is executed if a mouse button is press inside the widget. Before evaluation the following percent strings are substituted:
%w widget name
%t type of event: one of buttonPress, button2Press or button3Press
%x x coordinate
%y y coordinate
%b button number
%s state of the buttons and modifiers (bitmask)
-onButtonRelease
type: string (default: "")
Tcl command which (if non-empty) is executed if a mouse button is released inside the widget. Before evaluation the following percent strings are substituted:
%w widget name
%t type of event: always buttonRelease
%x x coordinate
%y y coordinate
%b button number
%s state of the buttons and modifiers (bitmask)
-onEnter
type: string (default: "")
Tcl command which (if non-empty) is executed if the mouse enters the widget. Before evaluation the following percent strings are substituted:
%w widget name
%x x coordinate
%y y coordinate
%s state of the buttons and modifiers (bitmask)
-onKeyPress
type: string (default: "")
Tcl command which (if non-empty) is executed if a key is pressed while the widget is having the focus. Before evaluation the following percent strings are substituted:
%w widget name
%k key code as integer
%K key code as symbol
%a unicode unicode character, or the empty string if there is no
corresponding character.
%s state of the buttons and modifiers (bitmask)
-onKeyRelease
type: string (default: "")
Tcl command which (if non-empty) is executed if a key is released while the widget is having the focus. Before evaluation the following percent strings are substituted:
%w widget name
%k key code as integer
%K key code as symbol
%a unicode unicode character, or the empty string if there is no
corresponding character.
%s state of the buttons and modifiers (bitmask)
-onLeave
type: string (default: "")
Tcl command which (if non-empty) is executed if the mouse leaves the widget. Before evaluation the following percent strings are substituted:
%w widget name
%x x coordinate
%y y coordinate
%s state of the buttons and modifiers (bitmask)
-onMap
type: string (default: "")
Tcl command which (if non-empty) is executed if the widget is mapped to the screen, i.e., if it appears on the screen. Before evaluation the following percent strings are substituted:
%w widget name TABLE
-onMotion
type: string (default: "")
Tcl command which (if non-empty) is executed if the mouse is moved inside the widget. Before evaluation the following percent strings are substituted:
%w widget name
%x x coordinate
%y y coordinate
%s state of the buttons and modifiers (bitmask) TABLE
-onResize
type: string (default: "")
Tcl command which (if non-empty) is executed if the widget resized. Before evaluation the following percent strings are substituted:
%w widget name
%x x coordinate
%y y coordinate
%W new width
%H new height
-onUnmap
type: string (default: "")
Tcl command which is executed if the widget is unmapped, i.e., it disappears from the screen. Before evaluation the following percent strings are substituted:
%w widget name
-pixelPerUnit
type: float (default: 1.)
Zoom factor of the canvas.
-scrollRegion
type: list-of-four-floats
Region in which the canvas will then be able to scroll. The view of the canvas is adjusted as appropriate to display as much of the new region as possible.
-visible
type: boolean (default: 1)
Whether or not the item is visible.
-width
type: integer
Width of the widget.
Commands
idaffinetag-or-id-expr list-of-coordinates
Makes and affine transformation of id. Length of list-of-coordinates must be 6. The new coordinates are calculated by x_new = af[0] * x_old + af[2] * y_old + af[4]; y_new = af[1] * x_old + af[3] * y_old + af[5];
idcanvasToWindowlist-of-coordinates
Converts canvas coordinates to window coordinates. This takes scrollRegion and pixelPerUnit into account.
idcgetoption
Returns the value for one option. The option may have any of the values accepted by configure.
idconfigure [-option value…]
Configures the widget. Option may have any of the values accepted on creation of the widget.
idcreatetype [-option value…]
Create a new item of type type. Type can be one of line, rectangle, ellipse, image, bPath, text, richText, or widget. Options are dependent on the type. Returns a numerical id with which this item can be identified. IDs are guaranteed to be unique during the lifetime of a canvas.
iddelete
Deletes the widget and the associated tcl command.
idfindItemAtx y
Returns ID of item at the world coordinates x and y.
idfindWithTagtag-or-id-expr
Returns the IDs of items matching tag-or-id-expr.
idgetBoundstag-or-id-expr
Returns the bounds (x1, y1, x2, y2) that enclose all items with tag-or-id-expr in world coordinates.
idgetCurrentSize
Returns the current size of the widget as list of 4 integer: x coordinate, y coordinate, width and height.
idisMapped
Returns whether the canvas is mapped.
iditemCommandtag-or-id-expr cmd [-option value…]
Calls a subcommand for all items with tag-or-id-expr. The subcommand and the options are dependent on the type of the items.
iditemConfiguretag-or-id-expr [-option value…]
Configures all items with tag-or-id-expr. Valid options are dependent on the type of the items.
iditemCgettag-or-id-expr ?option?
Returns the value of option for tag-or-id-expr. Valid options are dependent on the type of the items.
iditemDeletetag-or-id-expr
Deletes all items with tag-or-id-expr.
iditemHidetag-or-id-expr
Hides all items with tag-or-id-expr.
iditemShowtag-or-id-expr
Shows all items with tag-or-id-expr.
idlowertag-or-id-expr ?level?
Lowers tag-or-id-expr in the drawing stack. If no level is given, tag-or-id-expr is lowered to the bottom.
idmovetag-or-id-expr list-of-coordinates
Moves tag-or-id-expr. Length of list-of-coordinates must be 2 (delta x and delta y).
idraisetag-or-id-expr ?level?
Raises tag-or-id-expr in the drawing stack. If no level is given, tag-or-id-expr is raised to the top.
idrotatetag-or-id-expr list-of-coordinates
Rotates tag-or-id-expr. Length of list-of-coordinates must be 3 (center point and angle).
idscaletag-or-id-expr list-of-coordinates
Scales tag-or-id-expr. Length of list-of-coordinates must be 3 (center point and scale) or 4 (center point, x scale, and y scale).
idupdate
Forces an immediate update and redraw of a canvas. This is not needed by normal applications.
idwindowToCanvaslist-of-coordinates
Converts window coordinates to canvas coordinates. This takes scrollRegion and pixelPerUnit into account.