message pathName ?options?
-anchor -font -highlightthickness -takefocus -background -foreground -padx -text -borderwidth -highlightbackground -pady -textvariable -cursor -highlightcolor -relief -width
See the options manual entry for detailed descriptions of the above options.
Command-Line Name: | -aspect |
Database Name: | aspect |
Database Class: | Aspect |
Command-Line Name: | -justify |
Database Name: | justify |
Database Class: | Justify |
Command-Line Name: | -width |
Database Name: | width |
Database Class: | Width |
A message is a widget that displays a textual string. A message widget has three special features. First, it breaks up its string into lines in order to produce a given aspect ratio for the window. The line breaks are chosen at word boundaries wherever possible (if not even a single word would fit on a line, then the word will be split across lines). Newline characters in the string will force line breaks; they can be used, for example, to leave blank lines in the display.
The second feature of a message widget is justification. The text may be displayed left-justified (each line starts at the left side of the window), centered on a line-by-line basis, or right-justified (each line ends at the right side of the window).
The third feature of a message widget is that it handles control characters and non-printing characters specially. Tab characters are replaced with enough blank space to line up on the next 8-character boundary. Newlines cause line breaks. Other control characters (ASCII code less than 0x20) and characters not defined in the font are displayed as a four-character sequence \xhh where hh is the two-digit hexadecimal number corresponding to the character. In the unusual case where the font doesn't contain all of the characters in ``0123456789abcdef\x'' then control characters and undefined characters are not displayed at all.
Option and the args determine the exact behavior of the command. The following commands are possible for message widgets:pathName option ?arg arg ...?
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