TIP: 152 Title: New -detail Option for tk_messageBox Version: $Revision: 1.7 $ Author: Mats Bengtsson State: Final Type: Project Tcl-Version: 8.5 Vote: Done Created: 26-Aug-2003 Obsoletes: 25 Post-History: Keywords: Tk ~ Abstract This TIP proposes a new option for the '''tk_messageBox''' for text that is less significant than the '''-message''' text. ~ Rationale Several platforms have a native feature of alert dialogs that includes messages with both a bold or large font, and a text in fine print, which gives more detail to the actual message. Both Mac OS 8/9 and Mac OS X include such a feature. This TIP suggests that this should be intruduced on all platforms, with the text to be displayed in that format specified using a new option '''-detail'''. In those cases where it is not straightforward to distinguish between the '''-message''' and '''-detail''' option contents, they should be combined into a single piece of text in a way that makes sense on the platform. ~ Reference Implementation The proposed change is now implemented as a loadable extension (in C) on Mac OS X [http://hem.fyristorg.com/matben/download/MovableAlerts.dmg]. The following images show the present (8.4.4) message box on AquaTk, and the proposed one. #image:152before This is the present tk_messageBox. #image:152after This is the native tk_messageBox. ~ Copyright This document has been placed in the public domain