---
name: "Tk::NumEntry"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "libtk-gbarr-perl"
version: "2.08-3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Tk::NumEntry"
---

# Tk::NumEntry(3pm)

A numeric Entry widget with inc. & dec. Buttons

## NAME

Tk::NumEntry - A numeric Entry widget with inc. & dec. Buttons

## SYNOPSIS

**use Tk::NumEntry;**

*$parent*-\>**NumEntry**(?*-option*=\>*value*, ...?);

## DESCRIPTION

**Tk::NumEntry** defines a widget for entering integer numbers. The widget also contains buttons for increment and decrement.

**Tk::NumEntry** supports all the options and methods that the plain  NumEntry widget provides (see Tk::NumEntryPlain), plus the following options

## STANDARD OPTIONS

Besides the standard options of the Entry widget NumEntry supports:

**-orient** **-repeatdelay** **-repeatinterval**

The **-orient** option specifies the packing order of the increment and decrement buttons. This option can only be set at creation time.

## WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS

- Name: **buttons**

  - Class: **Buttons**

  - Switch: **-buttons**

  - Fallback: **1**

  Boolean that defines if the inc and dec buttons are visible.

- Switch: **-readonly**

  - Fallback: **0**

  If **-readonly** is set to a true value, then the value can only be changed by pressing the increment/decrement buttons. This option can only be set at creation time.

## WIDGET METHODS

Subclasses of NumEntry may override the following methods to use different widgets for the composition of the NumEntry. These are: NumEntryPlainWidget (usually `"NumEntryPlain"`), FireButtonWidget (usually `"FireButton"`, IncFireButtonWidget and DecFireButtonWidget. FireButtonWidget is used if IncFireButtonWidget or DecFireButtonWidget are not defined.

## AUTHOR

Graham Barr \<*gbarr@pobox.com*\>

Current maintainer is Slaven Rezic \<*slaven@rezic.de*\>.

## ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would to thank  Achim Bohnet \<*ach@mpe.mpg.de*\> for all the feedback and testing. And for the splitting of the original Tk::NumEntry into Tk::FireButton, Tk::NumEntryPlain and Tk::NumEntry

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1997-1998 Graham Barr. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Except the typo's, they blong to Achim :-)