NAME
       label - Create and manipulate label widgets

SYNOPSIS
       label pathName ?options?

STANDARD OPTIONS
       -anchor         -font          -image          -takefocus
       -background     -foreground    -justify        -text
       -bitmap         -highlightbackground           -padx-textvariable
       -borderwidth    -highlightcolor                -pady-underline
       -cursor         -highlightthickness            -relief-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:-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.


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 configure
       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
       characters   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  available  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
