See Also edit
- bindtags
- An essential tool for creating a megawidget.
- What is a Megawidget
- Composite fields megawidgets
- a code snippet for specifying composite fields
- Useful Tk Widgets
- a catalog of widgets and megawidgets
- Adding User Data to Widgets the Megawidget Way
- Megawidgets with TclOO
- Mumbling over a mega widget framework
- A New Megawidget Library
- a discussion about political strategy for organizing a megawidget project
Reference edit
- In Search of the Perfect Mega-widget
, Stephen A. Uhler, Fourth Annual Tcl/Tk Workshop, 1996
Description edit
snit provides a framework for creating megawidgets. I don't know whether there are any megawidgets actually in there, but certainly people are using the snit code to build them.Libraries edit
- Agentk Widgets
- fade, ticket, navigation bar, roll, anthropomorphic
- BLT
- table, graph, barchart, tree, tabset, htext etc.
- BWidget
- a popular widget library
- incr Widgets
- based on incr Tk
- Iwidgets
- based on incr tcl
- marsgui
- Snit based megawidget package that is part of Athena
- MegaWidget package
- combobox
- obTcl
- fully-transparent Tk megawidgets
- mkWidgets
- a widget framework, but comes with some demonstration widgets
- Tix
- Tklib
- community-maintained library of Tk widgets and utilities
Examples edit
- Namespace MegaWidgets by NEM
- someone in the Tcl Chatroom asked for a simple example of a megawidget
- overloading widgets by RS
Tools edit
- megawidget framework with tclOO (1)
- MIT otcl megawidget system
- A simple otcl megawidget system.
- Snit's Not Incr Tcl, by Will Duquette
- One of the most popular [object systems] and megawidget frameworks.
- snot
- it's not snit. TclOO megawidget framework inspired by snit in less than a thousand lines of code.
- TkX
- A framework based on Ttk.
- XOWidget
- a widget class for XOTcl
Misc edit
LV: there are certainly examples here on the wiki of snit widgets. Perhaps the authors would consider working with the tklib maintainers to have them incorporated into tklib? What about other widgets or procs that would provide a Tk developer useful tools? Any authors of such software willing to visit http://tcllib.sf.net/ and submit Feature Requests to have your software included? Anyone a fan of any specific Tk related procs/packages that would be useful for developing Tk applications? You could contact the author to see if they would be willing to allow their code to be included in tklib.NEM 2004-02-26 1
: I am currently working on a CSS parser, which will then lead on to work to create CSS megawidgets based around the text widget and the canvas (which is more work, and so much longer term). The CSS parser is pure Tcl, should be finished some time in the next month (it probably has about 2 days more work left + testing, but finding the time...), and I will be submitting it for inclusion in tcllib when finished. The megawidgets will probably be written using snit, and might find their way in to tklib at some point. Combined with tdom or TclXML these might make a decent alternative to tkhtml with support for more recent (XML-based) web standards. Much work to do though.
