Purpose: collect information and pointers to what megawidgets are, how to write them, etc.
Occasionally these have been called meta-widgets rather than megawidgets.
A mega widget is NOT an attempt to create new, unique, widgets. Instead, it is an effort to combine existing widgets in ways that are commonly needed (or at the very least interesting to the person who is writing the megawidget). - RS: Note that in contrast to megawatts or megabytes, a megawidget is not worth a million widgets ;-)
See also Composite fields megawidgets.
See Adding User Data to Widgets the Megawidget Way.
Steve Uhler's 1996 Tcl workshop presentation slides on the search for the perfect megawidget can be found at http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/tcl96/uhler.html
Chengye Mao mailto:[email protected] has a web page which discusses building combined widgets (aka mega widgets) in pure Tcl at http://www.geocities.com/%7Echengye/comb.html .
Creating a BWidget Widget talks about what it takes to write another Bwidget widget - sort of a similar topic. Also see Enhancing BWidget, which talks about how to get more bang out of using bwidget widgets.
escargo 16 Jan 2004 - In a recently modified page, A scrolled frame, it was mentioned that the scrolledframe megawidget, since its used the grid geometry manager, can only be within a parent that also uses the grid geometry manager. What are the ways that a megawidget can be queried to determine which geometry manager it can be used with? Is this an Introspection issue?
Here are some megawidget frameworks (in other words, code designed to make it easier to build megawidgets). Please add to the following list.
What: [incr Tk] Slate megawidget Where: http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/%7Ejohnr/code/slate/ Description: The Slate is an [incr Tcl] megawidget layered over the Tcl/Tk canvas. It contains visual hierarchy, symbolic item aspects and interaction support. Release 3.0alpha supports Tcl 8.0 or [incr Tcl] 3.0. Updated: 07/1998 Contact: mailto:[email protected] (John Reekie)
What: Pmw Where: http://www.dscpl.com.au/pmw/ ftp://ftp.dscpl.com.au/pub/pmw/Pmw.0.8.tar.gz http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=423519318 http://pmwcontribd.sourceforge.net/ Description: A megawidget framework for constructing high-level compound widgets in Python 1.5.2 using Tk 8.x. Contains of a set of base classes for building megawidgets and a library of megawidgets such as ComboBox, Dialog, ButtonBox, etc. Also contains a python interface to BLT2.1's busy, graph and vector commands. The PmwContribD web site provides several Pmw based Tkinter widgets, including a ProgressMeter, basic TreeNavigator, and a GUI application framework for creating simple GUI apps quickly. Updated: 10/1999 Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Greg McFarlane) mailto:[email protected] (Doug Hellmann)