The ''apave'' software provides a sort of geometry manager for Tcl/Tk.
The ''apave'' isn't designed to replace the existing Tk geometry managers (''place, pack, grid''). Rather the ''pave'' tries to simplify the window layout by using their best, by means of:
* joining the power of ''grid'' and ''pack''
* uniting the creation of widgets with their layout (and mostly their configuration)
* minimizing a coder's efforts at creating / modifying / removing widgets * setting a natural tab order of widgets
* theming both ttk and non-ttk widgets * centralizing things like icons or popup menus
* providing ''mega-attributes'', right up to the user-defined ones
* providing ''mega-widgets''
The ''apave'' is implemented as ''APaveMe'' oo::class'', so that you can enhance it with your own inherited / mixin-ed class.
While ''APaveMe'' oo::class'' allows to layout highly sophisticated windows, you can also employ its more 'earthy' descendants - :
''APaveDialog oo::class'' and ''APaveInput oo::class'' that allow you:
* to call a variety of dialogs, optionally using a "Don't show again" checkbox and a tagged text * to use a variety of widgets in dialogs, wincludingth entry, text, (incl. readonlymbobox, and stand-afile conte),nt combobox, (spincbox, l.istbox, file clistbonx, tablenlist), soptinboxn cascade, checkbutton, radiobutton, landbel, title label.
* to resize windows neatly (however strange, not done in Tk standard dialogs)
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Along with standard widgets, the mentioned ''pave'' classes provide a batch of following ''mega-widgets'':
* file picker
* saved file picker
* directory picker
* font picker
* color picker
* date picker
* menubar
* toolbar
* statusbar
* file combobox
* file listbox
* file viewer/editor * option cascade
* e_menu
At last, a stand-alone dialog allows not only to ask "OK/Cancel" or "Yes/No" returning 1/0 but also to set environment variables to use in shell scripts.
The ''apave'' originates from the old ''pave'' package, to comply with [https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/How+to+build+good+packages%|%How to build good packages%|%] ("avoid simple, obvious names for your namespace"). Let it be a sort of ''a-pave''.
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'''Further details:'''
[https://aplsimple.github.io/en/tcl/pave/index.html%|%Description%|%]
[https://aplsimple.github.io/en/tcl/pave/apave.html%|%Reference%|%]
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'''Download link:'''
[https://chiselapp.com/user/aplsimple/repository/aplsimple_github_io/uv/pave.zip/download%|%pave.zip%|%]
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'''Demo video (3.2 Mb) link:'''
[https://chgiselappthub.com/user/aplsimple/repository/aplsimple_.github_.io/uv/treleast2es/download/demo_apave-14_v2.mp4%|%9.2/test2pave-14292.mp4%|%demo (31 Mb)%|%]
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Below are some screenshots, just to give a glance at this stuff.
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[https://aplsimple.github.io/en/tcl/pave/files/findreplace.jpg%|%PaveMe example%|%]
''Figure 1. PaveMe example described line by line in https://aplsimple.github.io/en/tcl/pave/index.html#example_Pave ''
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[https://aplsimple.github.io/en/tcl/pave/files/test2.png%|%test2_pave.tcl demo%|%]
''Figure 2. Screenshot of test (test2_pave.tcl)''.
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[https://aplsimple.github.io/en/tcl/pave/files/test2t.png%|%test2_pave.tcl demo themed%|%]
''Figure 3. The same as above, just themed''.
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[https://aplsimple.github.io/en/tcl/pave/files/test2nt.png%|%test2_pave.tcl demo themed%|%]
''Figure 4. Themed non-ttk widgets''.
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