Version 65 of BWidget

 What: BWidget
 Where: http://tcllib.sf.net/ 
 Description: High-level widget set for Tcl/Tk using native Tcl 8.x namespaces.
        Contains over 20 widgets, such as progress bars, main frames,
        generic scrolled widget, paned windows, button boxes, notebooks,
        combo boxes, spin boxes, tree widgets, font and color selection
        widgets, balloon help, and more.
        Original authors web site no longer available; source has been
        moved to the Tcllib sf.net CVS repository.  Bug reports,
        mailing lists, etc. are available from that location.
        The compiler-factory site has a binary version of the extension.
        Currently at version 1.9.0 .
 Updated: 07/2009
 Contact: http://sf.net/bugs/?group_id=12883 

BWidget is a Tcl/Tk script-only set of megawidgets designed to provide the developer additional tools.

Getting started with BWidget

It is currently being maintained as a part of the tcllib http://tcllib.sf.net/ source code repository. BWidget HTML documentation can be found at http://tcllib.sourceforge.net/BWman/contents.html , as well on freshmeat (but that had out of date info there. aku asked to transfer the freshmeat entry to himself and updated the entry to match the current release, available on sf.net.)

Report bugs and feature enhancements at the sf.net site.

• BWidget::ComboBox - some notes and examples
• BWidget::Dialog
• BWidget::MainFrame
• BWidget::NoteBook
• BWidget::PagesManager
• BWidget::PanedWindow
• BWidget::ScrolledWindow
• BWidget::Tree

escargo 31 Jul 2003 - But isn't BWidget up to 1.6?

aku has been at the tcl'2003 conference - perhaps once he recovers he will update things.

jt - BWidget 1.8 was released 2006-10-11.

Ro: Here are some screenshots of bwidget: http://rohanpall.com/screenshots_of_the_bwidget_demo.html (???)

Zebulon: Some screenshots at this address : http://tcltk.free.fr/Bwidget/

 What:  Kanga Tcl
 Where: http://www.kanga.org/tcl/ktcl-010111.tar.gz
        http://www.kanga.org/tcl/ktcl-010111dev.tar.gz
 Description: Windows NT build 7 "batteries included" distribution,
        including alpha/pre-release versions of some code.
        Includes Tcl/Tk 8.4a2, itcl/tk 3.2, iwidgets 3.0.0,
        BLT 2.4u, Bwidgets 1.3.0, Tix 8.2.0 early access, and
        JPEG 6b, along with a number of patches.  Set up to be
        built under Cygwin or Microsoft Visual C++ .
 Updated: 09/2001
 Contact: mailto:[email protected] an example of BWidgets in action, see:

See also ased. portmon, windows registry browser, DOM related megawidgets, kitten, Tcl Xchange's NetCVS mirror, ramdebugger

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• enhancing bwidget
• dynnotebook

LV 2008 Mar 25

So, has BWidget been enhanced to take advantage of Ttk when available?

Has there really not been a BWidget release since 2006?

HaO Bugfix release in 2009-07-24 - see [L1 ]. JOB is currently working on a ttk-enabled version.

Has anyone converted the BWidget html reference pages into either doctools or nroff -man formats?

HaO AFAIK - nobody, sorry.

JOB BWidget revitalization:

A modified version for the BWidget toolkit to take advantage of ttk is now available in CVS.

The programming interface of BWidget::use has changed:

# BWidget::use
#   Argument usage:
#      -package ttk
#               |
#               specify a package name to be initialized, currently
#                support for the following packages is implemented:
#                   ttk ... try to use tile'd widget set (if available)
#                
#      -style default / native / myFavoriteStyleName
#             |         |        |
#               |                |         specify a valid style name,
#               |                |         use "BWidget::_get_colordcls" which gives
#               |         |         you a list of what's avaliable for tk
#               |                |
#               |                if specified, BW tries to emulate OS color scheme,
#             |         a specific color schema associated to each individual
#             |         operation system is going to be used
#               |
#             same behaviour as before, stay compatible
#             with previous releases
#         
#      -setoptdb [no=default|0|yes|1]
#                              |
#                              maintain the option database
#                              if you need a dynamic behavior when changing
#                              the underlying style, activate this option!
#
#      -themedirs {} = default / a list of valid directory names,
#                                to specifying additional ttk theme packages

With the modified package (available in CVS) I could get a reasonable good result e.g. for ased3.0b16.vfs by just adding this to the existing code (and copying the requ. theme package to ased.../lib , beside this with no other change!):

    package require BWidget
    BWidget::use \
      -package ttk -style winxpblue -setoptdb 1

The result looks like:

Comments are welcome!

BWidget 1.9.2

HaO 2010-06-18 ActiveState has distributed the unreleased BWidget 1.9.1 which contains extended themed support with ActiveTcl 8.4.19.4, 8.5.8.2 and 8.6.0.0b3.

There are some incompatibilities in color selection to former BWidgets. A 1.9.2 release followed which is 1.9.0 with some minor bug fixes. Andreas wrote me, that BWidget 1.9.2 is now installable via Teapot. Anybody experiencing compatibility issues is asked to install this release.

Anybody wanting to use Tile and does not need this compatibility is asked to use the 1.9.1 in ActiveState or the current trunk from the Tcllib CVS

Mho With version 1.9.1 in Tile mode I see that buttons disappear after they are initially drawn correctly. The text of the button remains intact. Maybe I have to change more than just specifiying BWidget::use -package ttk...