Purpose: to provide a community updatable web page demonstrating uses for the BWidget toolset, enhancing the docs, pointing to tutorials, etc.
Can anyone discuss the various cross platform issues relating directly to BWidgets? For instance, when I try the demo on a Mac using a Tclkit version of Tcl and Tk, I find a number of errors when trying to test the progress indicator, the -armcommand, the french and german language dialog boxes, the select color dialog box, etc.
What additional documentation is needed for BWidgets?
What new widgets have you written based on the BWidgets toolkit? Is the source available for re-use?
BWidget Examples
The BWidget documentation could really benefit from a few examples, illustrating some of the details.
Paned Window
package require BWidget
set pw [PanedWindow .topframe -side bottom]
for {set i 0} {$i<5} {incr i} {
set p [$pw add -minsize 100]
set t [text $p.text]
pack $t
}
pack $pw
pack .topframe2003-03-13, Svenn Bjerkem: Tried this example with ActiveTCL 8.4.0.1 and got following error:
bad option "identify": must be cget or configure
while executing
"$w identify $x $y"
(procedure "::tk::panedwindow::Motion" line 3)
invoked from within
"::tk::panedwindow::Motion . 102 2 "
(command bound to event)checked the documentation for tk builtins for tk and found that the widget panedwindow has the command identify. For some reason I want to use BWidget, but use the builtin. How come?
See also A vertical-tab notebook - Windows Registry Browser - Multi-column display in text widget - Beveled lines - Creating a BWidget Widget
Recently, Georgios Petasis answered the following question on comp.lang.tcl:
What can I do to make native Tk widgets and BWidgets look closer, when using them on Linux?
George answered:
option add *highlightBackground [. cget -background]
(this will make your white borders the same colour as the rest of the window...)
If you want to remove completely these "frames", simply use:
option add *highlightThickness 0
See Enhancing BWidget and Creating a BWidget Widget for more Bwidget help.