What: MegaWidget package
Where: http://www.purl.org/net/hobbs/tcl/script/widget/
ftp://tcl.activestate.com/pub/tcl/nightly-cvs/
Description: Tk 8.x megawidget capability.
While tested thru Tk 8.0b2, some problems still remained
under Windows with Tk 8.
Megawidgets included in this package are combobox, console,
hierarchy list display, progressbar, tabnotebook, validating
entry widget, and scrolledtext. Also, support for balloon help
and paned window management are included.
The latest CVS snapshot can be found in the widget-*tar.gz file
at the ftp site above.
Updated: 11/2003
Contact: mailto:[email protected]escargo 18 Mar 2003 - I downloaded this package and tried TOUR.tcl. Some parts worked and other parts did not seem to work (just absent behavior, no errors were thrown). Has anybody tried this package with Tk 8.4?
(I'm trying to compare some different tabnotebook implementations, and this page came up when I searched for "tabnotebook*" on the Wiki.)
It looks like at least the license needs to be updated....
JH - that is an old link. You will find an updated version in cvs as part of the tcllib SF project, as a separate module named widget. It is not in tcllib itself, just next to it in development space.
escargo 10 Nov 2003 - I found it, but it seems like an amazing number of hoops to jump through. Shouldn't there be a more accessible way to make accessible code that is not in tcllib itself, just next to it in development space (even if it's only in an as-is archive)?
LV Nov 11, 2003 See the updated URLs above for documentation (first URL) and directory with the latest source in a tar file (second URL).
escargo 14 Nov 2003 - Trying to run the TOUR (using ActiveTcl 8.4.4 on Windows XP Pro SP1) gives an error. (It certainly makes me wish that the text in dialog boxes was selectable!) I just clicked on the C:\Tcl\lib\widget\demo\TOUR.tcl file, and the error message that starts the traceback says,
megawidget initialization error: expected integer but got "--1"
Jeffrey Hobbs | [ Category Package (based on Tk) | Category GUI ]