MGS The eWidgets Toolkit is a collection of extended widgets and dialogs for Tcl/Tk.
Each widget/dialog is designed to be self-contained, efficient, lightweight, cross-platform, and to work equally well on large and small displays.
This will form the basis for my other project Mogul.
eWidgets was originally going to be a substantial rewrite of the BWidget toolkit, but I got very bogged down in the complexity of its internal architecture. I also had already written many new widgets, so they formed the basis of this toolkit.
I would like to hear from anyone who has comments (good and bad) about BWidgets and other mega-widget libraries. In particular, things that don't work, things that are missing, extra functionality, etc. And if you're looking for a new kind of widget that doesn't exist, I might be interested in writing it. I'm always looking for new and better ways of doing things. Please feel free to drop me line at markgsaye @ yahoo.com
Q. Where does one find this toolkit? I don't see a URL.
A. One doesn't, yet. I'm still very busy writing it. When I have an architecture which is somewhat stable, with widgets that work, some examples, and a smidgin of documentation, I will make an announcement, and upload stuff to http://ewidgets.sourceforge.net/ and http://sourceforge.net/projects/ewidgets/ .
Here's a partial list of widgets and dialogs that will be included
- button - generic button/checkbutton/radiobutton widget
- canvas - library of canvas routines
- color - library of color routines
- combobox - combobox widget
- date - date selector widget (useful with popup widget)
- dialog - generic dialog window
- dialog::color - color selector dialog
- dialog::directory - directory selector dialog
- dialog::file - file selector dialog
- dialog::fileprop - file properties dialog
- dialog::font - font selector dialog
- dialog::message - message dialog
- drop - drop-frame widget
- filelist - listbox file browser widget
- filetree - tree file browser widget
- font - library of font routines
- frame - frame widget
- grid - grid widget/library of grid routines
- icon - library of icon routines
- label - library of label routines
- mdi - mdi widget
- menubar - menubar widget
- notebook - notebook widget
- panel - panel widget (like MS Outlook)
- pathentry - file/path-completion entry widget
- popup - popup widget (e.g. as used by combobox)
- progress - progress bar widget
- scroll - scrollable-widget widget
- scroller - 2d scrollbar
- scrollframe - scrollable frame widget
- slide - slide widget (similar to scale widget)
- spinbox - spinbox widget
- text - library of text widgets routines
- text::find - text find dialog/widget
- text::goto - text goto dialog/widget
- text::listbox - hierarchical listbox widget
- text::map - graphical widget to display text widget search results
- text::sync - library to synchronize two or more text widgets
- titleframe - titleframe widget
- toolbar - toolbar widget
- tooltip - tooltip widget (balloon help)
- tree - canvas-based tree widget
- window - generic window/toplevel widget
- window::or - library to handle full-screen windows
Category Package | Category GUI