[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

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'''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/ .

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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

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[LV] 2003/May/144 Q: How do the entries above such as text, frame, etc. that are currently in Tk differ from the Tk versions?

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