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Updated 2005-12-21 14:29:51Toolbar is a pretty common term. So the reader should not be surprised if they find various ways of creating such a thing.
CL adds that it's not just a common term; it's also the kind of construction Tk (among other toolkits) makes easy, so it's been implemented over and over (and over. and over). As Victor Wagner once posted, "just ... pack (or grid) some buttons into frame, bind <Enter> and <Leave> items to change images. I doubt that making this a package would be simpler, than hacking it on the spot with core Tk commands."
For instance, Iwidgets has a toolbar command:
Docs can be found at http://incrtcl.sourceforge.net/iwidgets/iwidgets/toolbar.html and http://purl.org/tcl/home/man/iwidgets3.0/toolbar.n.html
http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/~petasis/Tcl/toolbar.tcl provides dockable toolbars. See also ClassyTk (and mkImagesPane for code that could be used to create a toolbar).
Bwidget has a MainFrame widget, which includes a toolbar created as a ButtonBox (a series of Bwidget buttons).
MG is playing around with a Customizable Toolbar Widget on Dec 21 2005.
xf implements a toolbar.
Category Command, a part of incr Widgets