[Xotcl] XOTcl Megawidgets

Kristoffer Lawson setok at fishpool.com
Thu May 15 12:28:28 CEST 2003


On Thu, 15 May 2003, Uwe Zdun wrote:

> you're right, there is no mega-widget packet for XOTcl (I often use Tcl
> megawidgets such as Bwidgets) ... yet it is
> quite simple to integrate Tk and XOTcl; and build you're own megawidgets.
> I found that wrapping the simple Tk widgets (or Bwidgets) does not make too
> much sense, but building classes that represent more complex GUI elements is
> very useful. The most simple thing you can do is to store the widget
> IDs of the associated widget in a variable on the object representing it.

I have a small bunch of classes and methods that makes using Tk with XOTcl
a good bit easier (IMO, of course). If I remember later I can stick them
up somewhere. Just remind me :-)

(Have to go to a meeting soon)

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