At 11:45 03/29/2005 -0800, Lan Barnes wrote: >On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 08:10:18AM -0800, Gus Wirth wrote: >> >> Lan, >> >> Thanks fo doing this. Neil has me about tapped out as far as ready-to-go >> lectures. I don't know if you will cover this or not, but I'm interested in >> how to either add 3rd-party widgets or create new widgets for the UI part. >> After seeing your presentation using VisualTCL I was intrigued but I wanted >> some different widgets and couldn't figure out out to add/create them. I >> have the same problem working with any of the GUI designers like Glade that >> just wrap one of the GUI toolkits like GTK or QT. >> >> Gus > >Gus, > >I'll try to research that subject at least a bit before coming in on >May. I know it can be done because so many of my Tcl/Tk books have >sections on adding custom widgets. Extensibility is the name of the game >in Tcl. That's why it was invented (actually the whole GUI Tk was just >an extension originally, albeit a very popular one). > >To help me out, do you want to know how to add custom widgets to >VisualTcl, or just to wish?
I'd like to know how to add custom widgets to VisualTcl and where to get them. I'm coming from the Delphi/Kylix IDE world where it is very easy to add stuff to the component palette. There are a few repository websites like the Delphi Super Page <http://delphi.icm.edu.pl> and Torry's Delphi Pages <http://www.torry.net> that have literally thousands of add-on widgets (components in Delphi speak) already packaged up and ready to install. >In a broader sense, I do want to add a disclaimer: I hadn't envisioned >this as a Tcl tutorial. Indeed, I don't think of myself as being >qualified to teach one. But I can come prepared to answer specific >questions, if only by pointing people to pertinent sources. I don't think it needs to be a Tcl tutorial. I was just searching for some info I haven't looked into yet. But you are qualified to teach a tutorial, since you have created a non-trivial application and made it work, and are willing to show it to the group. Gus -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer
