On Sat, 21 Dec 1996, Dan Miner wrote:
> * easy "plug-in" components with some type of "visual" configuration
> in the environment's GUI. These components could do anything
> and isn't required to be a "visual" part of the program
> resulting program.
>
> It's this last one that I'm not seeing in Visual Tcl. Is there any
> desire for this? For me, I'd like to use the Balloon stuff from vtcl
> itself. I've looked at it and it's not really a module yet so some
More modular functionality is definately something I wish to work
towards. I've been making incremental changes along the way as I
refine my ideas on the subject. So far there have been a lot of places
in the code where I've had to make exception for special widgets (menus
and toplevels) or widget managers (wm).
I don't think I'll have Tix support by 1.05, but this excercise should
help flush out the kind of changes necessary to replicate this for
other widgets. 1.06 at the latest.
There are several parts of Visual Tcl that I would like to turn into
modules: balloon help, compound widgets, file and color browser. The
last two have been incorporated into 8.0 so that may not be as relevant.
The compound widget code was written last and is already reusable.
One change already in 1.05 is support for native file and color browsers
when using tk8.0.
-stewart-
