Tcl/Tk - Tix Megawidgets

Tcl/Tk module T246

Tix Megawidgets

Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module T246. This topic is presented on public course Tcl/Tk

MegaWidgets are combination widgets (usually in their own frames). The Tix extension to Tcl provides a number of such widgets, such as file selection boxes and standard widgets with scroll bars. In this module, we teach you how to build Tix megawidgets into your GUI and how to set and handle the events they generate.

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Examples from our training material

tix001	Tix Control widget demonstration
tix003	Tix Demonstration of standard widget options
tix004	Practical demo - Tix MegaWidget
tix005	Tix Control - feedback into widgets
tix007	- mulitple feedbacks on Tix MegaWidgets
tixbunch	Showing a selection ot Tix Megawidgets
tixfs	Tix File selection application
tixtree	Tix - Tree of big files below a specified directory

Background information

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Topics covered in this module

Introduction.
What is Tix?.
Hello Tix world.
What can you do with a Megawidget?.
Standard widget functionality.
Some of the megawidgets provided by Tix.
Our sample application.
Container Widgets.
Adding content to a pane.
Creating a scrolled megawidget.
Creating a hierarchical widget.
Event and action handling.
Aspects of going live.
Some other megawidgets.
File selection boxes and dialogue boxes.
Tree Widgets.

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