Re: [TCLCORE] Question about components of Tcl/Tk8.6

[Kevin W. <kw...@co...>]

> 
> Note that BWidgets is not a core candidate for exactly the question you 
> stated above.  Instead we are looking at alternative megawidget 
> solutions that contain much better frameworks and will be much easier to 
> maintain for years to come.

Out of curiosity, what frameworks are these?

BWidgets is a real mixed bag. How a package that is so comprehensively 
documented can nonetheless be so hard to learn is a bit of a mystery to 
me. And parts of it are definitely long in tooth and have been 
superseded by other, more recent widgets (panedwindow, combobox in ttk, 
etc.).

Still, I find parts of BWidgets indispensible, in terms of their 
flexibility and relative. I make heavy use of the Tree widget in my 
apps, and the ListBox widget is also slated for inclusion in an app or 
two I'm developing. Once I "got" how these widgets worked, I found them 
to be very powerful and perfect for my needs. Last I looked, the new 
tree/table widget in ttk wasn't as flexible. Also, BWidgets' 
drag-and-drop support remains the best script-level package for this 
kind of functionality (hard to grok, but more powerful than the basic 
drag-and-drop package I developed).

Of couse, if there is a better, more comprehensive megawidget framework 
than BWidgets out there, I'd be glad to see it.

-- 
Kevin Walzer
Code by Kevin
http://www.codebykevin.com