Re: [Tile-dev] Writing widgets

[Joe E. <jen...@fl...>]

Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was thinking of doing a standalone widget from all my chasing arrows patche
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1183535&group_id=114
> 64&atid=311464
> but then I read that there is no stub table for this:
> http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/WidgetGuide.html
>
> If this is still true what to do?

Correct, the widget API is not available in the Tile stubs table.
However, that just means you can't use stubs -- you can still
link your extension directly against tile.so/.dylib/.LIB.
That works just fine on all but the most ancient of Unices.

For this particular case, you probably don't need a new
widget at all.  Just register a ChaseArrows element in the appropriate
platform themes -- the entry points you need for this are all
in the current public API -- and use a ttk::progressbar widget
with a custom style (which can be done all in Tcl).


--Joe English

  jen...@fl...