"Chris Fuller" <cfuller...@thinkingplanet.net> wrote
What sets Pmw apart is the framework it provides for the creation of
your own
megawidgets.
I can't comment on the PMW framework and I haven't tried it in
Python Tix but the Tcl documents claim Tix does a similar thing.
Certainly insofar as it provides a framework for creating your
own widgets.
My Tcl/Tk Nutshell book says:
"Tix adds an object oriented (AG: ie. to Tcl/Tk) framework for
defining
new widget types from existing widget types. Instances of these
new widget types are called mega-widgets. Tix includes over
40... and several commands for designing new ones..."
The main creation commands I see are tixWidgetClass, tixCallMethod,
tixChainMethod. There are maybe half a dozen others.
A quick look in Python Tix reveals a TixWidget class. But the
other commands are not obvuiously available - but they may
be hidden as methods of something else...
It handles labels, forwards options from the constructor to the
constructors of the subcomponents, forwards method calls (say your
megawidget
is descended from a Frame, but the main feature is a Scale widget),
includes
a set of standard data validators, etc.
It can do the forwarding of methods but I can't see any validators
etc.
It would be interesting to do a bit of comparison, if only there were
some decent documents for Python Tix! :-(
Alan G.
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