Fourth Annual USENIX Tcl/Tk Workshop, 1996 ## In Search of the Perfect Mega-widget Stephen A. Uhler Sun Microsystems Laboratories #### Abstract Mega-widgets are Tk widgets that can be created entirely in Tcl, yet behave indistinguishably from their native counterparts. Although several different frameworks have been constructed to create and manage mega-widgets, none does a perfect job, as there are aspects of a native widget's behavior that can't be simulated strictly in Tcl. We propose a small set of enhancements to the Tk event binding and focus models that will enable mega-widget frameworks, including those that are currently available, to do a better job supporting the semantics of native widgets. This allows a script that uses a native widget on one platform, to use a mega-widget implementation of the same functionality on a different platform without the need View the full text of this paper in HTML and POSTSCRIPT (78,962 Bytes) form. To Become a USENIX Member, please see our Membership Information.

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