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<A NAME=Contents>&nbsp;</A><H3><A NAME=SECTION00031100000000000000> Tix for Application Programmers<A NAME=111>&nbsp;</A></A></H3>
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The acronym Tix stands for Tk Interface Extension. Tix is different
things for different people.
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If you are a GUI application programmer, that is, if you earn a
living by building graphical applications, you will appreciate Tix
as a library of <em>mega-widgets</em>: widgets made out of other
widgets. To use a crude analogy, if the widgets in the standard TK
library are bricks and mortars for a builder, the mega-widgets in
the Tix library are walls, windows or even pre-build kitchens. Of
course, these ``bigger components'' are themselves made of bricks
and mortars, but it will take much less effort to put them together
than planting bricks on top of each other.
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The Tix widgets not only help you speed up the development of your
applications, they also help you in the design process. Since the
standard Tk widgets are too primitive, they force you to think of
your house as, by using the same analogy, millions of bricks. With
the help of the Tix mega-widgets, you can design your application is
a more structural and coherent manner.
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Moreover, the Tix library provides a rich set of widgets. Figure
1-1 shows all Tix widgets - there are more than 40
of them! Although the standard Tk library has many useful widgets,
they are far from complete. The Tix library provides most of the
commonly needed widgets that are missing from standard Tk:
FileSelectBox, ComboBox, Control (a.k.a. SpinBox) and an assortment
of scroll-able widgets. Tix also includes many more widgets that are
generally useful in a wide range of applications: NoteBook,
FileEntry, PanedWindow, MDIWindow, etc.
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With all these new widgets, you can introduce new interaction
techniques into applications, creating more useful and more
intuitive user interfaces. You can design your application by
choosing the most appropriate widgets to match the special needs of
your application and users.
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<A HREF=http://tix.sourceforge.net>http://tix.sourceforge.net</A><BR>
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