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Re: [PATCH/hack] Running from build dir again


On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Martin M. Hunt wrote:

> On the other hand, iwidgets are always distributed as part of the itcl
> distribution, so does it really involve much to leave them in and use the
> ones that work well?  Also, have you been using the latest ones or the 3-year
> old iwidgets in sources?

For the few widgets we're using, I actually have downloaded "the latest".
All I can guess is that no one uses them too much, because the one or two
I looked at suffered from some very fundamental design flaws.

I'm sitting on a patch or two. In general, though, I just do not find
these widgets that useful. THere are a whole bunch of weird interface
issues involved with them. (Like specifying a -command on a spinint and it
not changing the value displayed, because it expects you to do it. Weird.)

We should either not use them, or submit patches to make them more useful.
(The scrolledwindow thingy is worthless, and I don't think it is fixable.)

Keith



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