Metawidget
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With reference to GUI widgets, the term metawidget has been adopted for different purposes. It has been used to describe a 'widget of widgets', a 'widget about widgets' and also a 'widget for metadata'.
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[edit] Widget of widgets
A widget that is composed of other (usually more primitive) widgets.
This is using the term meta in its epistemological sense, whereby it means about (its own category). For example, a Spinner widget could be implemented as a metawidget consisting of a Text box and two Buttons. An alternative term would be 'compound widget'.
[edit] Metawidget
Metawidget is an Open Source project that targets multiple widget toolkits. It mines an application's existing architecture and creates widgets native to its existing widget toolkit.
[edit] mkWidgets
mkWidgets is an Open Source project written for the Tcl/Tk framework. It provides a method for defining metawidgets, and includes a collection of pre-built ones.
[edit] Widget about widgets
A widget that chooses to be one of a range of possible widgets depending on requirements.
This is using the term meta in its slightly different interpretation, whereby it means on (exactly its own category). For example, a widget may choose to represent itself to the user as an image, as sound, or as various combinations and/or sequences of the two depending on the capabilities of the device[1]
[edit] Widget for metadata
A widget that captures or displays metadata.
[edit] Fitnesse
FitNesse is a web server, a wiki, and a software testing tool. It has a class fitnesse.wikitext.widgets.MetaWidget for storing and editing metadata
[edit] Turbogears
TurboGears is a Python web application framework. It has a class turbogears::widgets::meta::MetaWidget for storing and editing metadata
[edit] References
- ^ Blattner, Glinert, Jorge and Ormsby, 'Metawidgets: towards a theory of multimodal interface design'. Appears in Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1992. COMPSAC '92. Proceedings, Sixteenth Annual International ISBN 0-8186-3000-0.
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