Widget
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Widget may refer to:
- Widget (economics), a placeholder name for an object or, more specifically, a mechanical or other manufactured device
- Widget (beer), a coil-like device placed in the bottom of cans and bottles of beer to aid in the generation of froth
- Widget (comics), a character in Marvel Comics
- Widget (TV series), a 1990s animated television series
- New York World Journal Tribune, a defunct newspaper
In computing, the term has become frequently used to refer to objects on a computer screen the user interacts with:
- GUI widget, a component of a graphical user interface with which a user interacts.
- Widget toolkit, a software library containing a collection of GUI widgets that collaborate when used in the construction of applications.
- Widget engine, a software system for physically-inspired applets, third party items that can be embedded in a frame. These can be categorized as Web widgets, Desktop widgets and Mobile widgets as they can be embedded in a web page, desktop background, or a mobile phone respectively.
[edit] See also
- Widget Workshop, an obscure science-based computer game developed by Maxis
- Gidget, a teenage character adapted for film & television from a novel by Frederick Kohner
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