From: JamesBritt <james@...>
Date: 2002-11-15T09:45:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Why do they name them widgets??

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> Any pointers as to why it's called a widget??

For what it's worth:

http://kldp.org/~eunjea/jargon/index.php?query=widget+&keyword=on


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> Now, the reason I'm asking this...
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> I'm creating a GUI along the lines of Qt, Tk, Tcl... but what do I call the
> main graphical 'object' from which most of the GUI elements are
> constructed??


Which compels me to ask, why are you creating a GUI along the lines of Qt, Tk,
Tcl?

James

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> -Rich
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