[Tkinter-discuss] New Full Tkinter document editor widget --suggestions, comments, etc.

[ron.longo]

I've actually been considering WCK as a platform for future development (What
I've done so far I consider to be experimental).  I've read your article
(Fredrik Lundh's, Using Event Trackers to Simplify Tool Implementation) and
really think this is a solution for implementing the addition of new kinds
of objects.

I've recently written a very small plugin framework which automatically
loads all plugins in a path.  As the plugin classes are instantiated, they
are provided with access to the Model, view widget and a notebook widget
(for inserting a custom GUI if applicable).  With StyledText, I'm leaning
towards a design in which a plugin may also include a pluggable controller. 
In this way, plugins will be used to add lists, tables, images and other
sorts of objects to StyledText.

I will periodically update the StyledWidget in the Tkinter wiki as I more
towards a final implementation.

Thanks for your comments.


Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> 
> Michael O'Donnell wrote:
> 
>> But I find that as you get more ambitious, better to use a Canvas widget
>> instead of a Text widget, which is pretty inflexible. Using a Canvas, you
>> need to do a lot more work (splitting text into lines, positioning lines
>> on the
>> canvas, etc.), but you can do almost anything you can think of with a
>> Canvas.
> 
> on the other hand, the overhead might kill you if you switch to a 
> Canvas.  the Text widget is highly optimized for text rendering, after
> all.
> 
> (I'd use a WCK widget if I were you guys, but that's me ;-)
> 
> </F>
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