[LMB] (newschat) the worth of widgets?

[Bill Johnson]

Hello Lois,

See below

Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 3:41:54 PM, you wrote:

LMB> [LMB] (newschat) the worth of widgets?
LMB> Peter H. Granzeau pgranzeau at cox.net
LMB> Wed Mar 12 16:35:22 GMT 2008


LMB> At 06:42 PM 3/11/2008, Lois McMaster Bujold wrote:
 >>Oh cool, you can get a free _Passage_ widget!
 >>
 >>http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780061375330/The_Sharing_Knife_Volume_Three/index.aspx
 <snip>
LMB> A "Browse-Inside" widget (*how* did that word come to be used for this
LMB> sort of thing?)


If you mean the word widget, it is because a widget is not a complete
piece of programming code. All of the "support" stuff such as
graphics writing, boxes, text, on and on are already set up in a
framework and the programmer just makes a little "widget" that does
what he/she wants.




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 Bill                            mailto:bill at prezence.com