These compound widgets, called 'megawidgets', are constructed using other Tkinter widgets or Pmw megawidgets as component parts. It promotes consistent look and feel within and between graphical applications, is highly configurable and is easy to use. A library of flexible and extensible megawidgets built on the base classes, such as buttonboxes, notebooks, comboboxes, selection widgets, paned widgets, scrolled widgets and dialog windows. This gives unified access to all Pmw classes and functions through the Pmw. prefix. It also speeds up module loading time by only importing Pmw sub-modules when needed.
Full descriptions are also available for all the base classes and several other megawidget classes.
Descriptions of the other megawidgets will be released soon. A slick demonstration of the megawidgets. An interface to the BLT busy, graph and vector commands. The interface to Pmw megawidgets is similar to basic Tk widgets, so it is easy for developers to include both megawidgets and basic Tk widgets in their graphical applications. In addition, Pmw megawidgets may themselves be extended, using either inheritance or composition.