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A widget (or control) is an interface component that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box. Widgets are sometimes qualified as virtual to distinguish them from their physical counterparts, e.g. virtual buttons that can be clicked with a mouse cursor, vs. physical buttons that can be pressed with a finger. Widgets are often packaged together in widget toolkits. Programmers use widgets to build graphical user interfaces (GUIs). A screenshot of this page being displayed in the Mozilla web browser. ...
Windows XP is the name of a line of operating systems developed by Microsoft for use on general-purpose computer systems, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, and media centers. ...
A typical Windows Media Center Edition 2005 Menu Windows XP Media Center Edition (codename eHome) is a version of Windows XP designed to serve as a home entertainment hub. ...
In computing, skins and themes are custom graphical appearances (GUIs) that can be applied to certain software and websites in order to suit the different tastes of different users. ...
An example of a graphical user interface in Windows XP, with the My Music window displayed In computing, a window is a visual area, usually rectangular in shape, containing some kind of user interface, displaying the output of and allowing input for one of a number of simultaneously running computer...
A text box is a common element of graphical user interface of computer programs, as well as the corresponding type of widget used when programming GUIs. ...
Command buttons from Windows XP, Windows 2000, and OS X In computing, a button (sometimes known as a command button or push button) is a widget which provides the user a simple way to trigger an event, such as clearing the display on a calculator program. ...
A typical arrow-like mouse cursor. ...
A button (control) is a simple physical mechanism for controlling some aspect of a machine. ...
In computer programming, widget toolkits (or GUI toolkits) are sets of basic building elements for graphical user interfaces. ...
A graphical user interface (or GUI, often pronounced gooey) is a method of interacting with a computer through a metaphor of direct manipulation of graphical images and widgets in addition to text. ...
One commonly referred to type of widgets are the Dashboard widgets of Apple Macintosh computer users. Widgets, in this case, are downloadable interactive virtual tools that provide services such as showing the user the latest news, the current weather, a dictionary, a map program, sticky notes, or even a language translator, among other things. Dashboard is an application for Apple Computers Mac OS X operating system, used for hosting mini-applications known as widgets. It is a semi-transparent layer that is invisible to the user unless activated by a hotkey (which can be set to the users preference), and is only...
The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac. ...
Some say that the word "widget" is derived from the combination of "window" and "gadget". This is unlikely. The earliest known occurrence of the word "widget" is in Beggar on Horseback (1924), a comedy play written by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. The hero of this play is a struggling composer who must choose between creating music that stimulates his soul (but earns no money) or earning a living by accepting a soul-deadening job in a factory that makes "widgets". The text of the play intentionally refrains from revealing what "widgets" are; clearly, they represent any purely mercantile commodity that has no artistic or spiritual value. Folk etymology (or popular etymology) is a linguistic term for a category of false etymology which has grown up in popular lore, as opposed to one which arose in scholarly usage. ...
George Simon Kaufman (November 16, 1889 - June 2, 1961) was a playwright, director, producer, humorist, and drama critic noted for his many collaborations with other writers and his contributions to 20th century American comedy. ...
Marc Connelly photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Marcus Cook Connelly (December 13, 1890 - December 21, 1980) was a member of the Algonquin roundtable and composed several musicals with playwright George S. Kaufman: 1921 Dulcy 1922 Merton of the Movies 1925 Beggar on Horseback Categories: 1890 births | 1980 deaths ...
Various widgets
Command buttons from Windows XP, Windows 2000, and OS X In computing, a button (sometimes known as a command button or push button) is a widget which provides the user a simple way to trigger an event, such as clearing the display on a calculator program. ...
Checkboxes in Mac OS X. In computing, a check box is a graphical user interface element (widget) that indicates a two-way choice or state (true/false) which can be edited by the user. ...
A group of radio buttons, with one choice selected, in Windows XP A pair of radio buttons in Apples Mac OS X A radio button is a type of graphical user interface widget that allows the user to choose one of a predefined set of options. ...
A combo box in the Macintosh Finder A combo box is a user interface control GUI element. ...
Mac OS X Panther allows continuous scaling of icons up to 128x128 pixels A computer icon is a small pictogram, usually ranging from 16 by 16 pixels up to 128 by 128 pixels, which represents a file, folder, application or device on a computer operating system. ...
An early toolbar on a Xerox Alto Computer In a graphical user interface on a computer monitor a toolbar is a row, column, or block of onscreen buttons or icons that, when clicked, activate certain functions of the program. ...
In computing and telecommunications, a menu is a list of commands presented to an operator by a computer or communications system. ...
This article or section should be merged with Menu (computing) In telecommunication, a command menu is a list of all the different commands that may be given to a computer or communications system by an operator. ...
An example for a context menu taken from the word processor Microsoft Word. ...
A pie menu. ...
List view in Mac OS X in an example of an outline view. ...
NSTableView is the Mac OS X version of grid view A grid view or a datagrid is a graphical user interface element (widget) that presents a tabular view of data. ...
Windows XPs vertical scrollbar A scrollbar, or slider, is a graphical widget in a GUI with which continuous text, pictures or anything else can be scrolled, i. ...
A generic example of a progress bar, along with a textual percentage representation. ...
A text box is a common element of graphical user interface of computer programs, as well as the corresponding type of widget used when programming GUIs. ...
The tooltip is a common graphical user interface element. ...
An example of a status bar A status bar is a component (widget) often found at the bottom of windows in a graphical user interface. ...
An example of a graphical user interface in Windows XP, with the My Music window displayed In computing, a window is a visual area, usually rectangular in shape, containing some kind of user interface, displaying the output of and allowing input for one of a number of simultaneously running computer...
In user interface design, a modal window (often called modal dialog because the window is almost always used to display a dialog) is a child window created by a parent application, usually a dialog box, which has to be closed before the user can continue to operate the application. ...
Example of dialog box from Microsoft Windows Dialog boxes are special windows which are used by computer programs or by the operating system to display information to the user, or to get a response if needed. ...
The Finders Inspector window is an example of a utility winodw A utility window is a window in Mac OS X which floats on top of all other windows and offers tools or information for the current application. ...
Desktop widgets
 Examples of desktop widgets, shown here in DesktopX Alternatively, a widget is a small specialised desktop application that provides easy access to frequently used functions or provides some visual information. Early examples of widgets were desk accessories on Mac OS. Typical widgets include News aggregators, clocks, calculators, calendars, desktop notes and weather forecasts. Image File history File links A screenshot displaying various DesktopX objects, from the DesktopX website. ...
Image File history File links A screenshot displaying various DesktopX objects, from the DesktopX website. ...
DesktopX is a shareware desktop enhancement program that allows users to build their own custom desktops with a friendly GUI. Amongst its features is a complete widget engine for Windows as well as a desktop object system. ...
Image File history File links Wikipedia widget in mac os x v10. ...
Image File history File links Wikipedia widget in mac os x v10. ...
Wikipedia Widget is a Dashboard widget for viewing Wikipedia articles. ...
Dashboard is an application for Apple Computers Mac OS X operating system, used for hosting mini-applications known as widgets. It is a semi-transparent layer that is invisible to the user unless activated by a hotkey (which can be set to the users preference), and is only...
Mac OS X version 10. ...
The desktop metaphor is a set of unifying concepts currently used in a number of GUI-based operating systems. ...
Early Macintosh Desk Accessories In the operating system for the Apple Macintosh computer, a Desk Accessory (DA) was a piece of software, originally written as a device driver, conforming to a particular programming model. ...
Mac OS, which stands for Macintosh Operating System, is a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Computer for their Macintosh line of computer systems. ...
An aggregator or news aggregator is a type of software that retrieves syndicated Web content that is supplied in the form of a web feed (RSS, Atom and other XML formats), and that are published by weblogs, podcasts, vlogs, and mainstream mass media websites. ...
A modern basic arithmetic calculator For other uses, see Calculator (disambiguation). ...
A calendar is a system for naming periods of time, typically days. ...
Screenshot of Stickies from Mac OS X Desktop notes are computer applications that allow putting Post-it note-like windows on the screen, with reminders, short notes and other clippings. ...
BBCs Alex Deakin presenting a weather report. ...
Originally, desk accessories were developed to provide a small degree of multitasking, but when real multitasking OSes became available, these were replaced by normal applications. However, the widget model is attractive because of ease of development. Most widgets can be created with a few images and from less than ten to several hundred lines of XML/JavaScript/VBScript, depending on their complexity. The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a W3C-recommended general-purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup languages, capable of describing many different kinds of data. ...
JavaScript is the name of Netscape Communications Corporations implementation of ECMAScript, a scripting programming language based on the concept of prototypes. ...
VBScript (short form of Visual Basic Script Edition) is an Active Scripting language interpreted via Microsofts Windows Script Host. ...
On Windows, support for widgets is mainly provided by Yahoo! Widgets (formerly Konfabulator), Samurize, DesktopX, Kapsules, AveDesk, and similar widget engines. Native support for widgets is included in Mac OS X v10.4 (via Dashboard). ‹ The template below has been proposed for deletion. ...
Yahoo! Widgets running under Mac OS X Yahoo! Widgets running under Windows XP with Konsposé enabled. ...
Screenshot of Konfabulator Screenshot of Konfabulator for Windows with Konsposé enabled. ...
Serious Samurize (or Samurize) is a free system monitoring and desktop enhancement engine for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003. ...
DesktopX is a shareware desktop enhancement program that allows users to build their own custom desktops with a friendly GUI. Amongst its features is a complete widget engine for Windows as well as a desktop object system. ...
Kapsules is a freeware desktop widget engine for Windows. ...
AveDesk is a freeware (although it is touted as donation-ware, which means the software is solely donation-supported in terms of financing) widget engine for Windows XP that runs small, self-contained widgets called desklets, as well as ObjectDock docklets (small plugins intended for use by ObjectDock and other...
Mac OS X version 10. ...
Dashboard is an application for Apple Computers Mac OS X operating system, used for hosting mini-applications known as widgets. It is a semi-transparent layer that is invisible to the user unless activated by a hotkey (which can be set to the users preference), and is only...
Microsoft Windows Vista will provide Widget by Windows Sidebar. Desktop Gadgets of its widgets run on the desktop as well as on the Sidebar. Microsoft has stated that Windows Sidebar will be available for Windows XP as well. Windows Sidebar runs on Windows desktop with Desktop Gadgets docked on The Windows Sidebar is a panel found in either the right side (default) or the left side of the Windows desktop. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Microsoft gadgets. ...
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is an international computer technology corporation with 2005 global annual sales of US$42. ...
In February 2006 Opera Software announced support for widgets in Opera 9 Technical Preview 2. In Linux, the software SuperKaramba allows you to place widgets on your desktop. Logo of Opera Software. ...
Other programs which can display or are widget engines:
- Dashboard from Apple Computer's Mac OS X v10.4 (Tiger) operating system, a transparent layer that displays mini applications, or "widgets".
- Yahoo! Widget Engine (formerly called Konfabulator) is a cross-platform application that allows users to run and build mini-applications, or "Widgets".
- wxWidgets (formerly known as wxWindows) is an open-source, cross-platform widget toolkit.
- The Gimp Toolkit, GTK+, is an open-source, cross-platform widget toolkit, popular in X window system desktop environments.
- FLTK is an open-source, cross-platform widget toolkit designed for speed and small size.
- Kapsules, a free project for Microsoft Windows that first aimed to replicate the above Mac OS X v10.4 functionality, and is now compatible with many scripting languages.
Dashboard is an application for Apple Computers Mac OS X operating system, used for hosting mini-applications known as widgets. It is a semi-transparent layer that is invisible to the user unless activated by a hotkey (which can be set to the users preference), and is only...
Apple Computer, Inc. ...
Mac OS X version 10. ...
Yahoo! Widgets running under Windows XP with Heads Up enabled. ...
Screenshot of Konfabulator Screenshot of Konfabulator for Windows with Konsposé enabled. ...
The correct title of this article is wxWidgets. ...
Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ...
Initially created for the raster graphics editor, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, the GIMP Toolkit—abbreviated, and almost exclusively known, as GTK+—is one of the two most popular widget toolkits for the X Window System for creating graphical user interfaces. ...
Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ...
In computer programming, widget toolkits (or GUI toolkits) are sets of basic building elements for graphical user interfaces. ...
KDE 3. ...
In graphical computing, a desktop environment (DE) offers graphical user interface (GUI) solution to operate a computer. ...
FLTK (“Fast Light Toolkitâ€) pronounced fulltick is a cross-platform, free software, GUI library. ...
Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ...
Kapsules is a freeware desktop widget engine for Windows. ...
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See also In computer programming, widget toolkits (or GUI toolkits) are sets of basic building elements for graphical user interfaces. ...
External links - Apple.com Dashboard Widgets Apple's directory of downloadable widgets.
- Yahoo! Widget Engine Widgets Widgets for the Yahoo! Widget Engine.
- Beon4u.com Widgets without Widget Engine .
- TagWorld Widgets Widgets for Social Networking Sites
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