WidgetBrowser

What is WidgetBrowser?

WidgetBrowser is a application which collect all available TurboGears Widgets installed in your device. With it you can easily preview TurboGears Widgets usage samples, description and source code.

Use WidgetBrowser

You can access WidgetBrowser by open it directly from the toolbox.

All availabe TurboGears Widgets will be listed alphabetically.

Let's take "JSLink" TurboGears widget for example, the widget will shows its name as "JSLink", the path to call it as "turbogears.widgets.JSLink", and then a widget "sample" for you to figure out what this widget can do.

The "sample" is layed inside the tabber field, which provide you more information about this widget, such as:

Tab Name Description Notes
Sample widget sample. default tabber
Source Code The widget samples source code.  
Template widget sample's template. last tabber
Description widget description option tabber
Parameters widget's parameter option tabber

TurboGears Build in some core widgets to cover the common cases.

Type Name Notes
Form Elements Button  
  Calendar  
  Calendar with time  
 CheckBox  
  File Field  
  Hidden Field  
  Image Button 
  Label 
  Multiple Select Field  
  Password Field  
  Reset Button  
  Single Select Field  
  Submit Button  
  Text Area  
  Text Field  
Web UI Jump Menu  
  Syntax Highlighter  
  Tabber  
Resource Imports CSS Link  
  CSS Source  
  JS Link  
  JS Source  
  Localizable JS Link  
Form Components CheckBox List  
  FieldSet  
  RadioButton List  
  Repeating FieldSet  
Table / Form DataGrid  
  PaginateDataGrid  
  List Form  
  Table Form  
AJAX AJAX Form  
  AJAX Grid  
  AJAX remote function  
  Auto Complete  

And you can find more widgets in TurboGears Cogbin.