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UI Toolkit Ideas

The UI toolkit was loosely inspired by Tk and could copy more of their ideas.

  • Anchor vs. Side: currently use Anchor to mean Side when packing widgets into a Frame. It should be renamed to Side, and then Anchor should be how a widget centers itself in its space, making it easy to have a Center Middle widget inside a large frame.
  • Hover Background: currently the Button sets its own color with its own events, but this could be moved into the BaseWidget. Tk analog is activeBackground
  • Mouse Cursor: the BaseWidget should provide a way to configure a mouse cursor when hovering over the widget.

Label

  • Text Justify: when multiple lines of text, align them all to the left, center, or right.