Chapter 19.5. Widget Browser
The Widget Browser is one of the most useful tools in the TurboGears Toolbox. We mentioned it in Chapter 16, “TurboGears Widgets: Bringing CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript Together in Reusable Components;†let’s take a little bit more time to look at it in depth here. The Widget Browser makes use of a special feature of setuptools, which allows eggs to define an entry-point. Every widget package in the Cog Bin (www.turbogears.org/cogbin) has a specially-defined entry point. This allows the Widget Browser to dynamically grab information for every widget you have installed. The information is always up-to-date, and everything works.
There is one exception to this rule. Some third-party widgets do not define a widget ...
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