Widget (computing)
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A widget is a graphical component, or control, that the 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).
Various widgets:
- button
- check box
- radio button
- combo box
- icon
- text box (edit field)
- tooltip
- scrollbar
- status bar
- toolbar
- menu
- window
See also
es:Widget pl:Widget
