Create Widget in the default "Interface" Tab

[Rizwan606]

Hi, I have been learning eXtraWidgets extension and it's really a great flexible extension to use. I wanted to know If I can create my widgets (Chooser) in the default interface tab instead of creating a new tab and creating widgets there. I am able to create the chooser in a new tab but all of my other default widgets are in interface tab, so I don't want user to switch between two tabs , I just want to show all my widgets in the default interface tab. Any guidance will be appreciated. Thank you so much.

[nicolaspayette]

This is currently not possible, but I agree that it would be a useful feature. I will look into it when I work on upgrading the extension for the forthcoming NetLogo 6.0.

[Rizwan606]

Thank you Sir :)

[nicolaspayette]

One big obstacle to implementing this: dealing with NetLogo's zooming mechanism. The extra widgets would have to respond to NetLogo's zooming/unzooming events and resize themselves. Ideally, we would need to find a way for this to happen without placing undue burden on external extra widgets authors.

A different approach could be to have a container on NetLogo's interface tab for the extra widgets (a bit like what @arthurhjorth suggests in NetLogo/NetLogo#1531). The container itself could be resized by NetLogo's zoom mechanism, but the widgets inside it wouldn't. It's a bit of a cop out, but it could make implementation much easier.