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Widget Engines
Widget may refer to: * Widget, a male child of a gremlin. * Widget (beer), a device placed in cans and bottles of beer to aid in the generation of froth * Widget (economics), a placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product * Software widget, a generic type of software application comprising portable code intended for one or more different software platforms **Widget (GUI), an element of interaction in a graphical user interface, such as a button or a scroll bar ** Widget toolkit, a software library containing a collection of GUI widgets that collaborate when used in the construction of applications ** Web widget, an applet intended to be used within web pages * E-9A Widget, a turboprop airliner * Widget (Marvel Comics), a comic book character, an alternate version of Shadowcat from the Days of Future Past timeline * ''Widget'' (TV series) or ''Widget the World Watcher'', a 1990s animated television series ** ''Widget'' (video game), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gremlin
A gremlin is a mischievous fictional creature invented at the beginning of the 20th century to originally explain malfunctions in aircraft, and later in other machinery, processes, and their operators. Depictions of these creatures vary widely. Stories about them and references to them as the causes of especially inexplicable technical and mental problems of pilots were especially popular during and after World War II.gremlin on World Wide Wordsgremlin in the American Heritage Dictionary Use of the term in the sense of a mischievous creature that sabotages aircraft first arose in Royal Air Force (RAF) slang among British pilots stationed in Malta, the Middle East, and British Raj, India in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Widget (beer)
A widget is a device placed in a container of beer to manage the characteristics of the beer's Beer head, head. The original widget was patented in Ireland by Guinness. The "floating widget" is found in cans of beer as a hollow plastic sphere, approximately in diameter (similar in appearance to a table tennis ball, but smaller) with two small holes and a seam. The "rocket widget" is found in bottles, in length with the small hole at the bottom. Background Draught Guinness, as it is known today, was first produced in 1959. With Guinness keen to produce draught beer packaged for consumers to drink at home, Bottled Draught Guinness was formulated in 1978 and launched into the Irish market in 1979. It was never actively marketed internationally as it required an "initiator" device, which looked rather like a syringe, to make it work. Method Some canned beers are pressurized by adding liquid nitrogen, which vaporises and expands in volume after the can is sealed, forcing gas and b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Widget (economics)
The word ''widget'' is a placeholder name for an object or, more specifically, a mechanical or other manufactured device. It is an ''abstract unit of production''. The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' defines it as "An indefinite name for a gadget or mechanical contrivance, esp. a small manufactured item" and dates this use back to 1931. It states that the origin is "perhaps U.S." and for etymology suggests that it may be a variant of ''gadget''. The term also appears earlier in George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's 1924 play '' Beggar on Horseback''. General Motors Corporation sponsored a short film in 1939, "Round and Round", which features widgets throughout. Usage When discussing a hypothetical situation, the term is used to represent any type of personal property, with the corresponding term Blackacre used to represent any type of real property. In such use, the widget or Blackacre has whatever characteristics are relevant to the scenario. So, if the object being discussed nee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Software Widget
A software widget is a relatively simple and easy-to-use software application or software component, component made for one or more different software platforms. A Desk accessories, desk accessory or applet is an example of a simple, Standalone program, stand-alone user interface, in contrast with a more complex application such as a spreadsheet or word processor. These widgets are typical examples of Application posture, transient and auxiliary applications that don't monopolize the End-user (computer science), user's attention. On the other hand, graphical control elements (GUI "widgets") are examples of reusable modular components that are used together to build a more complex application, allowing programmers to build user interfaces by combining simple, smaller components. Classification Because the term, and the coding practice, has been extant since at least the 1980s, it has been applied in a number of contexts. GUI widgets A graphical control element (GUI widget) i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Widget (GUI)
A graphical widget (also graphical control element or control) in a graphical user interface is an element of interaction, such as a button or a scroll bar. Controls are software components that a computer user interacts with through direct manipulation to read or edit information about an application. User interface libraries such as Windows Presentation Foundation, Qt (software), Qt, GTK, and Cocoa (API), Cocoa, contain a collection of controls and the logic to render these. Each widget facilitates a specific type of user-computer interaction, and appears as a visible part of the application's GUI as defined by the theme and rendered by the rendering engine. The theme makes all widgets adhere to a unified aesthetic design and creates a sense of overall cohesion. Some widgets support interaction with the user, for example labels, Button (computing), buttons, and Checkbox, check boxes. Others act as Container (abstract data type)#Graphic containers, containers that group the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Widget Toolkit
A widget toolkit, widget library, GUI toolkit, or UX library is a library (computing), library or a collection of libraries containing a set of graphical control elements (called ''widgets'') used to construct the graphical user interface (GUI) of programs. Most widget toolkits additionally include their own Rendering (computer graphics), rendering engine. This engine can be specific to a certain operating system or windowing system or contain back-ends to interface with multiple ones and also with rendering APIs such as OpenGL, OpenVG, or EGL (API), EGL. The look and feel of the graphical control elements can be hard-coded or decoupled, allowing the graphical control elements to be Theme (computing), themed/Skin (computing), skinned. Overview Some toolkits may be used from other languages by employing language bindings. Graphical user interface builders such as e.g. Glade Interface Designer facilitate the authoring of GUIs in a WYSIWYG manner employing a user interface markup la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Web Widget
A web widget is a web page or web application that is embedded as an element of a host web page but which is substantially independent of the host page, having limited or no interaction with the host. A web widget commonly provides users of the host page access to resources from another web site, content that the host page may be prevented from accessing itself by the browser's same-origin policy or the content provider's CORS policy. That content includes advertising (Google's AdSense), sponsored external links ( Taboola), user comments ( Disqus), social media buttons (Twitter, Facebook), news (USA Today), and weather ( AccuWeather). Some web widgets though serve as user-selectable customizations of the host page itself (Elfsight, Powr, OpenWidget). Technology Widgets may be considered as downloadable applications which look and act like traditional apps but are implemented using web technologies including JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Widgets use and depend on web APIs ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
E-9A Widget
The Bombardier E-9A Widget is an American telemetry support and surveillance plane in service with the United States Air Force. It is used as an airborne platform and telemetry relay aircraft providing ocean surface surveillance for range safety and target telemetry of missiles fired for over the horizon profiles on the Gulf of Mexico Ranges. History In the early 1980s, the United States Air Force began seeking a specialized surveillance plane for the 53rd Weapons Evaluation Group (53rd WEG) which, for the sake of range safety, needs to ensure territorial waters are clear when aerial targets, drones, missiles and prototypes are in test flights. The unit was using the large and expensive EC-135N ARIA. A request for proposal was officially issued, proposals included Alenia-Aérospatial ATR-42-200, BAe 748 and Fokker F27-600. However these could not effectively accommodate the large conformal antenna of the AN/APS-128D and thus the newer Canadian Dash 8 won the bid. The a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Widget (Marvel Comics)
Katherine Anne "Kitty" Pryde is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men. The character First appearance, first appeared in ''The Uncanny X-Men'' #129 (January 1980) and was co-created by writer-artist John Byrne (comics), John Byrne and writer Chris Claremont. A Mutant (Marvel Comics), mutant, Pryde possesses a "phasing" ability that allows her to pass through objects, hence she is intangible while using this ability. The author, James Kakalios, is a physics professor. Pages 254-255: "With our improved understanding of physics, we can now more accurately describe Kitty Pryde's mutant power as being able to alter her macroscopic quantum wave function, increasing her tunneling probability to near 100 percent at will." Page 255: "How, when she's is 'phasing' and immaterial, can she walk?" This power also disrupts any electrical field she passes through, and lets her simulate levitation (paranormal), levitation. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Widget (TV Series)
''Widget'' (also known as ''Widget the World Watcher'') is an animated children's television series created by Peter Keefe, and directed and produced by Tom Burton of Zodiac Entertainment, which debuted in syndication on September 29, 1990. The series ran for two seasons; in the first season (1990), it aired once a week (usually on Saturday or Sunday), and in the second season (1991), the series expanded to weekdays. The show featured environmentalist themes and was recognized by the National Education Association as recommended viewing for children. Overview The show focused on a short purple extraterrestrial from the planet Widget who could shapeshift by spinning like a spinning top into different forms. He and a group of young human friends - brothers Kevin and Brian, and their veterinarian friend Kristine - protect the natural environment from those who wish to plunder or harm it. Later on they are joined by fellow shapeshifter Half-Pint, Widget's mischievous and overly-cur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Widget (video Game)
''Widget'' is an action-platform video game series created for the Nintendo Entertainment System in the 1990s by Atlus. It was based on the cartoon series ''Widget the World Watcher'', which stars a purple alien named Widget. The original game came out in 1992, followed by the sequel ''Super Widget'' on the Super NES in 1993. ''Widget'' The original ''Widget'' video game was released in 1992. In this game, Widget must stop his evil twin from destroying the planet Earth. Widget can shoot pellets out of a gun. There are five levels, and the player can choose which order to play the middle four levels. After beating a level, Widget gains the ability to transform into a new form (including a golem, a cannon, a bird and a speedy mouse). The game has various bugs, including numerous errors that allow the player to move through walls. Other bugs are capable of crashing the game or warping the player to the next room of a level. Many of these glitches are exploited by speed-runs of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!
''Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!'' is an American animated children's educational television series created by Bob Boyle for Nickelodeon. The series was produced by Bolder Media (a joint venture of Frederator Studios and the Mixed Media Group) and Starz Media in association with Film Roman, and it was animated by Bardel Entertainment using Toon Boom and Adobe Flash software. Bob Boyle, Susan Miller, and Fred Seibert served as executive producers. Two seasons were produced, totaling 52 episodes (each consisting of two segments). Starz Media (currently Lionsgate Television) owns and distributes the series. The show has received an Emmy, a KidScreen Best TV Movie award (for '' Wubb Idol'', starring Beyoncé), and a Telly award. Premise The show focuses on an anthropomorphic, yellow, rectangular mouse-like creature named Wubbzy, who gets into various antics with his friends: Widget, a pink rabbit-like creature who can build; Walden, a purple bear-like creature who is a brainiac; and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
