works with new toolkit and gui changesv1.1.4

Signed-off-by: Jeff Carr <[email protected]>

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+package widget
+
+// This is the state of the widget
+
+// The whole state of the widget is sent
+// when the widget action is Add() or Show()
+
+// Range(1, 10) includes the values 1 and 10
+// almost all toolkits use integers so there doesn't
+// seem to be a good idea to use 'type any' here as it
+// just makes things more complicated for no good reason
+type State struct {
+	// This is a unmodifiable string that is displayed to the user.
+	Label	string
+
+	// most primitive widgets just store a single thing
+	// it is the default value
+	Value	any
+
+	// how to arrange widgets
+	Direction Orientation
+
+	//
+	// This is complicated. We must send a list of all the widgets
+	// in the binary tree to the toolkits because some toolkits
+	// must make the widgets exist and then hide them.
+	//
+	// However, when a widget is not visable, no updates to the
+	// widget is sent to the toolkit and no events from the
+	// widget are valid back to the program
+	//
+	Visable bool
+
+	// if false, pack things as tightly as possible
+	Pad bool
+
+	// trys to fill up available space
+	Expand bool
+
+	// All the strings for things like dropdown menus
+	// They must be sent in display order
+	// These must be unique
+	Strings []string
+
+	// for widgets that use a range
+	Range	RangeType
+
+	Geom	Geom
+	Size	Size
+
+	GridSize GridSize
+	GridOffset GridOffset
+
+	// This is for the grid size & widget position
+	W      int
+	H      int
+	AtW    int
+	AtH    int
+
+	// a name useful for programming and the debugger.
+	// It is not intended to be displayed to the user
+	ProgName string
+}