Hi, inheriting widgets was fairly easy with the old WDTC, but with 6 this has become more difficult. Do we have any example what the correct way of inheriting standard widgets would look like? I am struggling with define and function calls and what files I need to copy and what files I can referenc…

Hi Stephan, I still don’t know if there is a really correct way to do it. I will take a look at a potential python script to copy existing widget to a widget lib. By taking you example of the DropDownBox, if we copy existing DropDownBox (with dependencies) change all declarations to match current…

Hi Florent, I tried to copy the whole widget but that does not work either. Inside the lib are other references back to the standard brease that fail. I am back to the numeric widget but I cant even get that to work…I followed the documentation for inheriting widgets but something is still missing.…

Hi Stephan, Did you register your widget ? From external lib you need to, I didn’t remember if it’s in documentation but here is the way I register my widget in MV6 (at the end of the file of the widget javascript file): //======================================================================…

Hi @stephan.stricker , have you solved your issue?

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stephan.stricker (Stephan) September 15, 2025, 5:51am 10

Yes, I solved it with this

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