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 % 11 August 2014
 
 
 % 11 August 2014
 
 

+Required development tools
+==========================
+
+If you are building the widget set, as opposed to just using it, you
+will need the following Debian packages (or their equivalents on your
+operating system):
+
+       $ sudo apt-get install curl git make unzip \
+           pandoc yui-compressor libbsd-resource-perl
+
+You also need Node.js, but unfortunately the `node-js` package is not
+available for Debian wheezy. You can either get it from
+wheezy-backports or download the source from
+http://nodejs.org/download/ and build it yourself. You need both Node
+itself and its package manager NPM: `make install` puts them into
+`/usr/local/bin`.
+
+To compile the default templates you'll need to install the stable
+version of Handlebars. Currently it's at 2.0.0 and available by npm:
+
+       $ npm install handlebars@2.0.0 -g
+
+

 Overview
 ========
 
 Overview
 ========
 

@@ -151,7 +174,21 @@ be used by the derived widget.
 * `expandValue()` --
        TODO: either document this or remove it from the API.
 
 * `expandValue()` --
        TODO: either document this or remove it from the API.
 

-* TODO subwidget()
+* `subwidget(type, overrides, defaults)` --
+       Returns the HTML of a subwidget of the specified type, which
+       can then be inserted into the widget using the
+       `this.node.html` function. The subwidget is given the same
+       attributes at the parent widget that invokes this function,
+       except where overrides are passed in. If defaults are also
+       provided, then these are used when the parent widget provides
+       no values. Both the `overrides` and `defaults` arguments are
+       hashes: the latter is optional.
+  
+       See for example the `Credo` widget defined in the example
+       area's `mkws-widget-credo.js` file. This uses several
+       invocations of `subwidget` to create a complex compound widget
+       with numerous text, facet and image panes. TODO: rename this
+       widget and everything related to it.

 
 In addition to these properties and methods of the bare widget object,
 some kinds of specific widget add other properties of their own. For
 
 In addition to these properties and methods of the bare widget object,
 some kinds of specific widget add other properties of their own. For

@@ -244,4 +281,4 @@ TODO: list of events that can be usefully subscribed to.
 
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+Copyright (C) 2013-2014 Index Data ApS. <http://indexdata.com>