Options: if it contains a 'i' and/or a 'b' the content (not the label) is rendered in italic and/or bold.

Options has 2 comma-separated fields:
xml: size: the length in chars of the input-field
xml: maxlength: the maximum length of the input

Options has 3 comma-separated fields:
xml: min: minimum value, default none
xml: max: maximum value, default none
xml: size: the length in chars of the input-field, default 5

Options has 3 comma-separated fields:
xml: min: minimum value, default none
xml: max: maximum value, default none
xml: size: the length in chars of the input-field, default 5

Options has 2 comma-separated fields:
xml: cols: the width of the field in chars
xml: rows: the number of rows

onChange xml: onchange: if set and the user has JavaScript enabled the button is renderd as a link around the label and a hidden input to set id if the link is clicked.
Options xml: image, ro_image: Image to use instead of a Button with a label. There will be no button around the image. If a ro_image is given (separated by a comma in the editors options) it will be used if the button is set readonly (else the button is no rendered at all) .

multiselect: options > 1
<listbox rows="#"/>

Examples for predefined selectboxes:

<listbox type="select-cat" rows="5"/>

<menulist>
  <menupopup type="select-account" options="All,both,2"/>
</menulist>

1. in $content["options-$name"]
2. or in an separate array only for select-box-options under the index name, this array is passed to the exec or show function of the etemplate-class

xml: rows: only for <listbox>: number of rows to show

xml options: only for <menupopup/>: textual label for a first Row, e.g. 'All' or 'None' (id will be ''), additional attr see sub-types

xml: type: can be set to get several predefined select-contents, in that case you dont need to set the content as descripted above (if set it too its in front of the predefined rows):
select-cat: Select a phpgw category
select-account: Select a user and/or group, determined by the options-field:
,{accounts(default)|groups|both},{0(only lid)|1(only names/default)|2(both)}
select-percent, select-priority, select-access, select-country, select-state: as you expect by the name
select-year, select-month, select-day: options for year: ,start,end (start and end can be a number of years from now or if > 100 a absolut year)
select-number: Select a number out of a range specified by the options-field:
,{start (default=1)},{end (incl., default=10)},{decrement (default=1)}
select-app: Select an application, availible options: ,{''=user enabled(default)|installed|all)}

<date type="date-time"/>

<date type="date-timeonly" options="H:i"/>

<hbox span="all">
  <widget ...>
  <widget ...>
</hbox>

Options in the editor: the number of cells in the box (does NOT need to be set in xml).

The following fields / attributes are in the Editor and internaly in the class separeted by '|', in the xml/xul-file the are attributes of each tab- or grid-tag:
Label xml: label: the labels of the tabs eg. 'Tab 1|Tab 2|Tab 3'
Help xml: statustext: of the tabs
Name xml: id: the names/ids of the eTemplates/grid's to fill the bodies of the tabs, if the name contains no '.', it will be prefixed with the name of the template the widget is in plus a '.'

Demo: There is a demo availible: load 'etemplate.tab_widget.test' into the eTemplate editor and run it with show.

Options xml: options: name of the template to display the rows
Name xml: id: index into the content-array, it need to be pre-set with some information for the nextmatch widget and it returns its content with it:

$content[$id] = array(		// I = value set by the app, 0 = value on return / output, 
	'get_rows'     =>	// I  method/callback to request the data for the rows eg. 'notes.bo.get_rows'
	'filter_label' =>	// I  label for filter    (optional)
	'filter_help'  =>	// I  help-msg for filter (optional)
	'no_filter2'   => True	// I  disable the 2. filter (params are the same as for filter)
	'template'     =>	// I  template to use for the rows, if not set via options
	'start'        =>	// IO position in list
	'cat_id'       =>	// IO category, if not 'no_cat' => True
	'search'       =>	// IO search pattern
	'filter'       =>	// IO filter, if not 'no_filter' => True
	'rows'         =>	//  O content set by callback
	'total'        =>	//  O the total number of entries
);

/*
 * example: the get_rows function from notes.bo.get_rows (has to be in public_functions !)
 */
function get_rows($query,&$rows,&$readonlys)
{
	$rows = $this->read($query['start'],$query['search'],$query['filter'],$query['cat_id']);
	if (!is_array($rows))
	{
		$rows = array( );
	}
	else
	{
		array_unshift($rows,0); each($rows);	// first entry is not used !!!
	}
	$readonlys = array( );	// set readonlys to enable/disable our edit/delete-buttons
	while (list($n,$note) = each($rows))
	{
		if (!$this->check_perms($this->grants[$note['owner_id']],PHPGW_ACL_EDIT))
		{
			$readonlys["edit[$note[id]]"] = True;
		}
		if (!$this->check_perms($this->grants[$note['owner_id']],PHPGW_ACL_DELETE))
		{
			$readonlys["delete[$note[id]]"] = True;
		}
	}
	return $this->total_records;
}

/*
 * Example how the nextmatch-widget is used in notes.ui.index:
 */
function index($content = 0)
{
	if (!is_array($content))
	{
		$content = array('nm' => $this->session_data); // restore settings from the session
	}
	if (isset($content['nm']['rows']))		// one of the buttons in the rows is pressed
	{
		$this->session_data = $values['nm'];	// save the settings in the session
		unset($this->session_data['rows']);	// we dont want to save the content of the rows
		$this->save_sessiondata();

		if (isset($values['nm']['rows']['edit']))
		{
			list($id) = each($values['nm']['rows']['edit']);
			return $this->edit($id);
		}
		elseif (isset($values['nm']['rows']['delete']))
		{
			list($id) = each($values['nm']['rows']['delete']);
			return $this->delete($id);
		}
	}
	$values['nm']['options-filter'] = array (	// set up the data for our filter
		'all'			=> 'Show all',
		'public'		=> 'Only yours',
		'private'	=> 'Private'
	);
	$values['nm']['get_rows'] = 'notes.bo.get_rows';
	$values['nm']['no_filter2'] = True;		// disable the 2. filter

	$this->tpl->read('notes.index');
	$this->tpl->exec('notes.ui.index',$values);
}