Added ViewWidget

IPython/html/widgets/widget_view.py

@@ -0,0 +1,27 b''
+"""ViewWidget class.
+
+Used to display another widget using a different view.
+"""
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Copyright (c) 2013, the IPython Development Team.
+#
+# Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License.
+#
+# The full license is in the file COPYING.txt, distributed with this software.
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Imports
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+from .widget import BaseWidget
+from IPython.utils.traitlets import Unicode
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Classes
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+class ViewWidget(BaseWidget):
+    target_name = Unicode('ViewModel')
+
+    def __init__(self, widget, view):
+       self.default_view_name = view
+       self.widget = widget

IPython/html/widgets/widget.py

@@ -27,6 +27,8 b' from IPython.utils.traitlets import Unicode, Dict, List, Instance, Bool'
 from IPython.display import Javascript, display
 from IPython.utils.py3compat import string_types
 
+from .widget_view import ViewWidget
+
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Classes
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -436,3 +438,9 b' class Widget(BaseWidget):'
         self.send({"msg_type": "remove_class",
                    "class_list": class_name,
                    "selector": selector})
+
+
+    def view(self, view_name=None):
+        """Return a widget that can be displayed to display this widget using
+        a non-default view"""
+       return ViewWidget(self, view_name)