TIX 4.1A3 Released on April 23, 1996 Subject: [Announce] Tix version 4.1a3 is available I am pleased to announce the availability of Tix version 4.1a3, the third alpha release. This version of Tix supports the Unix and Microsoft Windows platforms. REQUIREMENT Unix Platforms Tix 4.1a3 works with the following combinations of Tcl/Tk/ITcl/ET: * Tcl 7.4 + Tk 4.0 * Tcl 7.4 + Tk 4.0 + ITcl 2.0 * Tcl 7.4 + Tk 4.0 + ET 1.5 * Tcl 7.5 + Tk 4.1 (final release only) Windows Platforms Tix 4.1a3 requires the final release of Tcl 7.5 and Tk 4.1 (no alpha or beta versions). Many things currently does not work under Windows, including: * FileSelectDialog (ExFileSelectDialog does work, though) * The top-left corner of the Grid (aka spreadsheet) widget * XPM images GETTING THE TIX PACKAGE Tix 4.1a3 is available at * ftp://ftp.xpi.com/pub/Tix4.1a3.tar.gz: Unix source tar file. * ftp://ftp.xpi.com/pub/windows/tix41a3.zip: Same as Tix4.1a3.tar.gz, but in Windows/DOS ZIP format. * ftp://ftp.xpi.com/pub/windows/tix41bin.zip: Windows binaries. WHAT'S NEW SINCE TIX 4.1A2 (THE LAST RELEASE) 5/5/96 New feature: New tool unix-et-tk4.0/makescript.tcl. It includes the Tix script library into a ET application in the correct order. If A.tcl depends on B.tcl, then B.tcl is loaded first. 5/6/96 New feature: Now the -default option of the Tix mega widget classes are inherited from their superclasses. New feature: New option -expand for the panes in PanedWindow Bug Fixed: ScrolledHList didn't calculate the size of the hlist subwidget correctly, resulting in scrollbars not appearing even if the hlist widget is not big enough to display all of its contents. 5/8/96 New feature: New method setsize for PanedWindow. 5/10/96 New feature: New widget tixMeter, can be used to display the progress of work. Bug Fixed: HList multiple and extended selectMode now work with TixTree. 5/11/96 Bug Fixed: HList "see" method sometimes doesn't display the specified element correctly. New widgets: New widgets CheckList, Grid, ScrolledGrid, TList and ScrolledTList added to the Tix 4.1 distribution. New feature: New option -postcmd for PopupMenu widget. _________________________________________________________________ Last modified May 20 04:00 WHAT IS TIX ABOUT THE TIX PROGRAMMING LIBRARY _________________________________________________________________ LICENSE TERMS PLEASE READ THE FILE license.terms BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING _________________________________________________________________ The Tix library is an extension to the Tk toolkit that contains over 20 new widgets for Tk. Features include: A LOT of new widgets: The Tix library has by far the greatest collection of widgets for programming with Tcl/Tk. Highlights include: Hierarchical Listbox, Directory List/Tree View, SpreadSheet, Tabular Listbox, ComboBox, Motif style FileSelectBox, MS Windows style FileSelectBox, PanedWindow, NoteBook, Spin Control widget .... and many more. With these new widgets, your Tcl/Tk applications can acquire a great professional look and interact with your users in intuitive ways. XPM image suport: This allows you to display color icons in XPM format. Supports transparent background. Compound images: A new image type called "compound" allows youto glue together a bunch of bitmaps, images and text strings together to form a bigger image. Then you can use this image with widgets that support the -image option. For example, you can display a text string string together with a bitmap, at the same time, inside a TK button widget. Display Items and Display Styles: Display items and display styles make it possible to display visual information in many formats. Currently only the HList widget supports display items, but this will become the standard way of displaying informations in all the Tix widgets in the next version (Tix 4.1). Form geometry manager: Works similarly to the Motif Form widget. You can specify geometry constraints using attachment rules. Mwm window mamager support: With the tixMwm command, you can communicate with the Motif window manager "mwm"; you can add new items to the Motif system menu and change the window manager decorations. Rapid Prototyping New Widgets: Tix comes with a complete Object-Oriented framework for building new customed widgets using TCL exclusively. It typically reduces the efforts of developing a new widget by a factor of ten or more. _________________________________________________________________ GETTING MORE INFORMATION ABOUT TIX Tix Home Page: The Tix Home Page at http://www.xpi.com/tix/ provides more detailed and up-to-date information about Tix. The Tix Mailing List There is a mailing list for the discussion of the development of both the Tix library and Tix-based applications. To subscribe, send me a mail to majordomo@xpi.com with the line "subscribe tix-info [your_address]" in the body of the mail. To send a message to the Tix mailing list, please use the address tix-info@xpi.com. The Tix mailing list has been archived. You can find useful information at the Tix mailing list archives at: http://www.xpi.com/archives/archives.html. GETTING TECHICAL SUPPORT FOR TIX If you have a question about using the Tix library, feel free to contact the Tix support team at the address tix-support@xpi.com. Please notice that this support service is currently provided only on a good-will basis with no implied obligations or guaranty. BUG REPORTS Tix is a large product and as such will certainly contain bugs. If you have encountered a bug while using Tix, please send a bug report to the address tix-bugs@xpi.com . We'll appreciate it if you can send along a small, self-contained program that demonstrates the behavior of the bug. _________________________________________________________________ Last modified Sep 14 03:38