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Tix version 4.0b8 is available
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Fri Nov 24 18:54:06 1995
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 22:29:06 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: ioi@CS.Cornell.EDU (Ioi Lam)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl,comp.os.linux.announce,comp.windows.x
Subject: Tix version 4.0b8 is available
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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I am pleased to announce the availability of Tix version 4.0b8.
REQUIREMENT
TK 4.0 + TCL 7.4, with or without patches It doesn't work with Tk
4.1a* and Tcl 7.5a* yet. Tix 4.0b8 does not work with previous
versions of TK and TCL. Versions of Tix that work with previous
versions of TK and TCL can be found in the FTP directories listed
below.
GETTING THE TIX PACKAGE
You can obtain Tix from my ftp site:
ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/ioi/Tix4.0b8.tar.gz
I have also uploaded the file to the official Tcl site, so in a few
days it will also be available at:
ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/extensions/Tix4.0b8.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/extensions/Tix4.0b8.README
WHAT'S NEW
This is essentially a maintainence release with the configuration
process much improved. Most major bugs have been fixed. If all goes
well, this will be the last beta release of Tix 4.0 and the final
release will be ready within a week.
1. The configure script has been overhauled. It has been moved to the
toplevel directory and it will generate Makefiles in all
subdirectories.
2. The setup program (a GUI front end to configure) allows you to set
most options graphically. setup is considered as a replacement for
configure in all future versions of Tix. Please use setup instead
of using configure directly.
3. Miscellaneous bugs fixed. Please refer to the file
docs/Changes.html in the distribution for more details of the bug
fixes.
WHAT IS TIX
ABOUT THE TIX PROGRAMMING LIBRARY
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: ComboBox,
Motif style FileSelectBox, MS Windows style FileSelectBox,
PanedWindow, NoteBook, Hierarchical Listbox, Directory
List/Tree View, 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, a feature not found in the standard GIF
photo image type.
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.
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GETTING MORE INFORMATION ABOUT TIX
Tix Home Page:
The Tix Home Page at http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ioi/tix/tix.html
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 ioi@graphics.cis.upenn.edu and
I'll add you to the list manually. Currently there are more
than 260 people on the list.
To send a message to the Tix mailing list, use the address
tix-info@graphics.cis.upenn.edu
The Tix mailing list has been archived. You can find useful
information at the Tix mailing list archives at:
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ioi/archives.html.
IS TIX FREE?
Tix 4.0 is released under very liberal license terms, similar to the
Tcl/TK license terms. Please read the file docs/LEGAL.html in the
distribution for more details.
Ioi
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