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Tix 4.0 Final Release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Nov 25 22:42:43 1995
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 1995 17:23:54 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: ioi@CS.Cornell.EDU (Ioi Lam)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: Tix 4.0 Final Release
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
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After almost a year of rigorous beta testing, I am pleased to announce
the availability of Tix version 4.0. This is the final, official
release version.
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 4.0 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/Tix4.0.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/Tix4.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/extensions/Tix4.0.README
WHAT'S NEW
What's New Since Tix 4.0b8 (the last beta release)
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1. Now the XPM library source code is bundled in Tix. The configure
script has been changed to detect the existance of the XPM library
on the target system. If XPM is not installed on the target
system, the bundled XPM library will be used.
2. The setup program now allows you to choose options.
3. The Balloon widget is completely rewritten and now it should work
under all circumstances.
What's New Since Tix 3.6 (the last major release)
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1. Tix 4.0 works with TK 4.0 and TCL 7.4.
2. Many new widgets have been added. Highlights are the Hierarchical
Listbox widget and the NoteBook widget.
3. It comes with a set of fully-indexed HTML documentation, including
release notes, FAQ and man pages.
4. XPM image types allows you to use the most popular color icon
format in X Window.
5. A compound image type allows you to display both text and images
together in Tk buttons (and other widgets)
6. An integrated demo program that shows all the useful features of
Tix.
7. A graphical setup program that makes Tix probably the most easily
set-up programming library for X.
8. The Tix Core is completely rewritten in C with enhanced
efficiency.
9. Many more .. please read the file docs/Changes.html in the Tix
distribution.
WHAT IS TIX
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.
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Last modified Nov 11 19:15
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