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Tix version 4.0b1 is available (more widgets for Tk)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Jul 1 07:37:03 1995
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 1995 12:35:27 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
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From: ioi@graphics.cis.upenn.edu (Ioi K. Lam)
Subject: Tix version 4.0b1 is available (more widgets for Tk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Keywords: Tix, Tk, Tcl, Widgets, X11
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I am pleased to announce the availabiliity of Tix version 4.0b1 for
Linux. This is the first BETA release of Tix 4.0. This version
should be fairly stable: Tix 4.0 has undergone Alpha testing for
more than 8 months.
WHAT IS TIX
In case you don't know yet, the Tix library is an extension to the
Tk toolkit that contains over 20 new widgets for Tk. Features
include:
(1) A LOT of new widgets:
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 you can interact with your
users in interesting new ways.
(2) XPM image suport:
(3) 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.
(4) Form geometry manager
Works similar to the Motif Form widget. You can specify geometry
constraints using attachment rules.
(5) 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.
GETTING THE TIX PACKAGE:
You can obtain Tix from my ftp site:
ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/ioi/Tix4.0b1.tar.gz
Linux libaries can be found at
ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/ioi/bin/linux/tixwish-4.0b1.gz
ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/ioi/bin/linux/libtix.a-4.0b1.gz
I have also uploaded the file to the offical Tcl site, so in a few
days it will also be available at;
ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/extensions/Tix4.0b1.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/extensions/Tix4.0b1.README
More information about Tix can be found at the Tix Home Page at
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ioi/tix/tix.html
There is a mailing list for the discussion of the development of
the Tix library and Tix applications. To subscribe, please send a
message to
ioi@graphics.cis.upenn.edu
DOCUMENTATIOIN:
All Tix documentation are now in HTML format. After you download
Tix, please read the file Tix4.0b1/README.html. It contains links
to all other important documentation in the Tix package, including
the copyright statement.
WHAT'S NEW
(1) There are man pages for all "supported" widgets.
(2) For each "supported" widget, there is a sample program that
demostrates how to program with that widget. To see these
programs, start the demo in Tix4.0b1/demos/widget and click on
the "Run Sample Programs" tab.
(3) New image type "compound": you can use it with every Tk/Tix
widget that support the -image option.
(4) Better support for keyboard traversal. Now FileSelectBox,
ExFileSelectBox and NoteBook all support traversal with Tab and
arrow keys.
(5) Fewer patches to the standard Tk distribution. Now only two
files are patched (in the future even these patched can be
optionall turned off).
BUG REPORTS:
Please report any bugs to ioi@graphics.cis.upenn.edu. If you think
the bug is interesting for others, you can also forward it to the
Tix mailing list tix-info@graphics.cis.upenn.edu.
Enjoy!
Ioi
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