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- TIX 4.0.4
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- Released on Mar 3, 1996
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- Subject: [Announce] Tix version 4.0.4 is available
-
- I am pleased to announce the availability of Tix version 4.0.4, the
- fourth patched version of Tix 4.0. Please see the "What's New" section
- below for changes since the last release.
-
- REQUIREMENT
-
- Tix 4.0.4 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
- * Tcl 7.5 + Tk 4.1 (a2, b1 or b2), supports dynamic loading.
-
- GETTING THE TIX PACKAGE
-
- You can obtain Tix from the following ftp site:
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- ftp://ftp.xpi.com/pub/Tix4.0.4.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.xpi.com/pub/Tix4.0.4.README
-
- 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/Tix4.0.4.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/extensions/Tix4.0.4.README
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- WHAT'S NEW SINCE TIX 4.0.3 (THE LAST RELEASE)
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- 2/12/96
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- Bug fix: The balloon was not keeping the button states correctly and
- not appear again after the user clicks the mouse several times,
- especially during grab transitions.
-
- 2/15/96
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- Bug fix: ComboBox didn't react to paste events properly.
-
- Bug fix: XPM reader wasn't parsing the header properly and couldn't
- read any XPM files that heas the header "/* XPM2 */".
-
- 2/16/96
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- Bug fix: NoteBook no longer complains when all of the pages have been
- deleted.
-
- New feature: New command refresh for DirTree.
-
- 2/17/96
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- New feature: New option -ignoreinvoke added to TixVTree: if set to
- false, the branch of the tree is not opened/closed if the user invokes
- an entry in the tree
-
- . Bug fix: Tix no longer uses the tkNormalUid variable that used to be
- exported by Tk.
-
- 2/18/96
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- New feature: New class tixListNoteBook.
-
- 2/22/96
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- New feature: New color scheme "Bisque" that looks similar (bu not
- identical) to the color scheme of Tk 3.6.
-
- Changes: New command "flash" for ComboBox. ComboBox doesn't
- automatically flash anymore when the user selects an entry. You have
- to call "flash" explicitly.
-
- Changes: Major changes in Schemes:
- * Menu font is changed to an upright bold font, instead of the old
- italic bold font.
- * Menu buttons and NoteBook tabs now have more padding.
-
- 2/27/96
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- Incompatible Changes: All %E substitutions have been changed to %V
- substitutions. The HList widgets supported an undocumented feature:
- Any string %E in the -command or -browsecmd option will be substituted
- by the current highlighted entry. This has been changed to %V to
- advoid name conflict with TK.
-
- 2/28/96
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- Bug fix: The XPM reader didn't handle properly the color names that
- contain space characters.
-
- Bug fix: The ScrolledWindow widget didn't resize the scrollbars
- accordingly when the client window changed its size.
-
- 2/29/96
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- Bug fix: The XPM reader didn't handle quotation properly. Also, now it
- can handle comments anywhere in the XPM image file.
-
- 3/1/96
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- New feature: New command -activatecmd for FileEnt widget: it specifies
- a command to be executed when the user presses the "file" button. Can
- be used to customize the file dialog before it pops up.
-
- New feature: New option -dynamicgeometry for tixOptionMenu. When set
- to false (the default), the size of the menubutton subwidget will be
- wide enough to display every menu entry fully and does not change when
- the user selects different entries.
-
- New Doc: NBFrame documentation is available.
-
-
- WHAT IS TIX
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- 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:
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- 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.
-
- 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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- _________________________________________________________________
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- 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.
-
- 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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