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- Welcome to...
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-
- A tcl binding to Motif
- Who by
- ------
- Jan Newmarch (jan@pandonia.canberra.edu.au).
-
- Availability
- ------------
- The primary site for this is ftp.canberra.edu.au under
- /pub/motif/tclMotif/tclMotif.*.tar.z. It is also placed on X and tcl sites
- ftp.x.org and harbor.ecn.purdue.edu. From these sites it will be available
- on mirrors in lots of places. A binary version for Linux is also available
- from Linux sites such as sunsite and tsx-11.
-
- What
- ----
- This package consists of a set of functions and a standalone interpreter "moat"
- that allow tcl programs to use the Motif set of widgets. A tcl file can be
- read by the standalone interpreter much as the Tk "wish" does. The difference
- is that instead of using the Tk library to create and manipulate Tk widgets,
- this system uses the Tm library to create and manipulate Motif widgets.
-
- Major changes in version 1.4
- ----------------------------
-
- - lots of minor bug fixes.
- - added methods: getSelectionValue, mrmFetchWidgetOverride,
- addWMProtocolCallback, pending, windowID, displayInfo,
- augmentTranslation, overrideTranslations, uninstallTranslations,
- lowerWindow, raiseWindow, warpPointer, beep, setCommand
- (many of these from Wolfgang Kechel - wolfgang@pr-wiesbaden.de).
- - Modified addwidget syntax to make it easier to define related widgets
- in a single file.
- - INCOMPATABLE CHANGE: if a resource can't be found in a resource list
- or in a constraint parent list, then we used to complain. Xt says to
- ignore this, and Motif relies on this behaviour (e.g allowShellResize
- in CreateFormDialog gets handed to both shell and form). So we don't
- complain any more, and ignore unrecognised resources silently.
- - INCOMPATABLE CHANGE: the string to XmString formatting converter is
- now used for lists of strings, instead of XmStringCreateLToR.
- - Added support for multiple displays so that a topLevelShell may be
- created on a new (or already open) display (Wolfgang Kechel -
- wolfgang@pr-wiesbaden.de)
- - Lots of code cleanups (Wolfgang Kechel - wolfgang@pr-wiesbaden.de).
-
- The full set of changes is given in the CHANGES file.
-
-
- Relation to Wafe
- ----------------
- The Wafe project also provides a binding of Xt widgets to tcl. Originally
- just the Athena widgets, it has been extended to other sets, and has a
- Motif binding in beta.
- - The language syntax differs. tclMotif is closer to Tk than Wafe is.
- Wafe (and WKSH) use
- command object ...
- syntax. Both Tk and tclMotif use
- object command ...
- - I use the standard Motif callbacks, Wafe has its own callback model.
- - Wafe has more Xt support.
- - The primary aim of wafe is as a tcl/Xt front-end to other languages.
- My binding is just tcl to Motif, so I have been able to tune this
- to the Motif model easier.
-
- Status
- ------
- This is being actively maintained, as of March 1995. New versions
- are released approx every 2-3 months, although this depends on many
- factors. Please report any bugs either in existing code, or omissions
- that reduce the way you would like to use tclMotif.
-
- The changes over the releases are summarised in the file CHANGES
-
- Requirements
- ------------
- This has been built using tcl7.3 and the Motif 1.2.1 development libraries.
- You need both. I have so far tested this stuff on a Sun O/S 4.1 and a 486
- running Linux. Earlier versions used tcl6.7, but this is no longer supported.
- It should compile using tcl7.0b3 onwards, and all versions of Motif 1.2.
- There is some Motif 1.1 support i.e. it will compile and most things will
- run, but some things such as getting resource values of scalars such as
- XmNarrowDirection won't.
-
- The Motif 2.0 support is based on a beta version of Motif 2.0 that I had
- access to at one time. This will probably change when I get access to the
- production release.
-
- Files
- -----
- The directory "src" contains the source files.
-
- "doc" contains the man pages, a skimpy user manual, and a draft paper.
- It also contains a user manual in TeX format, contributed by
- Jean-Dominique Gascuel. Unfortunately this describes version 1.0 and
- there have been some incompatable changes since then.
-
- The "examples" directory contains a number of good programs that show how
- Tm works.
-
- The "wtour" directory contains a widget-tour program based on Andrew Payne's
- wtour program for Tk.
-
- The "tests" directory contains the regression test files for Tm. These cover
- many features of Tm, but are not designed for easy reading. The file "index"
- in this directory shows what is tested.
-
- The "programs" directory contains adhoc programs used in developing Tm. These
- are in no particular order, not documented. You may see some useful examples
- in here, but it is pot-luck. There is no guarantee that any particular one
- will work.
-
- At the top level, INSTALL tells you how to build Tm and moat and COPYRIGHT
- tells who owns it and why. CHANGES documents what has happened between
- versions.
-