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TIX 4.1B2
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Released on December 28, 1996
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Subject: [Announce] Tix version 4.1b2 is available
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I am pleased to announce the availability of Tix version 4.1b2, the
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first beta release. This version of Tix supports the Unix and
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Microsoft Windows platforms.
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The Tix library has by far the greatest collection of widgets for
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programming with Tcl/Tk. Highlights include: Hierarchical Listbox,
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Directory List/Tree View, SpreadSheet, Tabular Listbox, ComboBox,
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Motif style FileSelectBox, MS Windows style FileSelectBox,
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PanedWindow, NoteBook, Spin Control widget .... and many more. With
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these new widgets, your Tcl/Tk applications will look great and
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interact with your users in intuitive ways.
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For more info about Tix, visit the Tix home page at
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http://www.xpi.com/tix/ .
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This version of Tix is released under licensing terms similar to those
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of Tcl/Tk. Please read the file license.terms carefully before
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proceeding.
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REQUIREMENT
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Unix Platforms
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Tix 4.1b2 works with the following combinations of Tcl/Tk/ITcl:
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* Tcl 7.4 + Tk 4.0
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* Tcl 7.4 + Tk 4.0 + ITcl 2.0
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* Tcl 7.5 + Tk 4.1
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* Tcl 7.5 + Tk 4.1 + ITcl 2.1
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* Tcl 7.6 + Tk 4.2
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Windows Platforms
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Tix 4.1b2 requires the final release of Tcl 7.5 or Tcl 7.6.
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GETTING THE TIX PACKAGE
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Tix 4.1b2 sources are available at
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* ftp://ftp.xpi.com/pub/Tix4.1b2.tar.gz: Unix source tar file.
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* ftp://ftp.xpi.com/pub/windows/tix41b2.zip: Same as
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Tix4.1b2.tar.gz, but in Windows/DOS ZIP format.
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WHAT'S NEW SINCE TIX 4.1A3 (THE LAST RELEASE)
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10/13/96
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New feature: Now XPM image works on Windows.
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10/18/96
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New feature: New options -editnotifycmd and -editdonecmd for the Grid
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widget to support editing of the entries.
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New feature: New widget TixFloatEntry to support editing of DItems.
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10/27/96
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Feature Change: The following changes are made to the configuration
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and installation of Tix:
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* Naming convention of binaries: The binaries for the Tk 4.0 target
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are called tixwish and libtix.a. For Tk 4.1 and later, the
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executable is be called tixwish[Tix version].[Tk version] and the
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library is called libtix[Tix version].[Tk version].[lib
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extension]. For example, tixwish4.1.4.1 and libtix4.1.4.2.so. On
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platforms that do not allow the dot character in the names of
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shared libraries, the dot character will be omitted. E.g.,
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libtix4142.so.
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* Shared vs static linking: The static binary will be created only
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if the -enable-[tkversion]-shared flag is disabled. If you want to
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create both shared and static binaries, configure and compile Tix
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twice.
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* ET support is replaced by SAM (stand-alone module) support.
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* The following options are removed from configure:
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+ -enable-tk40_et
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+ -enable-tk41_et
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+ -enable-tk41_shared
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* The new options are added to configure:
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+ -enable-tk40-sam
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+ -enable-tk41-sam
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+ -enable-tk42-sam
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+ -enable-tk41-shared
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+ -enable-tk42-shared
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11/1/96
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New feature: XPM code has been rewritten. The code is now cleanly
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separated into three modules: generic, windows specific and Unix
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specific.
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11/17/96
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New feature: Tix classes can be defined before their superclasses are
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defined. However, a class cannot be instantiated before all of its
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superclasses are defined. This feature makes it possible to load the
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Tix scripts into the SAM in any order, without having to worry about
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loading the superclasses before the subclasses.
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New feature: Tix is initialized by calling the command __tixInit, not
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by sourcing Init.tcl.
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11/29/96
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Bug Fixed: tixTmpLine now correctly works on multiple X displays.
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11/30/96
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Feature Change: DisplayStyle now uses a hash table to store the items
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associated with it (previously a link list was used). This speeds up
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the delete operations when a lot (1000 or more) of items are
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associated with the same style. Possible Incompatibility: widgets that
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use DItems must be recompiled.
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Bug Fixed: Tix no longer tempers with the way Tk handles errors,
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unless the environment variable TIX_DEBUG_INTERACTIVE is set. If this
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variable is set, all error messages will be printed to the standard
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output. This may be convenient for debugging purposes. Use this
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feature with discretion, and during program development only.
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12/2/96
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Bug Fixed:Dotted anchor lines (HList, TList, Grid) and rubber-band
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lines (PanedWindow, ResizeHandle) are implemented on Windows.
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New feature: Tcl 7.6 support is complete for the Windows platform.
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makefile.vc and makefile.bc have been modified such that the Tcl
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version can be chosen at compile time by, e.g., "make TCL_VER=7.5 -f
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makefile.bc".
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12/2/96
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Bug Fixed: Display items are correctly clipped. E.g., if a text item
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is wider than the width of a column in an HList, the item will be
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clipped.
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12/20/96
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New feature: New sample file demos/samples/EditGrid.tcl that
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demonstrates the use of an editable grid widget.
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12/21/96
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Bug Fixed: Tix works with multiple interpreters under tk4.1 and 4.2
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(see test/general/minterp.tcl). However, minterp.tcl still core dumps
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under Itcl 2.1. It is not clear to me whether this is a problem of Tix
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or Itcl.
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Bug Fixed: Now when an interpreter is deleted, all Tix class
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informations associated with this interpreter are freed. (No memory
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leak is recorded by purify when running Tix against the complete test
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suite.)
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_________________________________________________________________
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Last modified Fri Jan 17 22:52:59 EST 1997 --- Serial 853731294
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