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<Center><H1>About the Tix Programming Library</H1></Center>
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<TITLE>About the Tix Programming Library</TITLE>
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The Tix library is an extension to the Tk toolkit that contains
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over 40 new widgets for Tk. Features include:
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<DT><b>A LOT of new widgets:</b>
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The Tix library has by far the greatest collection of
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widgets for programming with Tcl/Tk. Highlights include:
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Hierarchical Listbox, Directory List/Tree View, SpreadSheet,
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Tabular Listbox, ComboBox, Motif style FileSelectBox, MS
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Windows style FileSelectBox, PanedWindow, NoteBook, Spin
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Control widget .... and many more. With these new widgets,
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your applications will look great and interact with your
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users in intuitive ways.
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<DT><b>Rapid Prototyping New Widgets:</b>
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Tix comes with a complete Object-Oriented framework for
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building new customed widgets using TCL exclusively. It
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typically reduces the efforts of developing a new widget by
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a factor of ten or more.<p>
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<DT> <b>XPM image suport:</b>
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This allows you to display color icons in XPM
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format. Supports transparent background. <p>
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<DT><b>Compound images:</b>
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A new image type called "compound" allows youto glue
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together a bunch of bitmaps, images and text strings
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together to form a bigger image. Then you can use this image
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with widgets that support the -image option. For example,
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you can display a text string string together with a bitmap,
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at the same time, inside a TK button widget.<p>
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<DT><b> Display Items and Display Styles:</b>
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Display items and display styles make it possible to display
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visual information in many formats.<p>
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<DT><b>Form geometry manager:</b>
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Works similarly to the Motif Form widget. You can specify
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geometry constraints using attachment rules. <p>
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<DT><b> Mwm window mamager support:</b>
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With the <code>tixMwm</code> command, you can communicate
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with the Motif window manager "mwm"; you can add new items
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to the Motif system menu and change the window manager
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decorations.<p>
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<h3>Getting more information about Tix</h3>
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<DT><b>Tix Home Page:</b>
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The Tix Home Page at <a href= "http://www.xpi.com/tix/">
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http://www.xpi.com/tix/</a> provides more detailed and
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up-to-date information about Tix.<p>
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<DT><b>The Tix Mailing List</b>
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There is a mailing list for the discussion of the
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development of both the Tix library and Tix-based
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applications. To subscribe, send me a mail to <a
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href="mailto:majordomo@xpi.com">majordomo@xpi.com </a> with
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the line "<code>subscribe tix-info [your_address]</code>" in
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the body of the mail.
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To send a message to the Tix mailing list, please use the
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address <a href="mailto:tix-info@xpi.com">
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tix-info@xpi.com</a>. <p>
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The Tix mailing list has been archived. You can find useful
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information at the Tix mailing list archives at: <a href=
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"http://www.xpi.com/archives/archives.html">
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http://www.xpi.com/archives/archives.html</a>.<p>
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<h3>Getting Techical Support for Tix</h3>
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If you have a question about using the Tix library, feel free to
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contact the Tix support team at the address <a
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href="tix-support@xpi.com">tix-support@xpi.com</a>. Please notice
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that this support service is currently provided only on a good-will
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basis with no implied obligations or guaranty. <p>
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<h3>Bug Reports</h3>
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Tix is a large product and as such will certainly contain bugs. If
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you have encountered a bug while using Tix, please send a bug
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report to the address <a href="tix-bugs@xpi.com"> tix-bugs@xpi.com
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</a>. We'll appreciate it if you can send along a small,
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self-contained program that demonstrates the behavior of the
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bug.<p>
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<!Serial 851750010>
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<hr><i>Last modified Fri Jan 17 22:49:53 EST 1997 </i> ---
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<i>Serial 853731291</i>
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