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<h3>Tix 4.1a3</h3>

<i> Released on April 23, 1996</i> <p>

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Subject: [Announce] Tix version 4.1a3 is available

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   I am pleased to announce the availability of Tix version 4.1a3, the

   third alpha release. This version of Tix supports the Unix and

   Microsoft Windows platforms. <p>

   Tix 4.1 is the commercial version of Tix 4.0. It contains more

   widgets and works under MS Windows. Please read the file

   license.terms first inside the distribution tar file or from the

   WWW at <a href="http://www.xpi.com/tix/license.terms.41a3.txt">

   http://www.xpi.com/tix/license.terms.41a3.txt </a> <p>

<h3>Requirement</h3>

<h4>Unix Platforms</h4>

   Tix 4.1a3 works with the following combinations of Tcl/Tk/ITcl/ET:

   <ul>

     <li> Tcl 7.4 + Tk 4.0

     <li> Tcl 7.4 + Tk 4.0 + ITcl 2.0

     <li> Tcl 7.4 + Tk 4.0 + ET 1.5

     <li> Tcl 7.5 + Tk 4.1 (final release only)

   </ul>

<h4>Windows Platforms</h4>

   Tix 4.1a3 requires the final release of Tcl 7.5 and Tk 4.1 (no

   alpha or beta versions). Many things currently does not work under

   Windows, including:

   <ul>

     <li> FileSelectDialog (ExFileSelectDialog does work, though)

     <li> The top-left corner of the Grid (aka spreadsheet) widget

     <li> XPM images

   </ul>

<h3>Getting The Tix Package</h3>

   Tix 4.1a3 is available at

   <ul>

     <li> <a href="ftp://ftp.xpi.com/pub/Tix4.1a3.tar.gz">

          ftp://ftp.xpi.com/pub/Tix4.1a3.tar.gz</a>: Unix source tar file.

     <li> <a href="ftp://ftp.xpi.com/pub/windows/tix41a3.zip">

          ftp://ftp.xpi.com/pub/windows/tix41a3.zip</a>: Same as

          Tix4.1a3.tar.gz, but in Windows/DOS ZIP format.

     <li> <a href="ftp://ftp.xpi.com/pub/windows/tix41bin.zip">

          ftp://ftp.xpi.com/pub/windows/tix41bin.zip</a>: Windows binaries.

   </ul>

<h3>What's New Since Tix 4.1a2 (the last release)</h3>

<h4>5/5/96</h4>

  <b>New feature:</b> New tool unix-et-tk4.0/makescript.tcl. It

  includes the Tix script library into a ET application in the correct

  order. If A.tcl depends on B.tcl, then B.tcl is loaded first.<p>

<h4>5/6/96</h4>

  <b>New feature:</b> Now the -default option of the Tix mega widget

  classes are inherited from their superclasses.<p>

  <b>New feature:</b> New option -expand for the panes in PanedWindow<p>

  <b>Bug Fixed:</b> ScrolledHList didn't calculate the size of the

  hlist subwidget correctly, resulting in scrollbars not appearing

  even if the hlist widget is not big enough to display all of its

  contents.<p>

<h4>5/8/96</h4>

  <b>New feature:</b> New method setsize for PanedWindow.<p>

<h4>5/10/96</h4>

  <b>New feature:</b> New widget tixMeter, can be used to display the

  progress of work.<p>

  <b>Bug Fixed:</b> HList multiple and extended selectMode now work

  with TixTree.<p>

<h4>5/11/96</h4>

  <b>Bug Fixed:</b> HList "see" method sometimes doesn't display the

  specified element correctly.<p>

  <b>New widgets:</b> New widgets CheckList, Grid, ScrolledGrid, TList

  and ScrolledTList added to the Tix 4.1 distribution.<p>

  <b>New feature:</b> New option -postcmd for PopupMenu widget.<p>

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