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ABOUT THE TIX PROGRAMMING LIBRARY
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The Tix library is an extension to the Tk toolkit that contains over
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40 new widgets for Tk. Features include:
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A LOT of new widgets:
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The Tix library has by far the greatest collection of widgets
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for programming with Tcl/Tk. Highlights include: Hierarchical
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Listbox, Directory List/Tree View, SpreadSheet, Tabular
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Listbox, ComboBox, Motif style FileSelectBox, MS Windows style
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FileSelectBox, PanedWindow, NoteBook, Spin Control widget ....
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and many more. With these new widgets, your applications will
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look great and interact with your users in intuitive ways.
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Rapid Prototyping New Widgets:
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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 a
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factor of ten or more.
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XPM image suport:
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This allows you to display color icons in XPM format. Supports
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transparent background.
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Compound images:
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A new image type called "compound" allows youto glue together a
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bunch of bitmaps, images and text strings together to form a
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bigger image. Then you can use this image with widgets that
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support the -image option. For example, you can display a text
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string string together with a bitmap, at the same time, inside
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a TK button widget.
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Display Items and Display Styles:
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Display items and display styles make it possible to display
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visual information in many formats.
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Form geometry manager:
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Works similarly to the Motif Form widget. You can specify
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geometry constraints using attachment rules.
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Mwm window mamager support:
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With the tixMwm command, you can communicate with the Motif
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window manager "mwm"; you can add new items to the Motif system
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menu and change the window manager decorations.
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_________________________________________________________________
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GETTING MORE INFORMATION ABOUT TIX
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Tix Home Page:
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The Tix Home Page at http://www.xpi.com/tix/ provides more
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detailed and up-to-date information about Tix.
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The Tix Mailing List
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There is a mailing list for the discussion of the development
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of both the Tix library and Tix-based applications. To
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subscribe, send me a mail to majordomo@xpi.com with the line
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"subscribe tix-info [your_address]" in the body of the mail. To
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send a message to the Tix mailing list, please use the address
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tix-info@xpi.com.
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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:
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http://www.xpi.com/archives/archives.html.
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GETTING TECHICAL SUPPORT FOR TIX
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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 tix-support@xpi.com.
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Please notice that this support service is currently provided only on
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a good-will basis with no implied obligations or guaranty.
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BUG REPORTS
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Tix is a large product and as such will certainly contain bugs. If you
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have encountered a bug while using Tix, please send a bug report to
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the address tix-bugs@xpi.com . We'll appreciate it if you can send
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along a small, self-contained program that demonstrates the behavior
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of the bug.
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Last modified Fri Jan 17 22:49:53 EST 1997 --- Serial 853731291
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