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What ever happened to revitalizing Tk?
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| lvirden@gmail.com 2004-07-23, 3:58 pm |
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When I look at http://tcl.projectforum.com/tk/137 , I see the comment
that the project to revitalize Tk is dead... I was hoping that
we would see the fruits of that work soon - if not Tk 8.4.7 than Tk 8.5.
Is there work going on behind the scenes that just isn't being
documented?
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| Jeff Hobbs 2004-07-23, 3:58 pm |
| lvirden@gmail.com wrote:
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> When I look at http://tcl.projectforum.com/tk/137 , I see the comment
> that the project to revitalize Tk is dead... I was hoping that
> we would see the fruits of that work soon - if not Tk 8.4.7 than Tk 8.5.
> Is there work going on behind the scenes that just isn't being
> documented?
Yes. The work was never intended for 8.4.x, as those are patchlevels.
It is intended for 8.5.
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| Anthony Davis 2004-07-23, 3:58 pm |
| lvirden@gmail.com wrote in message news:<cdr4tt$d6b$1@srv38.cas.org>...
> When I look at http://tcl.projectforum.com/tk/137 , I see the comment
> that the project to revitalize Tk is dead... I was hoping that
> we would see the fruits of that work soon - if not Tk 8.4.7 than Tk 8.5.
> Is there work going on behind the scenes that just isn't being
> documented?
Jeff and a few others are working on a project called tile, I am not
sure if this is what you are refering to. They have had some fairly
recent activity (less then a month ago) according to SF.
The project is part of the tkTable page:
http://tktable.sourceforge.net/
I dont think it is considered dead, at least I hope not.
I use tile in some of the Tcl/Tk applications I write, I like it.
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| Pat Thoyts 2004-07-23, 8:56 pm |
| adavis@addpower.com (Anthony Davis) writes:
>lvirden@gmail.com wrote in message news:<cdr4tt$d6b$1@srv38.cas.org>...
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>Jeff and a few others are working on a project called tile, I am not
>sure if this is what you are refering to. They have had some fairly
>recent activity (less then a month ago) according to SF.
>The project is part of the tkTable page:
>http://tktable.sourceforge.net/
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Tile is under active development and is a test ground for a new set of
Tk widgets supporting themes/styles along with some novel widgets.
Also Tk has a few TIPs in the works. Named colors for one, something
for fonts is another, something to do with the text widget....
Work as usual :)
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| George Peter Staplin 2004-07-28, 9:08 pm |
| on lvirden@gmail.com wrote:
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> When I look at http://tcl.projectforum.com/tk/137 , I see the comment
> that the project to revitalize Tk is dead... I was hoping that
> we would see the fruits of that work soon - if not Tk 8.4.7 than Tk 8.5.
> Is there work going on behind the scenes that just isn't being
> documented?
I've been working on my Smalltick widgets. I wrote a bit about my
design and shared some earlier code here:
http://mini.net/tcl/Smalltick%20Widgets
Since then I have implemented a PNG decoder/displayer, various little
tools, and lately I've been sidetracked by writing a little window
manager (revival of Panache) using Smalltick (see the Panache dir and
csrc/pwm_* code). I have experimental code for transfering image data
via XShm to the display/a-pixmap ...
I have long term plans for the following:
decode.jpeg ;#like decode.png
set encoded-bytes [encode.jpeg $bytes]
encode.png ;#see above
port to win-32 using the Tk Xlib emulation
I have in my notebook a prototype design for a Listbox class. An Entry
widget should be quite simple to implement (based on how easy the Button
class was (and I've done it before with Xlib)). Beyond that; I may try
to implement the TextField I wrote a bit about on the Wiki.
Smalltick is Open Source (BSD licensed) and I welcome code from the
community.
Caveat: configure.tcl isn't complete, so to work on the widgets or the
extensions you'll need to hack the makefile; which isn't a big deal. I
suggest you use the editors included for working on the sources (see the
README).
Happy Tcl'ing,
George
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| lvirden@gmail.com 2004-07-28, 9:08 pm |
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According to Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@removethis.activestate.com>:
:lvirden@gmail.com wrote:
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:> When I look at http://tcl.projectforum.com/tk/137 , I see the comment
:> that the project to revitalize Tk is dead...
:Yes. The work was never intended for 8.4.x, as those are patchlevels.
:It is intended for 8.5.
Okay, the web site information is wrong then. Considering that the comment
in question is by a TCT member, perhaps someone should drop up and update
the page just to reassure people. I'd hate to have some PHB stop by
to tell me to rip tcl/tk out of all our projects because
the 'official' web pages said tcl was dead...
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