ANNOUNCE: Tile Widget Set, version 0.4

[19 Aug 2004]

ANNOUNCE: Tile Widget Set, version 0.4.

~ What is it?

The Tile widget set is an experimental reimplementation
of some of the standard Tk widgets.  The main features are:

+ Native look and feel under Windows XP, NT, and 2K
+ "Revitalized" look and feel under X11
+ Native look and feel under Mac OSX [NEW!]
+ Notebook, progressbar, and combobox widgets

~ What's new:

There's been quite a bit of progress since version 0.3,
and quite a bit more still to come.  The main user-visible
changes in version 0.4 are:

+ Native Aqua theme on Mac OSX (built atop the Appearance Manager API)

+ New widgets: entry and combobox.

+ Extended compatibility options: Tile is now mostly compatible with
the BWidget toolkit.  (See SF Tracker ID #945840 for current status).

+ New entry widget.

+ New combobox widget.

+ Cross-platform "clam" theme (inspired by the Xfce-smooth Gnome theme).

+ Numerous small enhancements; see the ChangeLog for full details.


I feel that this version is stable and functional enough to start using
it in real applications.  If you've been thinking about using Tk, but
have been discouraged by the lack of native look and feel under Windows
(especially XP), give Tile a try!


~ Availability

The ActiveTcl and TclTkAquaBI distributions both include CVS snapshots
of the Tile project.  Tile 0.4 corresponds to the version included
in the 8.4.7 release of those packages.

The tile widget set is hosted under the tktable project
at SourceForge:

<URL: http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/ >
<URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tktable/ >

Sources are available under the 'tile' module in CVS.
A prebundled tarball is available in the file release area:

<URL: http://sourceforge.net/project/show...?group_id=11464 >

Precompiled libraries for Windows may also be present;
check for availability.

A limited amount of documentation is available here:

<URL: http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/doc/ >

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"Joe English" <jenglish@flightlab.com> wrote in message
news:pgpmoose.200408191744.32380@despot.non.net...
: [19 Aug 2004]
:
: ANNOUNCE: Tile Widget Set, version 0.4.
:
:     + New widgets: entry and combobox.

Hi Joe,

I just took my first look at Tile, and I must say it looks great -  nice
work (for all those working on this extension)!

I do have a question though - I notice that version 0.4 is supposed to have
new entry and combobox widgets (as noted in the above announcement) - though
I haven't figured out how to referece either of them.  There doesn't appear
to be a t<widget> command like the other standard widgets.  Scanning the
available "t*" and "tile::*" commands didn't turn up anything either.

Is this just a case of the documentation being a bit ahead of development,
or have I missed something?

Thanks for any advice.

Jeff