bwidget 1.9.12 released

[Harald Oehlmann]

BWidget ToolKit 1.9.12 January 2018
Copyright (c) 1998-1999 UNIFIX.
Copyright (c) 2001-2002 ActiveState Corp.

See the file LICENSE.txt for license info (uses Tcl's BSD-style license).

Repository and issue tracker on fossil url:
http://core.tcl.tk/bwidget

Enhancements:
- notebook tab may have an image
- color chooser dialog has a numeric entry, help and new section layout

Both contributed by Keith J. Nash

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WHAT IS BWIDGET ?

The BWidget Toolkit is a high-level Widget Set for Tcl/Tk built using
native Tcl/Tk 8.x namespaces.

The BWidgets have a professional look&feel as in other well known
Toolkits (Tix or Incr Widgets), but the concept is radically different
because everything is pure Tcl/Tk. No platform dependencies, and no
compiling required. The code is 100% Pure Tcl/Tk.

The BWidget library was originally developed by UNIFIX Online, and
released under both the GNU Public License and the Tcl license.
BWidget is now maintained as a community project, hosted by
Sourceforge. Scores of fixes and enhancements have been added by
community developers. See the ChangeLog file for details.

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WIDGET LIST (1.9)

Simple Widgets
Label Extended Label widget
Entry Extended Entry widget
Button Extended Button widget
ArrowButton Button widget with an arrow shape.
ProgressBar Progress indicator widget
ScrollView Display the visible area of a scrolled window
Separator 3D separator widget

Manager Widgets
MainFrame Manage toplevel with menu, toolbar and statusbar
LabelFrame Frame with a Label
TitleFrame Frame with a title
ScrolledWindow Generic scrolled widget
ScrollableFrame Scrollable frame containing widget
PanedWindow Tiled layout manager widget
ButtonBox Set of buttons with horizontal or vertical layout
PagesManager Pages manager widget
NoteBook Notebook manager widget
Dialog Dialog abstraction with custom buttons

Composite Widgets
LabelEntry LabelFrame containing an Entry widget.
ComboBox ComboBox widget
SpinBox SpinBox widget
Tree Tree widget
ListBox ListBox widget
MessageDlg Message dialog box
ProgressDlg Progress indicator dialog box
PasswdDlg Login/Password dialog box (contributed by Stephane
Lavirotte)
SelectFont Font selection widget
SelectColor Color selection widget

Commands Classes
Widget The Widget base class
DynamicHelp Provide help to Tk widget or BWidget
DragSite Commands set for Drag facilities
DropSite Commands set for Drop facilities
BWidget Utilities

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INSTALLATION AND USE

- On Unix Platform:
Uncompress the file BWidget-<version>.tar.Z|gz

To use the BWidget:
- If you have uncompressed the archive file under the Tcl Library Path
directory, you only need to do:
% package require BWidget
- If not, you have to specify the BWidget installation path in auto_path
global variable:
% lappend auto_path <install_path>
% package require BWidget

To launch the demo, you need to cd into the demo subdirectory:
$ cd <install_path>/demo
$ wish demo.tcl

- On Windows and others Platforms:
Uncompress the file BWidget-<version>.zip

To use the BWidget:
- If you uncompressed the archive file under the Tcl Library Path
directory, you only need to do:
% package require BWidget
- If not, you have to specify the BWidget installation path in auto_path
global variable:
% lappend auto_path your_path
% package require BWidget

To launch the demo :
Double click on demo.tcl in the demo subdirectory


Distribution contains these directories:

BWidget-<version> Root directory and BWidget Tcl sources
BWman HTML manual pages
images images used by BWidget
lang Resources for language customization
demo Demo sources
tests BWidgets test suite


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Ttk support

It is IMHO not wise to use BWidget with Ttk due to different concepts.

For the migration of my programs to Ttk, limited Ttk support is integrated
in the following widgets:
- ScrolledWindow, Label, Button
- MainFrame (-sizegrip option)
- NoteBook (only user frame)
- LabelEntry, LabelFrame, PagesMgr (by Wojciech Kocjan, docs missing?)

The documentation pages list the parameter differences.
I do not recommend using this for new projects.

To activate Ttk support, use:
Widget::themed 1

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DOCUMENTATION

HTML manual pages are available in the BWman subdirectory. Point to
index.html for frame version with tree navigation, or to contents.html
for no frame version.

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CONTACTS

The BWidget toolkit is downloadable on Sourceforge, at
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/tcllib/
The repository and issue tracker is on:
http://core.tcl.tk/bwidget/

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[Keith Nash]

I have written a Wiki page on the revised SelectColor dialog:

http://wiki.tcl.tk/54730

The revised NoteBook allows two images per tab - the usual image at the left
of the tab, and three new options for a new image at the right. Typical
usage is a small icon for closing a tab.

Keith.

[Harald Oehlmann]

Dear Keith,

thank you again for the contribution and this nice web-page.
Harald