ANNOUNCE: Multi-entry widget package Mentry 3.8

[nemethi]

I am pleased to announce version 3.8 of the multi-entry widget package
Mentry.

What is new in Mentry 3.8?
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1. Added support for the themes "aquativo", "Arc", and "clearlooks";
updated the support for several other themes.

2. Adapted to some changes in future Tcl and Tk releases (for example,
made sure that it works with Tcl 9.0 and Tk 8.7).

3. Included the same version of the general mega-widget utility module
"mwutil.tcl" as in the most recent Tablelist release 6.3.

4. Updated the demo-scripts and the documentation.

5. Several code improvements and minor bug fixes.

How to get it?
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Mentry is available for free download from the Web page

http://www.nemethi.de

The distribution file is "mentry3.8.tar.gz" for UNIX and "mentry3_8.zip"
for Windows. These files contain the same information, except for the
additional carriage return character preceding the linefeed at the end
of each line in the text files for Windows.

Mentry is also included in tklib, which has the address

http://core.tcl.tk/tklib

How to install it?
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Install the package as a subdirectory of one of the directories given
by the "auto_path" variable. For example, you can install it as a
directory at the same level as the Tcl and Tk script libraries. The
locations of these library directories are given by the "tcl_library"
and "tk_library" variables, respectively.

To install Mentry on UNIX, "cd" to the desired directory and unpack the
distribution file "mentry3.8.tar.gz":

gunzip -c mentry3.8.tar.gz | tar -xf -

This command will create a directory named "mentry3.8", with the
subdirectories "demos", "doc", and "scripts".

On Windows, use WinZip or some other program capable of unpacking the
distribution file "mentry3_8.zip" into the directory "mentry3.8", with
the subdirectories "demos", "doc", and "scripts".

The file "mentryThemes.tcl" in the "scripts" directory is only needed
for applications using the package Mentry_tile (see next section).

How to use it?
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The Mentry distribution provides two packages, called Mentry and
Mentry_tile. The main difference between the two is that Mentry_tile
enables the tile-based, theme-specific appearance of mentry widgets;
this package requires Tcl/Tk 8.4 or higher and tile 0.6 or higher. It
is not possible to use both packages in one and the same application,
because both are implemented in the same "mentry" namespace and provide
identical commands.

To be able to use the commands and variables implemented in the package
Mentry, your scripts must contain one of the lines

package require mentry ?version?
package require Mentry ?version?

Likewise, to be able to use the commands and variables implemented in
the package Mentry_tile, your scripts must contain one of the lines

package require mentry_tile ?version?
package require Mentry_tile ?version?

Since the packages Mentry and Mentry_tile are implemented in the
"mentry" namespace, you must either import the procedures you need, or
use qualified names like "mentry::mentry".

For a detailed description of the commands and variables provided by
Mentry and of the examples contained in the "demos" directory, see the
tutorial "mentry.html" and the reference pages, all located in the
"doc" directory.

--
Csaba Nemethi http://www.nemethi.de mailto:csaba....@t-online.de