ANNOUNCE: Multi-column listbox and tree widget package Tablelist 6.5

[nemethi]

I am pleased to announce version 6.5 of the multi-column listbox and
tree widget package Tablelist.

What is new in Tablelist 6.5?
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1. Support for the new virtual events <<TablelistHeaderHeightChanged>>
and <<TablelistTitleColsWidthChanged>>, generated when the header's
height or the total width of the viewable title columns,
respectively, has changed.

2. Optimized the vertical scrolling by units (thanks to Nicolas Robert
for his input).

3. Minor improvement related to the appearance of embedded checkbuttons
on X11.

4. Fixed a bug introduced in Tablelist 6.4, related to the "-showlabels"
option (thanks to Jakob Gager for his bug report).

5. Fixed a few bugs specific to Mac OS X Aqua, introduced in Tablelist
6.4 (thanks to Paul Obermeier and Nicolas Robert for their bug
reports).

6. Fixed a bug related to the handling of mouse wheel events during
interactive cell editing, introduced in Tablelist 6.4 (thanks to
Alexandru Dadalau for his bug report).

7. Fixed a bug related to the "move" subcommand, introduced in Tablelist
6.3 (thanks to Jose Luis Lijo and Bo Berggren for their bug reports).

8. Several further improvements in the code and documentation.

How to get it?
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Tablelist is available for free download from the URL

http://www.nemethi.de

The distribution file is "tablelist6.5.tar.gz" for UNIX and
"tablelist6_5.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.

Tablelist 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 Tablelist on UNIX, "cd" to the desired directory and unpack
the distribution file "tablelist6.5.tar.gz":

gunzip -c tablelist6.5.tar.gz | tar -xf -

On most UNIX systems this can be replaced with

tar -zxf tablelist6.5.tar.gz

Both commands will create a directory named "tablelist6.5 with the
subdirectories "demos", "doc", and "scripts".

How to use it?
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The Tablelist distribution provides two packages, called Tablelist and
Tablelist_tile. The main difference between the two is that
Tablelist_tile enables the tile-based, theme-specific appearance of
tablelist 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 "tablelist"
namespace and provide identical commands.

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

package require tablelist ?version?
package require Tablelist ?version?

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

package require tablelist_tile ?version?
package require Tablelist_tile ?version?

Since the packages Tablelist and Tablelist_tile are implemented in the
"tablelist" namespace, you must either import the procedures you need,
or use qualified names like "tablelist::tablelist".

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

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