ANNOUNCE: BETA IXI Visual Tcl 1.0
Zbigniew Perlinski
IXI Visual Tcl 1.0 technology for OSF/Motif development on SunOs and
Solaris RISC Sparc stations is now freely available via anonymous ftp
from IXI and SCO.
An extension of the popular Tcl scripting language, IXI Visual Tcl
supports rapid, easy-to-learn development of OSF/Motif tools and
applications. IXI Visual Tcl is ideal for system administrators and
software developers striving to provide their customers with
a comprehensive graphical environment.
IXI Visual Tcl is a multiplatform port of "SCO Visual Tcl 1.0" developed by
The Santa Cruz Operation to provide a graphical user interface-building
scripting environment for the new generation of SCO OpenServer systems
management tools. SCO and IXI are making the Visual Tcl 1.0 technology
freely-available via anonymous ftp described below.
IXI Visual Tcl extends the Tcl 7.3 scripting enviornment with commands
support OSF/Motif 1.2, as well as UNIX access and debugging commands
provided by the TclX extensions.
IXI Visual Tcl 1.0 is now available from the ftp site:
ftp.sco.com via anonymous ftp:
cd TLS
mget tls074.*
OR The SCO Visual Tcl Home Page at:
http://www.sco.com/Products/vtcl/vtcl.html
The official SCO Visual Tcl newsgroup is:
biz.sco.vtcl
However, this newsgroup will be replaced in the near future
with the recently approved newsgroup:
comp.sco.unix.programmer
IXI Visual Tcl is ideal for
- system administrators who would like to wrap Motif interfaces
around UNIX commands,
- hardware vendors who want to create Motif-based configuration
and administrative interfaces,
- software designers who want a flexible environment to quickly
prototype easy-to-rework Motif application interfaces, and
- software vendors who want to take advantage of "thin client"
scripting to integrate their applications with Motif-compliant
small-to-medium sized tools.
Key Features of IXI Visual Tcl include...
- DrawnList Widget (object browser similar to Microsoft File Manager)
- Event-driven (callback) environment
- Display engine for Motif 1.2
- Convenience Function Library
- includes ComboBox, Spin support, and assorted
widget combinations (e.g. text fields with labels or titles)
- Motif geometry management (Forms, RowColumn and Bulletinboard)
- Based on Public Domain U.C. Berkeley Tcl 7.3b
- POSIX-specific and other tclX library extensions
- e.g. fcntl, select, nice, kill, sockets, fmtclock, trace
- Package library support, as well as vtcllib.a and header files for
those wishing to extend the IXI Visual Tcl interpreter with C-based
commands.
Commercially supported IXI Visual Tcl is available from IXI Ltd as a
part of a Premier Motif Development Pack.
For additional information, send email to
Zbigniew Perlinski, zi...@x.co.uk, or
David Young, dav...@sco.com
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