ANNOUNCE: eTcl 1.0-rc18
Eric Hassold
I'm pleased to announce immediate availability of eTcl 1.0-rc18 for
Windows, linux-x86, linux-arm, linux-mipsel (new!), Windows Mobile
(2003, 2003SE and 5.0) pocketPC and smartphones, and Mac OS X (Aqua) as
universal binary (x86 and PPC).
WHERE TO GET
============
As usual, it is available from:
http://www.evolane.com/software/etcl/index.html
http://www.evolane.com/
WHAT'S NEW
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This release fixes several bugs related to image handling, both from
Pixane package and as Tk Photo. Function to convert images between Tk
photo and Pixane handles (in both direction) has been added. Saving Tk
photo to files or in memeory, in any format supported by Pixane, works
now as expected. Many new compisiting modes are now supported.
Running on Vista systems has been slightly improved (file association
set for current user without requiring administrator privileges, widgets
with native theme with Tile).
Under Windows Mobile platform (aka WinCE), sqlite locking mechanism has
been improved, to prevent a occasional crash when opening several
database concurrently in multi-threaded applications. Executable and
CABs have been tested to run on Windows Mobile 6.
Console localization has been improved. Many 3rd parties components
(tkhtml, Tile) have also been upgraded to latest versions, which come
with their own bugfixes. Details list of changes is available as:
http://www.evolane.com/software/etcl/CHANGES.txt
WHAT IS IT
==========
eTcl is a "batteries-included", thread enabled Tcl/Tk runtime, available
as a single standalone executable for Linux (x86, ARM and MIPS), Win32,
Windows Mobile (2003 or better) and MacOSX (universal binary). On all
architectures, executable has no external dependencies, and requires no
installation except copying executable wherever you want.
Distributions for all architecture include a common set of core components:
- Tcl/Tk 8.4.14 (thread enabled)
- Pixane: script your image transformation, support for reading and
writing several popular image formats (PNG, JPEG), support for TrueType
fonts, several truetype builtin fonts (serif, sansserif and monotype)
- Sqlite (3.3.17): A SQL server in your hand.
- Zlib: native deflate/inflate support
- Zipfs: easily Mount your ZIP files into Tcl Virtual Filesystem
- TclThread (2.6.5): run multi-threaded applications
- TclXML (3.1): XML parsing, using expat parser
- Tls (1.5.0): support for SSLv2/SSLv3/Tls1.0
- Tile (latest CVS snapshot)
- TkTable (2.9)
- TkTreeCtrl (2.2.3)
- Tkhtml3 (latest CVS snapshot)
- Dict (backport)
All comments, bug reporting and feedbacks are much appreciated. You may
send them to <etcl at evolane.com>, or join eTcl page on wiki:
http://wiki.tcl.tk/15260
http://wiki.tcl.tk/eTcl
Regards,
Eric Hassold
Evolane - http://www.evolane.com/