ANNOUNCE: Scrolling utilities package Scrollutil 1.16

[nemethi]

I am pleased to announce version 1.16 of the scrolling utilities package
Scrollutil.

What is new in Scrollutil 1.16?
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1. Added the "autofillx" and "autofilly" scrollableframe subcommands,
which enable you to make sure that the content frame will fill the
widget's entire inner width and height respectively, by dynamically
setting/clearing the -fitcontentwidth or -fitcontentheight option.

2. The ttk::notebook contained in a scrollednotebook widget now
automatically fills the entire width of the scrollednotebook,
regardless of the number of tabs (thanks to Harald Oehlmann for his
improvement proposal and testing). This is implemented with the aid
of the new "autofillx" subcommand of the scrollableframe contained in
the scrollednotebook widget.

3. Significantly improved the look and behavior of the ttk::checkbutton
and ttk::radiobutton widgets of the "clam" theme patched with the
"clampatch::patchClamTheme" command.

4. Eliminated three potential endless loops in the implementation of the
scrollednotebook widget and fixed a few bugs related to the arrow
buttons (thanks to Harald Oehlmann for his bug reports and
discussions on these subjects).

5. Several improvements in the description of the scrollableframe and
scrollednotebook widgets.

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

https://www.nemethi.de

The distribution file is "scrollutil1.16.tar.gz" for UNIX and
"scrollutil1_16.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.

Scrollutil is also included in tklib, which has the address

https://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 Scrollutil on UNIX, "cd" to the desired directory and unpack
the distribution file "scrollutil1.16.tar.gz":

gunzip -c scrollutil1.16.tar.gz | tar -xf -

On most UNIX systems this can be replaced with

tar -zxf scrollutil1.16.tar.gz

Both commands will create a directory named "scrollutil1.16", with the
subdirectories "demos", "doc", and "scripts".

On Windows, use WinZip or some other program capable of unpacking the
distribution file "scrollutil1_16.zip" into the directory
"scrollutil1.16", with the subdirectories "demos", "doc", and "scripts".

How to use it?
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The Scrollutil distribution provides two packages, called Scrollutil and
Scrollutil_tile. The main difference between the two is that
Scrollutil_tile enables the tile-based, theme-specific appearance of
scrollarea, scrollsync, and scrollableframe widgets, and provides the
themed scrollednotebook and plainnotebook widgets; this package requires
Tcl/Tk 8.4 or higher and tile 0.8 or higher. It is not possible to use
both packages in one and the same application, because both are
implemented in the same "scrollutil" namespace and provide identical
commands (except for the commands "scrollutil::scrollednotebook",
"scrollutil::plainnotebook", "scrollutil::addclosetab",
"scrollutil::removeclosetab", and "scrollutil::closetabstate", which are
provided by the Scrollutil_tile package only).

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

package require scrollutil ?version?
package require Scrollutil ?version?

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

package require scrollutil_tile ?version?
package require Scrollutil_tile ?version?

Since the packages Scrollutil and Scrollutil_tile are implemented in the
"scrollutil" namespace, you must either import the procedures you need,
or use qualified names like "scrollutil::scrollarea".

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

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