ANN: iReveal 1.0, cross-platform Tcl/Tk shareware

[Kevin Walzer]

FIRST, the news release:

Announcing iReveal 1.0

iReveal is a cross-platform desktop file search tool, developed in
Tcl/Tk, that combines powerful
under-the-hood search technology with great ease-of-use. It scours
corners of your hard drive that your system's built-in search tools may
ignore. It searches your system in real-time, unlike other programs that
can provide out-of-date results. It lets you see files that are
invisible in your file manager. Finally, it runs on all three of the
major desktop platforms: Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Linux.

iReveal is shareware and is priced at $19.95. It requires Mac OS X 10.4.
It is developed by WordTech Software.

For more information and to download, see
http://www.wordtech-software.com/ireveal.html.

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NEXT, the Tcl/Tk-specific news items:

1. iReveal is, as far as I can tell, the first commercial Tcl/Tk
application to ship as a universal binary on Mac OS X, supporting both
PPC and Intel natively. Thanks to Daniel Steffen for enabling simple,
straightforward builds of Tcl/Tk as a universal binary and to Joe
English for assistance in getting Tile to build as a universal binary.

2. The Windows and Linux versions make use of Damon Courtney's
InstallJammer tool (written in Tcl/Tk) for the installer. InstallJammer
is an excellent, easy-to-use program, even at its current 1.0a release
stage, and it's the only open-source program that I've found which
supports the creation of Windows-style installers on Linux.

3. Most of the packaging was done in a cross-platform fashion. Tclkits
and starpacks for Windows and Linux were wrapped on the Mac, and the
installers for both Windows and Linux were packaged on Windows XP. The
Mac version is bundled as a standard Mac application bundle.

Screenshots showing how iReveal looks on different platforms are
available at the product page: click on the small image to see the
full-size screenshots.

I don't think it would have been nearly as easy to develop and deploy
this kind of cross-platform program with another toolkit or programming
language. Anyone who says that Tcl/Tk is anything but a robust
development tool needs to take another look.

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Cheers,

Kevin Walzer
iReveal: File Search Tool
http://www.wordtech-software.com

[Robert Hicks]

This is confusing me:

"Finally, it runs on all three of the
major desktop platforms: Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Linux.

iReveal is shareware and is priced at $19.95. It requires Mac OS X
10.4.
It is developed by WordTech Software."

I am a fan of your work though. : )

Robert

[Kevin Walzer]

Oops. That'll teach me to cut 'n' paste from the news release I'm
sending to Mac news sites... :-)

It requires Mac OS X 10.4 for the Mac, Windows XP on Windows (not tested
on earlier versions), or a recent version of Linux-x86 (tested on Puppy
Linux 1.07).

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