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eTcl 1.0-rc3 released

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Eric Hassold

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May 4, 2006, 4:06:12 PM5/4/06
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I'm pleased to announce immediate availability of eTcl 1.0-rc3 for
Windows, Linux, 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


WHAT'S NEW
==========

- Builtin support for TclXML and tkTreeCtrl extensions
- Pixane image library accepts base64 encoded data as input
- Fix GIF transparency handling in Pixane to Tk conversion
- Native WinXP theme in tile is available again
- Fix support for serial comm ports greater than 4 on Windows Mobile
- Fix stack overflow error when trying to open an empty popup from
menubar on Windows Mobile
- Display disabled menubar entires grayed on Windows Mobile
- Console is initialized (but not displayed), even when running in
non-interactive mode.


WHAT IS IT
==========

eTcl is a "batteries-included", thread enabled Tcl/Tk runtime, available
as a single standalone executable for Linux, Win32 (x86 and ARM), Windows
Mobile (2003 or better) and MacOSX (universal binary). On all architectures,
executable have no external dependencies.

Distributions for all architecture include a common set of core components:
- Tcl/Tk 8.4.13 (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: A SQL server in your hand.
- Zlib: native deflate/inflate support
- Zipfs: easily Mount your ZIP files into Tcl Virtual Filesystem
- TclThread: run multi-threaded applications
- TclXML: XML parsing, using expat parser
- Tls: support for SSLv2/SSLv3/Tls1.0)
- Tile
- TkTable

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/

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