ANNOUNCE: Tile Widget Set, version 0.7.6

[Joe English]

[6 May 2006]

ANNOUNCE: Tile Widget Set, version 0.7.6.

~ What is it?

The Tile widget set is an experimental reimplementation
of some of the standard Tk widgets. The main features are:

+ Native look and feel under Windows (XP, NT, 2K, 98 and 95)
+ Nearly-native look and feel under Mac OSX
+ "Revitalized" look and feel under X11
+ Appearance controlled by a theme engine, providing
greater flexibility for custom widgets
+ New widgets, including notebook, progressbar, combobox,
and separator.

~ What's New in 0.7.6

Tile 0.7.6 corresponds roughly to the CVS snapshot labelled '0.7.5'
which was included in the recently-released ActiveTcl 8.4.13.

+ ttk::entry widgets now support an 'identify' method,
to support entry-based megawidgets.

+ ttk::notebook widgets have an 'insert' method, which allows
new panes to be added at any position (not just the end).

+ The ttk::notebook 'select' method with no arguments now
returns the currently-selected tab.

+ ttk::treeview 'identify' method interface has been revised
to be easier to use.

+ ttk::treeview 'bbox' method added.

+ ttk::notebook and ttk::labelframe widgets have more flexible
layout policies; better support for pixmap themes.

+ Keyboard navigation for ttk::notebooks now works when there
are multiple notebooks in a single toplevel, including
nested notebooks.

+ [style lookup] command added, for querying theme option values.

+ Several bugs have been fixed; see ChangeLog for details.

~ Stability

The script-level API for widgets may be considered stable at
this point, with the exception of procedures in the 'tile::*'
namespace. Theme definitions are still subject to change:
user-defined themes will need to be revised in the 0.8 series.

~ A note on version numbers

To help distinguish formal releases from CVS snapshots,
the subminor version number will be incremented immediately before
and immediately after making a release. Thus odd-numbered subminor
versions indicate a CVS snapshot, and even-numbered ones indicate
a known release.

~ Availability

The tile widget set is hosted under the tktable project
at SourceForge:

<URL: http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/ >
<URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tktable/ >

Sources are available under the 'tile' module in CVS.
A prebundled tarball is available in the file release area:

<URL: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11464 >

Documentation is available here:

<URL: http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/doc/ >

Precompiled libraries for Windows may also be present;
check for availability.

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