trying to get Blt source code

[maura.m...@gmail.com]

In the web site http://blt.sourceforge.net/
whenever I click on BLT 2.4z.tar.gz
I get the following message:

"The connection was refused when attempting to contact
www.sourceforge.net"

How/where can I get the Blt surce code ?

Thank you,
Maura

[Janus Hansen]

If you look around on their SF project page you'd find it, but here:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/blt/BLT2.4v.tar.gz

[Janus Hansen]

Wops, seems like i got wrong version
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/blt/
but look around there :)

[Uwe Klein]

maura.m...@gmail.com wrote:
> In the web site http://blt.sourceforge.net/
> whenever I click on BLT 2.4z.tar.gz
> I get the following message:

turn left, then right, then walk down the line ;-))

http://sourceforge.net/projects/blt
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=18616

uwe

[maura.m...@gmail.com]

OK. Thanks to you all. I downloaded Blt. Yesterday I played alittle bit
with the Blt that comes (as rpm file) with Linux/SuSE installation kit.
My problem is lack of documentation, with the exception of the very
concised man-pages written by Blt author.
Is there any tutorial, worked out example of usage, and an exhausting
Blt user's manual ?
I can easily appreciate its elegant features from the slides. But it's
hard for me to reproduce any of them with the slim documentation at
hand.

Thank you very much,
Maura

[Uwe Klein]

maura.m...@gmail.com wrote:

> Is there any tutorial, worked out example of usage, and an exhausting
> Blt user's manual ?
> I can easily appreciate its elegant features from the slides. But it's
> hard for me to reproduce any of them with the slim documentation at
> hand.
>
> Thank you very much,
> Maura
>

with the SuSE rpm look under "/usr/lib/blt2.4/demos/" ( or similar )

uwe

[maura.m...@gmail.com]

I did . They showed me how elegant and powerful Blt is ... But those
are sophisticated complex examples. I was hunting for some introductory
tutorial.... Probably these advanced
Tcl/Tk extensions are for Tcl experts ... I'm not there yet though I
could fix a lot of bugs (logic) in the old GUI and develop some bew
features ... still ...

Thanks,
Maura

[Uwe Klein]

maura.m...@gmail.com wrote:

> I did . They showed me how elegant and powerful Blt is ... But those
> are sophisticated complex examples. I was hunting for some introductory

Read a bit through them, usually these start out easy.

> tutorial.... Probably these advanced
> Tcl/Tk extensions are for Tcl experts ... I'm not there yet though I
> could fix a lot of bugs (logic) in the old GUI and develop some bew
> features ... still ...

Which features would you like to have examples for?

There is a bit of stuff on the wiki ...

uwe

[maura.m...@gmail.com]

Well... to start with I'd like to be able to place texts strings on the
canvas rotated by n*90
where n=0,1,2,3. and bind the text placement as well as the rotation
with key-mouse-buttons or to select through a menu ...
May I mix together Tcl/Tk commands with Blt commandds ?

Thanks,
Maura

[Uwe Klein]

maura.m...@gmail.com wrote:
> Uwe Klein wrote:
>
>>maura.m...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I did . They showed me how elegant and powerful Blt is ... But those
>>>are sophisticated complex examples. I was hunting for some introductory
>>
>>Read a bit through them, usually these start out easy.
>>
>>
>>>tutorial.... Probably these advanced
>>>Tcl/Tk extensions are for Tcl experts ... I'm not there yet though I
>>>could fix a lot of bugs (logic) in the old GUI and develop some bew
>>>features ... still ...
>>
>>Which features would you like to have examples for?
>>
>>There is a bit of stuff on the wiki ...
>>
>>uwe
>
> Well... to start with I'd like to be able to place texts strings on the
> canvas rotated by n*90

i have never used rotated text but markers with the -window option
attaching a combi-widget {label|entry} to the marker.

> where n=0,1,2,3. and bind the text placement as well as the rotation
> with key-mouse-buttons or to select through a menu ...

blt supports binding to all items on a graph.

> May I mix together Tcl/Tk commands with Blt commandds ?

Shure, blt is an _added_ extension ( but blt_graph is not a canvas ;-)
>
>
> Thanks,
> Maura
>

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