This is to announce the release of version 0.5 of SWANK(tm), a graphical
user interface
toolkit implemented entirely in JAVA(tm). SWANK(tm) provides the companion
to Jacl, the
Tcl interpreter implemented in JAVA(tm). Thus, Jacl/SWANK(tm) forms the
analogous pair
to Tcl/Tk and can be used to rapidly script user interfaces. The goal of
the design of
SWANK(tm) is to provide a toolkit that will be familiar to Tk users, provide
a reasonable
level of backwards compatibility with Tk, and provide access to the
generally greater, as
compared to Tk, feature level of the Swing components.
SWANK(tm) was, and continues to be, developed with an automatic
code-generation
technique. Using the JAVA(tm) introspection capabilities available in Jacl,
the methods for
each Swing class are deduced, and then JAVA(tm) code is automatically
written, with a Tcl
script, to implement a Tcl/Tk like scripting interface. Implementing
SWANK(tm) in this
way allows two significant advantages. One, the development of the code was
significantly faster than if all the JAVA(tm) code had been hand-written.
Second,
significant changes in the structure of the code can be made simply by
changing the code-
generation script, rather than rewriting the JAVA(tm) code that implements
the interface to
each Swing class. Additional, hand written, JAVA(tm) code provides a
variety of utility
routines such as the grid, place and pack geometry managers.
In the present version there is support for the following Swing components:
JButton,
JCheckBox, JCheckBoxMenuItem, JComboBox, JDialog, JFileChooser, JFrame,
JInternalFrame, JLabel, JList, JMenu, JMenuBar, JMenuItem, JOptionPane,
JPanel,
JPopupMenu, JRadioButton, JRadioButtonMenuItem, JScrollBar, JScrollPane,
JSlider,
JSplitPane, JTabbedPane. The following Tk like commands are at least
partially
implemented: canvas,text, button, label, checkbutton, toplevel, listbox,
frame, scale, message,
radiobutton, entry, menubutton, menu, pack, bind, grid, wm and winfo
commands.
SWANK(tm) is available at http://www.nmrview.com/swank/index.html. The
license for
SWANK(tm) (appended below) grants permission to use, copy modify, distribute
and
license the software for any purpose. I look forward to receiving feedback
on
SWANK(tm).
This software is copyrighted by Merck & Co., Inc. The
following terms apply to all files associated with the
software unless explicitly disclaimed in individual files.
The authors hereby grant permission to use, copy, modify,
distribute, and license this software and its documentation
for any purpose, provided that existing copyright notices
are retained in all copies and that this notice is included
verbatim in any distributions. No written agreement,
license, or royalty fee is required for any of the
authorized uses.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR DISTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE TO
ANY PARTY FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
SOFTWARE, ITS DOCUMENTATION, OR ANY DERIVATIVES THEREOF,
EVEN IF THE AUTHORS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
SUCH DAMAGE.
THE AUTHORS AND DISTRIBUTORS SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ANY
WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. THIS SOFTWARE
IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS, AND THE AUTHORS AND
DISTRIBUTORS HAVE NO OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE MAINTENANCE,
SUPPORT, UPDATES, ENHANCEMENTS, OR MODIFICATIONS.
SWANK(tm) is a trademark of Merck & Co., Inc., Whitehouse Station, NJ, USA
JAVA(tm) is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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