On Wed, 19 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Allen,
> Many thanks for the mail. I actually have now a version of vtcl which
> works with a limited set of blt and tix widgets. (I found the hooks and hung
> things on them. ) The main problem was that the dump routines use the class of
> widget converted to lowercase as the name of the widget creation command.
> Stupidly the tix authors have things like the notebook widget which has class
> TixNoteBook but is created using tixNoteBook. After a short look at the tix
> code the general rule is to check if the widget class starts with Tix then
> change the first character from T to t. There was a lot of other confusing
> hacking required, for example when I saved to a file vtcl would save all the
> tcl code which implements the tix widget as well as the one line which creates
> it. I got around this last one by not dumping out a proc if its name starts
> with tix, what a kluge. Anyway I have a partial implementation which is good
> enough for now. I'll clean up the code and tell you where I put it so you can
> see if there are any ideas you like. (one thing I did was to add compound
> widgets to the toolbar)
Graham,
Great work! I would like to get hold of your changes to see what can be
folded into 1.09 (which I hope to release soon after fulfilling some Tix
compatability).
Cheers,
-stewart-
