Visual Tcl 1.10b
May 31, 1997
Announcing the tenth beta release of Visual Tcl, a freely-available, high-
quality application development environment for UNIX, Windows and Macintosh
platforms. Visual Tcl is written entirely in Tcl/Tk and covered by the GNU
General Public License.
Changes since 1.09b:
o Added "No clobbering" safeties on functions, vars and menus
o Fixed unset "option" var in dump_tops
o Added automatic Toplevel names for new windows
o Added new compound widgets
o fixed file open/save dialogs - start dir and file name
o Added toplevel window focus preference
o Added checkbutton menu control for funcs, procs, toplevels
o Fixed window hide/show bug in edit mode (vi Rick)
o Combined "Widget Info" into Attribute Editor
o Put safety check around cursor reset in dragsize
o Adding abstraction code for geometry managers
o Removed Geometry Information and moved into attrib. editor
o Fixed missing "-in" geometry manager parameter
o Added better toplevel support including auto raise/lower of all
Visual Tcl associated windows to follow vtcl parent
o Added preference to turn off balloon help
o Added better save support for unmanaged widgets
o Removed custom color picker and file dialog for tk4.1
o Added preferences for dialog and text edit fonts
o Applied tix and other patches from Ken Cox:
* proc.tcl: Removed puts's.
* lib_tix.tcl: Latest version. Fixed to properly save widgets
* globals.tcl: Define default value of vTcl(bind,ignore)
* globals.tcl: Correctey value of vTcl(var,ignore)
* Makefile: Makefile that builds an emacs TAGS file for tcl code
* misc.tcl: sort names of user-defined procs
* dump.tcl: sort names of global variables and bindings
* dump.tcl: Fixed logic in proc vTcl:dump_widget_bind which prevented
bindings from being saved.
* dump.tcl: Fixed logic in proc vTcl:dump_top which prevented
toplevels which had never been created from being saved.
HOW TO GET IT:
Home Site: http://www.neuron.com/stewart/vtcl/
Australia: http://holmes.ccs.deakin.edu.au/vtcl/
United Kingdom: http://www.jessikat.demon.co.uk/vtcl/
Germany: http://www.ifconnection.de/~rjs/vtcl/
US East: http://www.ultra.net/~eugene/mirror/vtcl/
AS ALWAYS:
I heartily welcome feedback, criticism and bug-fixes. Please let me know
what I can do to improve Visual Tcl.
--
Stewart Allen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
