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-Tk 8.0 for Macintosh
+Tk 8.0.3 for Macintosh
by Ray Johnson
-Sun Microsystems Laboratories
-rjohnson@eng.sun.com
+Scriptics Corporation
+rjohnson@scriptics.com
+with major help from
+Jim Ingham
+Cygnus Solutions
+jingham@cygnus.com
-SCCS: @(#) README 1.30 97/11/20 22:06:57
+SCCS: %Z% $Id: README,v 1.2 1998/08/12 11:38:17 welch Exp $
1. Introduction
---------------
@@ -109,7 +113,7 @@ Macintosh Tk is distributed in three different forms. This
should make it easier to only download what you need. The
packages are as follows:
-mactk8.0.sea.hqx
+mactk8.0.3.sea.hqx
This distribution is a "binary" only release. It contains an
installer program that will install a 68k, PowerPC, or Fat
@@ -117,23 +121,29 @@ mactk8.0.sea.hqx
the Tcl & Tk libraries in the Extensions folder inside your
System Folder. (No "INIT"'s or Control Pannels are installed.)
-mactcltk-full-8.0.sea.hqx
+mactcltk-full-8.0.3.sea.hqx
This release contains the full release of Tcl and Tk for the
Macintosh plus the More Files package on which Macintosh Tcl and
Tk rely.
-mactk-source-8.0.sea.hqx
+mactk-source-8.0.3.sea.hqx
This release contains the complete source to Tk for the Macintosh
In addition, Metrowerks CodeWarrior libraries and project files
are included. However, you must already have the More Files
package to compile this code.
+UNIX Tar file distribution.
+ The standard Tcl/Tk source distribution has Mac project files
+ in it. Be warned that the Tk project file is lacking one minor
+ change compared to the ones in the installers listed above
+ having to do with locking down the MDEF resource.
+
5. Documentation
----------------
-Two books are currently available for Tcl. Both provide a good
+There are now many books available for Tcl. These two provide a good
introduction to the language. It is a good way to get started
if you haven't used the language before:
@@ -147,6 +157,9 @@ if you haven't used the language before:
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 0-13-182007-9
+More books are listed at
+ http://www.scriptics.com/resource/doc/books/
+
The "doc" subdirectory contains reference in documentation
in the "man" format found on most UNIX machines. Unfortunately,
there is not a suitable way to view these pages on the Macintosh.
@@ -155,7 +168,7 @@ developed. We are working are having better documentation for
the Macintosh platform in the future. However, if you have WWW
access you may access the Man pages at the following URL:
- http://sunscript.sun.com/man/tcl8.0/contents.html
+ http://www.scriptics.com/man/tcl8.0/contents.html
Other documentation and sample Tcl scripts can be found at
the Tcl ftp site:
@@ -174,6 +187,7 @@ following items:
CodeWarrior Pro 1 or higher (CodeWarrior release 9 or higher can work
and we have project files, but we are depricating support)
+ 8.0.3 was build with CW Pro 3.
Mac Tcl 8.0 (source)
(which requires More Files 1.4.2 or 1.4.3)
Mac Tk 8.0 (source)
@@ -189,17 +203,8 @@ Special notes:
* Check out the file bugs.doc for information about known bugs.
* We are starting to support the new Appearance Manager that shipped
- with MacOS 8. At this point, the only feature that we are using is
- the API to Iconify windows (so that wm iconify will work). However,
- as of the release of Tk8.0p1, the SDK from Apple is still in Beta, so
- we cannot ship it. So support for the Appearance Manager is turned off
- in the source version of Tk8.0p1.
- If you want to build Tk, and want to get the Appearance Manager features,
- then need to do the following:
- 1) get the SDK from Apple
- 2) Uncomment the #define HAVE_APPEARANCE line in tk8.0:mac:MW_TkHeader.pch
- 3) Add the Appearance.lib to tk8.0:mac:TkShells.¼, and put the include
- directory of the SDK on your path in this project, and TkLibraries.¼.
+ with MacOS 8.0. The Tk 8.0.3 release is the first Tk release
+ that supports the Appearance Manager well.
7. About Dialog
---------------
@@ -296,4 +301,4 @@ future.
If you have comments or Bug reports send them to:
Jim Ingham
-jingham@eng.sun.com
+jingham@cygnus.com