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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ README: Tk
Tk is maintained, enhanced, and distributed freely as a
service to the Tcl community by Scriptics Corporation.
-RCS: @(#) $Id: README,v 1.13 1999/02/17 02:34:36 hershey Exp $
+RCS: @(#) $Id: README,v 1.14 1999/04/16 01:51:07 stanton Exp $
Contents
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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Contents
2. Documentation
3. Compiling and installing Tk
4. Getting started
- 5. Summary of changes in Tk 8.0
+ 5. Summary of changes in Tk 8.1
6. Development tools
7. Tcl newsgroup
8. Tcl contributed archive
@@ -25,19 +25,23 @@ Contents
This directory contains the sources and documentation for Tk, an X11
toolkit implemented with the Tcl scripting language. The information
-here corresponds to release 8.0.5, which is the fifth patch update for
-Tk 8.0. This release is designed to work with Tcl 8.0.5 and may not
-work with any other version of Tcl.
+here corresponds to release 8.1b3, which is the third beta release
+for Tk 8.1. This release is mostly feature complete but may have bugs
+and be missing some minor features. This release is for early
+adopters who are willing to help us find and fix problems. Please let
+us know about any problems you uncover.
-Tk 8.0 is a major release with significant new features such as native
-look and feel on Macintoshes and PCs, a new font mechanism, application
-embedding, and proper support for Safe-Tcl. See below for details.
-There should be no backward incompatibilities in Tk 8.0 that affect
-scripts. This patch release fixes various bugs in Tk 8.0; there are no
-feature changes relative to Tk 8.0.
+The most important change in Tk 8.1 is that it supports the new
+internationalization features in Tcl 8.1. It also contains a new
+library for handling configuration options some of the widgets have
+been converted to use the Tcl object facilities. For details on
+features, incompatibilities, and potential problems with this release,
+see the Tcl/Tk 8.1 Web page at
-Note: with Tk 8.0 the Tk version number skipped from 4.2 to 8.0. The
-jump was made in order to synchronize the Tcl and Tk version numbers.
+ http://www.scriptics.com/software/8.1.html
+
+or refer to the "changes" file in this directory, which contains a
+historical record of all changes to Tk.
Tk is a freely available open source package. You can do virtually
anything you like with it, such as modifying it, redistributing it,
@@ -153,120 +157,9 @@ library/demos/widget is a script that you can use to invoke many
individual demonstrations of Tk's facilities, see the code that
produced the demos, and modify the code to try out alternatives.
-5. Summary of changes in Tk 8.0
+5. Summary of changes in Tk 8.1
-------------------------------
-Here is a list of the most important new features in Tk 8.0. The
-release also includes several smaller feature changes and bug fixes.
-See the "changes" file for a complete list of all changes.
-
- 1. Native look and feel. The widgets have been rewritten to provide
- (nearly?) native look and feel on the Macintosh and PC. Many
- widgets, including scrollbars, menus, and the button family, are
- implemented with native platform widgets. Others, such as entries
- and texts, have been modified to emulate native look and feel.
- These changes are backwards compatible except that (a) some
- configuration options are now ignored on some platforms and (b) you
- must use the new menu mechanism described below to native look and
- feel for menus.
-
- 2. There is a new interface for creating menus, where a menubar is
- implemented as a menu widget instead of a frame containing menubuttons.
- The -menu option for a toplevel is used to specify the name of the
- menubar; the menu will be displayed *outside* the toplevel using
- different mechanisms on each platform (e.g. on the Macintosh the menu
- will appear at the top of the screen). See the menu demos in the
- widget demo for examples. The old style of menu still works, but
- does not provide native look and feel. Menus have several new
- features:
- - New "-columnbreak" and "-hideMargin" options make it possible
- to create multi-column menus.
- - It is now possible to manipulate the Apple and Help menus on
- the Macintosh, and the system menu on Windows. It is also
- possible to have a right justified Help menu on Unix.
- - Menus now issue the virtual event <<MenuSelect>> whenever the
- current item changes. Applications can use this to generate
- help messages.
- - There is a new "-direction" option for menubuttons, which
- controls where the menu pops up revenues to the button.
-
- 3. The font mechanism in Tk has been completely reworked:
- - Font names need not be nasty X LFDs: more intuitive names
- like {Times 12 Bold} can also be used. See the manual entry
- font.n for details.
- - Font requests always succeed now. If the requested font is
- not available, Tk finds the closest available font and uses
- that one.
- - Tk now supports named fonts whose precise attributes can be
- changed dynamically. If a named font is changed, any widget
- using that font updates itself to reflect the change.
- - There is a new command "font" for creating named fonts and
- querying various information about fonts.
- - There are now officially supported C APIs for measuring and
- displaying text. If you use these APIs now, your code will
- automatically handle international text when internationalization
- is added to Tk in a future release. See the manual entries
- MeasureChar.3, TextLayout.3, and FontId.3.
- - The old C procedures Tk_GetFontStruct, Tk_NameOfFontStruct,
- and Tk_FreeFontStruct have been replaced with more portable
- procedures Tk_GetFont, Tk_NameOfFont, and Tk_FreeFont.
-
- 4. Application embedding. It is now possible to embedded one Tcl/Tk
- application inside another, using the -container option on frame
- widgets and the -use option for toplevel widgets or on the command
- line for wish. Embedding should be fully functional under Unix,
- but the implementation is incomplete on the Macintosh and PC.
-
- 5. Tk now works correctly with Safe-Tcl: it can be loaded into
- safe interpreters using safe::loadTk.
-
- 6. Text widgets now allow images to be embedded directly in the
- text without using embedded windows. This is more efficient and
- provides smoother scrolling.
-
- 7. Buttons have a new -default option for drawing default rings in
- a platform-specific manner.
-
- 8. There is a new "gray75" bitmap, and the "gray25" bitmap is now
- really 25% on (due to an ancient mistake, it had been only 12% on).
- The Macintosh now supports native bitmaps, including new builtin
- bitmaps "stop", "caution", and "note", plus the ability to use
- bitmaps in the application's resource fork.
-
- 9. The "destroy" command now ignores windows that don't exist
- instead of generating an error.
-
-Tk 8.0 introduces the following incompatibilities that may affect Tcl/Tk
-scripts that worked under Tk 4.2 and earlier releases:
-
- 1. Font specifications such as "Times 12" now interpret the size
- as points, whereas it used to be pixels (this was actually a bug,
- since the behavior was documented as points). To get pixels now,
- use a negative size such as "Times -12".
-
- 2. The -transient option for menus is no longer supported. You can
- achieve the same effect with the -type field.
-
- 3. In the canvas "coords" command, polygons now return only the
- points that were explicitly specified when the polygon was created
- (they used to return an extra point if the polygon wasn't originally
- closed). Internally, polygons are still closed automatically for
- purposes of display and hit detection; the extra point just isn't
- returned by the "coords" command.
-
- 4. The photo image mechanism now uses Tcl_Channels instead of FILEs,
- in order to make it portable. FILEs are no longer used anywhere
- in Tk. The procedure Tk_FindPhoto now requires an extra "interp"
- argument in order to fix a bug where images in different interpreters
- with the same name could get confused.
-
- 5. The procedures Tk_GetFontStruct, Tk_NameOfFontStruct,
- and Tk_FreeFontStruct have been removed.
-
-Note: the new compiler in Tcl 8.0 may also affect Tcl/Tk scripts; check
-the Tcl documentation for information on incompatibilities introduced by
-Tcl 8.0.
-
6. Development tools
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