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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ This file summarizes all changes made to Tk since version 1.0 was released on March 13, 1991. Changes that aren't backward compatible are marked specially. -RCS: @(#) $Id: changes,v 1.31 1999/04/16 01:25:53 stanton Exp $ +RCS: @(#) $Id: changes,v 1.32 1999/04/16 01:51:07 stanton Exp $ 3/16/91 (bug fix) Modified tkWindow.c to remove Tk's Tcl commands from the interpreter when the main window is deleted (otherwise there will @@ -4010,19 +4010,19 @@ virtual events now go to the correct (focus) window. (RJ) 9/19/97 (bug fix) Made Macintosh tearoff menus non-resizable. (RJ) +10/9/97 (bug fix) Default font for new canvas text items was hardcoded to +"Helvetica 12" instead of using DEF_CANVTEXT_FONT defined in +tk{platform}Default.h like all the other widget settings. (CCS) + 10/9/97 (bug fix) Image code could cause crashes during "exit" under some conditions (such as an image named "place"). (JO) 10/9/97 (bug fix) Fixed bug that sometimes prevented listboxes from scrolling far enough horizontally to see the rightmost character. (JO) -10/9/97 (bug fix) Default font for new canvas text items was hardcoded to -"Helvetica 12" instead of using DEF_CANVTEXT_FONT defined in -tk{platform}Default.h like all the other widget settings. (CCS) - -10/10/97 (bug fix) In canvas text items, if the text ended with a \n, it -was not counted in the bbox height, as it did in tk4.2. This caused -"hello\n" to be the same height as "hello" and you couldn't see the +10/10/97 (bug fix) In canvas text items, if the text ended with a \n, it +was not counted in the bbox height, as it did in tk4.2. This caused +"hello\n" to be the same height as "hello" and you couldn't see the cursor positioned on the next line. (CCS) 10/10/97 (bug fix) The grid geometry manager didn't always properly @@ -4343,10 +4343,242 @@ on Win NT 4.0/Japanese that cause a crash in some cases. (stanton) 2/4/99 (bug fix) Fixed uninitialized memory access bug in Unix send code. (stanton) ------------------ Released 8.0.5, 3/9/99 ------------------------- - ---------------------------------------------------------- Changes for Tk 8.0 go above this line. Changes for Tk 8.1 go below this line. ---------------------------------------------------------- +1/16/98 (new feature) Tk now supports international characters sets: + - Font display mechanism overhauled to display Unicode strings + containing full set of international characters. You do not need + Unicode fonts on your system in order to use tk or see international + characters. For those familiar with the Japanese or Chinese patches, + there is no "-kanjifont" option. Characters from any available fonts + will automatically be used if the widget's originally selected font is + not capable of displaying a given character. + - Textual widgets are international aware. For instance, cursor + positioning commands would now move the cursor forwards/back by 1 + international character, not by 1 byte. + - Input Method Editors (IMEs) work on Mac and Windows. Unix is still in + progress. + +7/7/97 (new feature) The send command now works for Microsoft +Windows. It is implemented using Dynamic Data Exchange, and a new +command, dde, allows Tk to send more generic DDE commands to other +applications. (SRP) + +11/3/97 (new feature) Major overhaul of code that manages configuration +options to use Tcl_Obj structures instead of strings: + - There is a new set of procedures including Tk_CreateOptionTable, + Tk_InitOptions, and Tk_SetOptions, which replace Tk_ConfigureWidget + and related procedures. The old procedures are still available. + The new procedures use a new format for configuration tables. + See SetOptions.3 for more information. + - There are new procedures Tk_AllocColorFromObj, Tk_GetColorFromObj, + and Tk_FreeColorFromObj to manage colors using objects to hold the + name of the color and cache the corresponding XColor pointer. + There are similar procedures Tk_Alloc3DBorderFromObj, + Tk_AllocBitmapFromObj, Tk_AllocCursorFromObj, Tk_AllocFontFromObj, + and so on to manage borders, bitmaps, cursors, and fonts. + - The old-style procedures such as Tk_GetColor and Tk_GetBitmap no + longer take Tk_Uids for arguments; they just take strings. + - Menus, labels, buttons, checkbuttons, and radiobuttons have been + converted to use the new object-based configuration library. + (SRP & JO) + +11/7/97 (improvement) Changed code referring to "interp->result" to call +accessor functions like Tcl_SetResult(). + +12/23/97 (fix) Fixed transparency and web optimized the palette of +the images/ Tcl powered logos. (DL) + +12/16/97 (bug fix) Canvas and text "bind" subcommands generated an +error with no message if called to fetch a binding that didn't exist. +They now silently return without an error like the "bind" command. (SS) + +1/13/98 (bug fix) Keysyms for international characters were not being +reported properly under Windows. (SS) + +----------------- Released 8.1a1, 1/22/98 ----------------------- + +2/4/98 (bug fix) Calling XFreeFontNames() twice if couldn't allocate +font. (CCS) + +2/10/98 (bug fix) Inlined prolog.ps in tkCanvPs.c to make it accessible +from safe interpreters: canvas postscript now works in safe interps +(like in tk8.0plugin). (DL) + +2/11/98 (bug fix) Windows "send" to a remote interp wasn't propagating +$errorInfo correctly from the remote interp to the local invoking interp. +(CCS) + +2/11/98 (bug fix) Windows "send" should have accepted "--" to mean "no more +arguments". (CCS) + +2/11/98 (bug fix) Windows "send" was concatenating its arguments +incorrectly (not consistent with "eval", "uplevel", or Unix "send"). (CCS) + +2/18/98 (bug fix) Macintosh radiobuttons and checkbuttons now color +their backgrounds correctly under Appearance. The controls gadgets themselves +however, remain the Theme colors. (JI) + +2/18/98 (improvement) The corner pixels that peek through around the +rounded corners of the Mac button widget are now controlled by the +-highlightbackground, rather than the -background option. (JI) + +2/18/98 (improvement) Implemented the intra-application Send on the +Mac (RJ) + +2/18/98 (bug fix) Under X, a problem mapping from a fontStructPtr to an +XLFD (no XA_FONT attribute) would lead to dereferencing NULL. (CCS) + +----------------- Released 8.1a2, Feb 20 1998 ----------------------- + +10/21/98 (bug fix) Tk_UnderlineChars did not handle UTF strings properly +so underline indices were in bytes instead of characters. (stanton) + +11/19/98 (bug fix) Fixed menus and titles so they properly display +Unicode characters under Windows. [Bug: 819] (stanton) + +11/24/98 (bug fix) Fixed a bunch of memory leaks in the Windows menu +code. [Bug: 620] (stanton) + +11/25/98 (bug fix) Various small bug fixes: (stanton) + - hidemargin option was not honored properly in menus [Bug: 859] + - disabled menu entries were getting reenabled whenever the + mouse passed over the entry [Bug: 860] + - fixed deletion order bug where a crash would result if a + binding deleted "." + +11/30/98 (bug fix) The error result was getting lost when restoring +configuration options in buttons. [Bug: 619] (stanton) + +12/8/98 (bug fix) The Windows clipboard was not correctly traslating +multibyte characters. [Bug: 935] (stanton) + +----------------- Released 8.1b1, Dec 11 1998 ----------------------- + +1/29/99 (bug fix) Fixed bug in "grid forget" that failed to cancel +pending idle handlers, resulting in a crash in a few odd +cases. (stanton) + +2/4/99 (bug fix): Fixed uninitialized memory access in +Tk_SetAppName. [Bug: 919] (stanton) + +2/4/99 (bug fix): Added a workaround for a bug in GetTextExtentExPoint +on Win NT 4.0/Japanese. [Bug: 1006] (stanton) + +2/4/99 (bug fix): Changed so keyboard shortcuts for menus will only be +found in the current toplevel. Previously, they might be found in +menus attached to other toplevels that might not even be mapped. +[Bug: 924] (stanton) + +2/4/99 (bug fix): Changed to treat zero width lines in the canvas like +they have width 1 for purposes of selection. [Bug: 925] (stanton) + +2/4/99 (bug fix): TK_LD_SEARCH_FLAGS was set incorrectly if +SHLIB_LD_LIBS='${LIBS}', and shared linking is performed through the C +compiler. Systems affected are Linux, MP-RAS and NEXTSTEP, but also +with gcc on many more systems. [Bug: 908] (stanton) + +2/4/99 (feature enhancement): Changed so windows that aren't resizable +don't have resize handles and the zoom box is disabled on +Windows. (stanton) + +2/4/99 (bug fix): Fixed so errors in console eval are reported +properly. Eliminated duplicate result messages. [Bug: 973] (stanton) + +2/4/99 (bug fix): Changed so focus window is always set if -force is +specified. This fixes the problem on Windows where Tk does not +activate the window if it already has focus. (stanton) + +2/4/99 (bug fix): If an image mask changed but ended up with the same +XID, the GC failed to be updated and so the new mask was not +used. [Bug: 970] (stanton) + +2/12/99 (new feature): Tk is now thread safe. You enable this by +configuring with --enable-threads. Tcl must also be compiled with +--enable-threads. See Tcl for more information about the threading +interfaces. (lfb) + +2/25/99 (bug fix) Under Windows, wish can now inherit pipe handles on +stdio so it is possible to use the wish executable in a command +pipeline to capture the output of puts or read from the pipe with +gets. (redman) + +3/1/99 (bug fix) Under Windows, Tk was not properly handling focus and +activation changes in some cases. (redman) + +3/10/99 (new feature) Tk now uses the new stub library feature in Tcl. +The Tk library now contains no direct references to any symbols in +Tcl. In addition, there is a new Tk_MainEx() function that takes an +interpreter as an argument. See the Tcl documentation for more +information about the stubs mechanism. (redman) + +3/14/99 (feature change) Test suite now uses "test" namespace to +define the test procedure and other auxiliary procedures as well as +global variables. + - Global array testConfige is now called ::test::testConfig. + - Global variable VERBOSE is now called ::test::verbose, and + ::test::verbose no longer works with numerical values. We've + switched to a bitwise character string. You can set + ::test::verbose by using the -verbose option on the Tk command + line. + - Global variable TESTS is now called ::test::matchingTests, and + can be set on the Tk command line via the -match option. + - There is now a ::test::skipTests variable (works similarly to + ::test::matchTests) that can be set on the Tk command line via + the -match option. + - The test suite can now be run in any working directory. When + you run "make test", the working directory is nolonger switched + to ../tests. +(hirschl) +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +----------------- Released 8.1b2, March 16, 1999 --------------------- + +3/23/99 (feature change) Test suite now uses "tcltest" namespace to +define the test procedure and other auxiliary procedures as well as +global variables. The previously chosen "test" namespace was thought +to be too generic and likely to create conflits. +(hirschl) +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +3/26/99 [bug fix] Fixed bug reported by Bryan Oakley in the +menubutton bindings. There was a false assumption that there was +always a menu attached to the button. [Bug 1116] (surles) + +3/26/99 (feature change) Removed --enable-tcl-stub from the configure +script. Linking Tk to Tcl stubs is causing too many problems when +linking executables like wish. Until the Tk is a fully loadable +extension, linking against the Tcl stubs is not supported in Tk. +(redman) + +3/26/99 (feature change) --nameble-shared is now the default and builds +Tk as a shared library; specify --disable-shared to build a static Tk +library and shell. +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +3/29/99 (api change) Standardized text layout and font interfaces +so they are consistent with respect to byte versus character +oriented indices. The layout functions all manipulate character +oriented values while the lower level measurement functions all +operate on byte oriented values. (stanton) + +4/1/99 (bug fix) Image handlers are finalized before the font subsystem +to fix crashes during finalization of complex widgets. (stanton) + +4/1/99 (feature change) Removed the send command on Windows. Moved +the DDE basis of that command out to its own extension. The send +implementation on top of DDE was causing Tk to lock up in some cases. +(redman) + +4/5/99 (bug fix) Fixed handling of Unicode in text searches. The +-count option was returning byte counts instead of character counts. + +4/5/99 (feature change) Cut and paste to an entry widget returns the +selection instead of the widget contents, which can be different if the +-show option is used to hide the display. (stanton) + +--------------- Released 8.1b3, April 6, 1999 ---------------------- + |