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@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@ -Tk 8.0 for Macintosh +Tk 8.1 for Macintosh -by Ray Johnson +by Ray Johnson and Jim Ingham Sun Microsystems Laboratories rjohnson@eng.sun.com +jim.ingham@sun.com -SCCS: @(#) README 1.30 97/11/20 22:06:57 +SCCS: @(#) README 1.33 98/02/18 11:23:12 1. Introduction --------------- @@ -18,50 +19,12 @@ directory. 2. What's new? ------------- -Native Look & Feel!!! We now try really hard to support the -Macintosh Look & Feel with Tcl/Tk 8.0. We aren't finished but -it look pretty good. Let me know what are the most "un-mac like" -problems and I'll fix them as quickly as I can. - -The button, checkbutton, radiobutton, and scrollbar widgets actually -use the Mac toolbox controls. This means that they will track the -look&feel if you use extension that change the appearance of -applications (like Aaron.) We also use "system" colors so the default -backgrounds etc. will also change colors. We plan to support this -feature - so let me know if something doesn't work quite right. -Unfortunantly, we are not able to change the colors of buttons under -MacOS 8. We are working on a solution to this. -In the meantime, if you really must have colored buttons, turn off the -"System-wide platinum appearance" option in the Appearance Control Panel, -and you will get the System 7, colorable, buttons back. - -We also now support native menus! By using the new -menu option -on toplevels you can have a menubar that is cross platform. You -can also place Tk menus in the Apple and Help menus! Check out -the documentation for more details. Syd Polk <icepick@eng.sun.com> is -the author of the new menu code. Feel free to contact him if you -have questions or comments about the menu mechanism. - -The "tk_messageBox" command on the Macintosh is now much more -mac-like. I'll probably still need to adjust this more - but it -looks a hell of alot better than it did before. - -I've also added a command that allows you to get more native window -styles. However, we have yet to decide on a cross platform solution -to the problem of varying window styles. None the less, I thought -it would be use full to add the capability in an unsupported means -to tide you over until a better solution is available. The command -is called "unsupported1". It can be used in the following way: - - toplevel .foo; unsupported1 style .foo zoomDocProc - -The above command will create a document window with a zoom box. -Type "unsupported1 style . ???" to get a list of the supported -styles. The command works like "wm overrideredirect" - you must -make the call before the window is mapped. - -As always - report the bugs you find - including asthetic ones -in the look & feel of widgets. +All the widgets will now display internationalized text! + +The widget configuration package has been changed to support the new object +model introduced with the 8.0 compiler. For now the old configuration +package is retained, and in fact, only the menu and button widgets use +the new package. 3. Mac specific features ------------------------ @@ -94,8 +57,8 @@ pointers to where you can find more information about the feature. Mac version of Tk allows you to use several Mac specific icons. See the GetBitmap.3 man page for a complete list. -* The send command does not yet work on the Macintosh. We hope to - have it available in Tk 8.1. +* The send command works among interpreters in the same application. We hope to + have the complete implementation available in Tk 8.1. * The -use and -container options almost work. The focus bugs that were in Tk8.0 final have been fixed. But there are still some @@ -109,7 +72,7 @@ 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 +mactk8.1.sea.hqx This distribution is a "binary" only release. It contains an installer program that will install a 68k, PowerPC, or Fat @@ -117,13 +80,13 @@ 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-8.1.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-8.1.sea.hqx This release contains the complete source to Tk for the Macintosh In addition, Metrowerks CodeWarrior libraries and project files @@ -172,44 +135,36 @@ available (see below). In order to compile Macintosh Tk you must have the following items: - CodeWarrior Pro 1 or higher (CodeWarrior release 9 or higher can work - and we have project files, but we are depricating support) - Mac Tcl 8.0 (source) + CodeWarrior Pro 2 or higher + Mac Tcl 8.1 (source) (which requires More Files 1.4.2 or 1.4.3) - Mac Tk 8.0 (source) + Mac Tk 8.1 (source) The project files included with the Mac Tcl source should work fine. The only thing you may need to update are the access paths. -As with Tcl, there is something in the initial release of the CW Pro 2 -linker that rendersthe CFM68K version of Wish very unstable. I am -working with Metrowerks to resolve the issue. +As with Tcl, you need to upgrade to the 2.0.1 version of the C +compilers or later to build the CFM68K version of Tcl/Tk. 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. wm iconify uses it, and the coloring of the + backgrounds of radiobuttons & checkbuttons now works under + Appearance. Tk correctly checks the Gestalt for Appearance, so you + do not have to install it on your target machines. However, you do + have to have the header and stub files to build it. These come with + CWPro 2, and are also available now from Apple. + 7. About Dialog --------------- -There is now a way to replace the default dialog box for the Wish -application. If you create the tcl procedure "tkAboutDialog" it will -be called instead of creating the default dialog box. Your procedure -is then responsible for displaying a window, removing it, etc. This -interface is experimental and may change in the future - tell me what -you think of it. +The prefered method for replacing the about dialog is to replace the +main menubar of the application, using the -menu option for the "." +window. Then add a cascade called .mainMenu.apple to your mainMenu, +and you can put an about item in here WITH YOUR OWN LABEL! 8. Apple Events --------------- |