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-Tk 8.0p2 for Windows
+Tk 8.1a2 for Windows
by Scott Stanton
Sun Microsystems Laboratories
scott.stanton@eng.sun.com
-SCCS: @(#) README 1.20 97/11/21 15:17:54
+SCCS: @(#) README 1.22 98/02/18 18:03:07
1. Introduction
---------------
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ contains information specific to the Windows version of Tk.
2. Distribution notes
---------------------
-Tk 8.0 for Windows is distributed in binary form in addition to the
+Tk 8.1 for Windows is distributed in binary form in addition to the
common source release. The binary distribution is a self-extracting
archive with a built-in installation script.
@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ source distribution in order to build and use extensions.
In order to compile Tk for Windows, you need the following items:
- Tcl 8.0 Source Distribution (plus any patches)
- Tk 8.0 Source Distribution (plus any patches)
+ Tcl 8.1 Source Distribution (plus any patches)
+ Tk 8.1 Source Distribution (plus any patches)
The latest Win32 SDK header files
@@ -58,24 +58,24 @@ find them. Tk looks in one of two places for the library files:
1) The environment variable "TK_LIBRARY".
- 2) In the lib\tk8.0 directory under the Tcl installation directory
+ 2) In the lib\tk8.1 directory under the Tcl installation directory
as specified in the registry:
For Windows NT & 95:
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sun\Tcl\8.0
+ HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sun\Tcl\8.1
Value Name is "Root"
For Win32s:
- HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SOFTWARE\Sun\Tcl\8.0\
+ HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SOFTWARE\Sun\Tcl\8.1\
2) Relative to the directory containing the current .exe.
- Tk will look for a directory "..\lib\tk8.0" relative to the
+ Tk will look for a directory "..\lib\tk8.1" relative to the
directory containing the currently running .exe.
-Note that in order to run wish80.exe, you must ensure that tcl80.dll,
-tclpip80.dll (plus tcl1680.dll under Win32s), and tk80.dll are on your
+Note that in order to run wish81.exe, you must ensure that tcl81.dll,
+tclpip81.dll (plus tcl1681.dll under Win32s), and tk81.dll are on your
path, in the system directory, or in the directory containing
-wish80.exe.
+wish81.exe.
4. Test suite
-------------
@@ -103,12 +103,10 @@ Windows beta version of Tk:
- Color management on some displays doesn't work properly resulting in
Tk switching to monochrome mode.
- Tk seems to fail to draw anything on some Matrox Millenium cards.
-- Send and winfo interps are not currently supported
- Printing does not work for images (e.g. GIF) on a canvas.
- Tk_dialog appears in the upper left corner. This is a symptom of a
larger problem with "wm geometry" when applied to unmapped or
iconified windows.
-- Some keys don't work on international keyboards.
- Grabs do not affect native menus or the title bar.
- PPM images are using the wrong translation mode for writing to
files, resulting in CR/LF terminated PPM files.
@@ -116,9 +114,6 @@ Windows beta version of Tk:
also doesn't consistently track changes in the system colors.
If you have comments or bug reports for the Windows version of Tk,
-please direct them to:
-
-Scott Stanton
-scott.stanton@eng.sun.com
-
-or post them to the newsgroup comp.lang.tcl.
+please direct them to the comp.lang.tcl newsgroup or the wintcl
+mailing list (see http://sunscript.sun.com/win/wintcl-list.html for
+more information).