Yeah, I agree, BLT would be great, I just don't know the level of compatibility we have with BLT. I quickly read the man page and it seems it's a "non-editable text widget" so it seems you can't add text to it, but only use $htext configure -text "..."
I think that if I'm right, it's a very bad idea to use that for the chat window as it needs to insert text everytime and because it can get huge, which will be a huge performance issue everytime you add new text to it... I also wasn't able to find the option for having a background image..looking at the demo provided with blt, it seems to be set by using the options set command on htext.tile but that line was commented.. why ? maybe it's because it's buggy... anyways, the option is probably -tile, but it's undocumented... About bugs, I opened up wishblt.exe and sourced htext.tcl from the demos and wish just crashed... looking at SF, it seems the last release was in 2002. Humm.. just as I thought the project was dead, I took a look at CVS and I found pretty fast this : http://blt.cvs.sourceforge.net/blt/blt/src/bltBind.c?view=diff&r1=text&tr1=1.28&r2=text&tr2=1.27&diff_format=h looks like some coding has been done, and it's 13 days old, so the project isn't dead, the last commit on bltHtext.c was 2 months ago, but nothing significant... anyways, I wonder how far from stable the CVS is... maybe talking to the original author might help us in knowing that information. Also, it doesn't seem to have any tag support or anything, so it's quite tricky.. I don't know how we could have the 'clickable' text (for urls for example, or accept/reject FT...) for images, we can't embed them, but we could embed a label that contains those images... I think if we were to do this, it would be best if we used it for the CL, so we can build the contact list in a string, then pass it to BLT to show it, since we already clear the whole widget everytime... but I'm still not sure about how feasable this is :( btw.. Tom was working on an implementation of a text widget using canvas or tkhtml... where's that work ? disappeared forever? and what's the status ? Tom, could you maybe add that work to SVN in a new directory or branch or something ? Also, we did have a bg-enabled CL, I know it was working well, but had some bugs, then it was dropped.. question is.. why dropped ? who decided to drop it and what were the reasons.. sorry if I missed the discussion and I'm reopening it.. but I'm just wondering why all that work got thrown away ? that's it for now, it's already a huge babbling email... KKRT On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 08:56:01AM +0100, Boris Faure (aka billiob) wrote: > I agree about BLT. > > About Transparency, it seems it's a mess, since no package is working > on all platforms. And that's a pity. > > On 11/30/06, Jonne Zutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Great. I think we should do it! Users have asked many times already > > whether they could have a background on their chatwindow. > > Would make a nice feature for new version of amsn ;) > > Perhaps as part of Chameleon, if no hacks are necessary outside of > > Chameleon in that case. > > > > JeeBee. > > > > On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 00:04 -0500, Youness Alaoui wrote: > > > Hey there, > > > I was looking at an old tracker item I once created (in 2003) for aMSN on > > > tk-toolkit, here is the link > > > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=802296&group_id=12997&atid=362997 > > > On now that we changed our philosophy (of amsn having nothing compiled in > > > it), I thought we could go with such a > > > solution.. look here : http://wiki.tcl.tk/199 > > > You see the text widget with a background ? it's a hypertext widget > > > actually, here's the man page : > > > http://www-bio3d-igbmc.u-strasbg.fr/doclib/blt/htext.html > > > So how about we change the chatwindow and CL text widgets to use that ?? > > > maybe the CL would be difficult because it uses > > > fancy stuff, but the chat window doesn't do anything, I'm sure it's > > > doable (the only problem I would see is concerning > > > smileys being elided (needed for the copy/paste of smileys) > > > If we can modify that, it would be great! > > > -- > Boris FAURE (aka billiob) > mail, msn : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > No trees were killed in the sending of this message. > However, a large number of electrons were terribly > agitated. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. 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