Visual Tcl 1.05b
December 22, 1996
Announcing the fifth beta release of Visual Tcl, a freely-available, high-
quality application development environment for UNIX, Windows and Macintosh
platforms. Visual Tcl is written entirely in Tcl/Tk and covered by the GNU
General Public License.
This release contains a large number of internal changes, bug fixes and
cosmetic cleanup. More control of toplevels has been introduced with a
new toplevel browser similar to the function and variable browsers. The
widget code has been further generalized to allow the introduction of
new widgets (Tix, etc) in 1.06.
Sun labs released 8.0a a few days ago and I was able to make a couple of
changes to accomodate native file and color browsers. Visual Tcl also
runs several times faster under 8.0a though there seems to be a bug in
8.0a with menus which can make it unusable if you don't know the keyboard
shortcuts.
Changes since 1.04b:
1.04 -> 1.05 (December 22, 1996)
o Another clever patch from Robin Becker to handle more flexible
startups (if you aren't playing by the rules :)
o Fixed widget children ordering bug (affected pack)
o Added alias line to Widget Info window
o File types in file dialog now work
o Insertion of compounds now recovers bundled aliases
o Fixed bind editor bug introduced in 1.04
o Added "folder" distinction in file browser and float folders to top
o Further optimized dumping of widget manager attributes
o Fixed color browser bug w/ Cancel
thanks to Scott Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
o Added "Toplevels" window for controlling viewing/hiding
o Improved performance in add/update/delete of functions and variables
o Added support for toplevels in compound widgets
o Renamed "func" procedures to more consistent "proc"
o Fixed goemtry manager update bug w/ null window path and
widget label cancel bug.
thanks to Heiko Nardmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
o Added File:New
o Added 8.0 native support: color browser, file browser,
filter tk internal widgets (.__tk) for save.
o Fixed "tab bug" with 8.0 showing \t
o Fixed cursor/selection bug
thanks to Laurent Pasquer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
o Made preliminary widget-library modularization changes
o Fixed do/undo bug with new compound cut/paste
o Added meaningful dialog for close/quit and errors
o Fixed func/var/top/mgr/attred window blink on startup
HOW TO GET IT:
Please choose the location nearest you since my connection can become
saturated at peak times.
Home Site: http://www.neuron.com/stewart/vtcl/
Australia: http://www.deakin.edu.au/~mattb/vtcl/
United Kingdom: http://www.jessikat.demon.co.uk/vtcl/
Germany: http://www.ifconnection.de/~rjs/vtcl/
US East: http://www.ultra.net/~eugene/mirror/vtcl/
US Mid: http://chaos.uark.edu/vtcl/
AS ALWAYS:
I heartily welcome feedback, criticism and bug-fixes. Please let me know
what I can do to improve Visual Tcl.
--
Stewart Allen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
