Visual Tcl 1.09b
April 8, 1997
Announcing the ninth 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 has a lot of bug fixes and preliminary support for Tix widgets.
Unfortunately, I did not get a chance to merge all of the Tix code into this
release, but it will make it in before 1.010.
This constitutes a feature-freeze on the 1.0x code base. 1.1x will begin
to implement a project model and editor interface that more easily
integrates with source control systems and custom editors. The visual
design will remain much the same, but greatly extended.
Changes since 1.08b:
1.08 -> 1.09 (April 8, 1997)
o Fixed procedure editing to allow more than one at a time
o Fixed double-click bug in procedure list window
o Added preference to save/not-save global values
o Fixed menu-item update bug
o Added Widget Encapsulation Option in Preferences ([], {}, "")
o Fixed File:Save bug (returns no file "")
o Fixed Command Console bug under Tk4.2
o Added first-try at Tix library (lib_tix) - very alpha
o Many general core changes necessary for Tix
o Added ability to instantiate multiple toplevels of same type
using $base in widget naming
o pre and post commands for toplevels are now useful (w/ $base)
o Saving over old files now creates <file>.bak backup
o Fixed alias naming/renaming and allows resetting
o "source" and "proc" now wrapped to allow better filtering
o Fixed spurious Courier font hard-coded in help source
o Fixed cut/copy/save toplevel bug: vTcl(tops) out of sync
o Now saves command/procedure editor box sizes
o Added ability to re-arrange menu items with arrow keys
o Added yes/no/cancel dialog if procedure edit buffer has changed
and cancel is pressed
o Toplevel information is now saved as part of compounds
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://holmes.ccs.deakin.edu.au/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]
