Hello,
first: thank you to the guy who has finally removed one of my incarnations from
the list! I hope posting now works as expected ;-))
But I don't get any response about an action and by looking at the full
mailheaders, I suspect that my new (not mangled address) is deleted ...
Anyway:
Is there something new with vtcl since 1.2.0? The last time I looked at 1.3.0
it was exactly the same.
Some days ago someone wrote about a bunch of patches for vtcl -- but I can't
find them at the official homepage. Where are they?
I have a large bunch of suggestions for vtcl improvements. Just to make a
start for discussion I post some of them:
i18n, l10n:
use the new features of tcl (namely msgcat) for all gui strings
font and colour objects:
use specific names for fonts and colours and then make it possible to select
either some font or color directly or this aliases. Then by changing the
global alias one can easyly change the whole application. (poor mans
theming;-)) It's meant just the way font-objects are actually working, but
with support from the vtcl gui.
include some settings in the program file:
some opions have to included in (and retrieved from) the produced program
file. For example it is very important to use the same quoting all the time.
Because if one project has to use '"' (for commands like msgcat in buttons)
it's not the same, if this will be quoted by '{}' ...
support for the options database
support for tk_setPalette
the important point with this is platform independencie ...
for now, tcl compares the actual settings with the defaults and not with the
actual defaults from the options database. I don't know how to describe the
difference between this two, but after reading tk_setPalette.n you should see
the point.
platform independent bindings
automatically created widgets
bubblehelp
and so on
As you can clearly see, I use vtcl to ease platform independent developing.
And I use it for projects that others (with lesser knowlegde of tcl) have to
deal with -- on Unix, Windows and Mac!
Yours
Uwe Koloska
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right now the web page is in german only
but this will change as time goes by ;-)
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