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> I got the following problem when i tried to install the new Tix version Tix4.\ 0a7 > The target machine is an HP9000/735 > the compile went well. > > ->make install > Installing libtix.a > Installing tixwish > Making directory /usr/local/lib/tix/beta > Installing ./../library/Balloon.tcl > cp: cannot create /usr/local/lib/tix/./../library/Balloon.tcl: No such file o\ r directory > install: "/bin/cp ./../library/Balloon.tcl /usr/local/lib/tix/./../library/Ba\ lloon.tcl" failedLooks like there is a problem with install.sh: it should have installed to the file /usr/local/lib/tix/Balloon.tcl. I'll try to fix that in the next release, 4.0b1.
> i would also like the option of binding the appearence of the balloon help > window to a key or button event instead of just enter/leave events. that > way i can display the short status bar message on enter/leave events and > display a more elaborate balloon help window if the user presses the help > key (i use button 3). > the file menu button. > When I turn balloon help on, and move the cursor over the menu button, nothing > is displayed. If I move the cursor over some other element which has balloon > help (e.g. the font chooser below) and then move it back to the file menu, then > the file menu button balloon help is displayed. That is, menu button balloon > help won't work unless I get balloon help on something else first. I think this is a problem caused by TK's handling of bindings. I will double check and try to work around it. > A couple of other questions about balloon help:
-tabcompletion
option : maybe a user
command, too When the combobox is static: If the
selection is focused and the user types, then the entry
which matches what is typed is placed in the selection.
eg: selection choices are:
a abc helloUser types a, so a is selected, User then types b, so b is selected User types h, so hello is selected, since there is no match for abh.
When the combobox is editable: Use emacs style Tab completion.
What I'll probably do is generalize it so that you can call a routine on any listbox and have it acquire that behavior.
- For PanedWindows, it would be nice to: - specify the size as a proportion (instead of absolute values) of the enclosing window i.e. tixPanedWindow .foo .... .foo add p1 -size .3 .foo add p2 -size .6 .foo add p3 -size .1 and have it respect the proportions when the enclosing window is resized.
a notebook like widget, with "Next >>" ,"Prev >>" buttons.
o A popup/pulldown "tixMenuSelect". This widget has a optional label beneath a button containing some variable value. The button has a little icon on it marking it as some kind of menu button. When selecting the button, a popup/pulldown menu comes up showing the possible alternatives, with the actual entry already selected. With this widget you can make selections of (a few) alternatives with only one drag and release of the mouse. o A "tixMultiColumnBrowser". This widget could be an alternate style of selecting files or other items. It features a user defined number of listboxes with attached vertical scrollbars and labels describing their contents and a horizontal scrollbar for navigating between them if they don't fit into the surrounding frame. While the tixHList is good for selecting items if one knows where to look for them, it can get difficult when navigating deep and wide item trees. The browser is better for browsing (oh, what an insight ;^), but needs more screen space and is perhaps not as attractive as the graphical list.
(0) Add argument verification in Widget creation and $w config 3) Clean up C interface Add a "read stdin" command 4) A printconfig widget command 5) Allow InitWidgetRec to detect wrong value assignment and return an error message. 5) A TCL command to get the upper and lower shades. Not portable to mono displays ... 19) Make some dialog boxes transient 23) Material editor not working perperly with the color editor. Inform ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10) InfCanvas widget Handle most features in C code. 12) Form: Give many information: (1) A chain of attachment of a particular widget (2) Query the chain of circular dependency. Low Priority ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6) FreeOptions for custom options #---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5) wm transient support ******************* Widgets, Intrinsics ******************* DrawnWidget (planned only) - subclass of canvas - support draw: rectangle, triangle, lines, bitmap - support events LabelWidget: - -padx is the option for the "outmost" frame subclass must use: a) -ipadx if there is only two levels of padding b) -somethingpadx if more than two levels of padding. MDIWindow: - needs change its size dynamically MwmClient: - needs better handling of "place" when gridded is true - since the border is now set to 1, need to change some code .. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- && Section four: New widgets 3) MDI window Hi, I am in the process of making an MDIWindow widget. It is supposed to behave similar to the Windows MDIWindow widget so that applications can be ported between X and Windows more easily. Does this get anyone excited? Please tell me what kind of functionality you want from this widget. Here is a list of things I have in mind: 1) It should automatically detect the style and type of the window manager, and make the MDI client windows behave as close to the toplevel windows as possible. i.e., the MDI clients should have different decorations when running under twm or mwm. 2) Should support all the tricks of window managing: resize, move, cascade, tile, iconize. 3) Maybe it should provide a feature of "dynamic detaching": the user can choose to detach a MDI client window from the main MDI window and float it around as a normal X toplevel window. 4) Fancy features such as wallpaper? 5) Is it possible to reparent other X clients into the MDI window and manage them as MDI clients? If we can do this, we can just make a big MDI window that covers the whole screen and use it as the window manager. Since my MDI window is written completely in TCL, it will make it easy for everyone to *write his own window manager* ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- && Section five: Widget Programming Guide 1) All the commands of a class must be in the same file. 2) Each class definition file should contain only one class. Just for the sake of clarity. 3) Each class definition file MUST contain these commands: a) tixClass tixSomeClass { ... } b) a standard documentation section. (cut and paste from ../demos/widgets/worksheet.tcl) 4) All class definition files' names must follow the 8.3 convention. (to be portable to MSDOS file systems). ----------------------------------------------------------------------
From ioi CheckList for 4.0b1 - Improve the bindings mechanism - work on focus management - have better scheme supports - the "xview" and "yview" commands of HList do not return the fractions. - progress meter and labeled entry - do more memory debugging on Memory Leaks: - A lot of places in tixWidgetClass .. (0) Should free old class record if new record is defined with same class name (1) destroying widgets (2) tixIntrinsics: destructor left behind the variable data(context) - TCL geometry manager interface Should have "lost_proc" - form forget ?? From vetter@fokus.gmd.de Fri, 19 May 1995 18:00:27 -0400 (EDT) > when playing around with Tix4.0a5 und Tix4.0a6 and the > "tests/optmenu.tcl" I got a option menu button, but without > the button's border. Attached to this mail is a gif of the > display contents I got. Also attached is a gif showing the > intro screen of the Tix4.0a6 "demos/widget" with a upper > corner showing the original TCL colors. I'm running > Solaris 2.4 on a SparcStation, if this is of interest ;^) This is a result of the way TK handles options. It creates the main window "." befors any "option add" calls can be made. So the Tix options does not propagate to the main window. I'll try to fix this problem by some hacking :-) Ioi From vetter@fokus.gmd.de Martin Vetter Thu May 18 13:14:13 1995 when playing around with Tix4.0a5 und Tix4.0a6 and the "tests/optmenu.tcl" I got a option menu button, but without the button's border. Attached to this mail is a gif of the display contents I got. Also attached is a gif showing the intro screen of the Tix4.0a6 "demos/widget" with a upper corner showing the original TCL colors. I'm running Solaris 2.4 on a SparcStation, if this is of interest ;^) From Svan Delmas strdup is not POSIX? I am surprised. It works on my SGI IRIX 5.2. Anyways, do you know of a POSIX manual of something liks that (just for the C API). Ioi Yea... I was surprised too... but our POSIX manual says there is no strdup(). We are using the O'Reiley manuals... and even the SGI 5.3 manuals don't refer to strdup (there is a prototype in the include file which is only valid for non POSIX code). As far as I can tell there is no direct replacement for strdup... unfortunately... Greetings, Sven From vetter@fokus.gmd.de Strange bug with OptionDB.tcl when playing around with Tix4.0a5 und Tix4.0a6 and the "tests/optmenu.tcl" I got a option menu button, but without the button's border. Attached to this mail is a gif of the display contents I got. Also attached is a gif showing the intro screen of the Tix4.0a6 "demos/widget" with a upper corner showing the original TCL colors. I'm running Solaris 2.4 on a SparcStation, if this is of interest ;^) From someone resizeh.tcl Behaved OK on the whole. although some rubberband droppings were left behind from time to time. Also the application took the focus away from all of my other windows. Couldn't ^C in the window it was started from - had to delete via window manager to recover. From mohan kannapareddy (mokannap@grail.cba.csuohio.edu) Apr 24, 95 Making is possible to load the Tix library in a stand-alone bunary: I wrote: I'll put this on my wishlist: i.e., separating tixWidgetClass calls and the widget "class commands" The new syntax will look like: proc tixComboBox {w args} { tixCreateClass tixComboBox # a new command called tixComboBox is now created. # return [eval tixComboBox $w $args] } From Sven Delmas Apr 11, 95 01:37:46 pm -0600 From Sven Delmas Apr 23, 95 12:22:18 pm -0600 1) OptionMenu should have a way to set the value silent too... if this is not already there... 2) In OptionMenu either a "configitem" is needed, or another way to access, modify and delete existing menu items. In that area it would be nice if you could use the parameters you allow for menu items (-label, -underline and -accelerator) would only be used to set the inital value. After that the value should not be stored in variables, but accessed and set directly in the menu (hidden from the user of course). The reason is that under XF the menu is changable (directly right now as there is no item configuration method). With your locally stored parameters the optionmenu and the attached menu get out of sync. 5) LabelFrame widgets have a different left offset that differs from the on on the right side. Also the offset differs when there is no label. This makes it hard to mix both types of label frames. From sven Mar 9 2) For resize handles I added some additional features. First I now support the packer and the table geometry manager too. I know this is not really nice but it is better than nothing. To make this support a little nicer I added popup menus to the small buttons of the frame (this makes the support for the new managers quite usefull). Then I added support for relative placing geometries (bound to a different mouse event). If you are interested I can mail you the code... It is implemented as a subclass if ResizeH. If your new -command option is intended to serve as a entrypoint for new geometry manager support you should not first place the widget. 4) The resize handle does not work if a widget deeper in the widget structure is handled. Is this intentionally (in other words... do I have to create a resize handle on each level) ? From walsh@ibgmail.ljo.dec.com Fri Mar 17 11:34:19 1995 (Dan Walsh) Subject: Probelms with tixFileSelectbox I am using BL3 on an Alpha OSF/1 machine and when I run the filedlg.tcl file with tixwish I get an error box when I select "open file". The selection box comes up without the two list boxes. Although it looks like their is a little piece of a widget off to the left where the list box should be. The error message is Error:grab failed: window not viewable stack trace shows while executing "grab -global $data(dummy)" ("global" arm line 2) invoked from within "case $data(-grab) { global { grab -global $data(dummy) $data(dummy)config -cursor "[tix getbitmap hourglass] [string range [tix getbitma ..." From TJF@aaoepp2.aao.GOV.AU, Tony Farrell Apr 2 Widget problems. From Mark_Wheeler@A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU Apr 4, 95 There is a possible problem with the FileDialog widget and focus management (v 4.0b1). I open a file dialog, get the filename and if it is invalid, popup a tk_dialog warning. The tk_dialog grabs the focus and resets it on return. On the next button click, the program crashes with a SetFocus in 2 windows error. If I modify tk_dialog not to reset the focus on return but to focus follow curso r then the error can be avoided. Essentially, the reset of the focus sets it to the fileselect text box widget after the fileselect box is closed. From Gregory Gee disabled_color not good on mono display From walsh@ibgmail.ljo.dec.com (Dan Walsh) Wed Mar 29 08:27:03 1995 >Does this happen only on Alpha machines? Have you tried other >machines? I tried to run my 4.0a4 test/filedlg.tcl on an SGI and it >works fine. > >Actually I don't quite understand what your problem is: does the >listbox show (do you see the border of the listbox?). If not, I >suspect this is an X11 portability problem ... > Yes I have only seen it on Alpha, the list box works fine on Ultrix. Their is a stretch bar on the Far Left corner. When you reach over and grab it and drag it to the middle of the screen the Directory and File labels appear, but the list box never appears. Where in the code do you think the problem could be. I would take a look at it. It probably is a 64 Bit problem. From sven@cimetrix.com Mon Mar 20 19:36:32 1995 3) When using panes this creates a huge amount of garbage on the screen (same for moving widgets around with the resize handle). From nchannen@hookup.net, Neil Channen, Wed Mar 29 13:02:19 1995 5. I had numerous problems building Tix 4.0a4 on an HP workstation running HP-UX 9.05 with X11R5. Specifically, the Makefile generated by the 'configure' system appears to have these problems: c) No shared library support. I changed the Makefile to generate both 'libtix.a' and 'libtix.sl', and use 'libtix.sl' to build 'tixwish'. For HP-UX, add '+z' to 'CFLAGS', and use 'ld -b -s -o libtix.sl $(OBJS)' to generate the shared library file. From Sven Delmas Jun 20, 95 07:49:05 am I have also seen problems when a notebook widget is child of a toplevel and the toplevel is destroyed with the window manager (at least on certain systems). I do not remember exactly what I did, but maybe you can give it a try... otherwise I have to look into this problem again. From Ignacio Martin Campos ( imartin@turing.upc.es) Jun 20, 95 07:34:42 pm I've installed the Tix4.0a7 with tcl7.4b3 and tk4.0b3. All wish and tixwish work fine, but i'am not able to make tixwish work with pipes. It seems that when tixwish finds a stdin that it's not a tty doesn't work. On the other hand, the new version of wish works properly with the same code. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [LOW] From sven@cimetrix.com Mon Mar 20 19:34:32 1995 - BTW it would be nice if you could introduce a "small font" for icons etc. - right now it seems that I am not able to set the scheme etc. It would be nice to have a way to that even from within (or outside) a personal wish. Ioi --> document 1) Please, please, please make the -labelside option a nonstatic option. The reason is that under certain circumstances I do not know what value the label will have. If it should be empty I want no label, and if contains something I want it to be displayed. 2) PopMenu should also have an unbind (or clear) method, to remove the bindings. - Just a thought... you might want to look on some of the new Tk commands (like after idle) to make sure that you do not have to implement this by yourselfe. From Someone else - Can you supply the changes to tkEntry, tkPack .... as patch-files? This makes it easier to apply the same changes to future releases of Tk, without supplying new files for every new version of Tk. Also, the distributed tar-file can be smaller if the files are just copied from Tk4.0 and then the necessary patches applied. From Sven Delmas Apr 23, 95 12:22:18 pm -0600 6) For notebooks it would be nice to have stackable notebook pages. I am running out of horizontal space (BTW... how about a vertival stack... or is that already possible ?), so something like this would be nice... +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ | Page1 | | Page2 | | Page3 | +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ | Page4 | | Page5 | | Page6 | I am not sure if this has to be done by your widget, or I can do it myselfe (at least for automatic adjustment it would be nice to have your widget do the work :-). I am not sure how this should work exactly. This probably mnakes it necessary to be able to lower a page explicitly (showing the "next" page in order... what ever this may be...). From Ioi: - Material editor doesn't work yet [Very Low] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- <3.6d> From Scott T. McColl facgate.bellhow.com Apr 6, 95 Using Tix3.6d I have discovered an interesting "feature" to the tixFileSelectbox, the "Filter" portion in particular. This is what happens: 1. I type a valid pattern into the filter entry, /home/users5/zito/Image/FV4/* and I get the correct list of files for that directory. 2. Now I add a non-existent directory to the end of the pattern, /home/users5/zito/Image/FV4/junk/* my file list is the same as generated for Step #1, however I am unable to open a selected file. 3. But if I leave the '*' off the pattern, /home/users5/zito/Image/FV4/junk/ the list the file list is cleared, leaving nothing to be selected. Is this normal behavior? It is my opinion that the reaction to step #2 should be the same as to step #3 or some dialog should have been popped up by filter informing the user that the invalid directory does not exist. Will Tix 4.0 handle this any differently? Any other opinions on this? Thanks much - Scott
I've installed the Tix4.0a7 with tcl7.4b3 and tk4.0b3. All wish and tixwish work fine, but i'am not able to make tixwish work with pipes. It seems that when tixwish finds a stdin that it's not a tty doesn't work. On the other hand, the new version of wish works properly with the same code. Sorry if this is a naive question but i don't what to do. Ioi>> You can execute the following command at the first line of your tcl script and tixwish will always read from stdin set tcl_interactive 1 From Achim Bohnet Jun 28, 95 11:57:53 pm +0200 linking tixwish: linking tix: I got several tk_* unresolved symbol. The reason was that you try to link with -ltk -ltcl and that the DEC OSF/1 C compiler first walks through the library path to sind a shared version. A has this beast but in tk3.7 tcl7.3 flavor. :-( I think to add a note about such conflicts is not too bad (as far as I remember gcc also first searches shared libs) tixwish: what confuses me is that tixwish return a prompt when started as script interpreter e.g '#!/usr/local/bin/tixwish'. All other interpreter as tclsh, blt, tk ... (perl) don't do this. HTML docs: it would be nice if there would be a 'make' target to install them. Using your tix home page is hopeless due to bad bandwidth to the states from Europe. From Norm Shelley Jul 6, 95 11:53:16 am -0700 o Running the demos/widget example and looking at the Scrolled Widgets Notebook, occasionally when resizing using the handles, parts of the dashed lines are not removed when resizing is finished. I tried to determine how to do this everytime but was unable to do so. Minor Issues o Running the demos/widget example and looking at the Directory List Notebook, the list of files underneath the "Files:" combo box appears to be smashed to the left side of the box. A couple of pixels of margin between the left side and the text would make it easier on the eye. o The generated Makefile outputs these lines: LIBS = libtix.a $(LIB_TK_DIR)/libtk.a $(LIB_TCL_DIR)/libtcl.a -ltk -ltcl \ $(X11_LIB_SWITCHES) -lX11 -lm From nijtmans@NICI.KUN.NL Jul 12, 95 11:12:09 am +0200 ** Install libtix.a as libtix4.0.a and tixwish as tixwish4.0 My patch already does this, and also creates links from libtix.a to libtix4.0.a and from tixwish to tixwish4.0. Also, if users have a previous version of Tix (for Tk3.6) these will not be overwritten but renamed to tixwish.old. The user then still can rename it to tixwish3.6. ** Add a file patchlevel.h, which defines the constant TIX_PATCH_LEVEL. Also define TIX_VERSION in tix.h. (Don't use TIX_PATCHLEVEL but TIX_PATCH_LEVEL)Last modified May 8 21:01 ---