Tk/JComboBox version 1.04 ========================= Use your own best judgement before upgrading your module if you use JComboBox on a Windows machine. No new functionality has been added. Code was added to accommodate test failures reported in other platforms - failures that did not occur on my Windows test machines. The new code still does not trigger any errors on my windows test machines. I noticed that a tester reported a failure on CPAN, so I investigated the problems. It turns out there were a few OS-specific problems including a few that I was not able to get to the bottom of since I was unable to duplicate them. I discovered a few places where I had problems due to not setting default values for a few options (I should have known better...). The other reported problems had to do with the Test routines for validation - these problems I could not duplicate, so I'm antipating another failure from the tester. Unfortunately, I do not have the same LINUX distro the tester had - I only had access to current SUSE and RH distributions. After making the modifications listed in Changes, I tested against current versions of Solaris, and RH/SUSE Linux using the following Tk Versions: - Tk800.024 - Tk800.025 - Tk804.026 - Tk804.027 The multiple versions of Tk took me a while and I'm not looking forward to doing that again anytime soon. One thing that I noticed is the tendency of some failures to cause the test script to die. For future releases, I'm planning on calling Test methods within eval blocks. This has not been done for this version. When using this module, please run the test suite, and report any failures that you encounter. Changes for 1.04 (From Changes file) 1.04 Bug Fix - Response to Failed test report http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/187588 By: Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni - Some options were not being set to an initial value, and were passing undef or "" off as a color. NOTE: this did not trigger an error on Win32. - Set default values for -highlightbackground, -highlightcolor, and -disabledbackground. - Noticed that some tests were using methods that expected JComboBox to be packed (TestListwidth). Adjusted setup method TestListwidth and TestHighlight to test packed widgets, and made sure that update was called immediately after pack call. Mods in 02_Basic_Options.t, 03_Options_Callback. NOTE: the problem did not trigger any errors on Win32. - Cleaned code in various Test files, and JComboBox.pm - Ensure that I was using single quotes for all uses of cget and hash keys. This was done for consistancy and possibly older versions of perl. - Scanned and updated mods for changes due to release. JComboBox is a ComboBox implementation that combines several features of the various Combo Box implementations available for Perl/Tk and attempts to provide a solution that should cover the majority of your Combo Box needs. The implementation tends to skew somewhat towards the Java and Win32 implementation of a Combo Box more than the Motif one, however it can be configured with little trouble to mimic the Motif implementation if desired. There have been SEVERAL changes since the 0.02 version of this widget -- hopefully all positive. I've spent the majority of the time writing a fairly robust test suite, though there are still a few gaps which are being worked on. A reasonable amount of effort has gone into verifying that the unit tests will work on multiple platforms, though I suspect that there may yet be a problem or two remaining (mostly regarding event generation which seems to be a bit tempermental). I've also converted my HTML documentation to pod, and updated it to reflect the current state of the widget. I expect that this will be the last major release of JComboBox, barring bug fixes. I've been working on migrating the JComboBox codebase to a new distribution that I hope to make available on CPAN. JComboBox will become Tk::CWidget::ComboBox in that distribution - I've become a little uneasy about keeping the name as the Java implementation. Other than that, the widget will be mostly unchanged. Newer features will show up in that version and not this one. Thanks to everyone who contributed suggestions, code, and misc feedback. I hope this widget was helpful. INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DEPENDENCIES This module requires these other modules and libraries: Tk COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2005 rcseege This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.