Announcing TIX 3.6a - A Set Of Compound Widgets

WHAT IS TIX:

	TIX 3.6 is a set of compound widgets based on TK. It is
written completely in TCL and requires no extension to the C source of
TK. You can use the TIX widgets directly in your TCL scripts without
having to recompile wish.

	The programming interface to the TIX widgets is 99% compatible
with the standard TK widgets. They support the "option" database,
dynamic configuration, widget commands, and so on. The only difference
is that TIX does not (yet) support abbreviation of widget option
flags.

	TIX 3.6 is remotely derived from a previous version, TIX 1.0,
which I released last June. A lot of things have changed since then.
This version of TIX is not only cleaner and more powerful, it also has
a good programming interface, the TIX Intrinsics, for writing new
compound widgets in TCL. The widgets released in this version of TIX
include a ComboBox, a FileSelectionBox, etc. More useful compound
widgets will come out soon, including a color editor and a material
editor for the SGI.

	TIX 3.6 also include a set of modified TK bindings that makes
TK more Motif-like. The new bindings also support automatic scrolling
of entries, listboxes and texts (i.e., if you hold down the mouse
inside a text widget and drag below the bottom edge of the text, the
text will automatically scroll up.) TIX 3.6 also defines a set of,
IMHO, aesthetically pleasing color schemes for your TK applications.
If your are tired of the wierd color scheme in TK, try mine.


ABOUT THIS RELEASE

	TIX 3.6a is the alpha release of TIX 3.6. It works fine with
TK 3.3 - 3.6 and TCL 7.0+. I will support all future versions of
TCL/TK when they come out. Being an alpha release, it certainly will
have some bugs. Currently there is little documentation for the
widgets but full documentation will come in the next (beta) release in
about two weeks. Please experiment with it and send me feedbacks. Any
suggestions will be very helpful and greatly appreciated.

	I have uploaded the file Tix3.6a.tar.Z in the directory
/incoming at harbor.ecn.purdue.edu. If you don't hace ftp access,
please e-mail me ioi@graphics.cis.upenn.edu. I will mail you an
uuencoded copy of TIX.