• ANNOUNCE: Scrolling utilities package Scrollutil 1.15

    From nemethi@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 30 13:07:29 2022
    I am pleased to announce version 1.15 of the scrolling utilities package Scrollutil.

    What is new in Scrollutil 1.15?
    -------------------------------

    1. The plainnotebook widget now supports the navigation between the
    selectable tabs via the mouse wheel (thanks to Harald Oehlmann for
    his TIP 591 and proposal), as well as with the keys "Down", "Up",
    "Control-Tab", and "Control-Shift-Tab".

    2. The scrollednotebook widget now provides two arrow buttons placed on
    demand in the top-left and top-right or bottom-left and bottom-right
    corners (depending on the notebook's style), used for scrolling the
    tab row (thanks to Harald Oehlmann for his proposal).

    3. The scrollednotebook widget now correctly interprets the x coordinate
    within an index of the form "@x,y" or passed to the "identify"
    subcommand as being relative to the scrollednotebook widget (rather
    than the ttk::notebook contained in the latter).

    4. Corrected a typo in the implementation of the
    scrollutil::addMouseWheelSupport command.

    5. Made the detection of the desktop environment when calculating the
    scaling percentage corresponding to the display's DPI scaling level
    on X11 more reliable (thanks to Florian Pigorsch for his bug report).

    6. Numerous further improvements in the code, the demo script
    "PagesManDemo.tcl", and the helper script "styleUtil.tcl", which is
    source'd in all demo scripts.

    How to get it?
    --------------

    Scrollutil is available for free download from the Web page

    https://www.nemethi.de

    he distribution file is "scrollutil1.15.tar.gz" for UNIX and "scrollutil1_15.zip" for Windows. These files contain the same
    information, except for the additional carriage return character
    preceding the linefeed at the end of each line in the text files for
    Windows.

    Scrollutil is also included in tklib, which has the address

    https://core.tcl.tk/tklib

    How to install it?
    ------------------

    Install the package as a subdirectory of one of the directories given
    by the "auto_path" variable. For example, you can install it as a
    directory at the same level as the Tcl and Tk script libraries. The
    locations of these library directories are given by the "tcl_library"
    and "tk_library" variables, respectively.

    To install Scrollutil on UNIX, "cd" to the desired directory and unpack
    the distribution file "scrollutil1.15.tar.gz":

    gunzip -c scrollutil1.15.tar.gz | tar -xf -

    On most UNIX systems this can be replaced with

    tar -zxf scrollutil1.15.tar.gz

    Both commands will create a directory named "scrollutil1.15", with the subdirectories "demos", "doc", and "scripts".

    On Windows, use WinZip or some other program capable of unpacking the distribution file "scrollutil1_15.zip" into the directory
    "scrollutil1.15", with the subdirectories "demos", "doc", and "scripts".

    How to use it?
    --------------

    The Scrollutil distribution provides two packages, called Scrollutil and Scrollutil_tile. The main difference between the two is that
    Scrollutil_tile enables the tile-based, theme-specific appearance of scrollarea, scrollsync, and scrollableframe widgets, and provides the
    themed scrollednotebook widget; this package requires Tcl/Tk 8.4 or
    higher and tile 0.6 or higher. It is not possible to use both packages
    in one and the same application, because both are implemented in the
    same "scrollutil" namespace and provide identical commands (except for
    the "scrollutil::scrollednotebook" command, which is provided by the Scrollutil_tile package only).

    To be able to use the commands and variables implemented in the package Scrollutil, your scripts must contain one of the lines

    package require scrollutil ?version?
    package require Scrollutil ?version?

    Likewise, to be able to use the commands and variables implemented in
    the package Scrollutil_tile, your scripts must contain one of the lines

    package require scrollutil_tile ?version?
    package require Scrollutil_tile ?version?

    Since the packages Scrollutil and Scrollutil_tile are implemented in the "scrollutil" namespace, you must either import the procedures you need,
    or use qualified names like "scrollutil::scrollarea".

    For a detailed description of the commands and variables provided by
    Scrollutil and of the examples contained in the "demos" directory, see
    the tutorial "scrollutil.html" and the reference pages, all located in
    the "doc" directory.

    --
    Csaba Nemethi https://www.nemethi.de mailto:[email protected]

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  • From Harald Oehlmann@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 30 13:57:33 2022
    Am 30.05.2022 um 13:07 schrieb nemethi:
    2. The scrollednotebook widget now provides two arrow buttons placed on
       demand in the top-left and top-right or bottom-left and bottom-right
       corners (depending on the notebook's style), used for scrolling the
       tab row (thanks to Harald Oehlmann for his proposal).

    Csaba,
    thank you so much, I really appreciate.
    It is time to also obsolete the page manager of BWidget, as this was the
    last point which was only available there.

    Thank you,
    Harald

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