• ANNOUNCE: Scrolling utilities package Scrollutil 1.16

    From nemethi@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 14 17:38:38 2022
    I am pleased to announce version 1.16 of the scrolling utilities package Scrollutil.

    What is new in Scrollutil 1.16?
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    1. Added the "autofillx" and "autofilly" scrollableframe subcommands,
    which enable you to make sure that the content frame will fill the
    widget's entire inner width and height respectively, by dynamically
    setting/clearing the -fitcontentwidth or -fitcontentheight option.

    2. The ttk::notebook contained in a scrollednotebook widget now
    automatically fills the entire width of the scrollednotebook,
    regardless of the number of tabs (thanks to Harald Oehlmann for his
    improvement proposal and testing). This is implemented with the aid
    of the new "autofillx" subcommand of the scrollableframe contained in
    the scrollednotebook widget.

    3. Significantly improved the look and behavior of the ttk::checkbutton
    and ttk::radiobutton widgets of the "clam" theme patched with the
    "clampatch::patchClamTheme" command.

    4. Eliminated three potential endless loops in the implementation of the
    scrollednotebook widget and fixed a few bugs related to the arrow
    buttons (thanks to Harald Oehlmann for his bug reports and
    discussions on these subjects).

    5. Several improvements in the description of the scrollableframe and
    scrollednotebook widgets.

    How to get it?
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    Scrollutil is available for free download from the Web page

    https://www.nemethi.de

    The distribution file is "scrollutil1.16.tar.gz" for UNIX and "scrollutil1_16.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?
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    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 "scrollutil1.16.tar.gz":

    gunzip -c scrollutil1.16.tar.gz | tar -xf -

    On most UNIX systems this can be replaced with

    tar -zxf scrollutil1.16.tar.gz

    Both commands will create a directory named "scrollutil1.16", with the subdirectories "demos", "doc", and "scripts".

    On Windows, use WinZip or some other program capable of unpacking the distribution file "scrollutil1_16.zip" into the directory
    "scrollutil1.16", 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 and plainnotebook widgets; this package requires
    Tcl/Tk 8.4 or higher and tile 0.8 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 commands "scrollutil::scrollednotebook", "scrollutil::plainnotebook", "scrollutil::addclosetab", "scrollutil::removeclosetab", and "scrollutil::closetabstate", which are 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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