[MACTCL] Ann: Fullscreen, Growl, and WebKit support in Tk-Cocoa

[Kevin W. <kw...@co...>]

I'm pleased to announce three new open-source Tk-Cocoa integration 
packages for Mac OS X.

Fullscreen: This package adds native a "fullscreen" button to Tk windows 
on Mac OS X 10.7 and later. The package adds the fullscreen button that, 
when pressed, will smoothly animate the window to fullscreen status. The 
window can be restored to its previous state by clicking the upper 
right-hand part of the screen and locating the button in the menubar. 
This package has no relationship to the standard Tk command "wm 
attributes $w -fullscreen 1," which also implements a fullscreen window 
and tracks its state internally through Tk. Under OS X, the "wm 
attributes" command uses different API's and its state can be tracked 
and configured via Tk. The "::fullscreen::fullscreen" only adds the 
fullscreen button to the window, and does not track the window's state; 
setting the window to fullscreen state is triggered by the user. The 
benefit of this command is that it provides better integration with 
modern Mac API's.

TclGrowl: This package implements native support for the Growl desktop 
notification system on OS X. It provides Tcl support via a SWIG wrapper 
for the gntp-send library, which implements Growl's custom network protocol.

TkWebView: This package adds a native WebKit display in Tk apps on OS X, 
using the same rendering engine that powers Safari. It is designed for 
display of local HTML files. Links to remote sites (i.e., those 
beginning with http) will launch the user's default browser. TkWebView 
does not display remote URL's; this is not a technical constraint but 
rather a design decision, to encourage a separation between local 
display of HTML content and an external browser. TkWebView also does not 
provide direct access to the HTML content, browsing history, etc. from 
Tk; it delegates all management of browsing history and HTML content to 
WebKit. HTML navigation can be built into the HTML pages themselves via 
JavaScript, href links, and so on.

For more details on these packages, see 
http://opensource.codebykevin.com/native.html, and for discussion of 
their development, see 
http://www.codebykevin.com/blosxom.cgi/2013/05/17#three-new-libraries-for-lion. 


Enjoy,
Kevin


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Kevin Walzer
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