Re: [Tcllib-devel] FamFam icon sets as packages - Tklib candidate - Requesting Review

[Jeff H. <je...@ac...>]

My preference would be a more general icons package that supported  
multiple sets of icons, perhaps starting with famfam.  This would be  
like the tklib style package, with substyles.

So you have something more like:

package require icons
set groups [icons::get groups] ; # or packages or something
=> famfam kdeicons ...
set group famfam
set icons [icons::list *arrow* ?$group?]
...

Where the grouping can be done by some ordering of directories with  
files of matching known image format types.

Mind you, I don't have time to write this, so it's just an idea ...

Jeff

On 10-Feb-09, at 12:31 PM, Andreas Kupries wrote:

>
> Requesting review of a new module for tklib, before committing.
>
> Sources available at
> 	ftp://ftp.tcl.tk/pub/incoming/tklib-famfam.tgz
> 	(Can't put up on SF, they limit attachments to 256 KB, this file is 2
> 	MB compressed (6 MB uncompressed)).
>
> A module containing 2 packages wrapping around the silk and flags  
> icon sets of
> famfam, to make their use in tcl apps easier. Just require the  
> package, then
> load an icon/image by name.
>
>
> Examples of use
>     package require famfam::silk
>     set arrows [famfam::silk list *arrow*]
>     set rotccw [famfam::silk get arrow_rotate_anticlockwise]
>
>     package require famfam::flags
>     set dubya [famfam::flags list w*]
>     set wales [famfam::flags get wales]
>
>
> Ideas for the future
>  - Commands to generate packages containing a subset of the icon set.
>    - With the icons hardwired into the package code (base64 encoded).
>      => Deployable as Tcl Module.
>    - With the icons in a subdirectory as for the original package.
>    - With the icons attached to the base tcl code (virtual fs).
>
>
> Andreas.