[Tile-dev] ANN: VuMan, a Man Page Viewer for OS X: written with TclTkAqua and Tile

[Kevin W. <sw...@wo...>]

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I'm pleased to announce the release of v. 0.1 of VuMan, a Mac OS X
graphical user interface to the main system of Unix software
documentation, the man page. VuMan provides a friendlier interface to
the Unix man page system than typing in "man foo" into the terminal. It
links together a number of Unix command-line tools to make searching,
reading, and printing man page documentation a simple task.

Apart from being a useful little tool, this application is notable for a
couple of reasons:

1. It is, to my knowledge, the first widely-released and announced
application using the Tk Tile extension.

2. It is, to my knowledge, one of the first Tcl/Tk applications
developed on, and for, the Mac OS X platform, with the specific goal of
being a fully native, Aqua-compliant Mac application (as opposed to a
port from another platform).

VuMan is open source, available under the Tcl license.


VuMan can be downloaded at this site:
http://www.wordtech-software.com/vuman.html

You can find out more about the development techniques and design of
VuMan here:

http://www.kevin-walzer.com/pivot/entry.php?id=18

VuMan is an offshoot of the work I'm doing on a much more complicated
project, my DarwinPorts GUI. It gave me a chance to take a portion of
the code from that project and test some design and coding approaches to
optimize the interface for OS X. I'll be folding what I've learned from
this project back into the DarwinPorts GUI application.

As always, feedback, comments and suggestions are welcome.

Cheers,

Kevin Walzer, PhD
WordTech Software--Open Source Applications and Packages for OS X
http://www.wordtech-software.com
http://www.smallbizmac.com
http://www.kevin-walzer.com
mailto:sw...@wo...
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