Re: [Tile-dev] A few questions

[Joe E. <jen...@fl...>]

Csaba Nemethi wrote:
>
> 1. Is a spinbox widget planned for some future tile release?  IMHO, this
>     would be important, because mixing tile entry and combobox widgets
>     with Tk core spinboxes doesn't look very nice.  The latest CVS
>     sources don't seem to contain anything related to spinboxes.

One is planned, but not in the immediate future.
Probably in the next 3-4 months. 

If you have any good ideas for how this widget ought 
to work and what features it should have, post them here;
it'll be a good starting point.

(My main goal in adding a spinbox is not so much for the
sake of having a spinbox, but rather to figure out what
kind of megawidget facilities are needed to make it easy
to build things _like_ spinboxes.)


> 2. What is the current state of the implementation of introspection
>     capabilities in tile?

Not Yet Implemented.  It's on the TODO list but keeps
getting pushed back.  This probably won't make it into 0.6.

> But even more
>     important would be for me to have a way to retrieve the *real*
>     default and current font and colors of some tile widgets (for
>     example, ttk::label).  Again, I couldn't find anything new related
>     to introspection in the current CVS sources.


For fonts, Tile always [*] uses the TIP#148-inspired symbolic font
names defined library/fonts.tcl.  Applications can and should use
those as well.

[*] Except for the "classic" theme.

For colors, beware that Tile widgets use an auxilliary database
for color names, so even if you could find out what color is
being used for (say) the ttk::frame background, there's no guarantee
it will work as the -background for a core frame widget.

That said, solving the tile vs core widget color clash is a
high-priority issue, right up there with The Background Problem.
More on that later.


> 3. Any approximate schedule time for the next tile release?  (Please
>     don't hate me for this question! :-))

0.6 was going to be released in early February, but then all
the Mac users conspired to produce a steady stream of bugfixes
and enhancements.  This has delayed the release a bit, but
I think it'll be worth it.  (Note to Michael: please stop
fixing stuff.)

Right now there's one outstanding showstopper bug (#1151526),
and a couple almost-ready patches; as long as nothing else
comes up in the next few days, 0.6 will be out Real Soon Now.


--Joe English

  jen...@fl...