Re: [Tile-dev] A few questions

[Michael K. <mi...@mu...>]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Joe English wrote:

> 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.)

Awww. :P  At least I think I'm pretty much set unless I decide to switch 
to Tile's paned widget.  Then I might have to do something about Aqua 
styling there. ;)

Unfortunately, it looks like that little circular button you see e.g. 
between the left and right panes in Finder windows, that corresponds to a 
sash in Tk paned widget speak, seems to be neigher drawable through themes 
nor a system icon somewhere, but is pretty tied directly to some high 
level HI stuff or something.  So this might require just drawing one as an 
image.  I don't mind that so much, but it should probably have an alpha 
channel and you can't currently do alpha through the GetColor format, so 
you can't create images with alpha through Tcl scripts unless you use an 
extension like TkPNG (which is partly why I wrote it).

Other than that, it's just the line width thing.  That was apparently 
"fixed" in the core-8-4 branch of Tk by setting the default line width to 
1 in the XLib emulation layer, but I don't know if that was the right 
thing to have been done so I don't know if it'll stay.  (Don't know what 
consequences that might have for GCs outside of Tk_GetColor() and their 
uses.)

> 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.

*whistles innocently*

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Michael Kirkham
www.muonics.com