[Tile-dev] ANNOUNCE: Tile Widget Set release 0.6.2

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

[12 Apr 2005]

ANNOUNCE: Tile Widget Set, version 0.6.2.

~ What is it?

The Tile widget set is an experimental reimplementation
of some of the standard Tk widgets.  The main features are:

    + Native look and feel under Windows (XP, NT, 2K, 98 and 95)
    + Nearly-native look and feel under Mac OSX
    + "Revitalized" look and feel under X11
    + Appearance controlled by a theme engine, providing
      greater flexibility for custom widgets
    + New widgets, including notebook, progressbar, combobox,
      and separator

~ What's New in 0.6

    + Many, many enhancements and bugfixes on Aqua.
      Mac OSX users will definitely want to upgrade!

    + ttk::notebook: Can now selectively disable and/or hide
      individual tabs

    + New ttk::paned container widget, similar to the core panedwindow.

    + New ttk::progressbar widget -- now with documentation!
      NOTE: the API is different from the ttk::progress widget
      (hence the new name).  This will require minor adjustments
      to user code.

    + State-sensitive images for buttons, labels, and other widgets:
      The "-image" option is now a list.  The first element specifies
      the default image, and the remainder is a state map specifying
      alternate images to use when the widget is in different states.

      * * * POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY * * * with previous Tile releases
      and with the core, if you use images with spaces in their names.

    + Now includes stub table support, to make it easier to
      build and install add-on themes written in C.


~ What's Old

The old widget constructor names like "tbutton" etc. will
now issue a warning if used; use "ttk::button" instead.

The "pixmap" element constructor has been removed; if you
haven't switched to using "image", now is the time to do so.

The "ttk::progress" widget is now deprecated; use "ttk::progressbar"
instead.


~ A note on version numbers:

To help distinguish formal releases from CVS snapshots,
the version number returned by [package provide tile]
now includes a patch level, currently 0.6.2.

In future, the patch number will be incremented immediately
before and immediately after making a release.  Thus
odd-numbered subminor versions will indicate a CVS snapshot,
and even-numbered ones will indicate a known release.


~ Availability

The tile widget set is hosted under the tktable project
at SourceForge:

    <URL: http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/ >
    <URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tktable/ >

Sources are available under the 'tile' module in CVS.
A prebundled tarball is available in the file release area:

    <URL: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11464 >

Documentation is available here:

    <URL: http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/doc/ >


Precompiled libraries for Windows may also be present;
check for availability.


--Joe English