Re: [Tile-dev] Heads up -- upcoming changes

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

[ I wrote: ]

> I posted a tentative release schedule to comp.lang.tcl last week
> (which, for some reason, google groups doesn't have in the archive);

For those who didn't see it, here it is again:

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Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Tile release schedule (WAS Re: tile: bug in paned widget?)
Date: 5 Aug 2005 11:31:52 GMT
Message-ID: <dcv...@ne...>
References: <QSMHe.2375$6D...@ne...> <dco...@ne...> <6ou...@co...>

Bugs wrote:

>Would there happen to be a new release of Tile on the near horizon?  =)

Not on the near horizon, but probably before October.

Current goals are to get all of the ttk::treeview bugs fixed
for 0.6.6 (and any new ttk::combobox bugs that pop up --
all known bugs have been fixed, but from experience it's
a safe bet that more are lurking :-(.

I also want to get ttk::dialog and related routines into 
their final form, and integrate the (really nice!) file 
selection dialogs that Schelte Bron contributed.  These 
might go into 0.6.6, or there might be a 0.6.8 release too.

Release 0.7.0 will follow shortly afterwards.  This is when
all the BWidget compatibility hacks will be removed.  Hopefully
by that time there will have been a new BWidget release with
Tile integration done right (Damon?  Any progress on that?)

Somebody (maybe me) is eventually going to implement a spinbox widget;
that might show up in the 0.6 series (if somebody else does it :-)
or the 0.7 series.

After that: the 8.4-compatibility options have to go away at some 
point before Tile 1.0.  This is going to cause some pain for
early adopters who used the [namespace import] trick to convert
existing applications, so I'm reluctant to do it, but it will 
happen either at 0.8.0 or 0.9.0.

The other things that need to happen before 1.0 are: (1) solve 
The Background Problem; (2) solve The Scrollbar Problem; and 
(3) solve The Color Mismatch Problem.

[ Explanation: (1) is why the contents of [ttk::notebook]s don't
  look right on Windows XP, and why nothing really looks right
  under OSX.  (2) is why Tile still doesn't have native-looking
  scrollbars in the aqua and tile-qt themes.  (3) is why e.g.
  a ttk::frame inside a core toplevel often have different
  colors on X11.   (3) is almost solved; (1) and (2) still
  have me stumped. ]


--Joe English