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Re: NexTk 0.5 Release

Subject: Re: NexTk 0.5 Release
From: Why Tea
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 03:33:06 -0700 PDT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl

On May 30, 4:01 pm, George Peter Staplin <georg...@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> As of Thursday May 29, 2008  NexTk 0.5 has been *released!*
>
> NexTk is a powerful toolkit written in Tcl.  A window system is
> implemented for NexTk.  The window system supports alpha transparency
> for each window, and rotation of window buffers, with input translation
> so that events consider the rotation.  Every widget is scripted in Tcl,
> with no C required to write widgets.  A unique prototype-based
> object-oriented system was developed called objstructure for NexTk.
> Objstructure provides a wealth of features with a simple API.  With
> objstructure you can trace changes to widget options, as you would with
> the [trace] Tcl command.  You can port NexTk to nearly any device
> (easily) which has a framebuffer, and an input device of some sort.  PNG
> and JPEG support is available in the standard nextksh (a wish-like
> shell).  Freetype is used for rendering antialiased text.
>
> Currently NexTk has been ported to Windows (NT 4 and above), and X11.
> It has been compiled and tested in Windows XP, Linux, and OpenBSD.
>
> NexTk uses a 3 clause BSD license, in addition to the licensing
> requirements of zlib, libpng, libjpeg, and freetype.
>
> Widgets in the 0.5 release:
> ntk_button, ntk_checkbox, ntk_clock, ntk_entry, ntk_frame, ntk_label,
> ntk_listbox, ntk_scale, ntk_scrollbar, ntk_spinbox, ntk_toplevel, and
> ntk_vnc.
>
> The following geometry managers are available:
> ntk_grid, and ntk_panedwindow.
>
> The following widgets are works in progress:
> ntk_menu, ntk_notebook, and ntk_text.
>
> The sources in .tar.bz2 format:
>
> http://www.xmission.com/~georgeps/implementation/software/megapkg/Nex...
>
> The sources in .zip format:
>
>                                 www.xmission.com/~georgeps/implementation/software/megapkg/Nex">http://www.xmission.com/~georgeps/implementation/software/megapkg/Nex...
>
> This has a prebuilt nextksh.exe binary with a nextksh.bat that can be
> used to run the demos:
>
>                                 www.xmission.com/~georgeps/implementation/software/megapkg/Nex">http://www.xmission.com/~georgeps/implementation/software/megapkg/Nex...

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above was OK.

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