I am pleased to announce version 2.5 of the scrolling utilities package
Scrollutil.
What is new in Scrollutil 2.5?
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1. Improvements in the error handling for the scrollednotebook and
plainnotebook widgets.
2. Improved the keyboard traversal via "Shift-Tab" for all scrollutil::*
widgets by refining the handling of the <FocusIn> event when the
detail field is "NotifyInferior" (whose support was introduced in Tk
8.6.15 and 9.0.0).
3. Removed the file attrib.tcl, which is no longer needed because the
"*attrib" subcommands of all scrollutil::* widgets now make use of
extended attributes-related procedures of the latest mwutil version.
4. The scaleutil package now also scales the "-sashthickness" and
"-gripsize" options of the "Sash" style.
5. The demo scripts "BwScrollableFrmDemo2.tcl", "ScrolledFrmDemo2.tcl",
and "SuScrollableFrmDemo2.tcl" now use toggleswitch widgets rather
than checkbuttons if they can load the Tsw package.
How to get it?
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Scrollutil is available for free download from the Web page
https://www.nemethi.deThe distribution file is "scrollutil2.5.tar.gz" for UNIX and
"scrollutil2_5.zip" for Windows. These files contain the same
information, except for the additional carriage return character
preceding the linefeed at the end of each line in the text files for
Windows.
Scrollutil is also included in tklib, which has the address
https://core.tcl.tk/tklibHow to install it?
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Install the package as a subdirectory of one of the directories given
by the "auto_path" variable. For example, you can install it as a
subdirectory of the "lib" directory within your Tcl/Tk installation.
To install Scrollutil on UNIX, "cd" to the desired directory and unpack
the distribution file "scrollutil2.5.tar.gz":
gunzip -c scrollutil2.5.tar.gz | tar -xf -
On most UNIX systems this can be replaced with
tar -zxf scrollutil2.5.tar.gz
Both commands will create a directory named "scrollutil2.5", with the
subdirectories "demos", "doc", and "scripts".
On Windows, use WinZip or some other program capable of unpacking the
distribution file "scrollutil2_5.zip" into the directory
"scrollutil2.5", with the subdirectories "demos", "doc", and "scripts".
How to use it?
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The Scrollutil distribution provides two packages, called Scrollutil and
Scrollutil_tile. The main difference between the two is that
Scrollutil_tile enables the tile-based, theme-specific appearance of
scrollarea, scrollsync, and scrollableframe widgets, and provides the
themed scrollednotebook and plainnotebook widgets; this package requires
tile 0.8 or higher. It is not possible to use both packages in one and
the same application, because both are implemented in the same
"scrollutil" namespace and provide identical commands (except for the
commands "scrollutil::scrollednotebook", "scrollutil::plainnotebook",
"scrollutil::addclosetab", "scrollutil::removeclosetab", and
"scrollutil::closetabstate", which are provided by the Scrollutil_tile
package only).
To be able to access the commands and variables of the Scrollutil
package, your scripts must contain one of the lines
package require scrollutil ?version?
package require Scrollutil ?version?
Likewise, to be able to access the commands and variables of the
Scrollutil_tile package, your scripts must contain one of the lines
package require scrollutil_tile ?version?
package require Scrollutil_tile ?version?
Since the packages Scrollutil and Scrollutil_tile are implemented in the
"scrollutil" namespace, you must either import the procedures you need,
or use qualified names like "scrollutil::scrollarea".
For a detailed description of the commands and variables provided by
Scrollutil and of the examples contained in the "demos" directory, see
the tutorial "scrollutil.html" and the reference pages, all located in
the "doc" directory.
-- Csaba Nemethi https://www.nemethi.de mailto:csaba.nemethi@t-online.de
ANNOUNCE: Scrolling utilities package Scrollutil 2.5