'''William J Giddings''' [https://web.archive.org/web/20120603112727/www.wjgiddings.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/wjg_photo.jpg] '''Read my Gnocl development blog at''' [http://gnocl.blogspot.co.uk/] My involvement in using Tcl/Tk goes back to the 1990s when I was looking for a quick and easy way to program under Linux. During those days I was the head of a local training company which 'honed' the skills of graduates to meet the needs of the media industries. Prior to that I was involved in CGI production for television. But time moves on and so do our careers. Since 2000 I have worked as a visiting lecturer for a number of local colleges and also act as an external moderator for pre-university programs in the Use of IT and Electronic Media Production. To help me with my research I use custom-utilities written in Tcl/Tk for the analysis, editing and translation of Chinese Buddhist Sutras. Current interests include contributing to the [Gnocl] Tcl-GTK binding project. My principle programming project is "Jiumoluoshi", a specialist translators' text editor. Here's a screen grab of a recent translating session: [https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-poi2IE0gWbg/TfS9dhKDHqI/AAAAAAAAA7k/KftuV5qef2s/s640/Screenshot-Jiumoluo%2525202.0b%252520-%252520%25255B-home-wjgiddings-Desktop-T224%252520Daoxing%252520Bore%252520Jing-final-14-t224_14.jml%25255D.png] Windows version now available for download from SourceForge, get it here [https://sourceforge.net/projects/jiumoluo/]. ---- This older Tk version of JMLS has now been replaced by a much faster Gnocl version. Here's a screenshot. [WikiDBImage JMLS] [https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-5dVTR1A-iTQ/UURFQVVSrLI/AAAAAAAABho/eRazzba9b6U/s640/Screenshot.png] ---- Recent contributions to the Wiki include: Tcl/Tk Stuff * [Appending Values to an Array of Unknown Size] * [Accessing Online Language Resources Provided By the University of Chicago.] * [Adding 'history' to BWidget ComboBox widgets.] * [Balancing Open and Close Quotes in a TK text widget.] * [Testing for Balanced Brackets and Braces.] * [Capitalize -Create WP formatted title strings on arbitrary strings] * [case:title -Create WP formatted title strings on the active selection] * [ClrPick -A Colour Selection Megawidget] * [Closest Hit - Choosing closest matches to a target value] * [CollapsableFrame -A Toggle Resized Labelled Frame Container] * [Combo -A simple Combobox widget with entry history.] * [Concatenating Multiple Entries in a dict] * [Droptree -Enhanced BWidget Tree Operations] * [Easy input of Pinyin] * [Easy input of Romanised Sanskrit] * [Easyargs -Let proceedure switches set themselves] * [Extract Numbers From a String] * [Floating Palette] * [How many lines in a text widget?] * [ITRANS to Unicode Converter] * [Testing for Program Installation on Linux] * [Labelled Scale Widget with Toggled Keyboard Entry] * [LabelText -A Multi Line Entry Widget] * [listcomp -Compare the Contents of two Lists] * [List Reverse -First In, Last Out!] * [LoadButtons -Batch loading of images graphics for GUI objects] * [Loading and Saving Application Configuration Files] * [lshift -Adding Unique Items to Lists of Fixed Length] * [Notions -A Personal Wiki Built Using Tcl/Tk] * [Operating TWAIN Scanners through TCL and EZTWAIN.] * [Pattern Searches on Blocks of Text] * [PhotoAlbum -A Web Gallery Creation Tool] * [Pinyin, ASCII to Unicode Converter] * [Popup Menus -An all in one solution for application wide popup menus.] * [Popups -Using popup menus to offer variations in displayed text] * [Postits -Providing Embedded Annotation Functionality to TK Text Widgets] * [progress -Progress Bar Widget with Minimal Options] * [Quick Access to Formatted Date & Time] * [Quick Formatting ANSI Colour Escape Strings] * [Quick Debugging Feedback] * [Restricting the Movement of Canvas Items] * [Revert -Providing 'Revert' and Save Prompt Functionality to Text Editors] * [Roll-Up -Modify MS-Windows palettes to provide Linux-like shading behaviour.] * [Scrolled listbox widget -Display a list, pick any item then perform some follow up action.] * [Simple ftp uploader] * [Simple Queue] * [Simple Text Widget Sort] * [Simple, Single Series Histogram] * [String Difference] * [String occurrences] * [Syllable Counting] * [Switching between Unicode codes and characters] * [TclOO -Rendering text pages in OpenOffice Writer from a Tcl application.] * [TearoffTabBar -Notebook Style Access to Floating Palettes] * [Testing for Balanced Brackets and Braces.] * [Text Collapser] * [Text Drag -Drag and Drop for Text Widget Selections] * [TextZoom -Using mousewheel scrolling events to interactively re-size text widget content] * [ToolBar -An Alternative to the BWidget ButtonBox] * [TreePad -Structured multipage text editor using TreeCtrl] * [WhoAmI? -Letting proceedurally added widgets know their names] * [Wordselect -Modifying the Text Widget Binding to Select Words Without any Surrounding Punctuation.] * [Splitting multi-paragraph text strings into a list of sub-paragraphs.] * [Expanding Markup String Convenience Tags Using String Mapping] Text/Language Processing * [Reformatting Lines of Chinese Text] * [CEDict Viewer] * [Converting Sanskrit IAST Strings to Devanagri] * [Determination of Character Unicode Blocks] Connundrums * [Problem: Two way Communications using Pipes, a Tk GUI and terminal Application.] Pipes * [Two Way Pipe - Communicating with gnuchess.] GTK/Gnocl Stuff * [Gnocl List Picker] * [Gnocl Megawidget Creation using TclOO] * [Gnocl Megawidget Creation Template] * [Gnocl EntryIcons] * [Gnocl Simple Stock Item Viewer] * [Gnocl Icon Catalogue] * [Gnocl Desklets -PhotoAlbum] * [Gnocl JukeBox] * [Gnocl MenuButton] * [gnocl or PyGtk?] * [flashCards.tcl -A Simple FlashCard Teaching Utility] * [GnoclEdit.tcl -Plain Text Editor Using Gnocl Tcl-Gtk bindings] * [Balancing Open and Close Quotes in a Gnocl Text Widget] * [WhoAmI? -Gnocl widgets always know who they are] * [Gnocl Popup Menus] * [bind.tcl] * [Undo/Redo Functionality Implementation for GtkTextView Widget Using Gnocl] * [Creating Rollover Effects for Text Tags in GtkTexView Widgets with Gnocl] * [Using Pango Text Markup Language in Gnocl Widget Labels] * [Undo/Redo for Gnocl Text Widgets] * [Adding Complex Input Bindings to Gnocl Text Widgets] * [Spawning new GtkTextviews] * [Using Tcl to search a Text Widget in Gnocl versions 0.9.92 and earlier] * [Spellchecking the Contents of the gnocl::text Widget.] * [Validating gnocl::entry Values] * [Adding Points to gnocl::canvas Line Items] * [gnocl::sourceView -Tcl bindings for the GtkSourceView Code Editing Widget] * [Organising Multiple Widgets in a Tree-Like Structure with Gnocl] * [Gnocl Widget Tree -Revisited] * [Creating Circles and Arcs in the Gnocl Canvas] * [Setting single pixels in a gnocl::pixBuf] * [Gradient fills on a gnocl::pixbBuf] * [Gnocl Release 0.9.95] * [Desktop Slide Show] * [Gnocl Megawidget - gnocl::listPicker] * [Application preferences with gnocl::keyFile] * [Simple Metakit viewer using Gnocl] * [Displaying a table of values with Gnocl table, eventBox and label widgets] * [Displaying Tree Hierarchy with Incremental Node Numbering] * [Tabbed/Notebook Menus] * [Cloning a Gnocl Widget Made Simple] * [Displaying Lists as Tables in a gnocl::text widget.] GTK/Gnocl Widgets Gtk Objects * [gnocl::textBuffer] Gtk Core Widget Set * [gnocl::arrowButton] * [gnocl::assistant] * [gnocl::box] * [gnocl::button] * [gnocl::calendar] * [gnocl::checkButton] * [gnocl::comboBox] * [gnocl::comboEntry] * [gnocl::dial] * [gnocl::dialog] * [gnocl::drawingArea] * [gnocl::entry] * [gnocl::eventBox] * [gnocl::expander] * [gnocl::fileChooserButton] * [gnocl::fixed] * [gnocl::folderChooserButton] * [gnocl::handleBox] * [gnocl::iconView] * [gnocl::image] * [gnocl::label] * [gnocl::linkButton] * [gnocl::list] * [gnocl::notebook] * [gnocl::paned] * [gnocl::progressBar] * [gnocl::radioButton] * [gnocl::scale] * [gnocl::scaleButton] * [gnocl::scrolledWindow] * [gnocl::separator] * [gnocl::spinButton] * [gnocl::table] * [gnocl::text] * [gnocl::tickerTape] * [gnocl::toggleButton] * [gnocl::tree] * [gnocl::volumeButton] * [gnocl::window] GIMP Widget * [gnocl::ruler] * [gnocl::curve] * [gnocl::gCurve] Working with PixBuffs and Images * [gnocl::pixBuf -using Gnocl to interact with off-screen drawable objects] Gtk Packages * [gnocl::sourceView] * [gnocl::abiwidget] Gnome Widgets * [gnocl::canvas] * [gnocl::vte] Auxilliary Libraries * [gnocl::OpenGL] * [gnocl::pdfViewer] * [gnocl::webKit] Gnocl/Glade * [Loading Glade UI Configuration Files into Tcl/Gnocl Applications] * [Embedding Glade UI Files into Tcl/Gnocl Scripts] * [Re-using widgets specified in a Builder UI with gnocl::builder buffer] FreeWrap * [Accessing Gnocl Modules from their Regular Installation Directories with Scripts Compiled using FreeWrap] Gnocl Applications * [grepGui -an experimental Gnocl based front end for use with Grep] [http://farm1.static.flickr.com/230/480023477_8a690b9c72_m.jpg] LUGRADIO Live 2008 19th - 20th July, Wolverhampton, UK. Presentation on Gnocl, the Tcl/GTk bindings. http://lugradio.org/live/UK2008 Get a PDF of the presentation slides from here [http://wjgiddings.googlepages.com/LugRadioLivePresentation.pdf] Review * [REVIEW: Tcl/Tk 8.5 Programming Cookbook] ---- * [GTK-Server] ---- Programmer's Editors * [Geany] <<categories>> Person