http://www.purl.org/net/Alphatk

Shareware Tcl-based editor for C, C++, Tcl, Perl, LateX, HTML, CSS, Python, Java, + 30 or so other languages.  Runs on Windows, Unix, MacOS and MacOS X, using Tcl/Tk 8.4 or newer.  Current version of Alphatk is 8.3.3 (December 2004). Maintained by [Vince Darley].

Older versions of Alphatk work with Tcl/Tk 8.1.1 or newer.
 
Alphatk is available as a standalone executable on Windows and [MacOS X], or as a cross-platform starkit.

Alphatk has had the ability to browse remote Wiki's (using the http package) for quite some time.  Recently, it added the ability to edit pages on those Wiki's --- this means you are no longer limited by your browser's very poor text editing frames.  When you click on the 'edit' link, Alphatk opens up the Wiki markup in a temporary window, and when you save the window, it is http-posted back to the Wiki it came from!  See [How to edit Wiki pages in Alphatk] for details.  Similarly you can use Alphatk to edit TIPs, and ftp sites remotely.


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'''Comments:'''

Constructive comments and criticism on Alphatk are much appreciated.  But please say what platform/window manager you are running on!

   * On Windows 2000 (and, I'd bet, other flavors as well), Alphatk assumes that its menu bar can extend the full width of the screen.  Bear in mind that the Windows "start bar" can be docked on any of the four sides of the screen; I usually have it going up and down the right hand side, so as to maximize vertical space.  Alphatk should play nicely with this, and it doesn't; the right hand end of the menu bar is under the start bar.  - [WHD]
 
''Hmm, that's interesting -- I don't know of any way to find out the practically-usable area of desktop space automatically (i.e. that which the OS hasn't grabbed for its own uses), but Alphatk does contain the ability to allow you to specify the menu bar size.  Click on the Alphatk icon, and at the bottom of the system menu you will see 'resize', which allows you then to resize the menubar.  Once the menubar is the size you want, go back to the menu and select 'fix size' and Alphatk will always remember that setting.   Of course it would be nice to be able to do this automatically!''

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'''''See also'''''

   * [Applications in Tcl and Tcl/Tk -#Index-] for a complete list of Applications in Tcl and Tcl/Tk classified by category (Regular Expression Tools, Software Development and IDEs, Text Editors, Text Utilities, Word Processors, XML tools may be of interest)
   * [Applications in Tcl and Tcl/Tk -#Index-] (bottom of page) for other sources of applications.

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