[Med] 2006-02-01: My first "big" Tcl/Tk project. Some details:
 What:    MetPad - Martin Eders Tcl/Tk Pad
 Where:   http://sf.net/projects/metpad
          http://metpad.gru.at
 Who:     [MEd]
 Updated: 2006-02-01
 Description: Just another text editor :-)
          Supports Unix and Windows OS
'''Main Features'''
   * No extensions needed (well, one dll included for windows-printing but no BWidgets or similar)
   * Command mode (just like VIM, but not that mature :)
   * Edit multiple files
   * Pretty configurable (fonts, colors, GUI,.. )
   * Quick launch bar for opening files and url locations
   * Print out documents
   * Nice find function 
   * ... and many more, just check out the release notes.

[http://metpad.gru.at/images/metpad06.jpg]
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[MG] Feb 1st 2006 - I just downloaded MetPad to take a quick look, and it seems really nice. There are a couple of suggestions I'd make, though:

   * On Windows, the 'Print' dialog comes up with the default Wish icon (and so do other popups). If you use ''wm iconbitmap -default editor.ico'' on Windows platforms, they should all use your own icon, too.
   * Tooltips for the toolbar buttons would be helpful (there are a few packages for them on the wiki).
   * Some of the menus have ''-tearoff 0'', but a few don't seem to.
   * When you right-click the clock plugin, it has an 'Exit' option to close it. It's quite possible I'm just being pedantic now ;) but to me that sounds more like it will exit the app, rather than a 'Close' to close the clock. 
   * The text on-screen is in Courier, but when I printed it it was in Arial.

This does look like a very nice app, though - probably one of the best pure-Tcl text editors I've looked at on Windows (and is apparantly fully cross-platform too). (The printing feature is probably one of the nicest I've seen for Tcl on Windows, too (although the main app window doesn't refresh at all, while the print dialog is open) - is it something you wrote specifically for this, or did you download it somewhere?)
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