NewzPoint by Michael Jacobson
Description Newzpoint is a information browser written in Tcl/Tk. NewzPoint can display mulitple webpages in a two-tiered tab layout system using Microsoft's Internet Explorer as the display engine. Not only are the webpages layout for efficient use of the display they are automaticlly keepped current. NewzPoint does this by pulling content from the web at a constant (yet adjustable rate). Buttons located in the Toolbar are available to assist with navigation, help and configuration.
Initial options are saved in a configuration file 'newzpoint.ini' which is read at startup, on exit the current configuration changes and saved (including window placement).
Requirements
Installation
The easiest way to get NewzPoint is to download a single executable containing TclKit and NewzPoint [L1 ] (around 1.1 Mbytes).
Alternatively, if you already have Tcl/Tk or TclKit installed and just want to download NewzPoint (around 220 Kbytes) then use one of the following procedures
For Tcl/Tk ...
For TclKit ...
Invoked by:
wish83.exe newzpoint14.tcl or (double click) newzpoint14.tcl or newzpoint.exe or tclkit newzpoint146.bin
Configuration
Current version is 1.4.6 (4/25/2002) This version has the following changes:
see newzpoint.ini file for information on what it being loaded
Requested Features
jcw Neat! ... I'm editing this page inside NewzPoint... :o)
MPJ thanks stevel for showing me how to generate a scripted document (now noted in the installation section).
This would be interesting if I could use it with Netscape Communicator or Opera. -- CLN
LV Sure wish something like this was available using TkHTML/Browsex/some Tcl/Tk web browsing functionality - so that it could actually run cross platform!
MPJ Maybe tkGecko or tclxpcom as a HTML rendering component on *nix because tkHTML seems too slow for more than a couple of pages. Sorry...
MPJ I just found an overview of NewzPoint in Japanese [L4 ] ... very cool :-)
MPJ I just saw that Mozilla [L5 ] has tabbed browsing. I don't know if it has auto-refresh or can save the state of all of its tabs. I need to check this out again (hope it crashes less then the last time I looked :)