Version 9 of Shape

Updated 2008-02-08 22:37:07 by dkf

Extension written by Donal Fellows which allows arbitrarily shaped windows on X11 and Windows to be created. MacOS and MacOS X are not yet supported (but you can paint the appropriate areas with a transparent colour in Tk 8.5, and it should work anyway).

http://www.man.ac.uk/~zzcgudf/tcl/#scripts/shape

This is getting very interesting as it "homes in" on full cross-platform functioning. I found no instructions for building the Windows version. I suppose it blindingly obvious, but could you drop a few hints for us extension building neophytes? Or even post a dll? - Roy Terry, 6Dec2003

TkTrans is a Windows-specific alternative.


Something like Shape needs to be combined with a 'drag and drop' extension to allow proper dragging of arbitrarily shaped objects from, e.g. a canvas or a text widget (where you might want to drag a non-rectangular block of text).

Does anyone have plans to really add proper 'drag and drop' support to Tk? Any TIPs in the pipeline?

MGS 2003/03/26 - I think the best bet may be TkDND

DKF: 27-Mar-2003 - It's on the Tk 9.0 Wishlist.