Purpose: to discuss the GUI editing program specTcl
'Someone wrote:
Stephen Uhler originally designed SpecTcl to generate Perl and Java source, also.
However, Larry Virden doesn't recall it exactly that way. What he recalls is that specTcl came out, then Mark Kvale from the perl/Tk community made the patches for perl support and then later Stephen Uhler announced the availability of specJava; Larry is just uncertain who wrote the code. And Larry's been known to have lapses of memory before :-0 ...
In April 2001, Morten Skaarup Jensen plans to move SpecTcl to SourceForge [L1 ]. In the meantime, Mark Kvale maintains information about SpecTcl (including SpecPerl and SpecRuby) at [L2 ].
What: Menu Edit tool
Where: ftp://tcl.activestate.com/pub/tcl/misc/menued09.tar.gz
Description: GUI interface to edit menus. Runs stand alone and will be
a plugin for SpecTcl in the future.
Updated: 08/1998
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Ken Corey)
What: SpecTcl/SpecJava/specPerl
Where: http://spectcl.sourceforge.net/
ftp://tcl.activestate.com/pub/tcl/guitools/
http://www.keck.ucsf.edu/%7Ekvale/specperl.html
ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/contrib/Graphics/Tkinter/spectcl2py.py
http://ftp.digital.com/pub/plan/python/contrib/Graphics/Tkinter/SpecPython-0.1.tar.gz
Description: GUI builder for Tcl/Tk.
Supports WYSIWYG drag and drop interface,
ability to support new Tk widgets automatically, with simple
access to generated code.
The licensing for SpecTcl 1.1 is similar to Tcl/Tk core. The
the source is available and the product is free. No future
releases are planned, and no support is available from Sun.
Documentation in PostScript and PDF format are available.
Versions for Unix, Windows and Macintosh are available.
specJava is also distributed with the package. This
application uses the same user interface, but generates
Java instead of Tcl/Tk.
specPerl is a set of add-on files by Mark Kvale that allow
Perl/Tk code to be generated by the same interface, after
installing pTk. It requires specTcl 1.1, pTk 4.02.002 and perl 5.
The python URL is a Python script to convert SpecTcl tcl output
to Python Tkinter format.
The Digital URL is to code which creates a specPython executable
which is compatible with SpecTcl 1.0 or SpecJava 0.3.
SpecTcl is now at version 1.2a3 .
Updated: 10/2001
Contact: mailto:[email protected]
mailto:[email protected]
What: Spectix
Where: http://starship.python.net/crew/mike/Spectix/
http://starship.python.net/crew/mike/src/Spectix/Spectix.html
Description: Development environment to build GUI applications that run
cross platform. Design GUIs interactively and graphically.
Based on SpecTcl, and using Tix widgets.
Generates code for Tcl/Tk, Perl/Tk, Python/Tkinter, and Ruby.
Currently at version 1.4 .
Updated: 02/2002
Contact: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=142715