What: tkprint (Ian)
Where: http://www.cygnus.com/%7Eirox/tkprint/ (??? page not found)
Description: Allows you to print the content of a canvas or text widget
under Windows without having to do PostScript.
Updated: 08/1999
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Ian) (???)
What: Variety of Windows extensions (Findleton)
Where: http://pages.infinit.net/cclients/
Description: Currently available are extensions that support DDE (v 203),
Winhelp (2.0), printing (tkprint 1.17), frame animation, BMP creation,
and an extension that does "everything" that DDEML does, including
being able to write DDEML servers entirely in Tcl.
Also mentioned having written an IRC client extension.
Updated: 03/2004
Contact: [Iain B. Findleton] mailto:[email protected]Victor Wagner reports that tkPrint is closed-source and "cannot work with non-latin1 symbols", in apparent contrast to Schwartz's GDI and Print extensions mentioned below.
Other printing related extensions include:
What: Tcl Extensions by Michael Schwartz
Where: http://www.du.edu/%7Emschwart/tcl-tk.htm
Description: This page contains pointers to a number of Tcl extensions,
including a Tk that uses Curses,
GD (Image file rendering based on the Tom Boutell's gd library
- supports PNG and GIF) - version 0.1.0.4,
GDI (Graphics device drawing similar to Tk canvas, but for Windows)
- version 0.9.8.3,
HDC (Name/address manipulations) - version 0.2.0.1,
WMF (Windows metafile context for copying to clipboard)
- version 0.1.0.2,
Tkmsmail (MAPI and CMD mail interfaces, allowing Windows programs to
send mail) - version 1.0.1.1 (now available from the tcl core's
CVS repository and is TEA compliant) ,
Print (printer contexts, providing invocation of common printer
dialogs and exposes the device context for supporting interaction
with other platform specific drawing primitives - Windows and Unix) -
version 0.9.5.2,
Profile (.INI file manipulations - Windows and Unix) - version 0.6.0.2,
Signal (simple signal processing - Unix) - version 1.4,
Winexec (Windows exec command which can properly launch detached
16 bit and DOS apps as well as Win32 apps) - version 0.6.0.1,
a .zip bundle of Tcl 8.2 DLLs with NT stubs.
Updated: 06/1999
Contact: mailto:[email protected]
What: TclPrint
Where: http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/%7Eroseman/tclprint/
ftp://ftp.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/pub/users/roseman/TclPrint.sit.hqx
ftp://ftp.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/pub/users/roseman/tclprint.zip
Description: Small Tcl extension to provide the framework for printing
on the Macintosh and Windows platoform. Provides hooks to native
printing dialogs and support for the overall printing loop.
Does *NOT* support a way to specify what goes on the page. Work
with contact to develop the code.
Updated: 10/1997
Contact: mailto:[email protected]