William J Giddings
I live in England in a city named Wolverhampton with my wife (Xiyan) and two wonderful daughters (Jane and Georgia).
My involvement in using TclTk goes back to the 1990s when I was looking for a quick and easy way to programme under Linux. During those days I was the head of a local training company which 'honed' the skills of graduates to meet the needs of the media industries. Prior to that I was involved in CGI production for television. But time moves on and so do our careers.
Since 2000 I have worked as a visiting lecturer for a number of local colleges and also act as an external moderator for pre-university programmes in the Use of IT and Electronic Media Production.
Additionally, I'm working towards completing a Ph.D at King's College London, Dept of Theology. To help me with my research I use custom-utilities written in Tcl/Tk for the analysis, editing and translation of Chinese Buddhist Sutras.
My principle programming project is "Jiumoluo", a specialist translators' text editor.
Current interests include contributing to the GNOCL Tcl-GTK binding project.
Recent contributions to the Wiki include:
Tcl/Tk Stuff
- Accessing Online Language Resources Provided By the University of Chicago.
- Adding 'history' to BWidget ComboBox widgets.
- Balancing Open and Close Quotes in a TK text widget.
- case:title -Create WP formatted title strings on the active selection
- ClrPick -A Colour Selection Megawidget
- CollapsableFrame -A Toggle Resized Labelled Frame Container
- Combo -A simple Combobox widget with entry history.
- Droptree -Enhanced BWidget Tree Operations
- Easy input of Pinyin
- Easy input of Romanised Sanskrit
- Easyargs -Let proceedure switches set themselves
- Floating Palette
- How many lines in a text widget?
- Labelled Scale Widget with Toggled Keyboard Entry
- LabelText -A Multi Line Entry Widget
- listcomp -Compare the Contents of two Lists
- LoadButtons -Batch loading of images graphics for GUI objects
- Loading and Saving Application Configuration Files
- lshift -Adding Unique Items to Lists of Fixed Length
- Notions -A Personal Wiki Built Using Tcl/Tk
- Operating TWAIN Scanners through TCL and EZTWAIN.
- PhotoAlbum -A Web Gallery Creation Tool
- Pinyin, ASCII to Unicode Converter
- Popup Menus -An all in one solution for application wide popup menus.
- Popups -Using popup menus to offer variations in displayed text
- Postits -Providing Embedded Annotation Functionality to TK Text Widgets
- progress -Progress Bar Widget with Minimal Options
- Quick Access to Formatted Date & Time
- Restricting the Movement of Canvas Items
- Revert -Providing 'Revert' and Save Prompt Functionality to Text Editors
- Roll-Up -Modify MS-Windows palettes to provide Linux-like shading behaviour.
- Scrolled listbox widget -Display a list, pick any item then perform some follow up action.
- Simple ftp uploader
- Simple Text Widget Sort
- Simple, Single Series Histogram
- TclOO -Rendering text pages in OpenOffice Writer from a Tcl application.
- TearoffTabBar -Notebook Style Access to Floating Palettes
- Text Collapser
- Text Drag -Drag and Drop for Text Widget Selections
- TextZoom -Using mousewheel scrolling events to interactively re-size text widget content
- ToolBar -An Alternative to the BWidget ButtonBox
- TreePad -Structured multipage text editor using TreeCtrl
- WhoAmI? -Letting proceedurally added widgets know their names
- Wordselect -Modifying the Text Widget Binding to Select Words Without any Surrounding Punctuation.
GTK/Gnocl Stuff
- gnocl or PyGtk?
- flashCards.tcl -A Simple FlashCard Teaching Utility
- GnoclEdit.tcl -Plain Text Editor Using Gnocl Tcl-Gtk bindings
- Balancing Open and Close Quotes in a Gnocl Text Widget
- WhoAmI? -Gnocl widgets always know who they are
- Gnocl Popup Menus
- bind.tcl
- Undo/Redo Functionality Implementation for GtkTextView Widget Using Gnocl
- Creating Rollover Effects for Text Tags in GtkTexView Widgets with Gnocl
LUGRADIO Live 2008
19th - 20th July, Wolverhampton, UK. Presentation on Gnocl, the Tcl/GTk bindings. http://lugradio.org/live/UK2008
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