http://www.hwaci.com/sw/tkhtml/ is the home page for one of the [Tk] [HTML widgets] that renders HTML into formatted text with hyperlinks. It is a compiled extension.
It appears that Tkhtml depends on Tk 8.0-8.3 . Pointers to modifications for
Tk 8.4 or newer would be appreciated.
-----
It does work with Tk 8.4 (recent CVS sources), with non-threaded build. But with threaded build
I'm encountering misterious segfaults. [Victor Wagner]
---
The author writes, on the tkhtml mailing list, that he is working on
making the tkhtml cvs accessible as well as setting up a new web site
about tkhtml.
----
Does tkhtml '''only''' do HTML rendering, or is there actual code for
acting as a WWW client in the widget? I can't tell from the web site.
Only rendering - see below for www clients created using tkHTML.
During late 2003, the author of tkhtml wrote on the tkhtml mailing list:
> I've seen recent postings to news:comp.lang.tcl about people having all
> sorts of bug fixes and enhancements for this widget and now this week
> we see some uploaded files here for the widget.
>
> Has anyone contacted the original author to see if there would be interest
> in creating an sf.net project, getting tkhtml source into it, then letting
> people loose to start fixing and upgrading it?
Anybody who wants to undertake the task of starting a sf.net project
for tkhtml has my blessing.
Or if sf.net is too slow for you, I can put the code on the [CVS] server
at www.sqlite.org and turn folks loose on it there.
See http://www.sqlite.org/ (or [http://www.hwaci.com/sw/tkhtml]; also,
[Victor Wagner] has a recent image
[http://ftp.45.free.net/pub/debian-cosy/sarge/tcl/tkhtml_2.0.20040914.orig.tar.gz]
of the sources)
for the cvs server machine mentioned.
----
Note that TkHTML uses [LGPL].
2003-11-13 - In late 2002 [D. Richard Hipp] released the files that he wrote to the public domain.
The remaining LGPLed file htmlexts.c was written by Peter MacDonald, and he has indicated that this will be re-licensed in the next release. (New release with some simple [CSS] support still a few months off at least apparently)
Thanks to both of them for the great work and for releasing it with a [license] compatible with the Tcl/Tk core! Hopefully we'll see TkHTML included in the [Tk] distribution some time. (others have mentioned that this is on the cards..)
----
[Kitten], a compilation of extensions for the Tclkit user, includes compiled versions of tkhtml for Linux, Solaris, and Windows.
The [ActiveTcl] Batteries included distribution includes tkhtml [http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActiveTcl/].
----
TkHTML is one of the numerous packages in the [Tcl] community which has its own pecular build requirements. Be certain to read carefully the COMPILE.txt instructions - and take their instructions literally ! You do '''NOT''' just do a compile; make ; make install on this package!
1. You have to build in a directory OTHER than in the source directory.
1. You have to be in that directory, and then invoke the source directory's configure
1. You '''MUST''' specify the --with-tcl and --with-tk flags, pointing to the source tree
1. You may very well have to modify the Makefile to do things like add -R flags, flags for locating the libraries for sockets, etc.
----
[Neil Madden] has provided a neat little 5 line .sig that points one to this wiki - see the code at [Simple Tkhtml web page displayer].
----
[Detlef Groth] has written a [snit]::widget wrapper for the tkhtml widget called [snitbrowser].
----
[kroc] has written a [Help.kit] with Tkhtml.
----
TkHTML shares its code base with [BrowseX]; the latter uses [TkHTML],
and [Peter MacDonald] regularly updates the TkHTML CVS repository.
----
[LV] We should determine ''which'' tkhtml cvs repository Peter MacDonald is
updating regularly and mention that here.
----
A mailing list for discussing D. Richard Hipp's Tk widget for
rendering HTML - see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tkhtml/ for the subscription
info, mail archives, and even files of updates and enhancements like a [snit] wrapper!
----
What: Hipp miscellaneous widgets
Where: http://www.hwaci.com/sw/
http://tkhtml.hwaci.com/
Description: Author has a variety of software available.
A Tree and Notebook widget written in pure Tcl/Tk code is available.
Also there is a new tk_messageBox which uses color icons
and tkhtml, an HTML widget for Tcl/Tk.
There is a DLL for the TkHTML widget built using the Tcl 8.x
Stub library, as well as a shared library for RedHat Linux 6.0.
Support continues to improve - support for table, script and
applet tags recently added.
Note that the TkHTML widget is distributed as GPL.
Updated: 11/2004
Contact: mailto:drh@acm.org (D. Richard Hipp)
What: Scout
Where: http://www.sanmay.freeserve.co.uk/
Description: WWW browser which uses tkhtml .
Updated: 08/2001
Contact: mailto:hbyers@sanmay.freeserve.co.uk
What: Tixapps
Where: http://tix.sourceforge.net/Tixapps/
Description: Suite of development applications that run with
Tcl/Tk/Tix or Python/Tkinter/Tix. Includes an inspector,
debugger and GNU texinfo browser.
The code includes Python wrappers for TkHTML and TkTable.
Currently at version 1.6 .
Updated: 06/2002
Contact: See web site.
What: VAD (Visual Ada Developer)
Where: http://www.websamba.com/ldulman/vad.htm
Description: Tcl/Tk oriented Ada-95 GUI builder, portable to different
platforms such as Windows, unix, MacOS, and OS/2 . You can use
it as an IDE for any Ada-95 (C, C++, Tcl) project.
Uses GNAT, TASH, RAPID, Tcl/Tk 8.x, Img, icons, Help System,
TkPaint, BWidgets, mcListBox, mComboBox, Tktable, ftp_library, csh,
snack, BLT, itcl, Tix, QuickTimeTcl, XanimTcl, Tcl-gtk, Oratcl,
XBit, Tkogl, tom, Vtktcl, Tkhtml, Fve, August, ASED, TclDOM, Tclxml
Whiteboard, TkMC, tkxmlive, IDL_To_Ada.
Currently at version 6.0 .
Updated: 08/2002
Contact: See web site
What: WebSamba package repository
Where: http://www.websamba.com/tcltk
Description: A variety of packages for Tcl/Tk 8.4a3, working with
Windows and RedHat 7.1. Includes BLT, Snack, Tix, COST,
TclX, Tktable, Img, Tkhtml, itcl, and TkOgl.
Updated: 10/2001
Contact: mailto:dulman@attglobal.net ) (Leonid Dulman)
What: browser
Where: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tkbrowser
Description: A wrapper around TkHTML with default bindings and functionality
to create simple web browsing widgets.
Currently at version 0.1 .
Updated: 03/2002
Contact: mailto:nem@cs.nott.ac.uk (Neil Madden)
[NEM]: Note that the above code hasn't been touched for a while. I did spend quite a lot of time improving this, but apparently I neglected to upload the changes to sourceforge. I have no idea where the newer code is now (probably lost). Somebody created a [snit] wrapper on this wiki which has approximately the same functionality as my package, and is probably a better starting point.
What: kitten
Where: http://www.equi4.com/pub/tk/examples/
Description: Kitten is a tclkit collection of Tcl/Tk extensions aimed at
reducing the work a developer has to do while developing a
scripted document. It contains scripting extensions like tcllib and
BWidgets, as well as Expect, itcl/itk/iwidgets/tkhtml, and others.
Binary extensions are compiled for Windows, Linux, and Solaris as
possible.
Updated: 07/2001
Contact: See web site.
----
[[
[Category Package] | [Category Internet]
]]