http://tkhtml.tcl.tk/ is the home page for one of the [Tk] [HTML widgets] that renders HTML into formatted text with hyperlinks. It is a compiled [extension]. As of late winter 2005, [Dan Kennedy] is revitalizing tkhtml [http://tkhtml.tcl.tk]. The new version of tkhtml is [tkhtml3], which has its own wiki page. ---- 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] Update 28.12.04. I've fixed problem with threaded build. It was related to mixed use of Tcl_Alloc and malloc and Tcl_Free and free respectively. Patches are available in my Debian package repository at http://45.free.net/debian/repository [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]. [snitbrowser] is also used inside the Tcl-documentation tool [dgHelpBrowser]. ---- [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. See cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.hwaci.com:/tkhtml for the source code. 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] | [Category Widget] ]]