Purpose: to discuss the package library known as '''tklib'''
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'''Overview'''

Tklib is like [Tcllib], a collection of many small packages providing utilities, except that packages here are expected to depend on [Tk]. Tklib specializes in utilities for GUI programming.


Version 1.7 has been released October 7, 2004.

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'''Tklib Location''':    Tklib is a part of the [tcllib] project, its homepage is http://tcllib.sourceforge.net/

[Tklib Installation]:    How to install and then use Tcllib.

[Tklib Contribution & Feedback]:    How to contribute to Tcllib, report errors, etc.

[Tklib Contents]:    List of all the packages found in tklib.

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Previous discussions on this page:

The other thing needed is a person interested enough in seeing more [Tk] [megawidget]s being commonly available that the work necessary to integrate the code into tk begins.  So far, lots of words, but no action.

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[AM] Things I can add:

   * Flash windows (transient windows with a picture) en maximised windows - there are several such scripts around
   * Bindings for zooming/panning in a canvas
   * Scaling functions (so that you can add items to a canvas in world coordinates)

Further ideas:

   * emu_graph
   * gtklook.tcl and general "griffionisations"
   * presentation graphics - such as the various slide shows 

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[NEM] I am currently working on a [CSS] parser, which will then lead on to work to create CSS megawidgets based around the text widget and the canvas (which is more work, and so much longer term). The CSS parser is pure Tcl, should be finished some time in the next month (it probably has about 2 days more work left + testing, but finding the time...), and I will be submitting it for inclusion in [tcllib] when finished. The megawidgets will probably be written using [snit], and might find their way in to [tklib] at some point. Combined with [tdom] or [TclXML] these might make a decent alternative to [tkhtml] with support for more recent (XML-based) web standards. Much work to do though.

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Oh, NEM reminded me of something .  If you check out tcllib's [snit], you
will find a framework for creating megawidgets.  I don't know whether
there are any megawidgets actually in there, but certainly people are
using the snit code to build them.
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