Path: usenet.cis.ufl.edu!caen!night.primate.wisc.edu!nntp.msstate.edu!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!psgrain!nntp.teleport.com!usenet From: nik@tiuk.ti.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.perl Subject: Tk-b5 is out. Followup-To: comp.lang.perl.misc Date: 26 Jun 1995 21:44:44 GMT Organization: Texas Instruments Lines: 32 Approved: merlyn@stonehenge.com (comp.lang.perl.announce) Message-ID: <3sn9oc$m1d@maureen.teleport.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: linda.teleport.com X-Disclaimer: The "Approved" header verifies header information for article transmission and does not imply approval of content. Xref: usenet.cis.ufl.edu comp.lang.perl.announce:52 comp.lang.perl.misc:941 comp.lang.perl:53029 Tk-b5 is now out: ftp://ftp.Lehigh.EDU/pub/perl5/Tk-b5.tar.gz May thanks to Steve Lidie for his help with new demos and testing under AIX's dynamic loading scheme. This integrates two 'major' changes: 1. Incorporates C code from John Outerhout's tk4.0b4 2. Has method in place for building composite widgets. In addition it incorporates all the configure/build suggestions that I understand. Thank you all who contributed them. So please build from scratch and let me know what remaining hacks are needed for your platform. The tk4.0b4 merge is incomplete, in that the Tcl code has not been finally converted to equivalent perl code. This is partly because I want help, and partly because 'we' had already made some of the changes, and others may not make sense given that 'we' can use classes and Tcl can't. Please report snags to ptk@wpi.edu list. The Composite stuff is still a prototype (alpha if you like), in that I expect it to evolve a little when used in anger. Will those of you that have been active in composite widget creation check it out and continue to discuss it on ptk@wpi.edu list. Note that as Dialog.pm is now a 'Composite' in the new sense it has a different calling convention to Tk-b4 and earlier (more like a normal Tk widget).