Path: ...!postnews.google.com!s4g2000yql.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Adrian Davis Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl Subject: ANNOUNCE: GRIDPLUS 2.6 - A Grid Based Screen Building Tool For Tcl/Tk Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 01:09:02 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 47 Message-ID: <7a0a237c-050f-4e49-aa26-3b13a4fe6243@s4g2000yql.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.195.197.254 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1287994143 13886 127.0.0.1 (25 Oct 2010 08:09:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:09:03 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s4g2000yql.googlegroups.com; posting-host=193.195.197.254; posting-account=mza1agkAAACxevjptKjg4tMQyfcSN2Kr User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2990 X-Original-Bytes: 2916 GRIDPLUS 2.6 has been released and is available from: http://www.satisoft.com/tcltk/gridplus2 New and Enhanced Features ------------------------------------------ *) New single/space action for tree command mode. *) New ISO date validation. Bug Fixes ------------- *) Fix problem with containers on Unix. WHAT IS GRIDPLUS: ==================== GRIDPLUS is a package intended to simplify GUI screen layout development for Tcl/Tk programmers. It is a "Grid" based layout system which builds on, simplifies and extends the existing grid manager. GRIDPLUS layouts are defined as a hierarchy of grids. Each cell in a grid consists of two elements. These will usually be a text label and some other widget such as an entry. It is also allowed to have just one element in a cell, or a cell which is empty. GRIDPLUS grids can also be stretched to neatly fill the cells in which they are positioned. While the GRIDPLUS grid can be used "native", GRIDPLUS commands/ options exist to create grids of Buttons, Checkbuttons, date selectors Dropdowns (Comboboxes), Entries, Menubuttons, Links and Radiobuttons. All places where text can be displayed make use of the TCL message catalogue facility. In effect GRIDPLUS is much more than an alternative to the grid geometry manager, it provides most, if not all, of the facilities required to build complete screens/windows. Although aimed at producing data entry/update/display form screens for database applications, it may be useful for other tasks. GRIDPLUS also includes the following features:- *) Scrollable text widget with support for tags. *) Scrollable tablelist. *) Scrollable tree (Tile). *) Calendar style date display/selector.