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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:04:23 -0500
From: Kevin Walzer <kw@codebykevin.com>
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Subject: ANN: Cocoa-based extensions for Tk-Cocoa
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I'm pleased to announce the release of three Mac-platform-native 
Tk-extensions that build on the Cocoa frameworks to integrate with the 
new Cocoa-based version of Tk for the Mac.

Macsheet

This package implements Mac-native "sheet" windows for Tk. "Sheet" 
windows are dialogs or toplevel windows that slide down from the top of 
a Mac toplevel window, and then slide back up when they are dismissed. 
Tk on the Mac has long supported the "sheet" effect for system dialogs, 
such as tk_messageBox, when a "-parent" option is passed to the call. 
The macsheet package adds the ability to create customized dialogs or 
windows with a similar effect.

Tkdock

The tkdock package allows a Tcl/Tk application to manipulate the Dock 
icon. The package allows an application to change its icon on the OS X 
Dock while running; it also allows the application to set a badge label 
to the Dock.

Tkmacicon

The tkmacicon package renders platform-native icons on OS X as Tk 
images. The ::tkmacicon::retrieveicon command takes three arguments: a 
file path or file extension, width, and height. If a file path is 
specified, then the package will return the specific icon for that file 
as defined by the Mac OS, in the width and height specified in the 
arguments. If a file extension is specified, then the package will 
return the specific icon for that file type as defined by the Mac OS, in 
the width and height specified in the arguments. Specifying the file 
extension rather than the actual file can yield faster performance for 
large numbers of files.

All three packages are available at 
http://tk-components.sourceforge.net/ and are licensed under Tcl's 
BSD-style license. Both file releases and SVN downloads are available. 
In addition to source code, the packages include demo scripts and man pages.

These extensions require Tk-Cocoa to run; they are not compatible with 
the older version of Tk based on the Mac's Carbon framework. Tk 8.6 for 
the Mac is based on Cocoa, and a backport of Tk-Cocoa to 8.5 is 
available at http://github.com/das/tcltk/tree/de-carbon-8-5.

Enjoy,
Kevin Walzer

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Kevin Walzer
Code by Kevin
http://www.codebykevin.com