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From: jenglish@flightlab.com (Joe English)
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Subject: ANNOUNCE: Tile Widget Set version 0.7.2 released
Date: 20 Oct 2005 03:36:34 GMT
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[19 Oct 2005]

ANNOUNCE: Tile Widget Set, version 0.7.2.

~ What is it?

The Tile widget set is an experimental reimplementation
of some of the standard Tk widgets.  The main features are:

    + Native look and feel under Windows (XP, NT, 2K, 98 and 95)
    + Nearly-native look and feel under Mac OSX
    + "Revitalized" look and feel under X11
    + Appearance controlled by a theme engine, providing
      greater flexibility for custom widgets
    + New widgets, including notebook, progressbar, combobox,
      and separator

~ What's New in 0.7.2

* * * INCOMPATIBILITY * * * 

The Tk 8.4 widget compatibility options have been disabled in 
this release.  

* * * INCOMPATIBILITY * * *

[style default] has been changed to the more sensibly-named 
[style configure].  [style default] is temporarily retained
as a synonym.

The API may be considered more-or-less stable at this point 
(with the exception of procedures in the 'tile::*' namespace;
and ttk::treeview, ttk::dialog, and ttk::scale, which still 
have some more work to be done).

Other user-visible changes include:

ttk::entry widget validation behavior has changed; see manpage 
for details.

ttk::notebook tabs and ttk::paned panes no longer need to be
direct children of the master widget.

The ttk::scale '-showvalue' option has been removed
(this feature may reappear later).

The ttk::progress widget has been removed, as promised earlier.

More introspection features have been implemented.

Several bugs have been fixed; see ChangeLog for details.


~ A note on version numbers:

To help distinguish formal releases from CVS snapshots,
the version number returned by [package provide tile]
now includes a patch level, currently 0.7.2.

The patch number will be incremented immediately before and 
immediately after making a release.  Thus odd-numbered subminor
versions indicate a CVS snapshot, and even-numbered ones indicate
a known release.

Tile 0.7.2 corresponds to the CVS snapshot labelled '0.7.1' 
which was included in the recently-released ActiveTcl 8.4.11.2.


~ Availability

The tile widget set is hosted under the tktable project
at SourceForge:

    <URL: http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/ >
    <URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tktable/ >

Sources are available under the 'tile' module in CVS.
A prebundled tarball is available in the file release area:

    <URL: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11464 >

Documentation is available here:

    <URL: http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/doc/ >


Precompiled libraries for Windows may also be present;
check for availability.