Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl.announce,comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.perl.tk,comp.answers,news.answers Path: lvirden From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) Subject: comp.lang.tcl Frequently Asked Questions (May 31, 1996) (5/5) Followup-To: comp.lang.tcl Summary: A regular posting of the comp.lang.tcl Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) and their answers. This is the fifth of five parts. This part is a catalog of Tcl-based extensions. Originator: lvirden@cas.org Keywords: tcl extensions, extended tcl, tk extensions Sender: lvirden@cas.org Reply-To: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) X-Url: http://www.teraform.com/%7Elvirden/tcl-faq/part5.html Archive-name: tcl-faq/part5 Comp-lang-tcl-archive-name: tcl-faq.part05 Version: 7.000 Last-modified: May 31, 1996 For more information concerning Tcl (see "tcl-faq/part1"), (see "tcl-faq/part2"), (see "tcl-faq/part3"), or (see "tcl-faq/part4"). Note that a Contact address with ??? at the end means that I was unable to verify the address. Also, Contacts without addresses or marked as Unknown mean that I had limited to no information about the contact person. Index of questions: XIII. Since Tcl/Tk appear to be extensible, are there any common extensions? o adatcl o addinput o after command extended o Ak extension o argument processing for Tcl o argument parsing with defaults o array name string matching extension o ask o Assign using equals o AXL o base 64 encoding o beast o Berkeley DB library interface (Dunning) o Berkeley DB library interface (eijk) o Berkeley DB library interface (Rosen) o big integer to floating enhancement to Tcl o bioTkperl o binary data (Demailly) o binary data streams (Dunning) o binary I/O (LoVerso) o binary I/O (Moss) o Blinking widgets o Tcl-BLOBs (Binary Large Objects) o BLT toolkit o BLT toolkit port to STk o BLT toolkit port to Windows 95 o BLT toolkit extension for bitmap rotation o recursive blt_busy o recursive directory names o BOS o Bumgarner misc Tcl functions o C or C++ function called from Tcl o C++ compilation of Tk o C++ Tcl class o Calc_Object o calendar o camltk o canvas bitmap mask extension (Earls) o canvas bitmap mask extension (Fine) o canvas clipping speedup o canvas coordinates to screen coordinates o canvas crosshair o canvas image Postscript support o canvas object copying o canvas postscript output color change o canvas scaling example o canvas support of dashed items (Mangin) o canvas support of dashed items (Nijtmans) o canvas support of dashed items (Schotanus) o canvas support of icons, edges and graphs o canvas support of open Tcl file o canvas support of polygon outlines and Hermite smoothing o canvas support of printing umlaut o canvas support of rectangles, ovals, arcs and lines o canvas table organizer o canvas transparency support o canvas visitor o CASTE o cgiget o CCI extension (Ball) o CCI extension (Newmarch) o CLIPS Windows extension o colorfocus replacement system o color settings o color approximation matching o commas added to numbers o command line bindings for entry widget o ComboBox (Fellows) o ComboBox (Hobbs) o ComboBox (jay) o ComboBox (Joglekar) o composite widget with horizontal and vertical scrollbars o Connect to TCP/IP socket o CMT (Continuous Media Toolkit) o Convert strings to and from WWW escape notation o Tcl crypt o cshrc processing o ctaxt o CTk o cursor setting procedures o dashproc o database (Otto) o Date library o DBM 1.6 interface o define bitmaps in Tk scripts o deck.tk o Dialog box maker o Diehard o Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) widgets o Directory Tree Widget o Disjoint listbox selections (Ewing) o Disjoint listbox selections (Ewing/Lutz) o Disjoint listbox selections (Raines) o Dpack o Drag and Drop in Tcl (Fellows) o Drag and Drop in Tcl (Flores) o droplist o dualmove o dumpcanvas o dumpImage o dumptcl o Windows Dynamic Data Exchange DLL for Tk 4.1 o Dynamic loading extension (De Rijk) o Dynamic loading extension (Desai) o Dynamic loading extension (Kenny) o Dynamic loading wish o eiftcl o email-www o Enabled Mail (aka Safe-Tcl) o entry widget bindings o entry widget numeric edit o entry widget validation o event dispatching library, non-X based o every command o Fcl o ffGraph o file filter and sort o file I/O as events o file name completion o file name expander o file select (da Silva) o file select (Fellows) o file select (Grochowski) o file select (Rice) o file select (Sherman) o file select (Silva) o find center of X display o font settings o foreach additional list enhancement (Andrews) o foreach additional list enhancement (Christopher) o Frame Box o FreeBSD math fix o French keyboard bindings o FSBox - file selection box o fumx o tkfvwm o gdtcl o GDBM Tcl interface (Doan) o GDBM Tcl interface (Lindig) o getdate o getsome o GIMME o GLXAux bindings o gnuplot canvas commands o tkgnuplot o GRASS GIS widget o grid-based blt_table o GroupKit o Hanzi Tcl/Tk to support Chinese fonts o help by widget o hierarchy class o hierarchy o Hilbert curves o HLM o HPL o htext o HTML display o HTML for Alpha o Hush o iconbutton o import namespace package o Informix extension for Windows o [incr Tcl] o [incr Tcl] animated cursor o [incr Tcl] Application FrameWork o [incr Tcl] canvas arrow parameter sample o [incr Tcl] Compound widget class o [incr Tcl] dynamic objects o [incr Tcl] file reading class o [incr Tcl] file selection dialog o [incr Tcl] Lannet Widgets o [incr Tcl] Message Box o [incr Tcl] Modifications/Enhancements o [incr Tcl] Paned Window o [incr Tcl] Panner Window o [incr Tcl] Photo Images o [incr Tcl] spreadsheet/table widget o [incr Tcl] stacks and queues o [incr Tcl] table widget o [incr Tcl] table listbox widget o [incr Tcl] tree widget (Brighton) o [incr Tcl] Transportable Objects o [incr Tcl] [incr Widgets] o [incr Tcl] widget base class (Pryce) o [incr Tcl] widget base class (Sterin) o [incr Tcl] wigwam o Informix interface o ISR3 extension o ir-tcl o itemOrder o Java support o JPEG support for Tk (mikko) o Kerberos-authenticated safe RPC o Key List printing procedures o Key symbol dynamic support o Key symbols enhanced support o Lamda functions (Demailly) o Lamda pure Tcl functions (Noble) o Lamda anonymous procedures (Thomas) o Lamda functions (Tromey) o Lamda functions (Wallach) o Large numbers of listbox entries workaround o lassign o Linear sort on list of lists o linked list procedures o lisp2wish (Kaye) o lisp2wish (Kramer) o lisp2wish (Lindner) o list extract into variables o list select o list remove empty elements o list quicksort o list unique o listbox replace command o listbox with dragging selection of elements o lmatch o Load File DLL o Logical Font names o Tk login window o lparse o Tcl memory management modification o MacFsbox o MacGoodies o major/minor Tcl command extension o mdw_lib o Menu help o Menu item enable/disable o Common Menu support o Metacanvas o Metalbase interface o miniSQL database interface (Blackbourn) o miniSQL database interface (Pepers) o miniSQL database interface (Soderstrom) o mkImagesPane o Moat/TclMotif (Newmarch) o Modula 3 interface to Tcl/Tk o moreButtons o Motif entry widget behavior o TCLMOTIF (Barlow) o mouse button release command o MPEG widget o Multibyte Support for Tk o Multi-column menus for Tk 3.6 o Multiple Extensions Management and Dynamic Linking o Multiple interpreter support o Multiple linked listboxes o namespace extension o NDBM extension (Ellson) o NDBM extension (Stringer) o NeoSoft Tcl o net CDF o Netscape Remote o Network Management / SNMP o New Menu widget o NextStep / Tcl interface (Johnson) o NextStep / Tcl MAB o niceString o NIS+ interface library o NLI Tcl extension o Non blocking Tcl interpreter o Non blocking Tcl pipes o Notifier object o Numeric Array extension to Tcl o Numeric string comparison o Objective C / Tcl library o Object Tcl o ObjectiveTcl o obTcl o OglTk o OOP o Open Scripting Architecture (Apple) Extension (Darley) o Open Scripting Architecture (Apple) Extension (Endres) o OpenGL context Tk widget o OpenWindows tkBind mod o Oracle extension to Tcl. o OSE C++ tools o MIT otcl o MIT otcl extensions and patches o MIT otcl mega-widget system o Pacco (Pavia Active-Component Compound Objects) o Pack widget with no shrink option o package extension o Pad++ o parser o Password widget (Ivler) o Password widget (Kenny) o Pathname expansion o Pathname resolution o Patparse extension o Perl script invocation sample o PBM library suitable for use in Tk o PCCTS parser extension o Photo widget o Photo widget GIF file handler o Pie menus o Pixel position of a character o Pixmap support (Albrecht) o Pixmap support (Delmas) o Plotting widget for Tk o Popup menu support (Bonfield) o Popup menu support (Noble) o Portable Tk o PortBox o Postgres extensions o Tcl prompt 2 fix o pTk BLT Table o pTk dial widget o pTk EVA o pTk FileSelect widget o pTk menu cascade demos o pTk RefListbox widget o pTk ScrolledListbox widget o pTk subcommand o pTk Tcl bindings o procedure tracing o Prolog / Tcl interface o Profile Tcl code o programatically set window fonts o Progress Bar o pset o PV-WAVE interface (Visual Numerics) o New puts command o random numbers (Dunning) o random numbers (Eichin) o random numbers (Libes) o random numbers (Salmon) o random numbers (Schoenwaelder) o random numbers (Shiono) o readline-like function support for Tcl (West) o readline-like function support for Tk (Miguel) o Rectmap o RenderMan bindings o Reregister interpreter name o Tcl RPC (Roseman) o Tcl RPC (Shorter) o Safe Tcl Interpreter (NeoSoft) o Save Tcl variables and procedures o Save Tk widgets o Save Variables o Scheme extension o scotty o scrollbar color fix o scrollbar overflow fix o scrollgraph o scwoop o sdb o searchbox o secure Tcl o send with timeout subcommand o shell widget o showproc.tcl o SIMEX o SIPP extensions o UW Skyblue software interface o sneaky_eval o SNMP extension (Rose) o SNTL o Tcl 7.5 socket code o Speed Up for widgets with text in Tk 3.6 o SplitList o Spreadsheet o SQL (INFORMIX) support o Stack procedures o static variables (Bolik) o static variables (Lehenbauer) o STcl o stdio to Windows o Tk "sticker" canvas item type o state sensitive buttons o stdout and stderr merged into one output pipeline o STOOOP o String handling routines in Tcl o String search starting at an offset o string translate command o structure-like objects in Tcl (Burdick) o structure-like objects in Tcl (Gerdes) o SunOS dld package o supertcltk o sureSend o SWIG o Sybase Tcl o Sysadmtool o System V ipc o TASH o Tcl and Tk shared library support (Brown) o Tcl and Tk shared library support (Nijtmans) o Tcl and Tk shared library support (Salmon) o Tcl debugger (extended Tcl) o Tcl debugger (libes) o Tcl debugger (tromey) o Tcl dynamic extension loader package o Tcl extension tools o Tcl getopt (Earls) o Tcl getopt (Mangin) o Tcl getopt (Roydhouse) o Tcl invocation (Newman) o Tcl invocation (Nichols) o Tcl IPC interface o Tcl Loadable Extensions (TLE) o Tcl Packages o Tcl SQL o tcl-cgi o Tcl-DP o Tcl-DP fix (Krakowiak) o Tcl-DP fix (Pauba) o Tcl-DP with caller id o Tcl-DP with Multicast IP o TclIR o Tcl/Tk Japanized; support for Kanji o tcl_object o Tcl_SetVar2 fix for append operations o tcl_streams o Tcl_Vresult o tcl-www o tcl2array o tclbind o tclcompare o TclDii o tclDore o tcldot/tkdot o tclIV o tclMIDI o tclMotif extension of a Matrix widget o tclOBST o TclPro o tclprof o TclProp o tclRawTCP o TclRl o tclsap o TclSock o tclsockets o tclStruct o tclTCP o tclTCP+ o tclvogle o TclVSdb o TclVSrpt o Extended Tcl (tclX) o Extended Tcl 7.5a-a2 patches for Linux o Extended Tcl simulation o tclX dynamic library patches o tclXt o tclXtsend o tcpConnect o TDebug o testevent o textView o text widget 16 bit text support o text widget command option o text widget enhancements o text widget improved bindings o text widget read-only regions o text widget read-only tags o text widget with relative tab position support o text widget replacement o text widget underline colors o text widget up and down arrow support o text widget with arbitrary text o text widget with unlimited undo history (Alexander) o text widget with unlimited undo history (Fontaine) o text widget word modifier o theObjects o this o Tcl thread support (Chew) o Tcl thread support (Jankowski) o Tcl_FormatCmd fix for SGI PowerChallenge o Tihsho o Time and date routines (Critchlow) o Time and date routines (Ganley) o Time string split o timeout o Tix widget set o Tix table widget o Tk 3 tear off menus under Tk 4 o Tk and C++ o Tk and Motif event handling in one process o Tk auxiliary library of bindings o Tk benzier cubic splines with arbitrary control points o Tk canvas Segments o Tk Emacs bindings (Karrels) o Tk Emacs bindings (Weissman) o Tk Emacs widget o Tk equivalent of XTextWidth o Tk focus follows pointer o Tk menu insert subcommand o Tk menu postcommand fix o Tk mwm enhancements o Tk private color maps (Crocker) o Tk private color maps (Kliese) o Tk raster widget o Tk RichText Format widget o Tk send reliability enhancement o Tk send security enhancement o Tk table widget o Tk terminal widget o Tk triangular button o Tk without X (beta) o tkbusy o tkEntry secure modification o tkFScale o tkGLXwin o tkInput o TkMegaWidget o TkMobal o tkMovie o Tkoglx o Tkperldb o Tkpvm o TkReplay o tkReport o tkScale modifications o tkScaleButtonDown replacement o TkSM o TkSteal o tkText (Tk 1.3 compatible - Christenson) o tkText (Tk 1.3 compatible - Cole) o tkText (Tk 2.0 compatible - Raines) o tkText (Tk 4.0 compatible - Raines) o TkVSform o TkWindow access o Tooltalk interface o Tooltalk interface mods (Boyer) o Tooltalk interface mods (Wette) o ToolTips o transient window creation support o transpose elements within a list of lists o Tcl trap command o Trace Semantics o Trace examples o Tk Tree o Tree Table o Triangular Button o Turndial widget o turtle graphics o TWO - Tcl With Objects o UAE o modified unknown procedure o uncgi o user event package o validate o varframe o variable argument process o vector o vertical text writing o virtual listbox o visu o Visual Tcl o Visualization Toolkit o VROOM binding o VUW widgets o vwtable o waitbox o warp (Fine) o warp (Goldberg) o Tk WhenIdle extension o widget2ps o widgetTree o wincr o window manager raise command (Abbott) o window manager raise command (Chaffee) o Windows 3.1 Tcl extension sample o Windows 3.1 Tcl drive type extension o wmstuff o WWWinda o X11 event support o X11 Selection support enhancement o X11 to Postscript o X11 visual selection subcommand o X11 XID enhancement (Kaplan) o X11 XID enhancement (Hoegeman) o XPG patch to Tcl 7.3 o XPM extension for Tk 4 (Crimmins) o XPM extension for Tk 4 (James) o XPS o Xt replay library o XView Drop support o yaap - Yet Another Argument Parsing utility o Yaz End of FAQ Index ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: FAQ Tcl/Tk Package Catalog Subject: -XIII- Since Tcl/Tk appear to be extensible, are there any common extensions? What: adatcl Where: Description: Interface between Verdix/Sunada compiler and Tcl. It also will work under Gnat, the Gnu Ada Translator. Contact: (Dennis Heimbigner) What: addinput Where: Description: Implements two new Tk file handle callback commands. Contact: (Mark Diekhans) What: after command extended Where: Description: The after command is extended to support new subcommands to query pending commands, abort pending commands, prevent resubmission of identical commands, edit the command script after submission, or reschedule submitted command. Contact: (Wolf-D. Ihlenfeldt) What: Ak extension Where: Description: Audio toolkit extension for dealing with the AudioFile environment. Add a prototype for strtod() in ak.h if you see an error about this. Contact: (Andrew Payne) What: argument processing for Tcl Where: From the contact Description: Provides Tk-like argument processing to Tcl proc writers. Contact: (Karl Lehenbauer) What: argument parsing with defaults Where: From the contact Description: Tcl code to parse arguments and provide default values. See theObjects-2.x for a C version. Contact: (Juergen Wagner) (Juergen Wagner) What: array name string matching extension Where: From the contact Description: A small extension to tclVar to allow a pattern to be used with the "array names" command. An array used as a 2D-array by having elements of the form: matrix(x,y) could be accessed by: array names matrix "1,*" to return all elements in the first column. Contact: (Stephen A Uhler) What: ask Where: From the contact Description: Tcl routine which prompts the user and then accepts responses in various data formats (dates, money, boolean, char, integer, real, string). Contact: (Richard J Kuhns) What: Assign using equals Where: From the contact Description: Tcl code to define new unknown command which allows one to use = as a simple assignment command. Contact: (Mike Taylor) What: AXL Where: From the contact Description: Dynamic OO extension for Tcl that facilitates interaction with the Galaxy C-based class system. Does not handle multiple inheritence or removing classes at this time. Uses a single interpreter. The syntax is quite similar to itcl. Contact: (Ross Huitt) What: base 64 encoding Where: From the contact Description: A small Tcl routine to do base 64 encoding. Contact: (Chris Garrigues) What: beast Where: Description: Tcl toolkit which combines both Expect and Scotty, allowing network interrogation and intelligent configuration of nodes. It is a SunOS 4.x binary, with a readme that explains how to compile your own port. Contact: (Ian Jarrett) What: Berkeley DB library interface (Dunning) Where: Description: Tcl 7.[34] extension to access Berkeley database files. Contact: (Ted Dunning) What: Berkeley DB library interface Where: In development by the contact Description: A Tcl interface to the Berkeley DB library. Contact: (Pim van der Eijk) What: Berkeley DB library interface (Rosen) Where: Description: A Tcl embedding of the Berkeley libdb routines. Requires Tcl 7.3 and Berkeley db version 1.85. Contact: (Steve Rozen, Ph.D.) What: big integer to floating enhancement to Tcl Where: From the contact Description: Change tclExpr so that numbers too large for an integer become floating point. Change also to treat numbers with leading zeros as octal. Contact: (Tosh Nishimura) What: bioTk Where: Description: bioTk is a library of widgets and utilities designed to support the creation of graphical user interfaces in the domain of computational biology and genome informatics. See for more details. Contact: (David Searls) What: bioTkperl Where: Description: A beta release port of David Searls bioTk Tcl/Tk widgets to Tk/Perl, with some enhancments. Not all components have been ported yet. The components have been reimplemented as Perl classes. Contact: (Gregg Helt) What: binary data access (Demailly) Where: Description: TclBin allows access to binary data from Tcl, including a paradigm for pointers, structures, etc. Latest version Can be built as a Tcl 7.5 dynamically loadable extension. A sample geturl script is included. Send a "subscribe tclbin Your Name" line to to subscribe to the tclbin mailing list. See for more information. Contact: (Laurent Demailly) (Tclbin mailing list) What: binary data streams (Dunning) Where: Description: Tcl 7.[34] extension for encoding binary data streams as normal Tcl strings. Contains support for converting the strings from binary values into Tcl integers and floating point. Contact: (Ted Dunning) What: binary I/O (LoVerso) Where: Description: Tcl based way of reading binary data containing nulls. Contact: (John Robert LoVerso) What: binary I/O (Moss) Where: Description: Package for performing unstructured binary I/O in Tcl. Contact: (Joseph V. Moss) What: Blinking widgets Where: From the contact Description: Set of Tk procs to blink the widgets Contact: (Phil Gordon) What: Tcl-BLOBs (Binary Large Objects) Where: Description: Adds handling of arbitrary binary data to Tcl 7.5 or higher. Can be built as a shared dynamic library. Note that blobX contains a variety of new Tcl commands which require binary data. Contact: (Andreas Kupries) What: BLT toolkit Where: Description: Library of Tk extensions. Includes new versions of x/y graph, barchart, hypertext, and busy widgets, a table geometry manager, read and write bitmap commands, cut buffer, bell, minor window manager interfaces, drag and drop support, dynamic loading of extensions, and several useful debugging commands. Currently supports Tk 3.6 and 4.0. Contact: (George A. Howlett) What: BLT toolkit port to STk Where: Description: Fitting BLT to the STk environment. Contact: (Erick Gallesio) What: BLT toolkit port to Windows 95 Where: From the contact Description: Partial port of BLT 1.9 to Win95, using VC 2.0. Rotating text didn't make it, nor did drag and drop. Contact: (Robin Becker) What: BLT toolkit extension for bitmap rotation Where: From the contact Description: BLT 1.7 function to rotate bitmaps. Contact: (T Campbell) What: recursive blt_busy Where: From the contact Description: BLT procedure which busy's out a widget and all it's descendants. Contact: (Charles Thayer) What: recursive directory names Where: From the contact Description: Tcl proc that does recursive globbing of directories. Contact: (jay) What: BOS Where: Description: BOS - the Basic Object System; SELF-like Tcl objects extension. Contact: (Admin. requests for BOS mailing list) (BOS mailing list) What: Bumgarner misc Tcl functions Where: From the contact Description: A set of misc Tcl functions, such as a version of file that returns true if all the list of options supplied return true, a proc to clear an array of all elements, a proc to determine whether a proc exists, and a proc to evaluate a command and then undefine it. Contact: (Bill Bumgarner) What: C or C++ function called from Tcl Where: Description: A minimal example (in German) of including a C or C++ function in Tcl or Tk. Version 1.2 now supports Tcl 7.4/Tk 4.0. Contact: (Stefan Iglhaut) What: C++ compilation of Tk Where: Description: A patch that allows Tk 3.6 main.c and other extension routines to be compiled with a C++ compiler. Contact: (Ken Yap) What: C++ Tcl class Where: From the contact Description: A general purpose Tcl object that can easily be invoked from C++. Contact: (Lee Hounshell) What: Calc_Object Where: Description: A Tcl object which talks to bc via expect. Contact: (Terrence Brannon) ??? What: calendar Where: From the contact Description: Tk calendar widget Contact: (Sani Nassif [227]) ??? What: camltk Where: Description: Caml Light 0.7 contains a contributed library interface to Tk 3.6. Contact: What: canvas bitmap mask extension (Earls) Where: From the contact Description: Patch tkCanvBmap to add a -mask option to canvas bitmaps. Contact: (Johnson Michael Earls) What: canvas bitmap mask extension (Fine) Where: From the contact Description: Patch file for tkCanvBmap to add a -mask option for drawing bitmaps. Contact: (Thomas A Fine) What: canvas clipping speedup Where: From the contact Description: Patch to 3.6p1 to give a -bufferoutput flag which discards output outside the scroll region. Contact: (Gregor Schmid) What: canvas coordinates to screen coordinates Where: From the contact Description: canvas_2_screen is a tiny Tcl procedure that changes the canvas coordinates to screen coordinates. Contact: (Donald Craig) What: canvas crosshair Where: From the contact Description: Creating a crosshair on a canvas using only Tk code. Contact: (Mike Scheidler) What: canvas image Postscript support Where: Description: Provides Tk 4.0b1 with the ability to generate Postscript code for images on a canvas. Also works with earlier versions of Tk 4.0. Contact: (Henry A Rowley) What: canvas object copying Where: From the contact Description: Copy the objects of one canvas to another. Contact: (Edward L. Karrels) What: canvas postscript output color change Where: From the contact Description: Currently, some color conversions to monochrome by the canvas command turn out unexpected - green prints out as white instead of black for instance. Contact: (Heribert Dahms) What: canvas scaling example Where: From the contact Description: Sample Tk 3.6/4.0 procedure which creates a canvas with bound resize envents so that all canvas items scale according to the size of the canvas. Contact: (Greg McFarlane) What: canvas support of dashed items (Mangin) Where: Description: New Tk function to be linked into interpreter to support dashed lines on a canvas. Contact: (Frank Mangin) What: canvas support of dashed items (Nijtmans) Where: Description: Add ability to use dash outlines for all figures to Tk 4.0 and 4.1. See for more details on other things provided in these patches. This set of patches also has features such as providing canvas graphics Postscript support, provided by Henry A Rowley. Contact: (Jan Nijtmans) What: canvas support of dashed items (Schotanus) Where: Description: Enhanced version of Mangin's patches, so that all items that have outlines can be dashed, including polygons. It also supports both Tk 3.6 and Tk 4.0. The latest version can always be found at . Contact: (Tako Schotanus) What: canvas support of disjoint line segments Where: Description: Create a canvas segment object which is one or more disjoint line segments. Supports Tk 3.x. Contact: (Scott Schwartz) What: canvas support of lightweight plotting Where: From the contact Description: Extension to TkPixmap to support plotting, clearing and copying of user-defined pixmaps to a canvas. Contact: (Martin Smith) What: canvas support of icons, edges and graphs Where: Description: An extension to the canvas widget that adds native support for icons, edges and graphs. Version 4.0b is available from the WWW page. Contact: (Sven Delmas) What: canvas support of open Tcl file Where: From the contact Description: Tk 3.6 canvas postscript subcommand enhancement to accept open Tcl file in -file option. Contact: (Tom Tromey) What: canvas support of polygon outlines and Hermite smoothing Where: Description: Adds an outline option to the canvas polygon. It also implements a new smoothing algorithm, using Hermite polynomials instead of Bezier curves. Versions for Tk 3.6 and Tk 4.0b2 and b3 are available. Also available in this directory is an update to the canvas photo item to recognize PPM and PGM files. Contact: (Oliver Trepte) What: canvas support of printing umlaut Where: From the contact Description: Patch to prolog.ps to allowing printing of umlauts. Contact: (Johann Friedrich Heinrichmeyer) What: canvas support of rectangles, ovals, arcs and lines Where: From the contact Description: Patches to canvas as well as to canvas man page to support shaped items. Contact: (John Ellson) What: canvas table organizer Where: Description: Tk 3.6 functions to organize items on a canvas as a table. Lay out arbitrary items (including windows) and supply grid lines if desired. Contact: (Bryan M Kramer) What: canvas transparency support Where: From the contact Description: Patch to core Tk files to allow one to create a transparent canvas which could be put over othe windows to display annotations, etc. Anywhere there is no canvas object, the content of the window below appears. Supports only one window. Contact: (Wolf-D. Ihlenfeldt) What: canvas visitor Where: Description: Extension to Tk canvas widget to allow one to add canvas operations on graphics items without changing the Tk core. Contact: (Matthew Rice) What: CASTE Where: From the contact Description: o-o programming based on Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) Contact: (Michael Braverman) What: cgiget Where: From the contact Description: A Tcl procedure to read a CGI string and extract variables into an array. Contact: (Kacper Nowicki) What: CCI extension (Ball) Where: Description: The PASTIME Project of the Advanced Computations Systems Cooperative Research Centre has released the first version of a Tcl interface to NCSA Mosaic's CCI library (a library which allows one to interact with a running Mosaic process). The project requires that this be the only ftp site, and that one register your use of the software - see the REGISTRATION file in the package for details. Contact: (Steven Ball) What: CCI extension (Newmarch) Where: From the contact Description: An extended CCI interface which allows one to control the user interface components of Mosaic. It uses the replayXt system, and uses safe-tcl. See for more details. Contact: (Jan Newmarch) What: CLIPS Windows extension Where: From the contact Decription: A Tcl 7.5 interface to the functionality in CLIPS. Contact: (Rita Krukis) What: colorfocus replacement system Where: From the contact Description: Tk replacement code to inform the window manager about non-standard colormaps. Contact: (Paul Mackerras) What: color settings Where: From the contact Description: Tcl procedure to select appropriate color whether machine is color or monochrome Contact: (Juergen Wagner) (Juergen Wagner) What: color approximation matching Where: From the contact Description: Patch to Tk 3.6 tkcolor which allows one to get the closest available color in the color map using color distance measure. Contact: (Shekhar Mahadevan) What: commas added to numbers Where: From the contact Description: Tiny Tcl regsub comma to add commas to numbers, taking leading white space, - or +, and decimal points into account. Contact: (John Allen) What: command line bindings for entry widget Where: From the contact Description: Bindings to turn an entry widget into a command line. Contact: (Gregor Schmid) What: ComboBox (Fellows) Where: Description: Tk combo box code. Contact: (Donal K. Fellows) What: ComboBox (Hobbs) Where: From the contact Description: Tk based ComboBox code Contact: (Jeffrey Hobbs) What: ComboBox (jay) Where: From the contact Description: Tk combo box code. Contact: (jay) What: ComboBox (Joglekar) Where: Description: Tk 4.0 code to implement a basic ComboBox widget. Contact: (Ashutosh Joglekar) What: composite widget with horizontal and vertical scrollbars Where: From the contact Description: Tk 4.0 procedure which demonstrates a method for creating both horizontal and vertical scrollbars. Contact: (Ken Bromund) What: Connect to TCP/IP socket Where: From the contact Description: Tcl command to connect to a TCP/IP socket Contact: (Youssef Ismail) What: CMT (Berkeley Continuous Media Toolkit) Where: Description: Tcl toolkit to support simulataneous continuous media playback in a portable fashion, supporting a variety of media devices. The toolkit also comes with cmplayer which can be used to play MPEG-1, MJPEG, SPARC audio, and CMT movie scripts. Contact: (Admin for CMT mailinglist) What: Convert strings to and from WWW escape notation Where: From the contact Description: Set of routines to do the expansion and condensation of special characters to escape characters for HTML. These were called xh2a and ah2x. Contact: (Joachim Mueller) What: Tcl crypt Where: Description: While useful in it's own right, the intention here was to provide a very small example of how to integrate C functions into Tcl and Tk. Contact: (Juergen Nickelsen) What: cshrc processing Where: From the contact Description: Tcl code to read a csrc like file, start up csh, generate the environment variables that result, take the environment variables, and add them to the Tcl env array. Contact: (John Chambers) What: ctaxt Where: Description: Combine Tcl/Tk with other X Window toolkits (like Motif) into a single graphical user interface. Contact: (Holger Pleiss) What: CTk Where: Description: This is a version of Tk 4.0 which uses curses. Applications with a modern GUI-ish interface can be created for character terminals. CTk is a subset of Tk 4, being unable to do things like scaling canvases, selection, send, active backgrounds, etc. But enough useful features are present to make it worthwhile for those of us still using ASCII terminals! Contact: (Martin Andrews) What: cursor setting procedures Where: From the contact Description: Set of Tk procs to set/reset the cursor. Contact: (John Haxby) What: dashproc Where: From the contact Description: Defines procedures that take Tk like options and forces them to become variables in your procedure. Contact: (Phil Gordon) What: database (Otto) Where: From the contact Description: Tcl/Tk frontend to a simple database. Contact: (Richard G. Otto) What: Date library Where: From the contact Description: A Tcl based julian date library which parses a dd-mmm-yyyy format into a julian date. Contact: (Rob Blackbourn) What: DBM 1.6 interface Where: From the contact Description: A Tcl interface to db-1.6 , the new BSD DBM replacement. Contact: (Poul-Henning Kamp) What: define bitmaps in Tk scripts Where: From the contact Description: Add a Tk command called defbitmap which allows you to define the hex codes for a bitmap to be used in a script. Contact: (Makoto Ishisone) What: deck.tk Where: Description: A simple implementation of InterViews "deck" widget Contact: (Joe VanAndel) What: Dialog box maker Where: Description: Tk dialog box code. Contact: (Mark Eichin) What: Diehard Where: Description: A set of packages to provide distribution functions, random number generators, and test drivers, with a Tk wrapper to provide a point and click interface. Contact: (Balasubramanian Narasimhan) What: Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) widgets Where: From the contact Description: Tk DAG display widget (computed in LISP and visualized in Tk). To be made available in May, 1993. Contact: (Juergen Wagner) (Juergen Wagner) What: Directory Tree Widget Where: From the contact Description: An MS-Windows File Manager like widget, written in C for Tk. Contact: (Ioi Kim Lam) What: Disjoint listbox selections (Ewing) Where: Description: Tk 3.x listbox Disjoint selections. MListbox-patch is specifically for Tk 3.6. Contact: (Marc R. Ewing) (Marc Ewing) (Heiko Schroeder) What: Disjoint listbox selections (Ewing/Lutz) Where: From the contact Description: Port of Ewing's patch to the latest Tk. Contact: (Dale Lutz) What: Disjoint listbox selections (Raines) Where: Description: Fake a listbox using a text widget. Works with standard Tk 3.6 and can be distributed with your code. Selection can be slow and there is no X-axis scrolling. Contact: (Paul E. Raines) What: Dpack Where: From the contact Description: Set of Tk routines to unpack an item, replace an item and delete an item. Contact: What: Drag and Drop in Tcl (Fellows) Where: Description: Implementation of Drag and drop using pure Tk 4.0. Full docs can be found at . Contact: (Donal K. Fellows) What: Drag and Drop in Tcl (Flores) Where: From the contact Description: Implementation of Drag and Drop without using BLT. Contact: (Tom Flores) What: droplist Where: From the contact Decription: A Tk procedure to build a widget with a dropdown menu box. Contact: (David Kolesar) What: dualmove Where: From the contact Description: A proc to facilitate moving two windows via one scrollbar. Contact: (Matthew Thomas Tavis) What: dumpcanvas Where: Description: A Tk 4.0 procedure to dump and restore a canvas. Contact: (Donal K. Fellows) What: dumpImage Where: From the contact Description: Tk extension which allows one to dump a Tk window path via xpr to PostScript. Contact: (Johannes Rest) What: dumptcl Where: From the contact Description: Procedure to dump the currently defined variables and procs. Doesn't support dumping traces or the state of a Tk application. Contact: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) What: Windows Dynamic Data Exchange DLL for Tk 4.1 Where: From the contact Description: Source and binary for a DLL which adds Windows Dynamic Data Exchange (similar to Unix message) client commands to Wish 4.1/Win. DDE client calls are usually used for the remote control of some other application such as Access, Excel, Word, etc. Contact: (Bob Jamison) What: Dynamic loading extension (De Rijk) Where: Description: Wish with BLT dynamic loading extension from BLT, modified to expect extensions in $TCL_LIBROOT. Contact: (Peter.DeRijk) What: Dynamic loading extension (Desai) Where: From the contact Description: A simple dynamic library extension which allows one to load and call code in dynamic libraries which have not been linked into a wish. Functions called must only accept simple arguments. Contact: (Jatin Desai) What: Dynamic loading extension (Kenny) Where: Description: dtclsh - the Dynamic Loading Tcl Shell - allows one to build object modules (e.g., from C) and dynamically load them into Tcl as needed. dtclsh installs and runs on most platforms (even some of the tricky ones). Contact: (Kevin B. Kenny) What: Dynamic loading wish Where: Description: Assists in building a wish with a load command which can be used to incorporate a Tcl/Tk library which has been dynamically linked and follows the Bollini format. Has been superseded by shells-1.1. Contact: (Michael D. Moore) What: eiftcl Where: Description: Provide basic facilities for combining the programming languages Eiffel and Tcl into a hybrid program architecture. Contact: (Stephan Herrmann) What: email-www Where: Description: A Tcl support library that works with dtclsh and tcl-www and provides support for mailto-like functionality using HTML forms. email-www comes with CGI scripts for simple, demonstration mail forms, but it is designed to be used as a library. It includes basic support for email to FAX gateways and role mapping (aliases) in addition to plain electronic mail support. Contact: Unknown What: Enabled Mail (aka Safe-Tcl) Where: Description: Incoming email processing tool based on Tcl. Software also available which can build MIME messages and send them. Incoming email processing includes ability to execute encapsulated Tcl programs at delivery or upon viewing. This is also known as Contact: (M Rose) What: entry widget bindings Where: From the contact Description: Set of bindings for Tk 3.6's entry winget, which includes a 'pending delete' feature, EMACS-like cursor movements, mouse click bindings, etc. Contact: (Scott Mitchell) What: entry widget numeric edit Where: From the contact Description: Tk code to enter numbers only in an entry widget. Contact: (Gerd Neugebauer) What: entry widget validation Where: Description: Extension allowing one to set Tcl validation code on a keystroke or focus basis within an entry widget. This is for Tk4.x. Version 4 series of patches are now available. Contact: (Jeffrey Hobbs) What: event dispatching library, non-X based Where: Description: A non-X based Event Dispatching library. Contact: (Alex Measday) What: every command Where: From the contact Description: Execute a command immediately and every n seconds thereafter. Contact: (Bill Burdick) What: Fcl Where: Description: Implements a persistent object system. It is a part of CMU's Aesop software architecture design system. Contact: What: ffGraph Where: Description: A C++ class library to create, manipulate and display 2 or 3 dimensional directed graphs. The source distribution contains a Tcl/Tk widget library to display the graphics. Contact: (Carsten Friedrich) What: file filter and sort Where: From the contact Description: Tcl proc which returns a sorted list of directory entries. Each entry which is a directory has a prefix of (dir). Contact: (Heiko Nardmann) What: file I/O as events Where: From the contact Description: A Tk file handler command which uses Tk_CreateFileHandler(). Contact: (Stuart Clayman) What: file name completion Where: From the contact Description: A Tcl procedure which does file name completion similar to that provided by EMACS, csh, and tcsh. Contact: (John M. Klassa) What: file name expander Where: From the contact Description: Take a filename and a path and then identify file's full pathname. Contact: (Anthony Mutiso) What: file select (da Silva) Where: From the contact Description: A Tk file selection procedure based on the Amiga standard file requestor. Contact: (Peter da Silva) What: file select (Fellows) Where: Description: Similar in function to the Netscape file browser - a scrolling list of directories in the selected directory as well as a list of files. Allows navigation by mouse clicks, key presses, etc. Full docs can be found at . Contact: (Donal K. Fellows) (Send mail with Subject: WWW-Mail: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/%7Efellowsd/dirbrowser_tcl.tar.gz to get the file by email.) What: file select (Grochowski) Where: From the contact Description: Tk 4.0 based file selector inspired by the one from Netscape. Contact: (Juergen Grochowski) What: file select (Rice) Where: From the contact Description: A package of Motif-like file selection routines. Contact: (Matthew Rice) What: file select (Sherman) Where: From the contact Description: A "more over-developed file-selection mechanism". Contact: (Aaron Sherman) What: file select (Silva) Where: Description: file selector box Contact: (Mario Jorge Silva) What: find center of X display Where: From the contact Description: Tk procedures to find the location so that window can be centered. Contact: (Viswanathan Narayanan) What: font settings Where: From the contact Description: Tcl package "getfont" which returns a font matching request as closely as possible. Contact: (Spencer W. Thomas) What: foreach additional list enhancement (Andrews) Where: From the contact Description: Enhance the Tcl foreach to support more than one list. Contact: (Martin Andrews) What: foreach additional list enhancement (Chistopher) Where: From the contact Description: Enhance the Tcl foreach to support more than one list. Contact: (Wayne A. Christopher) What: Frame Box Where: Description: Puts a labelled visible box around a frame. Contact: (Donal K. Fellows) What: FreeBSD math fix Where: From the contact Description: Two small fixes required for the port of Tcl to FreeBSD to be completely successful. Contact: (Brian Ellis) What: French keyboard bindings Where: From the contact Description: Set of Tk bindings to allow input of French special keys. Contact: (Xavier Fornari) What: FSBox - file selection box Where: Description: Tk 3.x File Selection dialog box Contact: (Sven Delmas) What: fumx Where: Description: Tk/Tcl extension that allows it to front-end other languages. Contact: (Duncan Sinclair) What: tkfvwm Where: Description: A Tcl extension that enables the creation of fvwm modules under Tcl/Tk. Contact: (Andres Aravena) What: gdtcl Where: Description: A Tcl extension to Thomas Boutell's GD 1.1.1 package, allowing you to generate GIF images. See and for more details. Contact: (Spencer W. Thomas) What: GDBM Tcl interface (Doan) Where: Description: A Tcl interface to the GNU DBM database software. Contact: (Tuan Doan) What: GDBM Tcl interface (Lindig) Where: Description: A rewrite to Tcl for GNU gdbm file access. Implements persistent maps from key strings to data strings. Contact: (Christian Lindig) What: getdate Where: From the contact Description: Adds getdate command to Tcl interpreter. Contact: (Michael Hoegeman) What: getsome Where: From the contact Description: Get as many characters as possible from a pipe, without being stuck waiting for input. Uses standard Tk/Tcl without addinput extension. Contact: (Spencer W. Thomas) What: GIMME Where: Description: A research project by Professor Joseph Konstan in the area of Graphical Interfaces for Multi-Media Environments. Contact: (Joseph A. Konstan) What: GLXAux bindings Where: Description: Set of Tcl bindings for most GL commands and Perl script to generate Tcl bindings given prototypes of C procedures. Note there is an Xlib emulation of SGI's GL at . Contact (Fred Hucht) for details. Contact: (Dan Wallach) What: gnuplot canvas commands Where: Description: A patch to allow gnuplot to generate Tk canvas widget commands. Contact: (D. Jeff Dionne) What: tkgnuplot Where: Description: A Tcl/Tk interface to the popular data plotting program. Contact: (Mark Claypool) What: GRASS GIS widget Where: From the contact Description: Contact has an alpha version of a GRASS GIS display only widget. Can display multiple themes in overlay or replace mode. More details when contact has progressed. Contact: (Tom Moore) , (GRASS Users' email list) What: grid-based blt_table Where: From the contact Description: An attempt to write a wrapper function for Tk 4.1's grid command to be used to replace blt_table. Contact: (Wayne A. Christopher) What: GroupKit Where: Description: Tcl/Tk based version of InterViews GroupKit. It is used for developing real-time conferencing applications, such as groupware drawing tools, editors, and meeting tools. It includes 20 example groupware tools. Version 3.1 works with Tk 4.0 and Tcl-DP 3.2. More information can be found at . Contact: for signing up to the GroupKit user mailing list and (GroupKit Bugs/Comments) What: Hanzi Tcl/Tk to support Chinese fonts Where: Description: Extensions to Tcl 7.4/Tk 4.0/Kanji extension to support the Big 5 encoding and a input method widget. A Tcl 7.5 version is being developed. Contact: What: help by widget Where: From the contact Description: Provide user ability to ask for help on any specific widget, include menu buttons. Contact: (Tom Phelps) What: hierarchy class Where: From the contact Description: Mentioned in passing by a comp.lang.tcl poster as being related to a query made about collapsible hierarchy widgets. Not yet released. Contact: (Phil Gordon) What: hierarchy Where: Description: A Heirarchy drawing package for Tk/Tcl - displays tree-shaped information in a folder like graphical display. Contact: (Donald Syme) What: Hilbert curves Where: From the contact Description: Tk code to draw Hilbert curves. Contact: (Ming Pan) What: HLM Where: Description: High Level Menu (HLM) package which provides a new abstraction (the menubar) to aid in cross-platform Tk menus. Contact: (Mark Roseman) What: HPL Where: Description: Two extensions to add TIFF and PNM file format handlers to the Tk 4.0 image photo type. Contact: (Andrew Fitzhugh) What: htext Where: Description: Tk code that sets a horizontal and vertical scrollbar for a text widget in Tk 3.6. Contact: (John Robert LoVerso) What: HTML display Where: Description: A simple HTML parsing and display library. Contact: (Stephen Uhler) What: HTML for Alpha Where: From the contact. Description: an early version of an HTML editing mode for the MacOS Tcl-based Alpha editor. Contact: (Scott W Brim) What: Hush Where: Description: C++ API for Tcl/Tk . Provides C++ classes for convenient yet flexible access to the Tcl/Tk toolkit. Offers widget and graphics classes, including an HTML widget. For more info, see . Requires Tcl 7.3, Tk 3.6, and TkPixmap extension. The examples file is samples of code using the hush library, as mentioned in The X Resource, Issue 11, article "Hush - A C++ API for Tcl/Tk". Contact: (A. Eliens) What: iconbutton Where: From the contact Description: Tk 1.4 button widget which displays bitmap Contact: (Trevor Lowe) ??? What: import namespace package Where: From the contact Description: Tcl 7.5 procedure that takes a package and version and installs it in it's own interpreter, then provides the means to execute commands in this namespace or import into the current name space. Contact: (Neil Winton) What: Informix extension for Windows Where: From the contact Description: Tcl 7.5 code to allow Windows machines to access a UNIX Informix database server. Contact: (Srinivas Kumar) What: [incr Tcl] Where: Description: [incr tcl] is the basis of a set of extensions to support object-oriented programming in Tcl. It provides the notion of a class of objects, allowing related procedures to be encapsulated together with their shared data in a local namespace hidden from the rest of the program. This will, for example, allow you to create new widgets based on previously existing widgets. See for more details on itcl, and for more details on the [incr tk] extension, which wraps an itcl layer around tk. Unofficial patch to Tcl 7.5/Tk 4.1 to implement itcl 2.0 namespaces was contributed by Vince Darley. Vince reports that the beta patches may be a bit buggy. Vince also has patches to allow itcl 2.0 to be added to MacTcl. The tknt port of itcl was done by (Harry R Halladay). itcl2.0.1plus is an unoffical attempt by Karel Zuiderveld to combine tcl 7.5, tk4.1, itcl 2.0, itk 2.0, iwidgets 2.0.1, plus patches, improved installation all modified to work together. Contact: (Michael J. McLennan) (itcl mailing list administration) What: [incr Tcl] animated cursor Where: From the contact Description: A itcl Tk class to support cursor animation. Contact: (Anthony Mutiso) What: [incr Tcl] Application FrameWork Where: Description: A itcl framework to allow developers to easily add documentation manipulation capabilities such as creating new instances of a document, opening saved versions of the documents, dealing with unsaved documents at exit time, base documentation class, menubars, Contact: (Mark Roseman) What: [incr Tcl] canvas arrow parameter sample Where: From the contact Description: Simple example of how to subclass the canvas wigwam itcl widget to add a -arrow middle tag. Contact: (Jim Wight) What: [incr Tcl] Compound widget class Where: From the contact Description: An itcl abstract base class for compound widgets. Contact: (Nat Pryce) What: [incr Tcl] dynamic objects Where: From the contact Description: An itcl class providing dynamic objects similar to OTCL. Contact: (Michael J. McLennan) What: [incr Tcl] file reading class Where: From the contact Description: This is an itcl class which uses the addinput extension and a tail -f so that one can be notified when there is more to read in a file. Contact: (Allan Brighton) What: [incr Tcl] file selection dialog Where: Description: Motif-like file selection dialog using [incr Tcl]. Contact: (Mark L. Ulferts) (Shawn Ellis) What: [incr Tcl] Lannet Widgets Where: Description: Set of itcl widgets for various bells and whistles, written why programmer was working at Lannet Ltd., Israel. Basically PD. Requires TkPixmap, BLT, and itcl. Contact: (Mark Sterin) What: [incr Tcl] Message Box Where: Description: Motif like MessageBox widget with bitmaps. Contact: (Mark L. Ulferts) What: [incr Tcl] Modifications/Enhancements Where: Description: Unofficial patches to itcl-1.5 that enhance the usability of the package by fixing removal of objects, output of info command, and memory usage. Contact: (Brett Bergquist) What: [incr Tcl] Paned Window Where: Description: Paned window widget using primitive widgets. Contact: (Mark L. Ulferts) What: [incr Tcl] Panner Window Where: From the contact Description: A Panner widget built as a wigwam itcl widget. Does not permit commercial use. Contact: (Jim Wight) What: [incr Tcl] Photo Images Where: Description: New itcl 2.0 command to manipulate photo images. Includes such things as line, rectangle, circle, quantize, put_string (with many fonts), numerous graphical file formats that can be read and written (ppm, pnm, tiff, jpeg, etc.), and many other options. Contact: (Alumno ITInf-Juan Manuel Suarez Perez.) What: [incr Tcl] spreadsheet/table widget Where: From the contact Description: [incr Tcl] 2.0 [incr Widgets] table/spreadsheet widget. Features dynamic columns and rows creation, draggable column dividers, individual cell configurability (colors, fonts, etc.), import/export capability, column and row titles. No formula capability. Contact: (Bret A. Schuhmacher) What: [incr Tcl] stacks and queues Where: From the contact Description: Stacks and queues implemented in itcl arrays. Contact: (David Megginson) What: [incr Tcl] table widget Where: Description: Port of a C++/InterViews table widget to itcl. Contact: (Mumit Khan) What: [incr Tcl] table listbox widget Where: Description: An itcl table widget based on the Tk Listbox. Also includes checkbuttons or radiobuttons in table format. Also requires BLT. Latest version supports Tk 4.0, while the older version supports Tk 3.4. Contact: (Allan Brighton) What: [incr Tcl] Transportable Objects Where: From the contact Description: A itcl class implementing a base transportable object class. Contact: (Donald Edgar - SUN Scotland) ??? What: [incr Tcl] [incr Widgets] Where: Description: [incr Widgets] is an object-oriented mega-widget set which is extends Tcl/Tk, based on itcl 2.0 and itk. iwidgets is included with itcl distribution. Version 2.0.1 is now available from the WWW page. Contact: (Mark Ulferts) What: [incr Tcl] tree widget (Brighton) Where: Description: Tk 3.6 based widget for displaying dynamic trees, written in C++. Includes an itcl interface and a C++ class hierarchy for developing Tcl commands and widgets in C++. tree-4.x supports Tk 4. See for more information on using this widget. Contact: (Allan Brighton) What: [incr Tcl] widget base class (Pryce) Where: Description: A foundation itcl class for Tk widgets. This sets up a number of basic features needed by [incr Tcl] for the Tk widgets. The widget set mimics the Motif GUI with focus highlighting, keyboard traversal, contains a file selection dialog, message box, message bar, scrolled-area, panner, treemap, etc. Contact: (Nat Pryce) What: [incr Tcl] widget base class (Sterin) Where: From the contact Description: A modification of Pryce's itcl widget base class to support proper destroy handling. Contact: (Mark Sterin) What: [incr Tcl] wigwam Where: Description: A 'bundle of tricks' that enables the Tk widgets to be regarded as itcl classes. Does not permit commercial use. Contact: (Jim Wight) (Lindsay Marshall) What: Informix interface Where: From the contact Description: Interface between Informix and Tcl/TK. Contact: What: ISR3 extension Where: From the contact Description: an extension of wishx (Extended Tcl/Extended Tk) that has hooks to handle ISR3.2 tokens, specifically read and write them and to draw them on Tk Canvas widgets. It can be used to build a GUI frontend to ISR3.2 and can be used to fork ISR3.2 tasks and to display ISR3.2 tokens. See for more information. Contact: What: itemOrder Where: From the contact Description: Tk procedure to raise or lower a widget. Contact: (Chenglee "Charlie" Wen) What: Java support Where: Description: TclJava is an interface to allow Tcl and Java to interact. It permits using Tcl as a scripting language for Java and defining Tcl commands in Java. Only works with stand alone Java applications. Contact: (Ken Corey) What: JPEG support for Tk (mikko) Where: From the contact Description: Code for Tk 4.x to interface with the JPEG Group's library, available from the UUNET site. No interface for any of the JPEG options, no function to write images, no support for reporting back detailed errors. Tk code only available from the contact. Contact: (Mikko Työläjärvi) What: Kerberos-authenticated safe RPC Where: In development by the contact Description: A secure distributed processing package using Kerberos. Contact: (Steve Madere) What: Key List printing procedures Where: Description: Pretty printing tclX keylists for human consumption. Contact: (Spencer W. Thomas) What: Key symbol dynamic support Where: From the contact Description: patch to tkBind.c to look up non-standard Key symbols using Xlib. Contact: (Nick Ing-Simmons) What: Key symbols enhanced support Where: From the contact Description: Tk enhancement for additional keysym support. Contact: (Michael Salmon) What: Lamda functions (Demailly) Where: From the contact Description: Tcl code to implement Lamda like functions. Contact: (Laurent Demailly) What: Lamda pure Tcl functions (Noble) Where: From the contact Description: Provide support for unnamed procs in Tcl. Contact: (R James Noble) What: Lamda anonymous procedures (Thomas) Where: From the contact Description: Set of Tcl modifications to allow definition of anonymous (unnamed) procedures Contact: (Spencer W. Thomas) What: Lamda functions (Tromey) Where: From the contact Description: Hack to the unknown function to provide a simple implementation of anonymous Lamda functions. Contact: (Tom Tromey) What: Lamda functions (Wallach) Where: From the contact Description: Simple proc to provide a Lamda-like capability in Tcl. Contact: (Dan Wallach) What: Large numbers of listbox entries workaround Where: Description: A sample "fix" for dealing with large numbers of entries in listboxes. Contact: Unknown What: lassign Where: From the contact Description: Assign elements of list to the given variables. Contact: (Michael Halle) What: Linear sort on list of lists Where: From the contact Description: Alphanumeric comparison for linear sort of lists. Contact: (Matthew Newman) What: linked list procedures Where: From the contact Description: Set of Tcl procedures to maintain a "linked list". Contact: (Art Morel) What: lisp2wish (Kaye) Where: Description: Modified version of Kramer's package. Tested with Lucid Common Lisp 4.[01] but should work on other platforms for Lucid or Allegro. See for more details. Contact: (Jonathan Kaye) What: lisp2wish (Kramer) Where: From the contact Description: Common Lisp to Tk interface. Demonstrates how one may communicate synchronously between a lisp process and a Tcl/Tk process. Contact: (Bryan M Kramer) What: lisp interface to Tk (Lindner) Where: Description: A simple Lisp to Tcl/Tk interface, designed while developing an assistance planner. Contact: (Matthias Lindner) What: list extract into variables Where: From the contact Description: Tcl function which parses a list's elements into a set of variables. Contact: (Nat Pryce) What: list select Where: Description: Simple file selector Contact: (Mario Jorge Silva) What: list remove empty elements Where: From the contact Description: Tcl convenience function whic hremoves empty elements from a list. Contact: (Jeffrey Hobbs) What: list quicksort Where: From the contact Description: short set of Tcl routines which implement the quicksort algorithm over lists using user-defined comparison function. Contact: (Nat Pryce) What: list unique Where: From the contact Description: Create a list containing only unique elements. A whole series of these were posted - Wayne just summarized them. Contact: (Wayne Throop) What: listbox replace command Where: Description: Rather than deleting and inserting items, this new command replaces text in place. Also adds a recolor and flash listbox subcommand. Contact: (Rob Blackbourn) What: listbox with dragging selection of elements Where: From the contact Description: Script to Augment the Tk bindings for Listbox so that click and drag can be used to select elements from the listbox. Contact: (Daniel Paul Zepeda) What: lmatch Where: From the contact Description: tclX code to return subsets of lists, based on patterns. Contact: (John Robert LoVerso) What: Load File DLL Where: From the contact Description: A loadable DLL for wish 4.1, done in Borland 4.5. Adds the Load and Save file dialogs. Contact: (Bob Jamison) What: Logical Font names Where: Description: A Tcl extension that implements logical font names in place of the X based XLFDs and allows attributes to be set without fiddling with the various positions or names in the XLFD. Contact: (Richard Schwaninger) What: Tk login window Where: Description: A Login and Password proc for logging into ORACLE. Could be adapted for other types of login needs. Contact: (Andy Caiger) What: lparse Where: From the contact Description: Split a list into separate variables, in a manner similar to the parsing of arguments to a procedure. Contact: (Glenn Vanderburg) What: Tcl memory management modification Where: From the contact Description: Proof of concept patch to change Tcl from using malloc/realloc and free to using TclAlloc, TclRealloc, TclFree, and a set of those functions using the default memory allocations. With this scheme, one can replace the alloc set with debugging versions, more efficient memory managers, etc. Contact: (J.T. Conklin) What: MacFsbox Where: Description: Single Tcl file that implements a Macintosh-like file selection box. Contact: (Frank Mangin) What: MacGoodies Where: Description: Macintosh-specific extensions to MacTcl. Includes launching other files or applications, making Tcl scripts double-clickable, standard file dialogs, drag manager support. Contact: (Mark Roseman) What: major/minor Tcl command extension Where: From the contact Description: Tcl code allowing one to define subcommands dynamically, even to built-in commands. Contact: (Scott Hess) What: mdw_lib Where: Description: A classlib for [m]ulti-[d]ocument-[w]indow applications. The mdw-lib is a number of Tcl/Tk procedures to create and manipulate multiple childwindows in one Tk application window. Contact: (Thomas Schwarze) What: Menu help Where: Description: A patch to tkMenu 4.0 so that you can attach Tcl code to be executed when a menu entry is entered or left. Contact: (Charlie Crowley) What: Menu item enable/disable Where: From the contact Description: A cople of Tk routines to allow one to enable and disable lists of menu items. Contact: (Hakan Liljegren,8120,000458) What: Common Menu support Where: From the contact Description: Tk code to define menu panes and use those panes in menu bars or popup menus. Contact: (Mark Sterin) What: Metacanvas Where: From the contact Description: Tk extension to read and write canvas metafiles. Contact: (Nat Pryce) What: Metalbase interface Where: From the contact Description: A dirty little interface between Metalbase 5.0 and Tcl. This author also has written a DiamondBase extension. Contact: (Jens Poenisch) What: miniSQL database interface (Blackbourn) Where: Description: A Tcl interface to the Minerva Mini SQL Lightweight Database Engine. Supports multiple connections to one or more database servers, all msql statements, returns select query results either as Tcl lists or interates a script over the resulting rows, access information about databases, tables and columns. Includes a useful mini-monitor (mmon) written in tclX and Tk 3.x. Contact: (Rob Blackbourn) What: miniSQL database interface (Pepers) Where: Description: MiniSQL is a simple database that uses a subset of SQL for data definition and manipulation. It lacks features like join, integrity checks, etc. but has enough to be useful. It can be located in the second URL above. Contact: (Brad Pepers) What: miniSQL database interface (Soderstrom) Where: Description: A Tcl interface to Dave Hughe's MiniSQL (mSQL) database server. Supports multiple connections, multiple databases, all Mini SQL statements, returns SELECT query results as Tcl lists or can interate a script of resulting rows, and provides access to info about databases, tables, and columns. Interfaces to other languages also exist. Contains a new mini-monitor (mmon) written in Tcl 7.3/Tk 3.6. Requires tclX. Contact: (mSQL mailing list) What: mkImagesPane Where: Description: Create a window containing a series of icons in it. Intended mainly for toolbars in its current form. Contact: (Donal K. Fellows) What: Moat/TclMotif (Newmarch) Where: Description: A Tcl shell (moat) which uses Motif widgets rather than Tk widgets. Requires Tcl 7.3 and Motif 1.2.1. Some Motif 2.0 support is present, but it is based on a beta release of Motif 2.0. A mailing list is available on ; send a "subscribe tclMotif your_name" line to join. Contact: (Jan Newmarch) What: Modula 3 interface to Tcl/Tk Where: Description: Interface to Tcl/Tk. See distribution for more details. Contact: Unknown What: moreButtons Where: Description: Small collection of extensions to Tk 3.4 which add a simple triangular button like the ones at the ends of scroll bar and a button which can have both bitmap and text. Contact: (Daniel Simmons) What: Motif entry widget behavior Where: From the contact Description: A Tk entry widget with some of the behavior Motif users expect. Contact: (Will Morse) What: TCLMOTIF (Barlow) Where: Description: Ultrix port of Tcl 6 with Motif extension. Contact: (Doug Barlow, DECwest NSM/AD) What: mouse button release command Where: From the contact Description: A Tk command to indicate explicitly that the mouse button has been released - resolves problems where local grabs and mouse button conflicts are encountered. Contact: (Andy Golding) What: MPEG widget Where: Description: Tk 4.0 widget for displaying the MPEG animation files. Contact: (Peter Parnes) What: Multibyte Support for Tk Where: Description: Tk 3.2 support for 2 byte character strings. Contact: (Kazuro Furukawa) What: Multi-column menus for Tk 3.6 Where: From the contact Description: Patch to implement multi-column menus for tk3.6. Contact: (Thomas Schilz) What: Multiple Extensions Management and Dynamic Linking Where: Description: A small package for dynamic loading of Tcl/Tk extensions as suggested during the Tcl 93 Workshop. Includes a basic Tcl shell, a modified wish shell, and a dynamic extension loader for SunOS. Contact: (Alessandro Bollini) (Alessandro Rubini) What: Multiple interpreter support Where: Description: Create/control Multiple Interpreters from TCL 6, and also supports Object Oriented Programming. Contact: (David Herron) What: Multiple linked listboxes Where: From the contact Description: A Tk procedure providing support for multiple listboxes arranged side by side, all scrilled vertically by a single shared vertical scrollbar, with each having it's own horizontal scrollbar. Contact: (James Synge) What: namespace extension Where: From the contact Description: Prototype Tcl 7.5 extension to provide namespaces, allowing folk to experiment with the syntax and concept. Contact: (Jan Nijtmans) What: NDBM extension (Ellson) Where: Description: Two Tcl/Tk extensions for accessing NDBM files from Tcl/Tk. Contact: (John Ellson) What: NDBM extension (Stringer) Where: Description: Converted tclgdbm into ndbm calls. No new documentation. Contact: (Phil Stringer) What: NeoSoft Tcl Where: Description: Tcl 7.3 set of commands and libraries providing interfaces to disk-based btree and hashtables, TCP/IP server-client objects, along with examples of an IRC robot object, RFC931 authentication object, support for WWW CGI scripts, WWW log file parsing. Also, this includes file requestors, dialog boxes, pull-down menus, class libraries for databases, listboxes, a Tk notepad, progress notifiers, UDP-based object sharing, and more. Package includes Tcl 7.3, Tk 3.6, itcl 1.5, Tcl-DP, tclX, color pixmap and GIF support, and Expect 5.13. Contact: (Neosoft support) What: net CDF Where: Description: Tcl extension for netCDF. (???) Contact: Unknown What: Netscape Remote Where: Description: A Tcl 7.5 dynamic extension that speaks the X property protocol Netscape uses to comminicate with other instances of itself. Tested on SunOS 4.x, NetBSD, and IRIX. Contact: (Ken Hornstein) What: Network Management / SNMP Where: Description: An initial implementation of an API for SNMP. This is currently being reworked in the light of SNMPv2. Please check with the mail- server for current status. Send a help line to the mailserver for details of signing up for the SNMP Tcl mailing list. Also note that packages such as tcl_curses, tcl_dbm, tcl_mib, tclnm, and tcl_snmp or tk_snmp are available. Contact the mailing list to ask for details. Contact: (Mailing service daemon) What: New Menu widget Where: Description: new_menu is a new Tk procedure. It accepts -tag options, supprots dynamic updates to torn-off copies, and allows one to limit the app to only tearing off a single copy. Contact: (Hoshi Takanori) What: NeXTSTEP / Tcl interface (Johnson) Where: Description: This is a strictly NeXTSTEP interface. One of the two palettes included in this release is WWTCLWidgets one take on how to integrate Tcl into the NeXTSTEP development environment. The other palette makes use of the Tcl widget palette. The other WavesWorld palettes, on , integrate Tcl into IB, complete with a suite of UI objects, and a 3D modeling language called eve, which is basically Tcl with a full RenderMan binding. The WWTCLWidgetsPalette includes a WWTCLInterp, which is an objective-C wrapper around a Tcl interp. Contact: (Michael B. Johnson) What: NextStep / Tcl MAB Where: Description: A Tcl 7.3 MAB - unfortunately, I don't speak NextStep so that's about all I know. Contact: Unknown What: niceString Where: From the contact Description: Simple Tcl script which quotes special characters in a string so that they can be written and read to files without fear of evaluation occuring. Contact: (Paisit Thamsakorn) What: NIS+ interface library Where: Description: Super pre-alpha release of a TCL interface SunOS 5.x NIS+ library. Contact: (Matt Wette) What: NLI Tcl extension Where: Description: A Tcl extension supporting the Natural Language Inc.'s natural language database front end. Contact: (De Clarke) What: Numeric Array extension to Tcl Where: Description: Provide support for large in-memory multi-dimensional numeric arrays. Also provides support for applying Tcl functions over each element of the array in a byte code compiled format. Contact: (Sam Shen) (Sam Shen) What: Numeric string comparison Where: Description: A new C subroutine, sstrcmp, which compares it's two string arguments. If the two are numbers, then the return value is done as if the numbers were compares - thus comparing 22 and 3 will return as 3 being less than 22. Contact: What: Non blocking Tcl interpreter Where: Description: no_block is an extension which simulates a non_blocking tclsh, so that when it is backgrounded, it can continue to process data or handle events until the user chooses to interact with it again. Contact: (Brian Joseph Starr) What: Non blocking Tcl pipes Where: From the contact Description: Modification of Tcl 7.4's tclUnixAZ to support opening a pipe in non-blocking mode. Contact: (John Hardin) What: Notifier object Where: From the contact Description: Tcl code which provides you event notification, but not reliant on X events. Purely Tcl code. Contact: (Mark Roseman) What: Objective C / Tcl library Where: Description: A library consists of objects and support functions for communicating between Objective-C and Tcl/Tk. From Tcl you can send messages to Objective-C objects and get textual representations of what's returned. The library requires gcc-2.5.8 or higher, Tcl-7.3, Tk-3.6, libcoll-931026, libreadline and GNU make. There is also a NextSteP version available as well. The 1.0.1.s version is a bug fix version for NeXT. Contact: (R. Andrew McCallum) What: Object Tcl Where: Description: A Tcl extension that allows one to use object oriented programming concepts from within Tcl and provides a tight object-oriented coupling to C++. Can be used freely for non-commercial purposes; email the contact for commercial use licensing details. For more details, see . Contact: (Object Tcl) What: ObjectiveTcl Where: Description: Commercial product (available for a 30 day free trial) which is an advanced object-oriented environment for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep. Provides full access to Objective-C objects and facilitates creating classes and methods at runtime. Contact: What: obTcl Where: Description: A Tcl 7.[45] object and megawidget extension, supporting multiple inheritance, three new storage classes, and fully transparent Tk megawidgets. If you need a Tab/Notebook widget or a Paned Window widget, but only want to use standard Tk, this extension might be for you. Now has an optional loadable accelerator module (which requires use of Tcl 7.5) . Current version is 0.56. Contact: (Patik Floding) What: OglTk Where: Description: Tk widget that allows creation of OpenGL graphics. See for more details. Contact: (Benjamin B. Bederson) What: Open Scripting Architecture (Apple) Extension (Darley) Where: Description: Tcl extension for MacTcl to access Apple's OSA. Contact: (Vince Darley) What: Open Scripting Architecture (Apple) Extension (Endres) Where: Description: Mac Tcl extension for Apple's OSA communication. Contact: Tim Endres What: OpenGL context Tk widget Where: Description: Tk widget that maintains an OpenGL context. Contact: (Michael D. McCool) What: OpenWindows tkBind mod Where: From the contact Description: One line patch to change the Alt modifier from using Mod2 to using Mod4. Contact: (Johnson Michael Earls) What: Oracle extension to Tcl. Where: Description: Provide access to a Oracle Database server from within Tcl. Based on Tcl 7.4; tclX 7.4 recommended. Email the contact for a makefile for Windows that was submitted by a user. Contact: (Tom Poindexter) What: OSE C++ tools Where: Description: Collection of programming tools and class libraries for C++. One of the 3 primary class libraries is OTKLIB, a library of components which builds on other classes in OSE to allow integration of Tcl/Tk library into applications making use of the poll/select based event handling mechanism provided elsewhere in OSE. The event handling system provides access (for C++ code) to file events, signals, timers and alarms. Arbitrary jobs may also be scheduled. A wide variety of hardware, operating systems, and C++ compilers are supported. Also supports ObjectStore and Versant OODBMS. Includes a build environment which simplifies writing makefiles and testing using Purify, Quantify, TestCenter, etc. as well as many other development issues. A mailing list exists as well as online WWW documentation. Documentation is at . Contact: (OSE questions) What: MIT otcl Where: Description: MIT Object Tcl is a dynamic Object-Oriented Programming extension for Tcl, featuring program styles, inheritance, meta objects, automatic method combinations, mixing of C and C++. Works with Tcl 7.[345]. Contact: (David J. Wetherall) What: MIT otcl extensions and patches Where: From the contact Description: Contact has posted a couple of patches, including one that gives "gensym" support - by specifying gensym as the name of the object, a unique object name is returned. Contact: (Joe Hildebrand) What: MIT otcl mega-widget system Where: From the contact Description: A simple otcl mega-widget system. Unsupported. Contact: (Martin Andrews) What: Pacco (Pavia Active-Component Compound Objects) Where: Description: A way to manage binary objects in a distributed environment. Adds image display capabilities to the Tk widget set. Uses Tcl 7.3/Tk 3.6, and prefers use of the shells-1.1 environment. Requires ANSI C and gmake. See more Pacco info at . Contact: (Alessandro Rubini) (Alberto Biancardi) (Alberto Biancardi) What: Pack widget with no shrink option Where: From the contact Description: Code to add a noshrink option to Pack so that each button can be the same size. Contact: (Brent Welch) What: package extension Where: Description: Tcl 7 extension to allow collections of related variables and procedures. Contact: (Cimarron Taylor) What: Pad++ Where: Description: A Tk based Zooming graphical interface for user interaction. Presented at the Tcl/Tk 95 workshop. The above ftp site contains the papers presented on the widget. See also for more details. Contact: (Benjamin B. Bederson) What: parser Where: From the contact Description: com_parser is an addinput like extension which can perform some parsing before the program is resented the input. Contact: (John Carney) What: Password widget (Ivler) Where: From the contact Description: Tk text entry widget that takes a value in a standard password format. Contact: (J.M. Ivler) What: Password widget (Kenny) Where: From the contact Description: Tk entry box widget which does not show it's contents. Should appear in tkauxlib 2.0. Contact: (Kevin B. Kenny) What: Pathname expansion Where: From the contact Description: A Tcl procedure to do pathname expansions. Contact: (Jeffrey Hobbs) What: Pathname resolution Where: From the contact Description: Take a pathname and resolve automounter mangling, etc. Contact: (John Haxby) What: Patparse extension Where: Description: An extension to interface Tcl applications to Open Text Corp's Pat text retrieval software. Contact: (Josh Lubell) What: Perl script invocation sample Where: From the contact Description: Contact posted a procedure called get-folders which invokes Perl with a Perl 'in-line' script. It's an interesting example of the types of things one can do from within Tcl. Contact: (John M. Klassa) What: PBM library suitable for use in Tk Where: Description: A tar file containing libpnmrw routines, which is a library of PBM Plus reading and writing routines which return status values rather than echoing error msgs and exiting, is available. This should make integrating PBM Plus style file formats much easier. Contact: (Jef Poskanzer) What: PCCTS parser extension Where: Description: Simple example of adding a PCCTS parse as a Tcl extension that parses ISO/ANSI Standard C characters, strings and comments, returning the parsed output as a result. Written for Tcl 7.3. Contact: (John D. Mitchell) What: Photo widget Where: Description: widget which displays a monochrome or color image using dithering Contact: (Paul Mackerras) What: Photo widget GIF file handler Where: From the contact Description: A photo image file handler for GIF images. It only works for 8 bit GIF files and interlaced 8 bit files and does not write GIFs. Contact: (Angel Li) What: Pie menus Where: Description: Menus presented as a slice of a pie rather than a box. Contact: (Don Hopkins) What: Pixel position of a character Where: From the contact Description: Get the pixel positions of characters. Contact: (Eric J. Schwertfeger) What: Pixmap support (Albrecht) Where: Description: A Tk 4.0b3 new image type of pixmap. It has to modify the tk4.0b3 directory, unfortunately. It also provides ability to communicate with the Motif window manager and some other add-ons. Contact: (Harald Albrecht) What: Pixmap support (Delmas) Where: Description: tkBitmap.c modification to support pixmap images with -bitmap option. Supports Xpm3, bitmap, and gif. Also supports Display Postscript output. TkPixmap3.6j was the last version of TkPixmap, since Tk 4.x contains in the core support for images. Use the Tk 4.x extension called Pixmap or Tix 4.x to get support for XPM version 3 images. Contact: (Sven Delmas) What: Plotting widget for Tk Where: Description: The plotting widget is a part of PLPLOT, (see "tcl-faq/part4"). Plplot uses the GNU licensing so be aware of this. Contact: for mailing list. (Dr. Maurice LeBrun) What: Popup menu support (Bonfield) Where: From the contact Description: Sample of a Tk 4 popup menu. Contact: (James Bonfield) What: Popup menu support (Noble) Where: From the contact Description: Implementation of a popup menu. Uses button 1. Contact: (R James Noble) What: Portable Tk Where: Description: A proof of portability project to make a version of Tk which is portable between Microsoft Windows 3.1, X Window System and hopefully at some time in the future MacOS, Amiga, and OS/2. For more information, see . Contact: (Portable Tk group) What: PortBox Where: From the contact Description: A Tcl 7.x interface to the XVT GUI toolbox. It is not a complete encapsulation of XVT, though it may be close enough to be useful. It is freely distributable software, even though XVT is not. It was developed with the Mac's MPW 3.2+ and SCO Motif on XVT v3.02. It has not been ported to Windows. PortBox requires an ANSI C compiler. This is NOT a version of Tk for the Mac or Windows. Contact: (Cecil Coupe) What: Postgres extensions Where: Description: C and C++ versions of interface to the UCB libPQ Postgres relational database. Contact: (Robin J. Maxwell) What: Tcl prompt 2 fix Where: From the contact Description: Fix to Tcl 7.4 (?) tclMail so that tcl_prompt2 works again. Contact: (Matthew Rice) What: pTk BLT Table Where: Description: An adaptation for perl/Tk of BLT's Table widget. Contact: (Guy Decoux) What: pTk dial widget Where: From the contact Description: A perl/Tk composite dial widget. Contact: (Roy Johnson) What: pTk EVA Where: From the contact Description: A perl/Tk type of *scratch* buffer, which is dedicated to one liner evaluations. Contact: (KOBAYASI Hiroaki) What: pTk FileSelect widget Where: From the contact Description: A perl/Tk File Select Perl module. It returns the file name as well as a read/write/cancel button indicator. Contact: (Alan Louis Scheinine) What: pTk menu cascade demos Where: From the contact Description: Three perl/Tk examples of use of multi-level cascading menus. Contact: (Frederick L. Wagner) What: pTk RefListbox widget Where: From the contact Description: Modified version of perl/Tk ScrollListbox suitable for perl 5 references (rather than the strings that ScrollListbox wants to use. Contact: (KOBAYASI Hiroaki) What: pTk ScrolledListbox widget Where: From the contact Description: An attempt at a perl/Tk Scrolling Listbox FileSelector redone on top of the LabeledEntry and ScrolledListbox2 widgets, and the updated ScrolledListbox2 and LabeledWidget files with a -labelanchor added to LabeledWidget. Contact: (Fred Wagner) What: pTk subcommand Where: From the contact Description: Perl script that creates a set of files making it possible to make direct calls of subcommands from the external language. Contact: (Ilya Zakharevich) What: pTk Tcl bindings Where: From the contact Description: Tcl bindings for perl/Tk. The bindings are not enough to run the Tk core but are enough for the text widgets. Contact: (Ilya Zakharevich) What: procedure tracing Where: From the contact Description: Tcl procedure tracing package. Contact: (Brian Smith) What: Prolog / Tcl interface Where: Description: Prolog environment which allows one to also manipulate Tcl and Tk objects. BinProlog has now been ported to tk4.0 and Tcl7.4. This adds a high-performance logic programming engine to the Tcl interpreter. This has been tested on SPARCs with SunOS 4.x and 5.x. For 32 bit DOS/Windows 3.1/Windows'95/NT executable, see the .zip file. See for more details. Contact: What: Profile Tcl code Where: From the contact Description: Tcl code snippet used to provide Tcl code. It works by redefining proc. Contact: (Cimarron Taylor) What: programatically set window fonts Where: From the contact Description: Simpel script which allows one to set the fonts of all one's widgets to a default font. Contact: (Joey Mukherjee) What: Progress Bar Where: From the contact Description: A Tk proc that displays a pecentage progress gauge type of widget. Code as posted was for Embedded Tcl but should be able to be used with regular Tk without much modification. Contact: (Dave Harper) What: pset Where: From the contact Description: Proc which allows a parallel set command. Note that at least two versions of this were posted. Contact: (Ted Dunning) What: PV-WAVE interface (Visual Numerics) Where: From the contact Description: Tcl interfaces to PV-WAVE. PV-WAVE 5.0 CD-ROM has the interfaces installed into the directory wave/lib/tcl/. Contact: (Todd Bradley) What: New puts command Where: From the contact Description: Rewritten puts that allows one to send puts output to a file rather than to stdout. Contact: (Jeffrey Hobbs) What: random numbers (Dunning) Where: Description: Tcl 7.[34] random number support. Contact: (Ted Dunning) What: random numbers (Eichin) Where: Description: Tcl random number generator using Knuth 3.6 algorithm to generate 16 bit numbers. Contact: (Mark Eichin) What: random numbers (Libes) Where: From the contact Description: Modified Samon random function for better behavior. Contact: (Don Libes) What: random numbers (Salmon) Where: From the contact Description: Tk script displaying Salmon random function. Contact: (Glen Fullmer) What: random numbers (Schoenwaelder) Where: From the contact Description: Simple Tcl script to generate random numbers. Contact: (Juergen Schoenwaelder) What: random numbers (Shiono) Where: From the contact Description: Simple random number generator. Contact: (Toru Shiono) What: readline-like function support for Tcl (West) Where: From the contact Description: Mods to tclMain to provide support for the GNU readline interface or with a few changes another similar interface. Contact: (Roger West) What: readline-like function support for Tk (Miguel) Where: Description: Tk 3.6 patches for GNU readline support. Contact: (Miguel de Icaza) What: Rectmap Where: From the contact Description: A Tk drawing widget which one can use to create various rectangles. Contact: (Bert Helthuis) What: RenderMan bindings Where: From the contact Description: Set of bindings to external RenderMan toolkit. Contact: (Michael B. Johnson) What: Reregister interpreter name Where: From the contact (or from the mxedit source code) Description: Code allows user to change the name of the interpreter. Contact: (Brent Welch) What: Tcl RPC (Roseman) Where: From the contact Description: Subset of tcl-dp like layer over Tcl 7.5's socket code. Intended as an example of how to use the socket command. Contact: (Mark Roseman) What: Tcl RPC (Shorter) Where: Description: Provides an RPC interface on top of Tcl 7.5's socket command. This provides some level of replacement for Tcl-DP 3.3b1. Contact: (Michael E Shorter) What: Safe Tcl Interpreter (NeoSoft) Where: From the contact Description: Tcl cmds to provide some level of security. Contact: (Karl Lehenbauer) What: Save Tcl variables and procedures Where: From the contact Description: Tcl procedures to save off and load Tcl variables, arrays and procedures. Contact: (Andreas Leitgeb) What: Save Tk widgets Where: From the contact Description: Tk procedure which outpust a graph description of the widget tree for AT&T's 'dot' graph layout system. Contact: (Martin Cleaver) What: Save Variables Where: From the contact Description: Tcl procedures to save off Tcl variables and their values. Contact: (David Martland) What: Scheme extension Where: Description: Schemepkg is a Tcl/Tk package that provides an interface to a Scheme interpreter from within Tcl scripts. This is not a Scheme interpreter for Tk - it is merely a set of Tcl commands that can be used to evaluate Scheme code from within Tcl scripts. It is based on Brent Benson's Libscheme (v 0.3), which is required to use Schemepkg. Contact: (Kathi Fisler) What: scotty Where: Description: scotty is a Tcl interpreter with extensions needed to write network management applications. scotty can send and receive ICMP packets, query DNS server, create TCP and UDP connections, retrieve SNMP information, and process jobs in an event loop. Sample applications are provided for the tkined network editor For more information, see . Contact: (Juergen Schoenwaelder) What: scrollbar color fix Where: From the contact Description: Modification to tkScrollbar to use the background rather than the foreground colors for sensitive scrollbar objects. Contact: (Peter da Silva) What: scrollbar overflow fix Where: From the contact Description: Fix for arithmetic overflow in tkScrollbar (Tk 3.6). Contact: (Farrell McKay) What: scrollgraph Where: Description: Example of adding a scrollbar to blt_graph and scale to control magnification. Contact: (Brad Midgley) What: scwoop Where: Description: Simple Composite Widget Object Oriented Package is implemented in a single sourcable file and uses simple techniques to provide composite widget (mega widget) support to Tk. Uses stooop extension. Runs on all Tcl 7.5 supported platforms. Contact: (Jean-Luc Fontaine) What: sdb Where: Description: Simulation modelling DataBase (spreadsheet) extension. Contact: (Tom Moore) What: searchbox Where: Description: Tk widget written that provides Emacs-like searching bindings and incremental, exact and regular expression searching abilities to Tk text widgets. Contact: (Tom Phelps) What: secure tcl Where: From the contact Description: Extension to provide a send message evaluator Contact: (Thomas A Fine) What: send with timeout subcommand Where: From the contact Description: Patch so that you pass send a timeout value. Contact: (Terri L. Fischer) (Stephen O.Lidie) What: shell widget Where: From the contact Description: Tk proc to create a shell widget. Contact: (Donald Syme) What: showproc.tcl Where: Description: A new showproc Contact: (Lance Ellinghouse) What: SIMEX Where: Description: A C++ class framework for building discreate event simulation models. More information can be found at . Contact: (Jan MArie Lundgren - User Contact) What: SIPP extensions Where: Description: 3D rendering toolkit for Tcl and Tk based on the SImple Polygon Processor (SIPP) using a scan line z-buffer algorithm. Contact: (Mark Diekhans) What: UW Skyblue software interface Where: From the contact Description: Interface from itc 1.5/Tcl 7.3/Tk 3.6 and the UW Skyblue constraint engine. Contact: (Rony Shapiro) What: sneaky_eval Where: From the contact Description: Preprocess arguments before calling RecordAndEval or Eval, surrounding the arguments wtih braces so they won't be sub-evaluated. Contact: (Matt DiMeo) What: SNMP extension (Rose) Where: Description: A SNMP Tcl API documented in "How to Manage Your Network Using SNMP" by Marshall Rose and Keith McCloghrie. Contact: (M Rose) What: SNTL Where: Description: A general Tcl library of procedures. Contains code to produce man pages from Tcl source, conversions from Tcl to C, HTML rendering, generating HTML, handling CGI forms, command line argument processing, a debugging message system, an object system, and various Tk widgets built with the object system. See for more details. Contact: (Sam Shen) (Sam Shen) What: Tcl 7.5 socket code Where: From the contact Description: Wish 4.1/Win DLL which provides a wrapper for some socket functions. The source (included) compiles on both Unix and on Borland w/Winsock. Also available is code for Tcl 7.5 to provide a socket command on SunOS 4.1.3. Contact: (Bob Jamison) What: Speed Up for widgets with text in Tk 3.6 Where: From the contact Description: Update to Tk 3.6 so that all labelled widgets are linked, allowing only one DoWhenIdle call per update cycle and reallocate memory for label only when new text is longer than old. An additional speed up mentioned by drawing directly onto screen. From: panasyuk@cfauvcs5.harvard.edu (Alexander Panasyuk) What: SplitList Where: From the contact Description: Tcl procedure to place arguments into variables; Contact: (Edward L. Karrels) What: Spreadsheet Where: Description: Tk spreadsheet like widget, built using canvas and text widgets. Contact: (Craig Struble) What: SQL (INFORMIX) support Where: Description: A standard document for adding SQL support in Tcl and full blown support for INFORMIX in Tcl/Tk. Now at version 3.0. This version works with Informix versions [457].x as well as Tcl 7.x/Tk 4.x. Contains support for Binary Large Objects and Text datatypes. A windowing version of isql, based on the WISQL package (which requires tclX) is also available. Contact: (Srinivas Kumar) What: Stack procedures Where: From the contact Description: A Tcl based stack implementation. It was done as a demo of the use of variable names as pointers in Tcl. Contact: (Adam M. Costello) What: static variables (Bolik) Where: From the contact Description: A Tcl script to support true static variables for tcl procs. Contact: (Christian Bolik) What: static variables (Lehenbauer) Where: From the contact Description: Tcl procedure to create static Tcl variables. Contact: (Karl Lehenbauer) What: STcl Where: From the contact Description: This Tcl extension that support multiple Tcl intpreters and creation of safe interpreters. It has been incorporated into Tcl 7.5a2. If someone wants to use it with an older Tcl, contact Jacob. There are some out of date versions available on some of the ftp sites but you should contact Jacob to be sure you have all the latest bug fixes. Contact: (Jacob Levy) What: stdio to Windows Where: Description: Code to allow Tcl/Tk programs that read from stdin or write to stdout or stderr to run on MS-Windows without modifcation. Contact: (Gerald W. Lester) What: Tk "sticker" canvas item type Where: Description: A "sticker" is a rectangle with text inside but which truncates if it's too long e.g. after the canvas is scaled. The text can be drawn vertically and/or repeated. You can also draw a (filled) bar; we use it showing percentage of a job's completeness. You may use mouse enter/leave bindings to put the complete text in a status line. No hacks nor patches to Tcl7.4-5/Tk4.0-1 and dynamically loadable. Please use tkSticker-1.0 for Tcl7.2-3/Tk3.5-6! Contact: (Heribert Dahms) What: state sensitive buttons Where: From the contact Description: Make a button's state sensitive to changes in a variable. Contact: (Donald Syme) What: stdout and stderr merged into one output pipeline Where: From the contact Description: Patch to tclUnixUtil that lets you merge the stdout and stderr into one pipe. Contact: (Gordon Chaffee) What: STOOOP Where: Description: STOOOP (Simple Tcl-Only Object-Oriented Programming) scheme. Implemented in a single Tcl source-able file. Uses simple techniques to provide object orientation to Tcl. Includes an HTML class browser and examples of a lifo and fifo stack. Consists of new and delete operators as well as a virtual operator. Object members are held in a global array bearing the class name. This extension is used in tkpiechart-2.x, scwoop, and others. It is also available as a dynamically loadable Tcl extension which works just like the Tcl sourceable version, only faster. Contact: (Jean-Luc Fontaine) What: String handling routines in Tcl Where: From the contact Description: Tcl routines which return the first word of a string, the first non-blank character from a string, an all upper case version of the string, the first n non-blank characters in upper case, a string stripped of leading and trailing blanks (and multiple blanks squeezed down to one), and the n-th word from a string. Contact: (Luc Dupas) What: String search starting at an offset Where: Description: Tcl 7.[34] support to allow searching at some offset in the string. Contact: (Ted Dunning) What: string translate command Where: From the contact Description: Modification to core string command code to add a translate command, which allows one to translate one set of characters into another (like the Unix tr(1) command). Contact: (Steffen M"oller) What: structure-like objects in Tcl (Burdick) Where: From the contact Description: A Tcl command that lets you use arrays similarly to structs. Contact: (Bill Burdick) What: structure-like objects in Tcl (Gerdes) Where: From the contact Description: Set of Tcl procedures to pass structures by reference. Contact: (David Gerdes) What: SunOS dld package Where: From the contact Description: Tcl front end for SunOS 4.x dynamic loading routines. Contact: (Jean-Luc Chatelain) What: supertcltk Where: Description: Set of files for Tcl and Tk as well as a number of extensions designed to support building shared libraries. More info can be found at during off peek hours (GMT 17:00-9:00). Contact: (Xiaokun Zhu) What: sureSend Where: From the contact Description: Short Tk procedure which avoids a timeout and still returns a result. For Tcl 7.3. Contact: (Lindsay F. Marshall) What: SWIG Where: Description: Tool designed to make it easier to integrate functions written in C/C++ with Tcl/Tk, Perl, Python and Guile. Contact: (David Beazley) What: Sybase Tcl Where: Description: Tcl 7.4 (tclX7.4 recommended) interface to Sybase database server, using SQL. Also requires the Sybase Open Client (DB-Library) package. Contact: (Tom Poindexter) What: Sysadmtool Where: Description: Tcl/Tk freely distributable software to suppliment Sun's own admintool and AdminSuite, providing comfortable intuitive tools to do the same tasks as Unix commands and config files. Contact: What: System V ipc Where: Description: Tcl interface to System V IPC facilities. Supports Tcl 7.3, Tk 3.6, tclX 7.3a. Contact: (Joe Kelsey) What: TASH Where: Description: TASH is the implementation of a binding to Tcl from Ada. It permits one to implement Tcl commands in Ada. It can also be used to make the Tcl library functions available to an Ada program. You need to get an Ada compiler such as GNAT (the GNU New York University Ada Translator), version 2.07 or newer. See for more details on GNAT. What: Tcl and Tk shared library support (Brown) Where: Description: Set of patches which assume you use gcc 2.x.x which supports the -shared option Contact: (Philip Brown) What: Tcl and Tk shared library support (Nijtmans) Where: Description: The Plus patch files for Tcl 7.5, Tk 4.1, BLT, and Incr Tcl 2.0 (itcl) add support for static versions, shared library, and standalone versions of wish and tclsh, and they fix the event-handling of Tcl7.5 such that Tk can be loaded dynamically All versions that end with '+' are no longer supported but just provided as is. Note that on the ftp site the already patched Tcl 7.5plus and Tk 4.1plus tar files are available, for folks wanting to use Tkpvm who cannot apply the patches for themselves. Contact: (Jan Nijtmans) What: Tcl and Tk shared library support (Salmon) Where: From the contact Description: Patches to Makefile.in that allows both HP/UX and SunOS 4 to build shared libraries. Contact: (Michael Salmon) What: Tcl debugger (extended Tcl) Where: Description: tclX source level limited debugger (patch to tclX) Contact: (Karl Lehenbauer) What: Tcl debugger (libes) Where: Description: Tcl debugger patterned after gdb and dbx which can be added easily to any Tcl/Tk application. Contact: (Don Libes) What: Tcl debugger (tromey) Where: From the contact Description: An extension to Libes' Tcl debugger which provides filename and line number associations with statements. Contact: (Tom Tromey) What: Tcl dynamic extension loader package Where: Description: This is an extension to Tcl to use the Perl dynamic loading extension from Perl 5.0. It is portable to a number of platforms. Requires Tcl 7.3 and itcl 1.5. More info can be found at during off peek hours (GMT 17:00-9:00). Contact: xiaokun@aero.gla.ac.uk (Xiaokun Zhu) What: Tcl extension tools Where: Description: Tcl 6.x extension to provide a development environment to ease implementing new commands. Contact: (David Herron) What: Tcl getopt (Earls) Where: Description: A Tcl-based getopt function. Contact: (Johnson Michael Earls) What: Tcl getopt (Mangin) Where: From the contact Description: A Tcl based getopt function. Contact: (Frank Mangin) What: Tcl getopt (Roydhouse) Where: From the contact Description: A Tcl getopt function with expanded options. Contact: (Aaron Roydhouse) What: Tcl invocation (Newman) Where: From the contact Description: A C routine which invokes Tcl command passing the appropriate escaped strings without Tcl_Eval. Contact: (Matthew Newman) What: Tcl invocation (Nichols) Where: From the contact Description: A C routine which invokes Tcl command passing the appropriately escaped strings. In this way one need not call Tcl_Eval(). Contact: (David Nichols) What: Tcl IPC interface Where: Description: Implements Tk's send command without requiring Tk or X11. Contact: (Kim Gillies) What: Tcl Loadable Extensions (TLE) Where: Description: Beta release of Tcl Loadable Extensions, which can be loaded at runtime by a Tcl command. Contact: (Harco de Hilster) What: Tcl Packages Where: Description: Provide ability to create enclosed groups of code which the user can load as a unit. Contact: (Patrick C. Beard) What: Tcl SQL Where: Description: tclsql is an INGRES specific Tcl interface to SQL (Structured Query Language). Contact: (Christopher Hylands) ??? What: tcl-cgi Where: Description: Small extension allowing Tcl programmers to write CGI programs which can handle the POST method of data. Enables a secure WWW interface to Tcl applications. Contact: (Wessel Kraaij) What: Tcl-DP Where: Description: Tcl Distributed Programming - a public domain extension which adds TCP/IP connection management, remote procedure call and distributed object protocols to Tcl/Tk. Version 3.0 is a major rewrite. The roseman file is an alpha port of Tcl-DP to PowerMac. Contact: or What: Tcl-DP fix (Krakowiak) Where: From the contact Description: A fix to distribObj.tcl so that clients names are kept. I don't know if this and the next are related or not. Contact: (Sacha Krakowiak) What: Tcl-DP fix (Pauba) Where: From the contact Description: A fix to dp_UndistributeObject. I don't know if this and the previous fix are related or not. Contact: (kevin.l.pauba) What: Tcl-DP with caller id Where: From the contact Description: A modification of rpc.tcl to call the in.indentd process to see who is making a request. Contact: (Tom Sandholm) What: Tcl-DP with Multicast IP Where: Description: A version of Tcl-DP 3.2 which is patched to include support for multicast IP communications. It also has an early prototype of a late-binding RPC system. Contact: (Jon P. Knight) What: TclIR Where: From the contact Description: An extension to add CORBA calls (via Dynamic Invocation Interface with the help of the Interface Repository). Uses Orbix CORBA client library. Written in C++. Tested on Solaris 2.4 with OrbixMT 1.3.4. Contact: What: Tcl/Tk Japanized; support for Kanji Where: Description: Patch to enable Tk 4.0p2/Tcl 7.4p2 or Tk 3.6/Tcl 7.3 to use Kanji. The widget-demo is a _replacement_ for the default widget demo, displaying text in Kanji. Contact: (Japanized Tcl Project) What: tcl_object Where: Description: C++ code which allows you to develop a bi-directional interface to Tcl. Especially designed for using with the xf interface builder. Contact: (Stephan Herrmann) What: Tcl_SetVar2 fix for append operations Where: From the contact Description: Fix for above code so that read traces are invoked on variables. Contact: (Steve Jankowski) What: tcl_streams Where: From the contact alt.sources archives (Apr 90) Description: System V stream I/O library for Tcl Contact: (Peter da Silva) What: Tcl_Vresult Where: From the contact Description: ANSI C function to add the ability to return a result based on sprintf style arguments. Contact: (Joe Hildebrand) What: tcl2array Where: Description: This package assists a developer in creating stand-alone Tk/Tcl applications. This treats Tcl/Tk as truly embedded - the user of an application using this package won't have to install Tcl/Tk before using the application. Contact: (Joe Touch) What: tclbind Where: Description: Code to perform bindings of Tcl commands to C++ member functions. Required tclX, but can also support TCL-DP. Contact: (John Menges) What: tclcompare Where: Description: Compare two lists for equality Contact: (David Herron) What: TclDii Where: Description: Integration of Tcl with IONA's Orbix ORB. This is a Tcl front-end to the CORBA Dynamic Invocation Interface, extending Tcl so that scripts can send CORBA service requests. Contact: (Bernhard Merkle) What: tclDore Where: Description: An in-progress Tcl binding for the Dore 3-D graphics library. This binding allows you to exercise most of the Dore API. This is an alpha release. Contact: (Roger Critchlow) What: tcldot/tkdot Where: Description: This is an extension which uses the graph visualization tools described in the book _Practical Reusable UNIX Software_. graphviz handles the manipulation, display and interaction with directed graphs. Graphs can be rendered in PostScript, MIF, HPGL, PCL, ISMAP, DOT and GIF. Spencer Thomas's tcl-gd extension is included for GIF manipulation. This includes a Tk browsing capability. For more information, see . Contact: (John Ellson) What: tclIV Where: Description: Tk wrappers for InterViews 3.1 widgets. Contact: (Mark Roseman) What: tclMIDI Where: other comp.sources.misc archives Description: Tclm is Tcl extended with Standard MIDI file manipulation commands. Version 2.1a8 is the current alpha version. It will be released once the Windows port of the software is verified and the SMPTE support is added. Contact: (Mike Durian) What: tclMotif extension of a Matrix widget Where: From the contact Description: Changes to tclMotif 1.2 to integrate the XbaeMatrixWidget (a freely distributable Motif efficient, editable matrix widget) into tclMotif. Contact: (Sriram Srinivasan) What: tclOBST Where: Description: Tcl library for the OBST persistent object management system. Contact: What: TclPro Where: Description: Light-weight Tcl/Tk to Prolog interface using Unix pipes. Contact: (Chris Fox) What: tclprof Where: Description: Tcl performance profiling facility. Works with Tcl 6.4. Comes as a part of tclX, but does not require it. Contact: (Mark Diekhans) What: TclProp Where: Description: A set of functions for declarative programming using data propagation. Allows you to declare relationships amoung global variables that are enforced by the TclProp system. Also includes a trigger interface and a mechanism for creating variables that are tied to widget attributes or other states. Works with Tcl 7.3 and Tcl 7.4. Contact: (TclProp admin email) What: tclRawTCP Where: Description: Raw TCP package for Tcl/Tk based on tcpConnect. Contact: (Vivek Khera) What: TclRl Where: Description: A Tcl extension to add a readline Tcl command, which works like a [gets stdin] command but calls GNU readline() instead, allowing you to do history edits, run built in functions and user defined Tcl scripts bound to key sequences, use different key maps, etc. Version 0.4a supports Tcl 7.[34]. Contact: (Dimirty Kloper) What: tclsap Where: Description: Extensions to Tcl 7.4/Tk 4.0 to allow interactive or script based access to a SAP R/3 system through RFC calls. Allows one to develop CGI-BIN access through which SAP can be accessed. Contact: (Garth Kennedy) What: TclSock Where: Description: A loadable Tcl 7.4.1 or greater library that provides a direct interface to the socket system calls. It works with Linux and Windows NT and probably will work on other systems. Requires Winsock TCP/IP stack, Borland 4.5 or a networking kernal. Includes a simple Tcl news reader to demo how to use tclsock. Contact: (Tony Bringardner) What: tclsockets Where: From the contact Description: Tcl extension to BSD sockets Contact: (Lance Ellinghouse) What: tclStruct Where: Description: Tcl 7.4 and Tcl 7.5 extension for accessing complex data structures. Contact: What: tclTCP Where: Description: Tcl 7.[45] based BSD socket library extension. Allows Tcl/Tk applications to communicate without using Tk's "send" command. It does not require patching the TCL or Tk sources and does not require Tk or X. It provides a simple event handling capability for TCL applications to handle file I/O and "whenIdle" calls. Note that non-TCL applications can send commands to a TCL interpreter via a socket if the TCL application uses tclTCP. Contact: (Joe VanAndel) What: tclTCP+ Where: Description: Adds inetd, timer, fork, nowait and other commands to tclTCP. Contact: What: tclvogle Where: Description: Tk [23]-D drawing widgets (alpha) based on very old Tk and Tcl. Contact: (Mike Hoegeman) Contact: (Steve Wahl) What: TclVSdb Where: Description: Very Simple DataBase package. Uses only Tcl 7.3 (compatible with Tcl 7.[45]). Provides multiple hierarchical tables per database and multi-user concurrent access with locking. Elements may be any Tcl array or list. Database files are standard ASCII and are portable between platforms. See for more details. Contact: (Steven B. Wahl) What: TclVSrpt Where: Description: TclVSrpt is a set of Tcl 7.[345] procedures for creating reports or other documents from Tcl applications. Output is switch selectable for ASCII or Postscript. TclVSrpt has extensive styling and page layout controls. Depends on Tcl 7.[345]. See for more details. Contact: (Steve Wahl) What: tcl-www Where: Description: A Tcl support library that works with dtclsh and provides support for embedded Tcl tags in HTML template files, cleaning plain text so it is displayable as HTML, encoding URLs from within Tcl, and more. Contact: (Kevin B. Kenny) What: Extended Tcl (tclX) Where: Description: An essential package of extensions for Tcl/Tk. This package creates interpreters known as tcl and wishx. It is also known as tclX and tkX. Version 7.4a-p2 is compatible with Tcl 7.4/Tk 4.0. Adds advanced code loading facility, new programming constructs, debugging and profiling facilities, unix access commands, file i/o facilities including awk-like scanning for strings, extended list and a new key list capability, extended character and string manipulation commands, and time and date manipulation commands. The tclX 7.5.0-b3 is the lastest patch version for the Tcl 7.5/Tk 4.1 release. See also . Contact: What: Extended Tcl (tclX) 7.5a-a2 patches for Linux Where: From the contact Description: Patches to get tclX to work on Linux/ELF system. Contact: (Paul Raines) What: tclX dynamic library patches Where: Description: Patches to tclX 6.x to support GNU dld (v. 3.2.3) dynamic libraries. Contact: (Adrian J Ho) What: tclXt Where: posted to comp.lang.tcl - other locations unknown Description: Tk hooks to allow calls to Xt routines. Contact: Unknown What: tclXtsend Where: Description: Allow Xt applications to send msgs to Tk applications. Version 1.0 works with Tk 3.x and version 2.0 works with Tk 4.x. Contact: (Jan Newmarch) What: tcpConnect Where: Description: Tcl/Tk TCP extensions Contact: (Pekka Nikander) What: TDebug Where: Description: Tk debugger that one sources into their scripts. Allows single stepping, etc. Contact: (Gregor Schmid) What: testevent Where: From the contact Description: Code for one of Tk 4.0's extended test commands, testevent, which allows one to generate arbitrary events. Contact: (John Ousterhout) What: textView Where: From the contact Description: Provide a scrolling window on the last few lines of a stream. Sort of a window on a combination of less and tail -f. Contact: (Stuart Clayman) What: text widget 16 bit text support Where: Description: tkFonts.c change to make it display Chinese text. Contact: (Carl Y.P. Yau) What: text widget command option Where: From the contact Description: Add to Tk 3.6 text widget a -command option which is executed when characters are inserted or deleted from the widget. Contact: (Hoshi Takanori) What: text widget enhancements Where: Description: A variety of constrained Tk text widget, placing a set of wrappers around the text widget. Contact: (John Robert LoVerso) What: text widget improved bindings Where: From the contact Description: Improved text widget bindings, allowing you to get the pixel XY coordinates of an index, move up and down one display line, and select text using shift cursor movements. Contact: (Eric J. Schwertfeger) What: text widget read-only regions Where: From the contact Description: Based on the sample code in Dr. Ousterhout's book, this code was updated for Tk 4.0. It allows one to tag regions of a text widget as read-only. Contact: (Tom Phelps) What: text widget read-only tags Where: Description: Modified text class bindings so that text marked with readonly tag cannot be modified. Contact: (Bruno Serra) What: text widget with relative tab position support Where: Description: Changes to Tk 4.0 files tkText.c, tkTextDisp.c and tkText.h so that one can specify relative tab positions. Contact: (Alan G. Yoder) What: text widget replacement Where: Description: Drop in replacement for Tk 4's text widget. Provides all of the normal text widget functionality, along with a text annotation type of 'block', which allow geometry management over the text within the rows of the block. Allows one to do things like fractions, radicals, labeled equations, editable buttons, etc. Doc on the new text widget can be found at Version 0.4.* is based on Tk 4.0 text widget. You must patch Tk 4.0 text widget for this functionality. Version 0.5 now available. Contact: (Ilya Zakharevich) What: text widget underline colors Where: Description: Modification to text widget to support color for tagged text and different color for underline. Contact: (Francois-Xavier Fornari) What: text widget up and down arrow support Where: From the contact Description: Modification of tkTextUpDownLine procedure in text.tcl to allow the up and down bindings to move one line at a time rather than one text unit at a time. Contact: (Donald Craig) What: text widget with arbitrary text Where: From the contact Description: New function to add to tkText.c which can be called with any arbitrary text - no special characters to be evaluated by the Tcl interpreter. Contact: (Karl B. Schwamb) What: text widget with unlimited undo history (Alexander) Where: From the contact Description: Procedures to add an unlimited undo history to a text widget. Contact: (Paul Alexander) What: text widget with unlimited undo history (Fontaine) Where: Description: Procedures to add an unlimited undo history to the Tk4 text widget. Contact: (Jean-Luc Fontaine) What: text widget word modifier Where: From the contact Description: Modifications to core to allow one to define the characters that can comprise a word. This allows one to include umlauts, sharp ss or other special characters. Contact: (Martin Weiser) What: theObjects Where: Description: Small prototype-oriented object system. Contact: (Juergen Wagner) (Juergen Wagner) What: this Where: From the contact Description: An easy way to build Tcl objects. Contact: (Charles Ballance) What: Tcl thread support (Chew) Where: Description: A set of changes to Tcl 7.3 to make it more thread-sturdy. Contact: (Earl Chew) What: Tcl thread support (Jankowski) Where: Description: Set of Tcl commands for the Solaris 2.[34] thread library. Compatible with Tcl 7.4/Tk 4.0 and patches p1/2. Doc indicates that SparcWorks 3.0 or greater C compiler is required. OTher configurations may work, but have not been tested. Contact: (Steve Jankowski) What: Tcl_FormatCmd fix for SGI PowerChallenge Where: From the contact Description: Patch to Tcl_FormatCmd so that it works on the SGI. Contact: (Ed Karrels) What: Tihsho Where: Description: Set of Tcl procs to allow C++ like exception handling. Does not permit commercial use. Contact: (Lindsay Marshall) What: Time and date routines (Critchlow) Where: Description: A collection of time and date computations written in Tcl. solves the problem of converting Unix clock tics into calendar date, along with several others. Contact: (Roger Critchlow) What: Time and date routines (Ganley) Where: From the contact Description: A couple of simple C functions which return the current time and date string - can be linked into one's Tcl interpreter. Contact: (Michael Ganley) What: Time string split Where: From the contact Description: Convert an argument of number of seconds into a list of year, month, day, hour, minutes and seconds. Contact: (Hume Smith) What: timeout Where: From the contact Description: Extended Tcl 7.3 procedure to execute a script with a timeout, similar to catch in invocation. Contact: (Brian Newman) What: Tix widget set Where: Description: Tix is an extension to Tk that includes more than 30 new widgets, including ComboBox, Motif style FileSelectBox, MS Windows style FileSelectBox, PanedWindow, NoteBook, Hierarchical Listbox, Directory List/Tree View, Spin Control widget, Balloon help window and many more. Tix also has built-in support for XPM images. A Form geometry manager makes it easy to lay-out your interface using Motif Form-like attachment rules. More information available at as well as the Tix mailing list archive at . Tix 4.x is written in C, and requires building a new interpreter based on Tk 4.0/Tcl 7.4. Tix 4.x now works with Embedded Tk as well. Tix 4.0 has license terms similar to the Tcl/Tk license terms. Tix 4.1 however has a more restrictive license. See for details. Tix 4.1, as pointed to above, also will work on Windows machines. Contact: with the line "subscribe tix-info your_email". Send messages to the Tix mailing list at . (Individual support) What: Tix table widget Where: From the contact Description: A poor man's table-like widget example. Probably doesn't require Tix, but the posted version, in Tk 4.0, used a Tix wish. Contact: (Ted Holden) What: Tk 3 tear off menus under Tk 4 Where: From the contact Description: Patch to provide support for both the old and new tear off menus. Contact: (John Robert LoVerso) What: Tk and C++ Where: Description: A patch to make tk3.3 usable with C++. Contact: (Ken Yap) What: Tk and Motif event handling in one process Where: From the contact Description: A complete example of a Motif application which also processes the events for a Tk interpreter. Contact: (Mike David Bennett) (??) What: Tk auxiliary library of bindings Where: Description: Extensive set of Tk enhancements to add more Motif compatibility in keyboard bindings, as well as add validation capabilities and other things. See . Contact: (Kevin B. Kenny) What: Tk benzier cubic splines with arbitrary control points Where: From the contact Description: A proc to calculate curve points Contact: (Tom Flores) What: Tk Emacs bindings (Karrels) Where: From the contact Description: A set of Tk bindings to look like Emacs. Contact: (Edward L. Karrels) What: Tk Emacs bindings (Weissman) Where: From the contact Description: A set of Tk bindings for Text and Entry widgets to look like Emacs. This includes a kill ring, keyboard macros, undo, numeric prefixes and multikey chords. Contact: (Mark Weissman) What: Tk Emacs widget Where: Description: Emacs widget for the Tk widget set. Allows emacs-lisp code to be sent to emacs and Tcl code to be sent from emacs to Tcl. Works with tk2.3 and tk3.0 (and should work with tk3.1 when it is available). Contains patches for GNU Emacs 18.58 and 18.59. Contact: (Sven Delmas) What: Tk equivalent of XTextWidth Where: From the contact Description: Tk wrapper for XTextWidth that computes the width of a medium width character in pixels. Contact: (John May) What: Tk focus follows pointer Where: Description: Tk 3.[12] patch to implement focus follows pointer and key propagation model. Contact: (Kennard White) What: Tk menu insert subcommand Where: From the contact Description: Tk 3.6 menu widget insert subcommand allowing you to insert anywhere in the menu. Contact: (Tom Tromey) What: Tk menu postcommand fix Where: From the contact Description: Tk 3.6 tkMenu -postcommand fix for keeping menu on-screen. Contact: (Tom Tromey) What: Tk mwm enhancements Where: From the contact Description: Tk patches to allow you to set the mwm decoration, add protocols to the mwm menus, etc. Contact: (Ioi Kim Lam) What: Tk private color maps (Crocker) Where: From the contact Description: Some C++ code which trys to determine when to allocate a private color map, and when doing so, attempts to allocate the colors in a way to minimize flashing. Contact: (Bill Crocker) What: Tk private color maps (Kliese) Where: Description: Add private colormaps (size 256) to Tk. Contact: (Rainer Kliese) What: Tk raster widget Where: Description: A Tk drawing bitmap graphics widget . There is support for a backing pixmap, points, rectangles, lines, and polygons. There is also an extension to raster called image, which allows to you manipulate areas of the pixmap and even load and save them as ppm images. Contact: (Claudio Esperanca) What: Tk RichText Format widget Where: Description: Tk based Microsoft RichText File Format widget reader (pre-alpha). Contact: (Ian Smith) What: Tk send reliability enhancement Where: From the contact Description: A wrapper for Tk's send to provide a more reliable RPC mechanism. Most importantly, the typical timeout of the send is avoided. It is called rpc.tcl and should soon show up on archives. Contact: (Robert LoVerso) What: Tk send security enhancement Where: From the contact Description: If PARANOID_SEND is defined at compile time, check before every send command to see if an xhost has occured. Contact: (Jay Sekora) What: Tk table widget Where: Description: Written in C, variable width table columns and rows, titles, attaches to an array variable, supports standard Tk fonts, reliefs, support scrollbars, has tag styles, in-cell editing, different drawing modes, can stretch rows and columns. Contact John Ellson for patches to Table_Display.c and the tkAppInit to get it to work with Tk 4.0. Contact: (Roland King) What: Tk terminal widget Where: From the contact Description: A Tk terminal emulator-like widget. Contact: (Rudi Stouffs) What: Tk triangular button Where: From the contact Description: Tk code for triangular buttons on scrollbars, or whatever. Contact: (John Robert LoVerso) What: Turndial widget Where: Description: A Tk 4 turndial widget (circular knob with mark on it that can be rotated to set a value). Contact: (Marco Beijersbergen) What: Tk without X (beta) Where: Description: A version of Tk without the X dependent code. Allows the construction of programs using send, after and a few of the other non-X specific commands. Useful to use with Tcl-DP. Contact: (Brian Smith) What: tkbusy Where: From the user Description: Tk procedure to disable widgets while an application is busy. Contact: (Michael Schumacher) What: tkEntry secure modification Where: Description: Patch to tkEntry so that it doesn't display text being entered - useful for entry of passwords, etc. Contact: (Gary Thomas) What: tkFScale Where: Description: Tk 3.3 Scale widget which uses floating-point values. Contact: (Paul Mackerras) What: tkGLXwin Where: Description: Tk 3.x Silicon Graphics Graphics Library widget interface. Note there is an Xlib emulation of SGI's GL at . Contact (Fred Hucht) for details. Contact: (Michael Halle) What: tkInput Where: Description: A transparent input-only Tk widget. Contact: (Mark G. Christenson) What: TkMegaWidget Where: Description: Support new Tcl/Tk widgets allowing you to attach minor commands and options to a widget, or even a private interpreter. Version 4.0b is available from the WWW page. Contact: (Sven Delmas) What: TkMobal Where: Description: TkMobal embeds Mobal functionality into a Tcl/Tk interface. Mobal (see also "tcl-faq/part04") is an environment for incremental modelling. Contact: (Sven Delmas) What: tkMovie Where: Description: A Tk 3.x extension which provides a widget to display and manipulate mpeg video streams. See for more details. Contact: (Ian Campbell) What: Tkoglx Where: Description: Experimental extension to support a small subset of Open GL. Use tkGLX if you need everything. The one from princeton supports Tk 4.0 and supports all possible visuals available from OpenGL. Contact: (Ioi Kim Lam) (Dan Wallach) What: Tkperldb Where: Description: A Perl/Tk extension for debugging. Contact: Unknown What: Tkpvm Where: Description: An interface between a parallel virtual machine library and Tk/Tcl. Each process in the virtual machine communicates through a pvm-channel based send command rather than Tk's X11 based send command. Depends on Tcl 7.5plus, Tk 4.1plus, and PVM 3.3.10. For a PVM home page see . For more info on Tkpvm, see . Contact: (Jan Nijtmans) What: TkReplay Where: Description: Provides a Tk record and replay facility for your Tk program. Adds a WarpPointer command as well. See for more detail. Contact: (Charlie Crowley) What: tkReport Where: Description: A Tcl 7.4 extension to support generation of text printed reports from a Tcl program. Reports are output in PostScript. Features include structured page layout, header, footer, and page number support, text justification, line positioning commands, and graphical line drawing operations. Contact: (Gerald B. Rosenberg) What: tkScale modifications Where: From the contact Description: Modifications to tkScale so that command is not executed until ButtonRelease, allow an optional list of labels to use for values, and add a single step click button. Contact: (John Caron) What: tkScaleButtonDown replacement Where: From the contact Description: Tk 4.0 procedure which allows you to make scales which position to the number where you click. Contact: (Mark A Harrison) What: TkSM Where: Description: A Mesa/OpenGL 3D modeling widget extension for Tcl 7.[45]/Tk. This provides no direct access to OpenGl routines. Includes VRML support, line and point models, material and normal bindings on a per-vertex basis. For more detail, as well as fixes, see the introduction at . Contact: (Irving Hsu) What: TkSteal Where: Description: Package to allow embedding of external applications (like emacs, ghostscript, xterm, etc.) into a Tk widget without changing the application. Replaces TkEmacs. TkSteal 4.0c is available from the WWW page. Contact: What: tkText (Tk 1.3 compatible - Cole) Where: Description: A Tk 1.3 tkText text widget and installation patches Contact: (Derrick C. Cole) What: tkText (Tk 1.3 compatible - Christenson) Where: Description: A Tk 1.3 tkText text widget Contact: (M. G. Christenson) What: tkText (Tk 2.0 compatible - Raines) Where: Description: A tkText text widget with many EMACS-like bindings such as multi-level undo with tags, argument keys, hard auto-filling and paragraph filling, a mark ring, multi-level kill buffer and xterm-like mouse bindings. Contact: (Paul Raines) What: tkText (Tk 4.0 compatible - Raines) Where: Description: tkBindEnhanced includes many enhanced bindings for text and entry widgets for Tk 4.x. These include multi-level undo that handles tags (but no embedded windows yet), hard auto-filling, multi-level kill buffer, xterm-like mouse bindings, a mark ring, incremental and dialog search, rectangle editing, and an emacs-like minibuffer. See also for a complete listing of what bindings exist. Contact: (Paul Raines) What: tkText (Tk 2.0 compatible) Where: Description: A Tk 2.0 tkText text widget Contact: (M. G. Christenson) What: TkVSform Where: Description: A Tk 4.[01] based forms generation package that overcomes much of Tk's complexities and inconsistencies. All widget names, geometry management, and window manager interaction handled automatically by the package. Depends on Tk 4.[01]. See for further details. Contact: (Steven B. Wahl) What: TkWindow access Where: From the contact Description: Trivial function to get at the Tk_Window of an event. Contact: (Nick Ing-Simmons) What: Tooltalk interface Where: Description: A Tcl/Tk interface to Tooltalk based on Tcl 7.4 and Tk 4.0. Contact: (Cedric Beust) What: Tooltalk interface mods (Boyer) Where: From the contact Description: Set of patches to toocl-1.4 so that it works with Tcl 7.3. Contact: (Paul D. Boyer) What: Tooltalk interface mods (Wette) Where: From the contact Description: Set of diffs to get toocl to work under Tcl 7. Contact: (Matt Wette) What: ToolTips Where: From the contact Description: Provides a way to allow one to associate Microsoft-like tooltips to icons in a Tk application. Contact: (Paul Boyer ) What: transient window creation support Where: From the contact Description: Tk procedures for creating simple transient top-level windows. Contact: (Kevin B. Kenny) What: transpose elements within a list of lists Where: From the contact Description: A pure Tcl (slow) script that takes a Tcl list of lists where the number of elements are monotonically non-increasing and transposes the elements. Contact: (Kevin B. Kenny) What: Tcl trap command Where: From the contact Description: C code that can be linked into a Tcl interpreter to allow one to trap signals. Original author unknown. Contact: (Sani R. Nassif) What: Trace Semantics Where: Description: tclDMT is an improved set of trace semantics, as documented in a paper presented at the Tcl 95 workshop. To see more info, see . Requires Tcl 7.4. Contact: (Adam Sah) What: Trace examples Where: Description: Some useful working examples of Tk 4.0 traces. Shows how to ensure that values exist when doing a read trace, etc. Contact: (Jeffrey Hobbs) What: Tk Tree Where: From the contact Description: Basic Tcl/Tk tree mechanism for < 1000 items or large but static trees. Contact: (Ken Corey) What: Tree Table Where: Description: C code to link into your interpreter which allows you to display n-ary trees in a tabular hierarchical form. Contact: (Michael Moore) What: Triangular Button Where: Description: A triangular button using a mostly hidden scrollbar. Contact: (John Robert LoVerso) What: turtle graphics Where: Description: Extended Tcl/Tk simple Logo-like turtle graphics package. Contact: (R James Noble) What: TWO - Tcl With Objects Where: Description: Tcl-based simple objects. Instance variables are accessed just like local variables. Contact: (Andrew Ginter) What: UAE Where: Description: Unix Amiga Emulator, which uses Tcl 7.4/Tk 4.0 to provide a control panel. Requires the user to own a Kickstart ROM image. UAE has been ported to MS-DOS, MacOS, BeBox and NextStep. Contact: (Bernd Schmidt) What: modified unknown procedure Where: From the contact Description: This version of unknown, based on the tclX7.3b one, works around a bug in the default Tcl unknown procedure. Contact: (Dean Brettle) What: uncgi Where: From the contact Description: Tcl procedure to parse the CGI form data. Contact: (Laurent Demailly) What: user event package Where: Description: Implement user generated events in Tk, which allow one to do event driven programming separate from X events. Contact: (Michael Halle) What: validate Where: Description: example of using bindings to validate entry widget data. Contact: (Joe VanAndel) What: varframe Where: Description: Tcl 6.4 extension to provide variable environment language-visible objects (user defined call frames) within Tcl. Contact: (Cimarron Taylor) What: variable argument process Where: From the contact Description: Tcl procedure (args) to make handling variable number of procdure arguments and keywords easier to process. Contact: (Juergen Wagner) What: vector Where: From the contact Description: C code to add a vector command, which associates a C double array with a Tcl array, enforcing itneger indices and floating point values. Contact: (Sani R. Nassif) What: vertical text writing Where: From the contact Description: C code to add a rotateText command, which displays rotated text in a bitmap. Contact: (Mark Weissman) What: virtual listbox Where: From the contact Description: This is a derivative of tkListbox.c which implements the Tk vlistbox command. With it, one can maintain a small cache of in memory items, with the rest maintained on a disk file. It does not currently support multiple selection. Contact: (Greg Goodman) What: visu Where: Description: A Tk 4.[01] Unix image widget geared to 2D gray-scale images. Supports graphical formats of VIEW, KHOROS1, GIF, PPM, PGM. Contact: (Pierre-Louis Bossart) What: Visual Tcl Where: Description: A MultiPlatform port of SCO Visual Tcl 1.0. Extends the Tcl 7.3/tclX 7.3 environment with commands to support Motif 1.2. Contact: (Zbigniew Perlinski) (David Young) What: Visualization Toolkit Where: Description: An object-oriented 3D visualization system written in C++ with full bindings for Tcl/Tk. It has rendering support for OpenGL, Starbase, GL, XGL, and X. It will run on UNIX, Windows96 and WindowsNT. See for more details. This is the code from the Prentice Hall book "The Visualization Toolkit, an Object-Oriented Approach to 3D Graphics" (ISBN 013199837-4). Contact: (Kenneth M Martin) What: VROOM binding Where: From the contact Description: The Volume Rendering using Object-Oriented Methods project is a C++ class library aimed at multi-modal visualization. The Tcl/Tk bindings for the package (TclVroom) are in development. For more information see . Contact: (Karel Zuiderveld) What: VUW widgets Where: Description: Tk bargraph, dial, pie, strip chart widgets written by some folk in Austrailia. Steve ported the widgets to Tcl/Tk 3.6. The code has been inherited by De who is in need of someone to port them to Tk 4.x. Contact: (Steve Hocking) (De Clarke) What: vwtable Where: Description: A table widget Contact: (Aaron Jackson) What: waitbox Where: From the contact Description: A simple Tk 'widget' which displays a dialog to wait until a process is complete. Contact: (Richard S. Labarca) What: warp (Fine) Where: From the contact Description: Tk warp command to move the mouse point to specific locations. Contact: (Thomas A Fine) What: warp (Goldberg) Where: From the contact Description: C code to link into Tk to add a WarpPointer command to move the mouse to a particular screen position in a widget. Contact: (Jay Goldberg) What: Tk WhenIdle extension Where: From the contact Description: Provide the user access to Tk_DoWhenIdle from Tcl rather than just from C. This gives the user the ability to tell Tk to execute some code only when there is free time. Contact: (Edward L. Karrels) What: widget2ps Where: From the contact Description: Walk a widget tree and query text carrying widgets for their positions and contents. Output the resulting PostScript to either a string or a file. Contact: (przemek klosowski) What: widgetTree Where: From the contact Description: Provide the ability to describe a tree of widgets to ease creation, etc. Also includes matrix, a widget which supports a two dimensional plane of widgets or widget trees. Contact: (Hiroshi Sakoh) What: wincr Where: From the contact Description: A Tcl 'word' increment command - increment string 'aa' to 'ab', 'ac', etc. Contact: (Bill Bumgarner) What: window manager raise command (Abbott) Where: From the contact Description: Raise a window to the top of a stack. Contact: (Kirk Abbott) What: window manager raise command (Chaffee) Where: From the contact Description: Small mod to tkWm to add a raise subcommand, used to raise specific windows. Contact: (Gordon Chaffee) What: Windows 3.1 Tcl extension sample Where: Description: A sample extension for Tcl 7.5, which builds under Borland C v4.5 on Windows 3.1. Contact: (Steve Uhler) What: Windows 3.1 Tcl drive type extension Where: From the contact Description: C code for a Windows DLL file function used to obtain the disk drives and their types. Contact: (Andy Borsa) What: wmstuff Where: Description: Tk 3.x support for ICCCM WM_PROTOCOLS & WM_DELETE Contact: (Mike Hoegeman) What: WWWinda Where: From the contact Description: A Linda like language based on Tcl-DP. Contact: (Yechezkal-Shimon Gutfreund) What: X11 event support Where: From the contact Description: Modification to Tk 4.0 tkXEvent so that it doesn't overrun the end of its eventsMast array was posted by James Synge. Ioi K. Lam supplied a one line modification that allows the ClientMessage event from Mwm to be received. Contact: (James Synge) (Ioi Kim Lam) What: X11 Selection support enhancement Where: Description: Tk 3.6 Patch for non-XA_PRIMARY selections. Useful for cut and paste support between Tk and XView toolkit-based tools. Contact: (Nick Ing-Simmons) What: X11 to Postscript Where: From the contact Description: C code which can be added to a Tk interpreter so that a given window is dumped as a PPM file, and is then converted via the ImageMagick convert command into a PostScript file. Contact: (Bob Jamison) What: X11 visual selection subcommand Where: From the contact Description: Adds a -visual subcommand to Tk's frame and top-level widgets. Contact: (Paul Mackerras) What: X11 XID enhancement (Kaplan) Where: From the contact Description: Set of replacement functions for default X Consortium XID management routines. Contact: (George C. Kaplan) What: X11 XID enhancement (Hoegeman) Where: From the contact Description: tkXID function to allow Tk to override the default XID allocation scheme. Add included header to tk.h and tkInt.h to have it used by libtk.a. Contact: (Michael Hoegeman) What: XPG patch to Tcl 7.3 Where: Description: Provides XPG localization support to Tcl. This allows one to change the way that floating point numbers are displayed, etc. Contact: (Mark Diekhans) What: XPM extension for Tk 4 (Crimmins) Where: Description: A Tk 4.0 extension supporting a Pixmap image type, based on work by Ioi Lam. Doesn't require patches to the Tk 4 source code. The tkxpm makes a Tk 4.1 loadable library as well as xpmwish. Does not require libXpm. Contact: (Mark Crimmins) What: XPM extension for Tk 4 (James) Where: From the contact Description: XPM reader code for Tk, with at least one bug when allocated resources are disposed. Contact: (BATES JAMES) What: XPS Where: From the contact Description: An example of using the X library on a given Tcl widget. This example uses XGetImage on a widget to get a PostScript dump. Contact: (Bob Jamison) What: Xt replay library Where: Description: A library with one entry point that allows an Intrinsics or Xt based application to be executed from a script file. In particular, Athena or Motif toolkit applications can be played back. Scripts are written in Tcl. Requires X11R5, Motif 1.2, Tcl 7.3. Contact: (Jan Newmarch) What: XView Drop support Where: From the contact Description: First hack at receiving XView drops in Tk. Contact: (Nick Ing-Simmons) What: yaap - Yet Another Argument Parsing utility Where: Description: Template based argument parsing utility, inspired by XtGetApplicationResources() function. Contact: (Peter Ziobrzynski) What: Yaz Where: Description: A compact toolkit that provides access to the Z39.50/SR protocol, as well as a set of higher-level tools for implementing the server and client roles. Provides interfaces to ASN, ODR and COMSTACK. IrTcl is a Tcl 7.[34] interface to yaz. See for a pointer to more information on Yaz. Contact: (Index Data) ------------------------------ End of comp.lang.tcl Frequently Asked Questions (5/5) *****************************************************