Installing the Tix 4.1 Binary distribution for Windows. (1) Install the Tcl Windows binary installation. There are curently three versions available. Tcl 7.6 is the best to use with Tix 4.1. Currently Tcl 8.0a2 is not compatible with Tix 4.1 -- you may experience program crashes. (2) Download the Tix source and binary distribution http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/ftparchive/sorted/devel/tix41p6.zip http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/ftparchive/sorted/devel/tix41p6winbin.zip (3) Unzip the two zip files in the same directory. Make sure you use an unzip program (such as WinZip) that understands long filenames. After a successful unzip, you would get files such as the following from tix41p6.zip .....\Tix4.1.0\library\Tix.tcl .....\Tix4.1.0\win\pkgIndex.tcl you would also get files such as the following from tixwin41p6bin.zip .....\Tix4.1.0\win\tcl7.6\tix4176.exe .....\Tix4.1.0\win\tcl7.6\tix4176.dll (4) Before installing Tix, you may want to try it out. Make sure you have installed Tcl binaries as described in step (1). Say you have installed Tcl 7.6 binaries, cd to Tix4.1.0\win\tcl7.6. Type the command: .\tix4176 ../../demos/widget This will popup the Tix widget demo program. (5) If you are satisfied that Tix works correctly, you can install it inside your Tcl installation directory. Assume you have unpacked Tix in the directory C:\Tix4.1.0 and you have installed Tcl in the directory C:\Tcl. + First, create the directory C:\Tcl\lib\tix41 + Then copy the files: C:\Tix4.1.0\win\tcl7.6\tix4176.exe -> C:\Tcl\bin C:\Tix4.1.0\win\tcl7.6\tix4176.dll -> C:\Tcl\bin C:\Tix4.1.0\win\tcl7.6\tix4176.dll -> C:\Tcl\lib C:\Tix4.1.0\win\pkgIndex.tcl -> C:\Tcl\lib\tix41 Remember to copy tix4176.dll into two separate directories. + Copy all files and sundirectories from C:\Tix4.1.0\library\*.* -> C:\Tcl\lib\tix41 As a result of this step, you should have the files C:\Tcl\lib\tix41\pkgIndex.tcl C:\Tcl\lib\tix41\Tix.tcl C:\Tcl\lib\tix41\bitmaps\plus.gif (and others .... about 200 files) (6) Now you should be able to run the tix4176.exe program to use Tcl, Tk and Tix together. Alternatively, you can dynamically load Tix into a Wish interpreter. Read the file Tix4.1.0/docs/Pkg.txt for more details on dynamically loading Tix. I apologize for the lack of an automatic installation program. Hopefully that will appear in the next version of Tix. Ioi Lam (ioilam@yahoo.com)