Swank 3.0.0 now available

The Swank (and JTcl) team is happy to announce the Swank 3.0.0 release. Getit now at:
http://kenai.com/projects/swank/downloads

Or find out more information at the Swank website:

http://swank.kenai.com


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- Swank - A Tk-like interface to the Java Swing Widgets

http://swank.kenai.com

Swank is an implementation of the Tk GUI Toolkit written in Java. Swank implements a large extent of the Tk 8.4 syntax and commands, plus some additional widgets. Swank is a companion project to, and requires code from, the JTcl Project, which itself is based on Jacl. Together JTcl and Swank are analagous to Tcl and Tk.

The Swank distribution includes the latest JTcl (as of 12 July 2012) bundled into the Jar file. JTcl itself bundles ITcl, the TJC Tcl to Java compiler, and much of Tcllib. Also included is a Swank version of the Extended Tk Console (TkCon) and JFreeChart ( http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/) libraries to support Swank's canvas based charts.

INSTALLING Swank

Swank requires a Java JVM 1.5 or higher (Java 1.6 is recommended). You mayhave to install Java if you don't already have it installed.

Swank is distributed as a ZIP archive. Download the latest swank-{version}..zip file from the Swank website, and unzip into a directory of your choice.. Unix/Linux/Mac OSX shell script (`wisk') and Windows batch file (`wisk.bat') are included.

wisk (the Swank equivalent of wish) supports three startup options
-swkcon (to startup with the Swank version of TkCon)
-console (to startup with a simple console)
-demo (to startup showing a demonstration based on the Tk widget demo).

SOURCE CODE

Swank uses the Mercurial distributed source code control system. Install Mercurial using your OS distribution package manager or get executables fromthe Mercurial site:
http://mercurial.selenic.com/

Browse Swank source code:
http://kenai.com/projects/swank/sources.
Clone the Swank repository:
hg clone https://hg.kenai.com/hg/swank~swank-main


DOCUMENTATION

Please refer to the Swank web site.
Most Tk documentation and tutorials are relevant to the use of Swank.



MAILING LIST and BUG REPORTING

Please subscribe and use the Swank mailing list for questions and to share information. The Swank Bug tracker should be used to report bugs.

Mailing lists: http://kenai.com/projects/swank/lists
Bug reporting:
http://kenai.com/jira/browse/SWANK

Recent changes:


Add support for mouse wheel bindings

spinbox
Add -width configuration
Fix problem in setting to, from, value and increment

canvas
Allow specifiying filename and image type from file extension
when saving swank canvas.
Fix setting binding in canvas. Was adding, rather than
replacing.
Ensure that text parameter items on canvas have a default
font set.
Allow image item on canvas to have 2 or 4 coordinates.
If 4, then image is automatically scaled to fit into
allotted space.
Fix lower command for shapes
ItemConnector didn't have startcon and endcom parameters
Change the way Canvas preferred scrollsize is calculated
Add Locked state to canvas items

tk_messageBox
Fix error when closing without selecting

jpassword
Add ability to preset username and add message to
password dialog.

Charts
Add option to invert xy chart axis direction,
Add ability to set symbol drawn on xy plots
Fix problem when plotting a single data point.
Add stat plot that doesn't have bars, just symbol and
error line.

JTcl
Update to using 2.3.0

check/radiobuttons
Fix problem with traces activating twice if trace set on
check/radiobutton var
Fix size calculation of check and radiobuttons when using
icon and no indicator
Setting vars from checkbutton listener had problem with menu
item checkbuttons (bad cast)
Fix threading problem with Radiobutton variables and values

wm
Add support for getting window title "wm title winName"
(could only set it)
Could set, but not get, alwaysontop with "wm" command

tk_popup
Added

Fonts
Change code back so specifying an empty string for a font
gives you a default (SansSerif)

text
Add tag ranges to text widget did not support more than
one range pair.
Ignore bad location exceptions in text remove
Only index paragraphs of text widget if text has been
inserted or deleted. Speeds up some operations a lot.
More fixes to search subcommand of text widget. Passes most,
but not all tests now.
Ignore trailing newlines in regexp mode text search
Case insensitive search in text widget didn't work with
exact matches.
Fix get subcommand of text widget to allow more than two indices.
Fix errors in delete subcommand of text widget
Text searching was't wrapping properly when only one index
specified for search
Searching backwards in a text widget did not find pattern
if in first line of text.

button
Change button code to allow placing text under icon

Add simple Tcl editor
Allow typing "edit" with no arguments to start up blank editor.
Use new editor for swkcon "edit" command.

listbox
Add ListCell Renderer to allow setting colors of
foreground/background in lists by row

image
Add write, height and width subcommands.


clipboard
Add flavors subcommand to clipboard command, and allow
getting RTF, HTML and Image types from clipboard
When clipboard get -type HTML is specified get html
if it is on the clipboard, in preference to converting
rtf to html.


canvas3d
More work getting shape3d attributes to work properly
Begin adding code for appearance modification, and fixes
for picking.
Updates for picking in the 3D canvas
Start adding all text parameters for text shape in 3D
and work on picking interface
Add Font parameter for SwkTest2D in 3D canvas


jsplitpane
Add code for setting orientation of split panes.

html
Fix bug in setting -page for html pane


Miscellaneous
GetValueOnEventThread had fundamental problem in use of
SwingUtilities.invokeAndWait (possible to return
before invoked task completes)
Update some demos, fixing code shown Code button, and
displaying arrow heads in arrow demo.
Add back various options scrollbarpolicy etc.
Add back class option
Winfo screen height was returning width
Fix problems with destroy command calling Interp from
event thread.
Focus listener had class cast problem
jcombobox and spinbox didn't have -state parameter
Fix Cut/Paste and change menubar to be packed so it works
better on Mac
Various Null Pointer Exceptions and other bugs eliminated
Add new swkcon shell scripts to startup with swkcon (wisk
takes a flag to do this, but that won't work if you want
to start by double-clicking)