What is new in Mentry 2.8?
--------------------------

1. This Mentry release is compatible with both the new Wcb version 3.0
   (or higher) and the older Wcb versions 2.7 - 2.9.  (Earlier Mentry
   releases don't work with Wcb versions having the major number 3).

1. New bindings for the <Prior> and <Next> events in mentry widgets for
   date and time.

3. New bindings for the <Up>, <Down>, <Prior>, and <Next> events in
   mentry widgets for IP addresses (thanks to Jean Romier for his
   valuable contribution).

What was new in Mentry 2.7?
---------------------------

1. New bindings for the <Up> and <Down> events in mentry widgets for
   date and time.

2. Corrected three typos in the handling of the <End>, <Control-Left>,
   and <Control-Right> events, introduced in the previous Mentry
   release.

3. Worked around a bug in the "clock format ... -format %p" command
   introduced in Tcl 8.4, causing an erronous behavior of the
   "putClockVal" command in non-default locales on UNIX for "Time"
   mentries with AM/PM indicator.

4. Improved the error handling related to the option database in the
   general mega-widget utility module "mwutil.tcl".

5. Improvements in the demo scripts.

6. Many improvements in the documentation, including a new Quick
   Reference section.

What was new in Mentry 2.6?
---------------------------

This release contains no new commands or subcommands; the improvements
are mostly of internal nature:

1. Rewritten the bindings-related stuff by introducing own binding tags
   for the children of mentry widgets.  This method is more Tk-like and
   has the additional advantage that it supports arbitrary widget names
   (in earlier releases, mentry widgets couldn't have '%' characters in
   their names).

2. When creating a mentry widget, the "-colormap" frame configuration
   option is no longer used, because it is bogus in some Tk versions on
   the Macintosh (and it isn't needed anyway).

3. Included the same version of the general mega-widget utility module
   "mwutil.tcl" as in Tablelist release 3.3.

What was new in Mentry 2.5?
---------------------------

1. Applied a patch proposed (in a slightly different form) by Mats
   Bengtsson that works around a bug in the "info script" command on
   the Macintosh.

2. Improved and simplified the focus control (thanks to Juri Shimon and
   Gopal Reddy for their bug reports).

3. The invocations of "info exists" for array elements are no longer
   replaced with a call to a helper procedure (introduced in Mentry 2.0
   because of a bug in some earlier Tcl versions).

4. Improved the Mentry Programmer's Guide.

What was new in Mentry 2.4?
---------------------------

1. The "isempty" subcommand now has an optional "index" argument.

2. New "isfull" subcommand (with an optional "index" argument).

3. Simplified the demo scripts "phonenumber.tcl" and "ethernetaddr.tcl"
   by using the two subcommands mentioned above.

4. Further minor improvements in the demo scripts and documentation.

What was new in Mentry 2.3?
---------------------------

1. Reverted the implementation of the focus control to the one
   contained in the pre-2.2 Mentry releases, because its simplified
   version from the last release failed to work as expected if a
   mentry was the only widget taking the focus during keyboard
   traversal.

2. Improved the performance of the Tcl command associated with a mentry
   widget.

3. Included the same version of the general mega-widget utility module
   "mwutil.tcl" as in recent Tablelist releases.

4. Further minor improvements in the code.

5. The distribution file "mentry2_3.zip" for Windows now includes the
   "mentry2.3" directory, hence it is no longer necessary to create
   this folder before unpacking the distribution file.

What was new in Mentry 2.2?
---------------------------

1. Improved the handling of the case that all entry children of a
   mentry widget are disabled.

2. Made the focus control more straight-forward.

3. Extended the "How to use it?" section of the tutorial "mentry.html".

What was new in Mentry 2.1?
---------------------------

1. Improved the error handling in the "attrib" and "configure"
   subcommands.

2. The demo script "ethernetaddr.tcl" now uses the callback
   "wcb::checkStrForRegExp" (introduced in Wcb 2.6) instead of the
   local procedure "checkStrForHex".

3. Further minor improvements in the code.

What was new in Mentry 2.0?
---------------------------

1. When typing a character contained in the label following the current
   entry, the focus is no longer set to the next enabled entry child if
   the current entry is empty (thanks to Leslie Brooks for this
   suggestion).

2. When setting the focus to a mentry widget (e.g., with the standard
   keys Tab and Shift-Tab during keyboard traversal), its first enabled
   entry child now not only receives the focus (like in earlier
   releases), but in addition its contents is selected and the
   insertion cursor is moved to its end.

3. New "clear" subcommand to erase the contents of one or more entry
   children of a mentry widget (this was kindly proposed by Leslie
   Brooks).

4. Fixed a bug related to the initialization of the values of the
   configuration options when creating a mentry widget.

5. Whereever possible, eliminated the invocations of "info exists" for
   array elements.  This works around a bug in Tcl versions 8.2 and
   8.3.0 - 8.3.2 (fixed in 8.3.3 and 8.4a2), which causes excessive
   memory use when calling "info exists" on a non-existent array
   element.

6. The help variables used in the initialization of the "mentry"
   namespace are now declared with the "variable" keyword, in order to
   avoid any conflicts with global variables (thanks to Leslie Brooks
   for his bug report).

7. Improved the parsing of configuration and command options.

What was new in Mentry 1.5?
---------------------------

1. The "-textvariable" configuration option and the "getarray"
   subcommand now raise an error if the argument is not an array.

2. Replaced "[focus]" with "[focus -displayof $win]", so that the code
   will work properly in applications using multiple displays.

3. Renamed "mentryBindingTag" to "Mentry".

4. Improvements in the documentation.

What was new in Mentry 1.4?
---------------------------

1. The "put" subcommand now returns the value 0 if the attempted change
   gets canceled in any of the entry children by some before-delete or
   before-insert callback, and 1 otherwise.

2. For Tk versions 8.4 or higher the "mentry::mentry" command now
   supports the "-disabledbackground", "-disabledforeground", and
   "-readonlybackground" configuration options, as well as the value
   "readonly" for the "-state" configuration option.

3. Improved the error-handling and the geometry management in the
   implementation of the "-body" configuration option.

4. Moved several procedures from the file "mentryWidget.tcl" into the
   new general mega-widget utility module "mwutil.tcl".

5. Minor improvements in the demo scripts.

What was new in Mentry 1.3?
---------------------------

1. Changed the implementation of the "-takefocus" configuration option,
   in order to work around a bug in the Tk library file "focus.tcl",
   introduced in Tk 8.3.1.

2. The "put" subcommand now restores the original contents of all
   affected entry children of the mentry widget if the change gets
   canceled in any of the entries by some before-delete or before-
   insert callback.  (Thanks to Aryeh Koenigsberg for his suggestion.)

3. Fixed a small bug in the "attrib" subcommand.

4. Minor improvements in the code.

What was new in Mentry 1.2?
---------------------------

1. Improved the behavior of mentry widgets during keyboard traversal
   with the standard keys:  Shift-Tab now moves the focus out of the
   current mentry instead of setting it to the first enabled entry
   child of the widget, as it was the case in earlier releases.

2. The "mentry::mentry" command now supports the "-takefocus"
   configuration option.

3. For Tk versions 8.3 or higher the "mentry::mentry" command now
   supports the "-invalidcommand", "-validate", and "-validatecommand"
   configuration options.

What was new in Mentry 1.1?
---------------------------

1. The tutorial and the mentry widget reference page now contain
   hyperlinks to the Wcb command reference, which has been included in
   the documentation.

2. Minor improvements in the code and documentation.

What was new in Mentry 1.0?
---------------------------

1. As promised in Version 0.9, the Mentry package now includes a
   tutorial and reference pages in HTML format.

2. The Tcl command corresponding to a mentry widget now has a new
   subcommand named "entrylimit".

3. The package no longer makes use of any undocumented, private Tk
   library routines.

4. A new demo script "phonenumber.tcl" is provided and discussed in the
   tutorial.

