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What is new in Tablelist 4.4?
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1. New row configuration option "-hide" (thanks to Jeff Godfrey,
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Patrick Fradin. Hemang Lavana, and Martyn Smith for their
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proposals, and especially to Harold Campbell for providing the
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initial implementation and testing the final one.) For performance
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reasons this option is implemented by using elided text in the
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underlying text widget, and therefore it is not supported for Tk
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versions earlier than 8.3.
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2. New subcommand "togglerowhide" for hiding/unhiding several rows at
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a time (not supported for Tk versions earlier than 8.3).
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3. Renamed the "togglevisibility" subcommand to "togglecolumnhide".
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The old name is still supported, but will be eliminated in the next
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Tablelist release.
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4. New command "tablelist::setThemeDefaults", which can be used to
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make sure that classical Tk widgets, e.g., text, will have a theme-
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specific appearance, just like the tile widgets. The tile-based
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demo scripts now make use of this command.
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5. When using the "tileqt" theme, the version number of TileQt must be
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0.3 or higher (thanks to Georgios Petasis for providing the new
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"tileqt" features used in this Tablelist release).
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6. For Tk 8.3 or later, hidden columns are now handled by using elided
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text, which results in very significant performance improvements
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(thanks to Harold Campbell for his valuable contribution).
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7. Improved the handling of the "-listvariable" option in connection
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with snit widgetadaptors (thanks to Rolf Ade for his bug-fix).
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8. Corrected a typo in the implementation of the "move" subcommand,
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introduced in the previous release (thanks to Jérome Siot for his
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bug report).
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9. Improved the handling of the virtual event <<ThemeChanged>> (thanks
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to Wofgang Großer for his bug report).
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10. Fixed a long-standing bug related to hidden columns (thanks to Dave
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Leslie for his bug report).
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11. Worked around a peculiarity of the "place" command on Windows,
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which caused refresh problems in column labels with images (thanks
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to Sebastien Barre for his bug report).
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12. Numerous further improvements and minor bug fixes.
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What was new in Tablelist 4.3?
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1. Support for multi-line cells: Newline characters now force line
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breaks when displaying the items (thanks to Sebastien Barre,
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Tillmann Basien, Cameron Laird, Kai Morich, and Vaclav Snajdr for
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their proposals). In addition, interactive cell editing can now
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take place with the aid of a text widget, too (this has caused a few
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minor changes in the default key bindings for the edit window).
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2. Support for multi-column sorting with the aid of the new subcommands
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"sortbycolumnlist", "sortcolumnlist", and "sortorderlist", as well
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as of the new command "tablelist::addToSortColumns". The latter is
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designed to be specified as the value of the new widget and column
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configuration option "-labelcommand2", whose value is invoked on
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<Shift-Button-1> events. Multi-column sorting is visualized by
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means of multiple sort arrows, which are displayed together with the
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corresponding sort ranks. (Thanks to Harold Campbell for proposing
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most of these features, providing the initial implementation, and
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testing the final one.)
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3. New configuration option "-setfocus", specifying whether mouse
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button 1 should set the focus to the tablelist's body (thanks to
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Tillmann Basien for discussions on this topic).
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4. Replaced the contents of the directory "images" with a script file
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containing procedures that create the bitmap images from inline data
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(thanks to Mats Bengtsson, Patrick Fradin, and Kai Morrich for their
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proposals).
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5. Fixed a bug related to the use of a tile entry within a non-tile-
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based tablelist widget on Windows XP (thanks to Schelte Bron for his
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bug report).
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6. The handling of <Command-Key> events during interactive cell editing
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is now explicitly restricted to Mac OS Classic and Mac OS X Aqua,
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because, strangely enough, on Windows these events are generated by
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simple keypresses if Num Lock is active.
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7. Numerous further code improvements, minor bug-fixes, and support for
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several recent changes in tile.
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8. Cleaned up the documentation, to make sure that the HTML files
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generated for the ActiveTcl distribution with the tool HTML Tidy
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will be syntactically identical to the original ones.
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What was new in Tablelist 4.2?
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1. The resize area of the header labels now consists of a few pixels
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on both sides of the right edge (thanks to Bryan Oakley for
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suggesting this improvement).
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2. Made sure that the header labels have the right appearance in the
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"aqua" theme when using tile version 0.6.4 or later (thanks to
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Bryan Oakley for his bug report).
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3. Several further improvements related to Mac OS X Aqua (for example,
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support for the "Command" key during keyboard navigation between
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the editable cells).
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4. Fixed a very long-standing bug in the "containing" subcommand
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(thanks to Mats Bengtsson, Schelte Bron, and Mark Garvey for their
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bug reports).
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5. Fixed a bug related to the "xpnative" theme, introduced in the
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previous release (thanks to Mark Garvey, Jeff Godfrey, and Uwe
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Koloska for their bug reports).
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6. Fixed another very long-standing bug, related to insertion and
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deletion of columns having images in their labels (thanks to
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Sebastien Barre for his bug report).
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7. Fixed an old bug related to embedding images or windows into hidden
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cells (again, thanks to Sebastien Barre for reporting this bug).
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8. The demo scripts now work independently of their location (this
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small improvement reflects the fact that Tablelist is now included
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in tklib, where the examples are in a location different from
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"$tablelist::library/demos").
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9. Adapted two tile-based demo scripts to the recently released tile
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version 0.7.
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10. Several further improvements in the code and documentation (thanks
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to Patrick Fradin for his valuable contribution).
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What was new in Tablelist 4.1?
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1. Significantly extended the tile support in the Tablelist_tile
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package: Header labels now look and behave like the column
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headings of treeview widgets, and over a dozen configuration
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options have theme-specific default values (thanks to Paul
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Obermeier for his excellent "poImgview" application, which helped
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me a lot during this work, as well as to Georgios Petasis for his
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Qt-related hints).
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2. Header labels containing the mouse cursor are now set into active
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state. Their appearance is controlled in the Tablelist package by
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the new configuration options "-labelactivebackground" and
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"-labelactiveforeground", while the Tablelist_tile package uses
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theme-specific background and foreground colors for the active and
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pressed states of the labels.
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3. New configuration option "-arrowstyle", specifying the flat or
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sunken relief and the dimensions of the arrow indicating the
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sorting order. This option has windowing system- and theme-
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specific default values.
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4. New configuration option "-protecttitlecolumns", used to protect
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the title column boundary from being crossed when moving a column
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interactively (thanks to Schelte Bron for his proposal).
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5. New configuration option "-spacing", specifying additional space to
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provide above and below each tablelist row (thanks to Sebastien
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Barre for his proposal).
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6. New column configuration option "-stretchable", complementing the
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global "-stretch" option (thanks to Sebastien Barre for his
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proposal).
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7. New row configuration option "-name", whose value can also be used
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as a row index and as the first component of a cell index (thanks
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to John Kozura for his proposal).
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8. New cell configuration option "-windowdestroy", specifying a script
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to be invoked when a window embedded into the cell is destroyed
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(thanks to Sebastien Barre for his proposal).
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9. New "imagelabelpath" subcommand (thanks to Schelte Bron for his
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proposal).
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10. Keyboard navigation during interactive cell editing now works on
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Mac OS X Aqua, too.
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11. Restored the support for Tcl/Tk versions earlier than 8.3, by
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cleaning up the handling of the "-titlecolumns" option (thanks to
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Andreas Flach and Brian O'Hagan for their bug reports).
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12. Restored the support for Tcl/Tk versions earlier than 8.0.4, which
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has been broken since release 3.5, due to the use of the
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<MouseWheel> event, introduced in Tk 8.0.4 (thanks to Brian O'Hagan
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for his valuable contribution).
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13. Worked around a peculiarity of the text widget's "dump -window"
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command (thanks to Greg Reynolds for his bug-fix).
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14. Fixed a binding-related bug in "extended" selection mode (thanks to
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David Mattinson for his bug-fix).
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15. Numerous further improvements and minor bug fixes (thanks to
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Schelte Bron, Patrick Fradin, Silas Justiniano, and Uwe Koloska for
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their bug reports and valuable contributions).
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What was new in Tablelist 4.0?
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1. Support for the tile entry, combobox, and checkbutton widgets for
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interactive cell editing (thanks to Miguel Bagnon, Andy Black,
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Adrian Chan, and Mark Garvey for their proposals and to Mats
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Bengtsson and Kevin Walzer for their support on the Macintosh).
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See the new reference page "tablelistTile.html" for details.
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2. Support for tile-compatibility: By just specifying "package
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require Tablelist_tile" instead of "package require Tablelist", the
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tablelist widgets will have a modern theme-specific appearance
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(again, thanks to the above-mentioned Tablelist users for their
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suggestions and assistance). See the "How to use it?" and "More on
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Tablelist_tile" sections of the tutorial "tablelist.html" for
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details.
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3. New demo script "tileWidgets.tcl", illustrating the use of tile
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widgets for interactive cell editing and of the Tablelist_tile
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package. All the other demo scripts are now provided in both a
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traditional and a tile-based version. See the "Tile-based demo
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scripts" section of the tutorial "tablelist.html" for an example
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and some screenshots.
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4. The Tk checkbutton used for interactive cell editing is now a
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platform-specific checkbutton widget on Windows and the Macintosh
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(thanks to Mats Bengtsson for his help related to the Macintosh
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platform).
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5. The "-editwindow" option is now available at cell level, too
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(thanks to Kenneth Green for his proposal).
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6. New subcommand "togglevisibility" for hiding/unhiding several
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columns at a time (thanks to Stefan Finzel and Kai Morrich for
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their proposals).
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7. Support for the new virtual event <<TablelistSelectionLost>>,
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generated when a tablelist widget having "-exportselection 1" loses
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the selection (thanks to Aldo Buratti for his proposal).
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8. After sorting the items, the "most important" row is automatically
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brought into view (thanks to Kai Morrich for his valuable input).
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9. Worked around a peculiarity of Tk for Windows, related to mouse
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events (thanks to Tore Morkemo and Mike Collins for their bug
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reports).
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10. Worked around a problem related to the visibility of the up/down-
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arrow on Mac OS X Aqua (thanks to Kevin Walzer for his bug report).
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11. Fixed a bug in the "seecell" subcommand, introduced in Tablelist
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version 3.7 (thanks to Stefan Finzel for his bug report).
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12. Fixed a bug in the "rowconfigure" subcommand, introduced in the
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previous Tablelist release (thanks to Tore Morkemo for his bug
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report).
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13. Eliminated the memory leak caused by incomplete cleanup on deleting
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rows with embedded windows (thanks to David Cockerell for his bug
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report).
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14. Fixed a small timing-related bug in the "editcell" subcommand
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(thanks to Kenneth Green for his bug report).
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15. Numerous further improvements and minor bug fixes (thanks to Greg
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Reynolds for his valuable input).
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What was new in Tablelist 3.8?
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1. New configuration option "-forceeditendcommand", controlling the
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invocation of the script corresponding to the value of the
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"-editendcommand" option (thanks to Nestor Patino for his proposal).
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2. New subcommands "getcells" and "windowpath" (thanks to Jeff Godfrey
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and Mike Collins for their proposals).
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3. Support for the new virtual event <<TablelistCellRestored>>,
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generated by the "cancelediting" subcommand.
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4. Significantly improved the performance of the "delete",
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"deletecolumns", and "movecolumn" subcommands for tablelist widgets
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having color or font options set at column, row, or cell level
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(thanks to Michael Bahr for his valuable feedback).
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5. Improved the autoscrolling with the left mouse button in both the
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body and the header of a tablelist widget having title columns.
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6. Fixed a bug related to the "-titlecolumns" option, introduced in the
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previous Tablelist release (thanks to Alexander Schöpe for his bug
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report).
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7. Fixed a typo in the implementation of the "seecell" subcommand,
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introduced in the previous Tablelist release (thanks to Patrick
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Fradin for his bug report).
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8. Improved the demo script "embeddedWindows.tcl" (thanks to Patrick
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Fradin for his valuable input).
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9. Several further improvements and minor bug fixes.
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What was new in Tablelist 3.7?
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1. New configuration option "-titlecolumns", specifying the number of
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the non-scrollable columns at the left edge of the window (thanks to
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Goran Ivankovic, Paul Kienzle, Hemang Lavana, and Takeshi Sakamoto
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for their proposals). For technical reasons (the use of the
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"-elide" option for a text widget tag), this option is not supported
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for Tk versions earlier than 8.3.
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2. Extended the "separatorpath" and "separators" subcommands, to
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support the new special separator, which is displayed to mark the
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end of the title columns, independently of the value of the
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"-showseparators" option.
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3. The "-stripebackground" and "-stripeforeground" options now have a
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higher priority than the "-background" and "-foreground" column
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configuration options, respectively (see the demo script
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"styles.tcl", which has been extended to illustrate this change).
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4. Improved the handling of embedded images with transparent
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background, complementing the changes made in the previous Tablelist
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release (thanks to Kai Morich for his valuable contribution).
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5. Improved the implementation of the "seecell" subcommand for centered
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and right-aligned columns.
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6. Fixed two bugs related to the "rowconfigure" subcommand, introduced
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in Tablelist version 3.5 (thanks to Ted Branscomb and Roger Niva for
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their bug reports).
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7. Fixed an old bug related to the "movecolumn" subcommand.
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8. Several further improvements and minor bug fixes.
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What was new in Tablelist 3.6?
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1. Support for embedded windows, with the aid of the new cell
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configuration option "-window" (thanks to Wolf Grossi, Glenn
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Herteg, Takeshi Sakamoto, and Keesang Song for proposing this
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option).
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2. New demo script "embeddedWindows.tcl" illustrating the use of
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embedded windows in tablelist widgets; this is discussed in a new
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section of the tutorial "tablelist.html".
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3. Significantly improved and optimized the handling of embedded
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images.
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4. Simplified the support for user-defined binding scripts with the
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aid of the new commands "tablelist::getTablelistPath" and
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"tablelist::convEventFields", as well as of a new binding tag whose
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name is returned by the new "bodytag" subcommand (which is now used
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in the demo script "browse.tcl").
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5. Support for the new virtual events <<TablelistRowMoved>>,
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<<TablelistColumnMoved>>, <<TablelistColumnSorted>> and
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<<TablelistCellUpdated>> (thanks to John Vidolich for his
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proposal). In addition, the new virtual event <<TablelistSelect>>
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can now be used instead of <<ListboxSelect>> (which is supported
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for compatibility reasons).
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6. New subcommand "itemlistvar", for accessing the tablelist widget's
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internal list (thanks to Patrick Fradin for his valuable input).
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7. Fixed a bug related to the "-listvariable" option, introduced in
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the previous Tablelist release (thanks to Torsten Reincke for his
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bug report).
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8. Fixed two bugs related to the "cellselection" subcommand (thanks to
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John Vidolich for his bug report).
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9. Fixed a few typos and minor bugs in the default binding scripts
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(thanks to Patrick Fradin, Tore Morkemo, and Torsten Reincke for
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their bug reports).
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10. Numerous further improvements and minor bug fixes.
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What was new in Tablelist 3.5?
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1. New configuration option "-selecttype" with the values "row" and
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"cell", and new binding scripts supporting these two selection
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types (thanks to Kevin Partin for his proposal and to Dietmar
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Müller for his valuable contribution).
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2. New subcommands "activatecell", "cellselection", and
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"curcellselection", used in the binding scripts mentioned above.
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3. The words "active" and "anchor" are now recognized as valid column
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and cell indices, too.
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4. New configuration options "-movablerows" and "-movecursor", and new
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mouse bindings for moving a row interactively (thanks to Dan Rogahn
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for his valuable contribution).
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5. The key sequences used for navigation between the editable cells
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now also move the active item or element and change the
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(cell)selection and the (cell)selection anchor in the body of the
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tablelist widget.
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6. Improved the handling and appearance of the checkbutton widget when
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used as edit window (thanks to Kevin Partin for reporting a problem
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experienced when the tablelist is embedded into an Iwidgets
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dialogshell).
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7. The "-listvariable" option now supports variable names returned by
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the "itcl::scope" command, too (thanks to Nicolae Mihalache for his
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bug report).
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8. Fixed a very long-standing bug related to horizontal scrolling when
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using a non-default font (thanks to Brand Hilton for his bug report
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and fix).
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9. Fixed another very long-standing bug, related to list variables
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(thanks to Dr. Detlef Groth and John R. Smith for their bug
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reports).
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10. Numerous further improvements and minor bug fixes (thanks to
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Patrick Fradin for his valuable input).
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What was new in Tablelist 3.4?
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1. New column configuration option "-editwindow", specifying the
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widget type used for interactive cell editing in the respective
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column (thanks to Damon Courtney, Patrick Fradin, and Keesang Song
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for their proposals and to Mats Bengtsson and Benny Riefenstein for
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their help related to the Macintosh platform). The edit window may
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be a Tk core entry, spinbox, or checkbutton, or one of the 16
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supported widgets from the packages BWidget, Iwidgets, combobox (by
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Bryan Oakley), and Mentry.
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2. New subcommand "editwinpath".
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3. Three new demo scripts illustrating the use of the "-editwindow"
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option; these are discussed in a new section of the tutorial
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"tablelist.html".
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4. New column configuration option "-maxwidth" (thanks to Tore Morkemo
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for his proposal).
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5. The <Shift-Button-3> event in a column label now restores the
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column's last static width (thanks to Dietmar Müller for his
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valuable input).
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6. Changing a tablelist's font now updates the column widths
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accordingly.
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7. Improved the handling of the "-setgrid" option.
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8. Improved the error handling related to the option database in the
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general mega-widget utility module "mwutil.tcl".
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9. Fixed a minor bug in the "containingcolumn" subcommand (thanks to
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David Mattinson for his bug report).
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10. Restored the support for Tcl/Tk versions earlier than 8.0.4, which
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has been broken since release 3.0, due to the use of the
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<MouseWheel> event, introduced in Tk 8.0.4.
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11. Further code improvements (thanks to Patrick Fradin for his
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valuable input).
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12. Many improvements in the documentation, including a new Quick
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Reference section (thanks to Dietmar Müller for his valuable
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contribution).
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What was new in Tablelist 3.3?
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1. New column configuration option "-text" (thanks to Paul Kienzle for
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his proposal).
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2. New subcommands "containing", "containingcolumn", "containingcell",
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and "fillcolumn".
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3. New subcommands "deletecolumns", "insertcolumns", and
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"insertcolumnlist" (thanks to Kevin Partin and Paul Kienzle for
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their proposals).
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4. Renamed the subcommands "getcolumn" and "getkey" to "getcolumns" and
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|
"getkeys", respectively. (This won't break any existing scripts,
|
|
because the old command names are abbreviations of the new ones.)
|
|
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5. Restored the support for Tcl/Tk versions earlier than 8.4, which was
|
|
broken in Tablelist 3.1 and 3.2, due to the use of the improved
|
|
syntax of the "place configure" command, introduced in Tk 8.4
|
|
(thanks to David Mattinson, Kurt Braganza, and Alexander Baath for
|
|
reporting this problem).
|
|
|
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6. Fixed a bug in the "editcell" subcommand, introduced in Tablelist
|
|
3.1 (thanks to Damon Courtney for his bug report).
|
|
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7. Improved the demo script "config.tcl" (thanks to Mats Bengtsson for
|
|
his input).
|
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8. Restructured the code by moving several procedures from the
|
|
distribution file "tablelistWidget.tcl" into smaller, more
|
|
manageable modules.
|
|
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9. Numerous further improvements and minor bug fixes.
|
|
|
|
What was new in Tablelist 3.2?
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|
------------------------------
|
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1. The key associated with a tablelist item can now be used as a row
|
|
index and as the first component of a cell index of the form
|
|
"row,col".
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|
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2. The "delete", "get", "getcolumn", "getkey", "selection clear", and
|
|
"selection set" subcommands now also accept a list of indices as
|
|
single argument (thanks to Damon Courtney and Erik Leunissen for
|
|
their proposals).
|
|
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3. Made the interactive "movecolumn" operation more intuitive and
|
|
compatible with the behavior exhibited by similar actions in popular
|
|
applications on various platforms (thanks to Paul Kienzle for his
|
|
suggestion). For example, the target position of the column being
|
|
moved is now indicated by a temporary gap displayed in the
|
|
tablelist's header.
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|
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4. New configuration option "-targetcolor", used to set the color of
|
|
the gap mentioned above.
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|
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5. Fixed a bug related to the <MouseWheel> event, caused by a missing
|
|
close-bracket in the last release (thanks to Patrick Fradin for his
|
|
bug report).
|
|
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6. Fixed a bug that raised an error in the "movecolumn" command for an
|
|
empty tablelist widget (thanks to Paul Kienzle for his bug report).
|
|
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7. The workaround in the "xview" and "yview" subcommands for a Tk bug
|
|
under Mac OS X Aqua is now only activated for that windowing system,
|
|
since (as reported by Patrick Fradin) it caused problems on some
|
|
other systems.
|
|
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8. Further minor code improvements.
|
|
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|
What was new in Tablelist 3.1?
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|
------------------------------
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1. New configuration options "-movablecolumns" and
|
|
"-movecolumncursor".
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|
|
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2. New column configuration option "-name", whose value can also be
|
|
used as a column index and as the second component of a cell index
|
|
of the form "row,col".
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|
|
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3. New subcommands "move", "movecolumn", "getcolumn", "getkey", and
|
|
"finishediting" (thanks to Damon Courtney, Daniel Fehrenbach, Jeff
|
|
Godfrey, and Kevin Partin for their proposals).
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|
|
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4. Extended the scope of the "cancelediting" subcommand.
|
|
|
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5. New mouse bindings for moving a column interactively.
|
|
|
|
6. The autoscrolling, as described in the "DEFAULT BINDINGS" section
|
|
of the "listbox" manual entry, is now implemented for the header of
|
|
a tablelist widget, too.
|
|
|
|
7. The interactive cell editing is now finished by any mouse click in
|
|
the tablelist's body, outside the cell just being edited (thanks to
|
|
Patrick Fradin and Jeff Godfrey for this suggestion).
|
|
|
|
8. The value returned by the "selection includes" command no longer
|
|
depends on the tablelist's state.
|
|
|
|
9. Worked around a bug in Tk 8.4.0 and 8.4.1 related to the "selection
|
|
handle" command, which caused crashes under KDE 3.0 (thanks to
|
|
Andres Garcia for reporting this and to Joe English for suggesting
|
|
the workaround and fixing the bug in Tk 8.4.2).
|
|
|
|
10. Improved the support of Mac OS X Aqua and Mac OS Classic (thanks to
|
|
Mats Bengtsson, Raymond Calande, Techin Alex Kang, Bernhard
|
|
Spinnler, and especially to Benny Riefenstein for their valuable
|
|
contributions).
|
|
|
|
11. Fixed a bug related to the invocation of the "cellconfigure"
|
|
subcommand from within a pre-edit callback (thanks to Dr. Johannes-
|
|
Heinrich Vogeler for his bug report).
|
|
|
|
12. Several performance improvements (thanks to Patrick Fradin for his
|
|
valuable suggestions).
|
|
|
|
13. Improved the platform-specific stuff in the demo scripts
|
|
"config.tcl" and "browse.tcl".
|
|
|
|
14. Numerous further improvements in the code and documentation.
|
|
|
|
What was new in Tablelist 3.0?
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
The main new feature provided by this release is the support for
|
|
interactive cell editing (thanks to Juri Shimon, Dr. Johannes-Heinrich
|
|
Vogeler, and Jeff Godfrey for their proposal). The first three items
|
|
below are related to this subject:
|
|
|
|
1. New configuration options "-editstartcommand" and "-editendcommand".
|
|
|
|
2. New column and cell configuration option "-editable".
|
|
|
|
3. New subcommands "editcell", "entrypath", "cancelediting", and
|
|
"rejectinput".
|
|
|
|
Further changes:
|
|
|
|
4. New subcommands "seecolumn" and "seecell".
|
|
|
|
5. Tabulator and newline characters are now retained in the internal
|
|
list, displayed as "\t" and "\n", and supported by interactive cell
|
|
editing (thanks to Jacek Jenrysik for his query concerning multi-
|
|
line items).
|
|
|
|
6. The redisplay and sorting of tablelist items have become
|
|
dramatically faster (thanks to Matt Becker for his input that
|
|
determined me to optimize these operations, and also for his
|
|
testing).
|
|
|
|
7. Further performance improvements (thanks to Patrick Fradin for his
|
|
valuable contribution).
|
|
|
|
8. The option values displayed by the demo script "config.tcl" can now
|
|
be edited interactively.
|
|
|
|
9. Minor improvements in the code and documentation.
|
|
|
|
What was new in Tablelist 2.8?
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
1. The trailing or leading ellipsis ("...") used when displaying the
|
|
elements that don't fit into their cells can now be replaced with an
|
|
arbitrary string specified with the aid of the new "-snipstring"
|
|
configuration option (thanks to Tore Morkemo for his proposal).
|
|
|
|
2. New value "none" for the "-activestyle" configuration option.
|
|
|
|
3. When exporting the selection, the elements of the hidden columns are
|
|
now skipped and the contents of the visible cells are transformed
|
|
according to the value of the "-formatcommand" option for the
|
|
corresponding columns.
|
|
|
|
4. Improved and simplified the focus control (thanks to Juri Shimon and
|
|
Gopal Reddy for their bug reports).
|
|
|
|
5. Further minor code improvements.
|
|
|
|
What was new in Tablelist 2.7?
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
1. Increased the speed of the "insert" and "insertlist" subcommands as
|
|
well as that of item insertions with the aid of the "-listvariable"
|
|
option by a factor of about 1.3. The "insert" subcommand is now
|
|
about 2.3 times faster than in version 2.4. Compared to version
|
|
2.4, item insertion with the aid of the "-listvariable" option has
|
|
become more than 10 times faster.
|
|
|
|
2. The number of pixels by which a column is stretched is now
|
|
proportional to its width in pixels. Based on this change,
|
|
significantly improved the stretching behavior after an interactive
|
|
column resize operation (thanks to Mats Bengtsson for his valuable
|
|
suggestions).
|
|
|
|
3. Fixed a bug in the "-(label)font" and "-labelborderwidth"
|
|
configuration options, introduced in version 2.5 (thanks to Bastien
|
|
Chevreux for his bug report).
|
|
|
|
4. Fixed a bug in the "columncget", "rowcget", and "cellcget"
|
|
subcommands, introduced in version 2.3 (again, thanks to Bastien
|
|
Chevreux for reporting this bug).
|
|
|
|
5. Fixed a bug in the binding scripts for the binding tag
|
|
"TablelistBody" (thanks to Miguel Bañón for his bug report).
|
|
|
|
6. Applied a patch proposed by Jeff Adamczak that works around a bug in
|
|
the "lsort" command, present in Tcl versions 8.0 - 8.3.2.
|
|
|
|
7. 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.
|
|
|
|
8. Further minor code improvements.
|
|
|
|
What was new in Tablelist 2.6?
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
The only change in this version is a bug-fix eliminating a rather nasty
|
|
bug in the "insert" and "insertlist" subcommands, introduced in the
|
|
previous release. Thanks to Mats Bengtsson for his bug report and to
|
|
Jeffrey Hobbs for suggesting me to bump the version number to 2.6.
|
|
|
|
What was new in Tablelist 2.5?
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
1. Increased the speed of the "insert" subcommand by a factor of about
|
|
1.8 and that of item insertions with the aid of the "-listvariable"
|
|
option by a factor of about 8. (These figures are based on speed
|
|
measurements made with two tablelist widgets: one having 1000 rows
|
|
and 10 columns and another one with 5000 rows and 20 columns.)
|
|
|
|
2. The "delete", "sort", and "sortbycolumn" subcommands, as well as row
|
|
and cell updates with the aid of the "rowconfigure" and
|
|
"cellconfigure" operations have also become significantly faster.
|
|
|
|
3. New "insertlist" subcommand.
|
|
|
|
4. New "-stripeheight" configuration option (thanks to Gregory Samoluk
|
|
for his proposal).
|
|
|
|
5. If no columns are to be stretched then the blank space following the
|
|
header labels is now filled with a dummy, insensitive label having
|
|
the same background, borderwidth, and relief as the "normal" header
|
|
labels.
|
|
|
|
6. Fixed a bug concerning the placement of the arrow indicating the
|
|
sorting order (thanks to Robert Minichino for his bug report).
|
|
|
|
7. Improved the handling of header labels with embedded images, to
|
|
eliminate some peculiarities experienced on Windows.
|
|
|
|
8. Several further improvements and minor bug fixes.
|
|
|
|
What was new in Tablelist 2.4?
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
1. New column configuration option "-formatcommand" (thanks to Jeff
|
|
Godfrey for his proposal). This option is now used in the demo
|
|
script "browse.tcl".
|
|
|
|
2. New row configuration option "-selectable" (thanks to Tore Morkemo
|
|
for this proposal).
|
|
|
|
3. Significantly improved the performance of the row and cell updates,
|
|
as well as of the "delete" subcommand (thanks to Emanuele Lupi for
|
|
her input that determined me to optimize these operations).
|
|
|
|
4. The widget implementation is now fully compatible with the recent
|
|
changes made in Tk 8.4a4 (thanks to Patrick Fradin for his input).
|
|
|
|
5. Pop-up menus as children of a tablelist widget cause no problem any
|
|
longer (thanks to Andres Garcia and Bastien Chevreux for reporting
|
|
this bug, introduced in the previous release).
|
|
|
|
6. Fixed a bug caused by the delayed redisplay after changing the
|
|
number of columns (thanks to Tore Morkemo for his bug report).
|
|
|
|
7. Minor improvements in the code and documentation.
|
|
|
|
What was new in Tablelist 2.3?
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
1. New configuration option "-activestyle", enabling to surround the
|
|
active item with a frame instead of underlining it.
|
|
|
|
2. The columns can now be separated with borders, by making use of the
|
|
new configuration option "-showseparators".
|
|
|
|
3. A nice distinguishing effect for the rows can now be obtained with
|
|
the aid of the new configuration options "-stripebackground" and
|
|
"-stripeforeground".
|
|
|
|
4. New tablelist widget subcommands "separatorpath" and "separators".
|
|
|
|
5. Fixed a bug related to the column index if the header labels are
|
|
hidden (thanks to Emanuele Lupi for her bug report).
|
|
|
|
6. New demo script "styles.tcl", showing several ways to improve the
|
|
appearance of a tablelist widget.
|
|
|
|
7. The demo scripts "config.tcl" and "browse.tcl" now make use of the
|
|
new "-stripebackground" option.
|
|
|
|
8. Numerous further improvements and minor bug fixes (thanks to Patrick
|
|
Fradin for his valuable input).
|
|
|
|
What was new in Tablelist 2.2?
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
1. The "-font" configuration option can now be specified at column,
|
|
row, and cell level, too (this was proposed and partly implemented
|
|
by Patrick Fradin). The data will be aligned properly, no matter if
|
|
the fonts are of different sizes.
|
|
|
|
2. Significantly improved the performance of the Tcl command associated
|
|
with a tablelist widget, especially that of the "delete", "sort",
|
|
and "sortbycolumn" subcommands for a large number (i.e., several
|
|
thousands) of items.
|
|
|
|
3. Corrected the creation of the arrow indicating the sorting order, to
|
|
make sure that it works under all supported Tcl/Tk versions (thanks
|
|
to Juri Shimon and Andres Garcia for their bug reports).
|
|
|
|
4. Several improvements in the demo scripts "config.tcl" and
|
|
"browse.tcl". Among others, the GUIs generated by these scripts now
|
|
have a better platform-specific look & feel (many thanks to Mats
|
|
Bengtsson for his valuable suggestions concerning the Macintosh
|
|
platform).
|
|
|
|
5. Further minor improvements in the code.
|
|
|
|
What was new in Tablelist 2.1?
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
1. The up- or down-arrow indicating the sorting order now has a 3-D
|
|
border, giving the arrow a sunken relief.
|
|
|
|
2. Due to the new 3-D look of the arrow, the default values of the
|
|
"-arrowcolor" and "-arrowdisabledcolor" configuration options have
|
|
been changed to an empty string, indicating that the arrow will
|
|
inherit the background color of the label in which it is placed.
|
|
|
|
3. Several improvements in the demo script "browse.tcl".
|
|
|
|
4. Minor improvements in the code and documentation.
|
|
|
|
5. The distribution file "tablelist2_1.zip" for Windows now includes
|
|
the "tablelist2.1" directory, hence it is no longer necessary to
|
|
create this folder before unpacking the distribution file (thanks to
|
|
Kevin Partin for this suggestion).
|
|
|
|
What was new in Tablelist 2.0?
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
1. New cell configuration option "-image", used to set and retrieve
|
|
the image to be displayed (by itself or together with a text) in a
|
|
cell of a tablelist widget.
|
|
|
|
2. New column configuration option "-labelimage" specifying the image
|
|
to be displayed (by itself or combined with a text) in a column
|
|
label.
|
|
|
|
3. The alignment of a header label can now be defined to be different
|
|
from that of the elements contained in its column, by using the new
|
|
column configuration option "-labelalign".
|
|
|
|
4. Renamed the column configuration option "-justify" to "-align",
|
|
because (at least in the case of the header labels) this actually
|
|
specifies not only the justification, but also the anchor point.
|
|
Hopefully, this POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY will not break too many
|
|
existing applications, because the column alignments are usually
|
|
specified within the "-columns" global option.
|
|
|
|
5. Fixed a bug that raised an error when some configuration options
|
|
were specified at widget creation time before the "-columns" option
|
|
(thanks to Bastien Chevreux for his bug report).
|
|
|
|
6. Reverted the implementation of the focus control to that contained
|
|
in the pre-1.6 Tablelist releases, because its simplified version
|
|
from the last release failed to work as expected if a tablelist was
|
|
the only widget taking the focus during keyboard traversal (thanks
|
|
to Juri Shimon for his bug report).
|
|
|
|
7. Fixed a bug that caused an erronous return value of the "labels"
|
|
subcommand if the arrow indicating the sorting order was displayed.
|
|
|
|
8. Several performance improvements, kindly contributed by Patrick
|
|
Fradin.
|
|
|
|
9. To improve the performance even further, the invocations of "info
|
|
exists" for array elements are no longer replaced with a call to a
|
|
helper procedure (introduced in Tablelist 1.2), because the Tcl bug
|
|
that made this necessary for Tcl versions 8.2, 8.3.0 - 8.3.2, and
|
|
8.4a1 was fixed in Tcl 8.3.3 and 8.4a2. If for some reason you
|
|
cannot upgrade your Tcl/Tk version, then you should patch the file
|
|
"tablelistWidget.tcl" with the aid of the script "repair.tcl", as
|
|
described in the files "README.txt" and "tablelist.html".
|
|
|
|
10. The demo script "browse.tcl" now inserts an image into the first
|
|
cell of each row of the tablelist widget.
|
|
|
|
11. Numerous further improvements and minor bug fixes.
|
|
|
|
What was new in Tablelist 1.6?
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
1. The value of the "-stretch" configuration option is now ignored if
|
|
the width of the tablelist widget was specified as zero or less.
|
|
This change was necessary in order to improve the behavior of
|
|
dynamic-width tablelist widgets with the "-setgrid" option set to
|
|
true.
|
|
|
|
2. By pressing mouse button 1 over a header label, the label's relief
|
|
is now only changed to "sunken" if the value of the global or
|
|
column-specific "-labelcommand" option is nonempty.
|
|
|
|
3. Several improvements concerning hidden columns (thanks to Juri
|
|
Shimon for his bug report).
|
|
|
|
4. Made the focus control more straight-forward.
|
|
|
|
5. Extended the "How to use it?" section of the tutorial
|
|
"tablelist.html".
|
|
|
|
What was new in Tablelist 1.5?
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
This version contains mainly bug fixes and small improvements. Many
|
|
thanks to Andres Garcia, Bastien Chevreux, and Patrick Fradin for their
|
|
valuable contributions.
|
|
|
|
1. Fixed a bug concerning the "-label*" configuration options.
|
|
|
|
2. Fixed the erronous invocation of "getSubCmd" in the selection
|
|
handler "fetchSelection" (this bug was introduced in version 1.1).
|
|
|
|
3. Elements that don't fit into their cells are now displayed with a
|
|
trailing or leading ellipsis ("..."), depending on the column
|
|
alignment.
|
|
|
|
4. Several further improvements and minor bug fixes.
|
|
|
|
What was new in Tablelist 1.4?
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
1. New "-stretch" configuration option specifying the columns that are
|
|
to be stretched in order to eliminate the blank space that might
|
|
appear at the right of the table.
|
|
|
|
2. Improved the error handling in the "attrib", "configure",
|
|
"columnconfigure", "rowconfigure", and "cellconfigure" subcommands.
|
|
|
|
3. Improved the demo scripts "browse.tcl" and "config.tcl".
|
|
|
|
What was new in Tablelist 1.3?
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
1. The "sortbycolumn" subcommand now per default places an up- or
|
|
down-arrow indicating the sorting order into the respective column's
|
|
label. This can be enabled or disabled with the new "-showarrow"
|
|
configuration option, at both widget and column level.
|
|
|
|
2. New configuration options "-arrowcolor", "-arrowdisabledcolor", and
|
|
"-incrarrowtype" to control the appearance of the arrow mentioned
|
|
above.
|
|
|
|
3. New "resetsortinfo" subcommand, used to reset the information about
|
|
the sorting of the items.
|
|
|
|
4. Improved the demo script "browse.tcl".
|
|
|
|
5. Further improvements in the code and documentation.
|
|
|
|
What was new in Tablelist 1.2?
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
1. Whereever possible, eliminated the invocations of "info exists" for
|
|
array elements. This works around a severe bug in Tcl versions 8.2
|
|
and 8.3 (fixed in 8.4a2), which causes excessive memory use when
|
|
calling "info exists" on a non-existent array element. Some serious
|
|
memory leaks in earlier Tablelist versions when run under Tcl/Tk 8.2
|
|
or 8.3 (reported by Henning Hanusa and Christian Burrini) could be
|
|
tracked down to this very annoying Tcl bug (which I was not aware of
|
|
until recently).
|
|
|
|
2. The help variables used in the initialization of the "tablelist"
|
|
namespace are now declared with the "variable" keyword, in order to
|
|
avoid any conflicts with global variables.
|
|
|
|
3. Improved the parsing of configuration and command options.
|
|
|
|
What was new in Tablelist 1.1?
|
|
------------------------------
|
|
|
|
This version contains mainly bug fixes and small improvements. Many
|
|
thanks to Patrick Fradin, Bastien Chevreux, and Mats Bengtsson for
|
|
their valuable contributions.
|
|
|
|
1. Fixed some bugs in the implementation of the "-listvariable" option.
|
|
Also, the value of this option can now be an array element, not only
|
|
a scalar variable.
|
|
|
|
2. Fixed a bug in the implementation of the "get" subcommand.
|
|
|
|
3. New "sortcolumn" and "sortorder" subcommands to query the arguments
|
|
of the last sorting.
|
|
|
|
4. Improved the look & feel of tablelist widgets on the Macintosh.
|
|
|
|
5. Worked around a bug in Tk 8.3.0 (fixed in 8.3.1) concerning listbox
|
|
widgets with configured "-cursor" option.
|
|
|
|
6. Several further improvements and minor bug fixes.
|
|
|
|
What was new in Tablelist 1.0?
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1. New "-resizable" option for the "columnconfigure" subcommand.
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2. New "labels" subcommand. returning the list of the header labels.
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3. The "-disabledforeground" and "-state" configuration options no
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longer require Tk version 8.3 or higher.
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4. All "-label*" column configuration options can now have an empty
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string as value, meaning that the corresponding global option will
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be used instead of the column-specific one.
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5. Improved the output of the "columnconfigure" subcommand.
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6. The help variables used in the coordinate transformations within
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the scripts defined for the "TablelistBody" binding tag have been
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moved into the "tablelist" namespace, in order to avoid any
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conflicts with global variables.
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7. Improved cross-platform support with the aid of the new <<Button3>>
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virtual event.
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8. Fixed a bug in the "compareAsSet" procedure of the demo script
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"config.tcl".
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9. New demo script "browse.tcl", containing a simple widget browser
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based on a tablelist.
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10. Both demo scripts now use a namespace for their procedures, to
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avoid any conflicts when evaluating them with the "source" command.
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11. The tutorial "tablelist.html" is now completed and includes a
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detailed discussion of both demo scripts mentioned above.
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12. Numerous further improvements in the code and documentation.
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What was new in Tablelist 0.9?
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1. The documentation now includes the tutorial "tablelist.html" (part
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of which is still work in progress), as well as reference pages for
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the two exported commands "tablelist::tablelist" and
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"tablelist::sortByColumn".
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2. The "-listvariable" configuration option is now fully implemented.
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3. A column of a tablelist widget can now be made invisible by using
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the new "-hide" option of the "columnconfigure" subcommand.
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4. The contents of a row can now be updated with the new "-text" option
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of the "rowconfigure" subcommand.
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5. For Tk versions 8.3 or higher the "tablelist::tablelist" command now
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supports the "-disabledforeground", "-labeldisabledforeground", and
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"-state" configuration options.
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6. Replaced "[focus]" with "[focus -displayof $win]", so that the code
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will work properly in applications using multiple displays.
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Similarly, the "font measure" command is now invoked with the
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"-displayof $win" option. This also works around a peculiarity of
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the "font measure" command.
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7. Renamed "tablelistBindingTag" to "Tablelist".
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8. Fixed a bug in the private procedure "colIndex", for arguments of
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the form "@x,y". This procedure is invoked (directly or indirectly)
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in the implementation of all commands that take a column or cell
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index or an x coordinate as argument.
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9. Numerous further improvements and minor bug fixes.
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