DOCUMENTATION

Prerequisites

Tcl version 7.6 or later and Tk version 4.2 or later is required to run Visual Tcl.

Installation

    o  Unzip or untar Visual Tcl into a permanent location. On Unix, I
       recommend /usr/local/vtcl or /usr/vtcl. On Windows, a good default
       is "C:\vtcl"


                                    UNIX

    o  edit "vtcl" shell script
       Change PATH_TO_WISH to the location of the wish binary
       Change VTCL_HOME to the directory from step 1.

    o  Put vtcl in your path (/usr/local/bin or /usr/bin) or change your
       path to include ${VTCL_HOME)

    o  Make sure your display is set and type "vtcl".


                              WINDOWS 95 and NT

    o  If you wish to create "shortcuts" to the vt.tcl icon, make sure
       you edit the "startup directory" to the base installation directory
       for Visual Tcl.

    o  You will need to associate all ".tcl" files with the Wish appplication.

    o  Double-click on "vt.tcl" icon.


                                  MACINTOSH

    o  Once you've decompressed and unarchived it, your done. You must
       start the wish shell by double clicking it. Then "cd" to the base
       installation directory for Visual Tcl and type "source vt.tcl".

Getting Started with Visual Tcl

Hints and Tips

To attach a scrollbar to a scrollable widget (listbox, text, etc), first select the scrollbar with a single left click then shift-click the target widget.
If performance seems a bit slow, kill the Attribute Editor window. You can always bring it back later from the "Window" menu.
Right-clicking gives you the "Option" menu.
Try using the arrow keys to move widgets in the place or grid layouts. Use the shift key + arrow keys to resize widgets.
To control whether a toplevel can be resized, click on the "width" and "height" labels in the Geometry Info window when "Window" is selected.
Tcl/Tk's performance on Win95 is not exceptional. NT4.0 seems to have a 5x improvement in GUI speed.
For users of Fvwm95, a mini-icon for Visual Tcl is in the images directory named "mini-vtcl.xpm"

stewart@neuron.com