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- This file summarizes all changes made to Tk since version 1.0 was
- released on March 13, 1991. Changes that aren't backward compatible
- are marked specially.
-
- 3/16/91 (bug fix) Modified tkWindow.c to remove Tk's Tcl commands from
- the interpreter when the main window is deleted (otherwise there will
- be dangling pointers to the non-existent window).
-
- 3/16/91 (bug fix) Modified tkColor.c not to free black or white colors:
- some X servers get upset at this.
-
- 3/18/91 (bug fix) Modified tkShare.c to fix bug causing "DeleteGroup
- couldn't find group on shareList" panic.
-
- 3/18/91 (bug fix) Several changes to tkListbox.c and tkScrollbar.c to
- handle listboxes (and scrollbars) with zero total entries in them.
-
- 3/22/91 (bug fix) Fixed a few ='s in tkListbox.c that should be ==.
-
- 3/22/91 (bug fix) Fixed error in main.c that caused BadWindow errors
- in some cases where wish scripts invoke "destroy ."
-
- 3/23/91 (new feature) Added Tk_CancelIdleCall to remove Tk_DoWhenIdle
- handler.
-
- 3/23/91 (bug fix and new feature) Added -name option to main.c, made
- it more clever about choosing name (was always using the name "wish"
- on most Unix systems).
-
- 3/23/91 (new feature) Added TK_CONFIG_STRING option to Tk_ConfigureWidget,
- used it to malloc strings for various widget options that used to be
- Tk_Uid's (e.g. button text, message strings, etc.). Eliminates core
- leaks when values change in continuous non-repeating fashion.
-
- 3/29/91 (new feature) Added Tk_Preserve, Tk_Release, and
- Tk_EventuallyFree procedures to help manage widget records and avoid
- premature memory free-ing.
-
- 4/4/91 (bug fix) Fixed problem in tkWm.c where top-level window geometry
- wasn't tracking correctly when wm-induced size change also changed window
- position (e.g. menus wouldn't be displayed at the right places).
-
- 4/5/91 (new feature) Added "invoke" option to widget command for buttons,
- check buttons, and radio buttons.
-
- 4/5/91 (new feature) Added "unpack" option to "pack" command.
-
- 4/5/91 (bug fix) Changed tkPack.c to use new Tk_Preserve code and be
- more careful about window deletions that occur while repacking is in
- progress.
-
- 4/6/91 (bug fix) Major overhaul of deletion code in all widgets to use
- Tk_Preserve and Tk_Release. Should fix many problems.
-
- 4/6/91 (bug fix) Changed "winfo children" to generate correct lists
- when child names have embedded spaces.
-
- 4/6/91 (new feature) Added "screenheight" and "screenwidth" options to
- "winfo".
-
- 4/18/91 (bug fix) Binding mechanism didn't correctly handle very long
- %-substitutions in commands (e.g. long path names) and caused memory
- to be overwritten. Modified tkBind.c to fix.
-
- ---------------------- Release 1.1, 4/18/91 -------------------------
-
- 4/19/91 (bug fix) Inconsistent ICCCM handling of coordinates of reparented
- windows causes windows to gradually walk south when moved or resized.
- Fixed tkWm.c to patch around the problem.
-
- ---------------------- Release 1.2, 4/24/91 -------------------------
-
- 4/26/91 (new feature) Added -geometry and -display switches to wish.
- Also wrote wish manual entry.
-
- 5/3/91 (bug fix) Fixed bug in tkListbox.c that caused garbage to appear
- at right edge of window when strings were to large to fit in window.
-
- 5/3/91 (bug fix) Fixed bug in tkListbox.c where topIndex wasn't getting
- updated when elements were deleted: tended to cause errors in
- communication with scrollbars.
-
- 5/16/91 (bug fix) Fixed bug in tk3d.c, which caused core dumps when
- consecutive points in a polygon were the same (happened with some
- configurations of radio buttons, for example).
-
- 5/16/91 (bug fix) Fixed main.c to allow stdin to be redirected.
-
- 6/1/91 (bug fix) Make sure that pointers are never used after being
- freed.
-
- 6/15/91 (bug fix) Fixed bug in tkBind.c that caused current binding
- values to not always be printed correctly.
-
- 6/15/91 (bug fix) Make sure that interpreters are always unregistered
- when their main windows are deleted, and make wish delete the main
- window before exiting.
-
- 8/21/91 (misfeature correction) Automatically set source of window
- position to "user" in "wm geometry" command, unless it has been
- explicitly set to "program".
-
- 9/5/91 (bug fix) Modified option code to accept '#' as a comment
- character in .Xdefaults files, in addition to '!'.
-
- 9/10/91 (misfeature correction) Changed binding mechanism so that
- numeric %-sequences are output in decimal instead of hex.
-
- 9/19/91 (bug fix) Fixed bug in Tk_DoOneEvent(1) where it wasn't
- checking files and X connections properly so it missed events.
-
- 10/6/91 (new feature) Reorganized tkBind.c to provide generic "binding
- table" structure, which can be used to create bindings on items in
- canvases as well as windows.
-
- 10/6/91 (new feature) Upgraded buttons and menus to use new tracing
- code in Tcl 6.0. Allows radio buttons and check buttons to both set
- and clear themselves when associated variable changes.
-
- 10/17/91 (bug fix) Fixed 2 bugs in listboxes: accidentally advanced the
- selection when new entries were inserted in the listbox after the location
- of the selected item(s), and goofed up on redisplay if selected item
- was deleted and then selection was immediately lost.
-
- 10/27/91 (bug fix) "pack unpack" wasn't telling Tk that it no longer
- manages window; this led to core dumps in some situations.
-
- 10/31/91 (reorganization) Renamed manual entries so that they are no
- more than 14 characters in length.
-
- 10/31/91 (reorganization) Changed tk.h and tkInt.h so that tkInt.h
- doesn't needed to be included by tk.h.
-
- 11/3/91 (portability improvement) Eliminated use of "class" as a variable
- name, since it's a reserved word in C++.
-
- 11/7/91 (reorganization) Many changes to upgrade for Tcl 6.1 including
- use of Tcl hash tables instead of separate "Hash_" module. The "lib"
- subdirectory is no longer needed in Tk.
-
- ---------------------- Release 1.3, 11/7/91 -------------------------
-
- 11/24/91 (bug fix) Fixed bug causing occasional errors if existing bindings
- are modified (FindSequence in tkBind.c forget to set *maskPtr).
-
- 11/24/91 (bug fix) Used wrong hash table in Tk_GetColorByValue. Could
- cause new entries to get created unnecessarily.
-
- 12/2/91 (bug fix) Changed "bind" code to put backslashes in front of
- special characters (e.g. [ or \) that appear in %-replacements, so that
- they can be parsed cleanly.
-
- 12/10/91 (bug fix) Manual entries had first lines that caused "man" program
- to try weird preprocessor. Added blank comment lines to fix problem.
-
- 1/2/92 (documentation cleanup) Changed manual entries for Tk_GetBitmap
- and the like to make it more clear that the argument must be a Tk_Uid
- and not a string.
-
- 1/2/92 (bug fix) Fixed problem where scrollbars that were very short or
- very narrow (too small to hold both arrows) could cause negative values
- in calls to XClearArea, which crashed some servers.
-
- 1/2/92 (bug fix) Fixed bug in TkMeasureChars occurring when maxChars
- is 0. Occasionally affected things like message window geometry.
-
- 1/3/92 (new feature) Added procedures Tk_GetJustify, Tk_GetAnchor,
- Tk_GetCapStyle, and Tk_GetJoinStyle, plus support for these things
- in Tk_ConfigureWidget.
-
- ---------------------- Release 1.4, 1/10/92 -------------------------
-
- 1/12/92 (bug fix) TkMenubutton.c wasn't cleaning up mbPtr->varName
- properly during menubutton cleanup if an error occurred during
- menubutton creation.
-
- 1/19/92 (bug fix) Fixed off-by-one bug in tkListbox.c that caused
- scrollbars to display a slider that was too large.
-
- 2/10/92 (bug fix) Tk_CreateFileHandler didn't correctly handle case
- where new mask was specified for existing handler.
-
- 2/13/92 (bug fix) Tk_DeleteAllBindings wasn't correctly removing
- bindings from the pattern table: only did the removal for the
- first pattern in a pattern list.
-
- 2/15/92 (new feature) Added procedures Tk_DefineBitmap and
- Tk_SizeOfBitmap. Tk_GetBitmapFromData is now considered obsolete
- and probably shouldn't be used anymore. Tk_GetBitmapFromData
- is now implemented by calling Tk_DefineBitmap and Tk_GetBitmap.
-
- 2/15/92 (new feature) Added "curselection" and "select clear" options
- to widget command for listboxes.
-
- 2/15/92 (new feature) Added Tk_3DBorderColor procedure.
-
- 2/17/92 (relaxed limitations) Changed scrollbars so they no longer limit
- the slider position to lie within the object's range: can scroll off the
- end of an object, if the object permits it. Changed listboxes and
- entries to explicitly prevent viewing off the ends. Also relaxed
- listbox index checks so that out-of-range indices are automatically
- adjust to fit within the listbox range.
-
- 2/19/92 (bug fix) tkWindow.c tended to leave half-created windows around
- if a new window's name was found to be in use already. Fixed to clean
- them up.
-
- 2/22/92 (new feature) Added -anchor, -bitmap, -height, -textvariable,
- -width options to labels, buttons, check buttons, menu buttons, and radio
- buttons. This means that (a) size can be controlled better, (b) bitmaps
- can be displayed in any buttons, (c) the position of the text within the
- button can be controlled, and (d) a button can be made to display the value
- of a variable, continuously updating itself. Also changed -selector option
- so that if it's specified as an empty string then no selector is drawn
- for the button.
-
- 2/22/92 (new feature) Changed menus to support bitmaps in menu entries:
- added new -bitmap option for entries.
-
- 2/26/92 (bug fix) "after" command, when invoked with just one argument,
- called Tk_Sleep rather than registering a timer handler and looping on
- Tk_DoOneEvent. As a result, it caused the application to become non-
- responsive to X events during the sleep. Changed to use a Tk_DoOneEvent
- loop so that it is responsive.
-
- 2/26/92 (bug fix) Tk's main program didn't map the main window until
- after the startup script returned. Changed to map the window as a
- do-when-idle handler, so that scripts can cause the window to be
- mapped immediately with a call to "update" or "after".
-
- 2/28/92 (bug fix) "wm withdraw" wasn't working if invoked before window
- was originally mapped: window got mapped anyway. Fixed so that the
- window doesn't get mapped as long as it's withdrawn.
-
- 2/29/92 (new feature) Can use "focus none" to clear input focus.
-
- 2/29/92 (bug fix) Fixed tkEvent.c to generate SubstructureNotify events
- properly. These weren't being generated previously.
-
- 2/29/92 (bug fix) Fixed entries so that newline characters can be properly
- displayed (as `\x0a'). Had to change interface to TkDisplayChars in order
- to do this (added flags argument).
-
- 2/29/92 (bug fix) Change Tk not to update size and position of top-level
- windows directly during calls like Tk_ResizeWindow. Instead, wait until
- actual event is received. This makes updates happen at same time as
- callbacks.
-
- 3/6/92 (bug fix) TkMenubutton.c was dumping core when a menubutton was
- pressed at a time when there was no associated menu for the button.
-
- 3/6/92 (new feature) Added Tk script library directory with official
- Tk initialization file "tk.tcl". Other procedures used by Tk are in
- other files. Tk procedures and variables all have names starting
- with "tk_". Also added Wish startup script "wish.tcl", which sources
- both the Tk and Tcl startup scripts. This means that things like
- auto-loading and abbreviation expansion are now available in wish.
- Added new variables tk_library, tk_priv, and tk_version.
-
- 3/6/92 (new feature) It's now possible to set bindings for whole
- classes by using the class name in the bind command. For example,
- "bind Button <Enter> {puts stdout Hi!}" will cause a mesage to be
- printed whenever any mouse button is entered. Can also use "all"
- to set bindings for all widgets. Widget-specific bindings override
- class bindings which override "all" bindings.
-
- 3/6/92 (reorganization) Changed buttons (all flavors) and listboxes to
- eliminate all hard-wired behavior. Instead, default behavior is set
- by class bindings in tk.tcl. Also set up class bindings for menus,
- menubuttons, and entries, which previously had no default behavior at
- all. Scrollbars and scales still have hard-wired behavior that can't
- be overridden.
-
- 3/7/92 (look-and-feel change) Changed listboxes and entries and menus
- to use button 2 for scanning instead of button 3. This is more consistent
- with the official Motif use of button 2 for dragging.
-
- 3/10/92 (new features) Added more options to "winfo" command: screencells,
- screendepth, screenmmheight, screenmmwidth, and screenvisual.
-
- 3/13/92 (bug fix) Event sharing mechanism (tkShare.c) wasn't checking
- to see whether window was mapped before sharing events with it.
-
- 3/16/92 (bug fix) Tk_SetInternalBorderWidth was passing wrong window to
- geometry-management procedures, causing core-dumps when menu buttons
- had their border widths changed.
-
- 3/16/92 (bug fix) Menus were setting their geometry directory rather
- than using Tk_GeometryRequest mechanism.
-
- 3/17/92 (new feature) Added -cursor option to all widgets to set the
- active cursor for the widget. Also added TK_CONFIG_ACTIVE_CURSOR
- configure type.
-
- 3/18/92 (new feature) Implemented generalized screen coordinates to
- allow resolution-independent specification in many cases (but pixel-
- based coordinates are still OK). Added Tk_GetScreenMM(),
- Tk_GetPixels(), new configure types TK_CONFIG_SCREEN_MM and
- TK_CONFIG_PIXELS. Changed widgets to use this new configure types
- wherever possible (a few of the more complex cases still haven't
- been taken care of yet). Added "pixels" and "fpixels" options to
- "winfo" command.
-
- 3/18/92 (new feature) First cut at canvas widgets is done and part of
- the official Tk now. Canvases display text and structured graphics,
- and allow you to bind commands to events related to the text and
- graphics.
-
- 3/21/92 (new feature) Added new "place" command. It implements a
- new geometry manager that provides fixed placement, rubber-sheet
- placement, and combinations of the two. Eliminated the commands
- "move", "resize", and "map" that were provided by main.c but never
- officially supported; the placer provides all of this functionality.
-
- 3/23/92 (bug fix) Fixed bug in tkWm.c where top-level windows were
- occasionally not being given the right size. The problem occurred
- when a string of resizes happened all in a row (such as deleting all
- the windows in an application and then recreating them).
-
- 3/23/92 (new feature) Added Tk_CoordsToWindow procedure and
- "winfo containing" command. These may be used to locate the window
- containing a given point.
-
- 3/28/92 (new feature) Added "-exportselection" option to listboxes,
- so that listbox selection need not necessarily be the X selection.
-
- 4/12/92 (bug fix) Changed menu buttons to store name of menubutton
- in the associated variable, rather than the name of the menu. This
- is necessary in order to allow several menu buttons to share the
- same menu.
- *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
-
- 4/12/92 (bug fix) Fixed core dump that occurred in tkError.c when
- removing the first error record from the error list.
-
- 4/15/92 (bug fix) Fixed bug in tkBind.c that prevented <KeyPress-1>
- event specifications from being processed correctly: the "1" was
- treated as a button name rather than a keysym.
-
- 4/18/92 (new feature) Added Tk_DefineCursor and Tk_UndefineCursor
- procedures.
-
- 4/18/92 (new feature) Major revision to listboxes. Can now scroll and
- scan in both x and y, plus -exporselection option allows selection not
- to be exported. The "view" widget command has been replaced by "xview"
- and "yview", and the "scan" widget command has a new syntax.
- *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
-
- 4/18/92 (new feature) Added -exportselection option to entries, so you
- can select whether you want the entry selection to be the X selection
- or not.
-
- 4/24/92 (new features) Added TK_CONFIG_CUSTOM type to Tk_ConfigureWidget,
- plus added new flags TK_CONFIG_NULL_OK, TK_CONFIG_DONT_SET_DEFAULT,
- and TK_CONFIG_OPTION_SPECIFIED. Several other new types, such as
- TK_CONFIG_CAP_STYLE, were also added as part of implementing canvases.
-
- 4/29/92 (bug fix) Changed "-selector" default for menus to have separate
- values for mono and color.
-
- 4/30/92 (bug fix) Fixed bug in tkListbox.c where it occasionally generated
- bogus scroll commands (last index less than first).
-
- 4/30/92 (reorganization) Moved demos directory to "library/demos".
-
- ---------------------- Release 2.0, 5/1/92 -------------------------
-
- 5/2/92 (bug fix) Fixed problem in tkListbox.c where it was doing too many
- redisplays after repeated insertions. Also reduced number of invocations
- of scrollbar commands.
-
- 5/7/92 (portability improvement) Changed main.c not to use TK_EXCEPTION
- flag; it isn't needed and it causes problems on some systems.
-
- 5/9/92 (bug fix) Plugged core leaks in tkListbox.c and tkBind.c
-
- 5/9/92 (bug fix) TkBind.c was accidentally deleting bindings during
- attempts to print non-existent bindings.
-
- 5/11/92 (bug fix) Maximum name length for applications (name used in
- "send" commands) was too short (only 20); increased to 1000. Also
- fixed bug related to over-long names that caused core dumps.
-
- 5/13/92 (bug fix) tkShare.c was using a dangling pointer if a share
- group was deleted as a side-effect of a shared event.
-
- 5/13/92 (bug fix) Various initialization and core leak problems in
- tkGC.c, tkSend.c, tkMenu.c, tkEvent.c, tkCanvas.c, tkCanvPoly.c,
- tkCanvLine.c, tkListbox.c, tkEntry.c.
-
- 5/13/92 (bug fix) Empty entries could be scanned off the left edge,
- displaying a garbage character.
-
- 5/13/92 (bug fix) Fixed a few problems with window manager interactions,
- such as tendency for windows to spontaneously shrink in size. By no
- means are all of the problems fixed, though.
-
- 5/13/92 (performance optimization) Changed Tk_GeometryRequest not to
- invoke geometry manager unless requested size has changed.
-
- ---------------------- Release 2.1, 5/14/92 -------------------------
-
- 5/1/92 (new features) Added flags like TK_IDLE_EVENTS to Tk_DoWhenIdle,
- plus added "idletasks" option to "update" command. Tk_DoWhenIdle arguments
- look different now, but the change should be upward-compatible.
-
- 5/17/92 (new feature/bug fix) Added support for VisibilityNotify events
- to the "bind" command. For some reason they weren't supported previuosly.
-
- 5/17/92 (new feature) Added "tkwait" command.
-
- 5/17/92 (new feature) Added "grab" command.
-
- 5/17/92 (new feature) Added "-width" option to messages. Also changed
- messages to use the computed (i.e. desired) line length when displaying,
- not the actual width of the window.
-
- 5/17/92 (bug fixes) Did some more fiddling with tkWm.c in the hopes
- of improving window manager interactions. Now there won't be more than
- one configure request outstanding to the wm at a time.
-
- 5/17/92 (bug fix) Arrowheads on canvas lines weren't being translated
- or scaled correctly.
-
- 5/20/92 (bug fix) Page-mode scrolling didn't work correctly for canvases
- (wrong windowUnits was passed to scrollbars).
-
- 5/20/92 (bug fix) Changed scrollbars not to lose highlight when pointer
- leaves window with button down. Also changed redisplay to double-buffer
- for smoother redraws.
-
- 5/21/92 (new feature) Added "gray50" and "gray25" as predefined bitmaps.
-
- 5/22/92 (new feature) Buttons can now be disabled using the "-state" and
- "-disabledforeground configuration options. The "activate" and "deactivate"
- widget commands for buttons are now obsolete and will go away soon.
- Please change Tcl scripts not to use them.
-
- 5/23/92 (new feature) Entries can now be disabled using the "-state"
- config option. Also improved class bindings for entries to keep the
- cursor visible in the window when operations occur. Also made slight
- improvements in the way redisplay is done.
-
- 5/23/92 (new feature) Added "-textvariable" option to entries so that
- the text in an entry can be tied to the value of a global variable in
- a fashion similar to buttons.
-
- 5/27/92 (new feature) Added "-textvariable" and "-anchor" options to
- messages.
-
- 5/28/92 (new feature) Added "-padx" and "-pady" and "-underline" options
- to menubuttons.
-
- 5/28/92 (feature change) Changed "-width" and "-height" options on
- all flavors of buttons and menubuttons so that they are orthogonal
- to "-padx" and "-pady". It used to be that -width overrode -padx
- (no padding). Now they accumulate.
-
- 5/29/92 (new feature) Added "-disabledforeground" option to menus and
- all flavors of buttons (can specify color for disabled things rather
- than just using stipple to gray out).
-
- 5/29/92 (new features) Added many new options to menu entries:
- -activebackground, -background, -font, -state, -underline. The
- "disable" and "enable" widget commands for menus are now obsolete
- and will go away soon. Please change Tcl scripts not to use them.
-
- 5/29/92 (new features) Added "atom" and "atomname" options to "winfo"
- command.
-
- 5/29/92 (new feature) Wrote tk_listboxSingleSelect procedure, which
- can be used to change listbox behavior so that only a single item is
- selected at once.
-
- 6/1/92 (new feature) Added new modifier names "Meta" and "Alt" for
- "bind" command.
-
- 6/3/92 (new feature) Added "winfo toplevel" command.
-
- 6/3/92 (new feature) Made several changes for greater Motif compliance,
- including:
- - menu retention if you click and release in the menu button,
- - keyboard traversal of menus (see traversal.man)
- - no widget flashing if you set $tk_strictMotif to 1
-
- 6/15/92 (bug fix) Fixed problem in tkBind.c where command string for a
- binding could get reallocated while the command was being executed (e.g.
- bindings that delete or change themselves).
-
- 6/15/92 (bug fix) Don't allow "tabWidth" field to become zero in tkFont.c:
- can cause core dumps for fonts that don't enough information to compute
- tab widths.
-
- 6/19/92 (bug fix) Fixed bug in binding mechanism that caused structure-
- related events to be reported both to the correct window and its parent.
-
- 7/14/92 (bug fix) Changed tkColor.c not to free colors for visual types
- StaticGray or StaticColor.
-
- 7/15/92 (new feature) Text widgets now exist. They display any number of
- lines of text with a variety of display formats, and include hypertext
- facilities. See the manual page for details.
-
- 7/20/92 (bug fix) If a top-level window was put in the iconic state to
- begin with, it could be deiconified with "wm deiconify .foo" until it had
- first been deiconified by hand from the window manager. Tk was getting
- confused and thought the window was mapped when it wasn't.
-
- 7/29/92 (bug fix) Don't permit rectangles or ovals to have zero-sized
- dimensions. Round up to at least one pixel.
-
- 7/29/92 (new features) Major upgrade to canvases:
- - new item types: arc, window, bitmap
- - added Bezier spline support for lines and polygons
- - rectangles and ovals now center their outlines on the shape,
- rather than drawing them entirely inside the shape
- - new "coords" and "bbox" widget commands
- - new "-tags" option for all item types.
- - new "-confine" option to prevent scrolling off edge of canvas.
-
- 8/6/92 (new feature) Added "-width" and "-height" options to frames.
- The "-geometry" option is now obsolete and should be removed from Tcl
- scripts: it may go away in the future.
-
- 8/7/92 (bug fix) Error messages in Tk_ParseArgv were sometimes including
- the option name where they should have included its value.
-
- ---------------------- Release 2.2, 8/7/92 -------------------------
-
- 8/7/92 (bug fix) Changed tkCanvas.c to be more conservative in the area
- it passes to XCopyArea.
-
- 8/8/92 (bug fix) Fixed bug in tkTextDisp.c that sometimes caused core
- dumps when text views changed (e.g. typing return on last line of screen).
-
- 8/8/92 (bug fix) Fixed bug in menu.tcl that caused errors when using
- keyboard to traverse over separator menu entries.
-
- 8/10/92 (bug fix) Changed to use OPEN_MAX instead of MAX_FD to compute
- maximum # of open files.
-
- 8/10/92 (bug fix) Canvases weren't updating scrollbars on window size
- changes. They also weren't recentering canvases on window size changes.
-
- 8/10/92 (bug fix) There were still a few places where commands were being
- invoked at local level instead of global level (e.g. commands associated
- with buttons and menu entries).
-
- 8/10/92 (bug fix) TkBind.c used to ignore explicit shift modifiers for
- all keys (i.e. <Shift-Tab> was treated the same as <Tab>). Modified to
- allow explicit request for shift modifier, like <Shift-Tab>.
-
- 8/13/92 (feature change) Changed default fonts to request "Adobe" fonts
- explicitly.
-
- 8/16/92 (bug fixes) Modified tkCanvArc.c and tkTrig.c to increase slightly
- the bounding boxes for arcs, in order to make sure that proper redisplay
- occurs when arcs are moved (little turds were getting left behind).
-
- 8/16/92 (bug fix) Modified tkCanvas.c not to redraw at all if the redisplay
- area is off the screen. Also, only do a background clear for the portion
- of the redraw area that is on-screen. Also, reduced size of off-screen
- pixmaps used for redisplaying, which speeds up redisplay in some cases.
-
- 8/19/92 (bug fix) Canvases that were taller than wide were not being
- redisplayed properly.
-
- 8/20/92 (new feature) Added Tk_CreateGenericHandler procedure for trapping
- all X events (useful for tracing, watching non-Tk windows, etc.).
-
- 8/21/92 (bug fix) Widgets weren't always being notified when they got
- the focus back again (the problem had to do with grabs and menus in
- particular).
-
- 8/21/92 (new feature) Added "-state" option to scale widgets.
-
- 8/22/92 (new feature) Changed tkBitmap.c to allow tilde-substitution
- to occur in bitmap file names.
-
- ---------------------- Release 2.3, 8/24/92 -------------------------
-
- 8/27/92 (bug fix) Changes to -activebackground and -activeforeground options
- for menubuttons were being lost.
-
- 8/27/92 (bug fix) Entries were selecting last character when a B1-drag
- occurred past the right edge of the text.
-
- 8/28/92 (bug fix) Fixed bug in canvases where a grab during a button
- press caused the canvas state to lock up so that it didn't select a
- new current item.
-
- 9/7/92 (bug fix) Changed tkMenu.c to accept numerical menu indices that
- are out of range; now it just rounds them off to the nearest existing
- entry.
-
- 9/7/92 (bug fix) Fixed bug in tkTextDisp.c that caused core dumps when
- invoking "yview -pickplace" widget command on texts that are too small
- to hold any lines at all.
-
- 9/11/92 (bug fix) Fixed bug in tkTextDisp.c that caused core dumps
- when adding tags to non-existent lines.
-
- 9/11/92 (bug fix) Line items in canvases didn't permit an empty fill
- color (i.e. couldn't make them transparent).
-
- 9/14/92 (reorganization) Changed manual entries to use .1, .3, and .n
- extensions. Added "install" target to Makefile to suggest how Tk should
- be installed.
-
- 9/16/92 (bug fix) Changed tkSend.c to always specify the root window of
- screen 0 rather than using DefaultRootWindow. DefaultRootWindow doesn't
- always go to screen 0 on displays with multiple screens, which can result
- in send's not being possible between the screens.
-
- 9/18/92 (new feature) Added three new options to "wm" command: "protocol",
- "client", and "command". These provide support for window manager protocols
- such as WM_DELETE_WINDOW and WM_TAKE_FOCUS, plus support for the
- WM_CLIENT_MACHINE and WM_COMMAND properties.
-
- 9/30/92 (new feature) Implemented color model support, including
- "tk colormodel" command and Tk_GetColorModel and Tk_SetColorModel
- procedures. These allow you to force mono operation even on a color
- display. Also changed color allocation not to give errors when colors
- run out, but just to switch to a mono color model.
-
- 10/1/92 (bug fixes) Fixed two bugs in tkTextBTree.c that caused core dumps
- during text deletion.
-
- 10/5/92 (bug work-around) Changed tkColor.c to ignore errors when freeing
- colors. This is needed to work around improper reference count management
- for colormap entries under X11/NeWS.
-
- 10/7/92 (new feature) Added support for different visual types, including
- procedures Tk_SetWindowVisual and Tk_SetWindowColormap, plus macros
- Tk_Visual, Tk_Depth, and Tk_Colormap. The code for this was contributed
- by Paul Mackerras.
-
- 10/7/92 (new feature) Added Tk_IsTopLevel macro.
-
- 10/12/92 (bug fix) Fixed bug in tk.tcl that caused torn-off menus with
- cascaded children not to track mouse motion correctly (the cascade
- switched in response to mouse motions within the cascaded child).
-
- 10/12/92 (new feature) Major changes to focus handling:
- (a) Tk watches FocusIn and FocusOut events for focus changes, not Enter
- and Leave, so it will work better with explicit-focus-model window
- managers (e.g. mwm in default mode).
- (b) Tk generates FocusIn and FocusOut events for the focus window now.
- The old procedural interface (via Tk_CreateFocusHandler) is obsolete
- and is no longer used inside Tk. It is still supported for
- compatibility, but won't be for long. You should change your code
- to use FocusIn and FocusOut events instead.
- (c) The model for FocusIn and FocusOut events is different than the
- one described in Xlib documentation. See the "focus" manual entry
- for details.
- (d) If there is no input focus then keyboard events are discarded. They
- used to be directed to the mouse pointer window, although this wasn't
- documented. The focus now defaults to the root window.
- *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
-
- 10/15/92 (bug fix) Fixed text items in canvases where they didn't
- display the insertion cursor if the item had no characters in it.
-
- 10/26/92 (bug fix) Fixed bug in tkSelect.c that occasionally caused
- BadWindow X protocol errors when retrieving the selection. Tk wasn't
- making sure that a window existed before using it to retrieve the
- selection.
-
- 10/30/92 (feature change) Changed canvases so that if the scroll region
- is smaller than the window and -confine is on, the scroll region isn't
- forced to be centered in the window; it can be anywhere that meets the
- confinement restrictions.
-
- 11/2/92 (new feature) Added "winfo exists" command.
-
- 11/5/92 (new feature) Changed DoWhenIdle handlers so that if a new
- when-idle handler is created as a side-effect of another when-idle
- handler, the new handler isn't invoked until Tk has first checked
- for other events to process.
-
- 11/6/92 (bug fixes, new features) Major overhaul of window manager
- interface:
- (a) Tk should now work with virtual-root window managers;
- (b) windows will now place more accurately on the screen and stay where
- they're supposed to;
- (c) size changes handled more reliably;
- (d) code now works robustly in the face of withdrawals followed
- immediately by deiconifications.
- (e) Added new procedure Tk_GetVRootInfo and new options to "winfo" command:
- vrootx, vrooty, vrootwidth, vrootheight.
- (f) Added "overrideredirect" option to "wm".
- (g) Fixed bug where change in width-only via "wm geom" didn't always work
- (min and max window sizes weren't being set properly for the wm).
-
- 11/6/92 (bug fixes) Modified menus so that they work correctly with
- virtual root window managers. Also fixed bug where menus didn't move
- along with their associated windows, so that the menu popped up at
- the old location of the window rather than its new location.
-
- 11/9/92 (new constraint) Made it illegal to give windows names that
- start with upper-case letters, since such names will goof up the
- option database by appearing to be classes rather than names.
- *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
-
- 11/10/92 (new feature) Added Postscript output to canvases.
-
- 11/13/92 (bug fix) Changed default for maximum size passed to window
- manager from 1000000 (which causes some wm's to make windows too large
- when "maximized") to the size of the display.
-
- 11/14/92 (feature change) Major overhaul of menubuttons and pull-down
- menus. Removed event-sharing code, including Tk_ShareEvents and
- Tk_UnshareEvents. The -variable option for menubuttons has been
- removed,and the "post" and "unpost" widget commands for menubuttons
- no longer exist. The "post" widget command for menus no longer
- allows a group option. The procedure tk_menus has been replaced
- with a new procedure, tk_menuBar, which has a slightly different
- interface.
- *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
-
- 11/20/92 (new features, feature changes) Major overhaul of grab
- mechanism to produce more correct event streams. Also changed Tcl
- commands to require explicit window for grab releases (makes it
- possible for grabs to work on multiple displays simultaneously).
- The old "grab none" command no longer exists, but new options
- have been added: "current", "release", "set", and "status".
- *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
-
- 11/20/92 (new feature) Use TK_LIBRARY environment variable to set library
- directory location, if it is defined. Otherwise fall back on usual
- compiled-in value.
-
- 11/25/92 (bug fix) "wm grid" command was using wrong window.
-
- 11/29/92 (bug fix) Fixed core dump that occurred when trying to use
- placer on top-level windows: return error instead.
-
- 11/29/92 (bug fix) Selection retrieval wasn't making sure that the window
- on whose behalf selection is being retrieved actually exists.
-
- 12/3/92 (new feature) Added support for Mode_switch key to support the
- full ISO character set. Also added event handlers for MappingNotify
- events so that Tk updates itself in response to keycode and modifier
- changes.
-
- 12/6/92 (bug fix) Ignore recursive attempts to destroy window.
-
- 12/9/92 (new demos) Added "tcolor" and "rmt" demos.
-
- 12/10/92 (new features) Added "yposition" widget command for menus,
- changed "delete" widget command to take an optional second index,
- and changed -command option for cascade entries so that it is
- invoked when the entry is activated rather than when it is invoked.
- *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
-
- 12/12/92 (implementation change) Changed the procedures Tk_FreeBitmap,
- Tk_NameOfBitmap, Tk_SizeOfBitmap, Tk_FreeCursor, Tk_NameOfCursor, and
- Tk_FreeGC to require an addition Display argument. This is needed for
- Tk to function correctly when an application has windows on multiple
- displays.
- *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
-
- 12/12/92 (new feature) Started creating a test suite. Right now it
- only has a few tests.
-
- 12/12/92 (new feature) Modified the packer so that a window can be
- packed in descendants of its parent (used to be restricted to the
- parent alone). This makes it possible to hide extra windows used
- for geometry management. Also, can use generalized screen distances
- in the "pack" command.
-
- 12/16/92 (feature change) Boolean options such as -exportselection now
- print as 0/1 rather than true/false (both the default and current values
- print this way). This makes it easier to use these values in expressions.
- *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
-
- 12/16/92 (name change) The classes "RadioButton" and "CheckButton" have
- been renamed "Radiobutton" and "Checkbutton" for consistency. From now
- on widget class names will have exactly one capital letter.
- *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
-
- 12/16/92 (new feature) Added -setgrid option to listboxes.
-
- 12/16/92 (new feature) The "destroy" command, and the "delete" widget
- command for canvases, now accept any number of arguments, including
- zero.
-
- 12/16/92 (new feature) Changed internal TkBindError procedure to
- Tk_BackgroundError and exported it to Tk clients.
-
- 12/16/92 (option name change) Changed the place command's "dependents"
- option to "slaves" for better consistency with documentation.
- *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
-
- 12/16/92 (name changes) Renamed the "cursor*" options in entries and
- canvases to "insert*". Also renamed the "cursor" index to "insert" and
- the "cursor" widget command to "icursor". This was done to avoid
- confusion between the mouse cursor and the insertion cursor.
- *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
-
- ---------------------- Release 3.0, 12/17/92 -------------------------
-
- 12/17/92 (bug fix) Fixed dangling-pointer bug in canvases that occurred
- if a <LeaveNotify> binding deleted the current item.
-
- 12/18/92 (bug fix) Core dump occurred if "wm" invoked with no arguments.
- Also, tkWm.c wasn't properly setting WM_CLASS property on application
- startup.
-
- 12/18/92 (incorrect documentation) Updated manual entries for Tk_FreeGC,
- Tk_FreeCursor, and Tk_FreeBitmap to reflect new interface that requires
- "display" argument.
-
- 12/18/92 (missing documentation) Added documentation for the canvas
- "postscript" command, which was missing in the 3.0 release.
-
- 12/21/92 (bug fixes) There were lots of problems with the new installation
- targets in the Makefiles, such as using "cp -f" and not installing
- prolog.ps. Made several other miscellaneous improvements to Makefile.
-
- 12/21/92 (bug fix) Arrowheads on canvas line items weren't moving properly
- after coordinate changes made with the "coords" widget command.
-
- 12/21/92 (bug fix) If top-level window was initially withdrawn, couldn't
- ever deiconify it again.
-
- 12/21/92 (bug fix) Double-button event sequences didn't always trigger
- properly when grabs were in effect.
-
- 12/22/92 (bug fix) The packer didn't display any top or bottom windows
- after a left or right expanded window, and vice versa. Also made the
- distribution of space among expanded windows more even.
-
- 12/28/92 (new features) Several improvements to selection:
- (a) Added procedures Tk_ClearSelection and Tk_DeleteSelHandler.
- (b) Added "clear" and "own" options to "selection" command, extended
- "handle" option to delete handlers.
- (c) Error returns from "selection handle" scripts are now turned into
- selection retrieval errors ("no such selection") rather than an
- empty selection.
- (d) Tk responds automatically for targets APPLICATION (name of application,
- so you can "send" to it) and WINDOW_NAME (name of window within
- application.
- (e) Added test file "select.test" to test suite.
-
- 12/28/92 (bug fix) Fixed problem with flashing menus that occurred
- because menu.tcl was willing to unpost and then immediately repost
- the same menu.
-
- 1/6/93 (bug fix) Test for UnmapNotify events in tkPack.c used = instead
- of ==.
-
- 1/21/93 (bug fix) Changed many widgets to eliminate use of
- DefaultVisualofScreen, DefaultColormap, etc. and use the visuals
- and colormaps for the actual windows instead. Also changed to
- inherit colormaps and windows from parent by default.
-
- 1/21/93 (new features) Added new winfo options "cells", "depth", and
- "visual".
-
- 1/23/93 (bug fix) Fixed problem with text display that could result
- in negative XCopyArea heights being sent to X server. This causes some
- servers (e.g. some versions of OpenWindows) to crash.
-
- 1/25/93 (new feature) Added -postcommand option to menus, so that menus
- can be reconfigured before each posting.
-
- 1/29/93 (feature change) Changed %X and %Y in bindings so that they
- refer to the virtual root rather than the true root. Although
- potentially incompatible, this change should almost always "do the
- right thing".
- *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
-
- 1/31/93 (bug fix) Changed "send" code to grab server while updating
- the registry property (before this fix, two programs could allocate
- the same interpreter name if they started up simultaneously). In
- order to make this fix I had to change the code for reclaiming
- names of dead interpreters in a way that sometimes allows dead
- interpreters to persist in the registry.
-
- 2/1/93 (feature change) Changed entries to allow leftmost "visible"
- character to be the end of the text (i.e. no characters actually visible).
- This is needed so that the cursor can be displayed even if the last
- actual character is too wide to fit in the window.
-
- 2/3/93 (bug fix) Fixed two bugs in tkFocus.c: (a) FocusIn events
- were getting lost in some cases because the focus window hadn't been
- created yet (e.g. new top-level window pops up underneath the mouse);
- (b) Tk was accidentally triggering FocusOut events when the mouse
- moved from a top-level window to one of its children.
-
- 2/4/93 (new feature) Added "visibility" option to "tkwait" command to make
- it easier to wait for a new window to appear on the screen.
-
- ---------------------- Release 3.1, 2/5/93 -------------------------
-
- 2/10/93 (installation improvements) Makefile improvements: added RANLIB
- variable for easier Sys-V installation, changed to use INCLUDE_DIR
- properly, and added SHELL variable for SGI systems.
-
- ---------------------- Release 3.2, 2/11/93 -------------------------
-
- 2/11/93 (new feature) Added "wm state" command, and improved wm so that
- the right thing will happen if you invoke "wm iconify" when a window is
- withdrawn.
-
- 2/14/93 (bug fix) When -colormap option was used in generating Postscript
- for canvases, Tk didn't add an extra space after the color command.
-
- 2/14/93 (new feature) Changed "extern" declarations in tk.h to "EXTERN",
- which will use the definition of EXTERN from tcl.h and work correctly
- in C++ programs.
-
- 2/18/93 (bug fix) Item-specific bindings weren't getting deleted from
- canvas items when the items were deleted. As a result, they could
- suddenly re-appear for new items if the new items were allocated a
- record at the same addresses as the old ones.
-
- 2/18/93 (feature reversal) Changed "after" back again, so that it sleeps
- *without* responding to events when it is invoked with just one argument;
- can always use tkwait plus after with additional arguments to achieve
- the effect of responding to events.
- *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
-
- 2/20/93 (bug fix) Fixed bug in tkWindow.c where colormaps weren't being
- set correctly for new top-level windows on different screens than their
- parents (the bug results in X protocol errors: "invalid Colormap
- parameter").
-
- 2/22/93 (bug fix) Changed "#!/usr/local/wish" in demo scripts to
- "#!/usr/local/bin/wish" to reflect new location of binary.
-
- 2/22/93 (new feature) Added new reliefs "groove" and "ridge".
-
- 2/25/93 (new feature) Added new built-in bitmaps: "errror", "hourglass",
- "info", "question", "questhead", and "warning". Also added new demo in
- "widget" to display all of these (under the Miscellaneous menu).
-
- 2/25/93 (improved implementation) Changed DrawText procedure in
- prolog for outputting Postscript from canvases to use stringwidth
- instead of charpath+pathbbox: avoids limitcheck problems with long
- strings, and also properly includes space characters in calculation.
-
- 2/25/93 (bug fix) Fixed several bugs in library/menu.tcl that caused
- menu traversal to mis-behave when menu had no entries.
-
- 2/26/93 (new feature) Added "wm frame" command.
-
- 3/6/93 (bug fix) Mwm in click-to-focus mode was goofing up grabs so that
- pull-down menus were sometimes unresponsive. Modified tk.tcl to ignore
- the spurious B1-Enter events generated by mwm, plus modified tkGrab.c to
- release simulated button grabs correctly.
-
- 3/8/93 (bug fix) Tk had wrong interpretation of "lbearing" font metric,
- which caused text to be displayed at the wrong horizontal position in
- several places (labels/buttons, listboxes, canvas text, scales). This
- change will cause slight changes in the way certain widgets are
- displayed.
-
- 3/12/93 (bug fix) Fixed core dumps that occurred in tkEntry.c because of
- zero values in entryPtr->avgWidth.
-
- 3/12/93 (bug fix) Tk_CoordsToWindow was using root coordinates always.
- Changed to use virtual-root coordinates when a virtual-root window
- manager is being used. Before this fix, "winfo containing" didn't
- return the correct window under virtual-root window managers.
-
- 3/18/93 (bug fix) Modified tkWm.c so that Tk doesn't fight with window
- manager over position of window; it just takes what the window manager
- gives it.
-
- 3/21/93 (new feature) Changed menus to display cascade entries with
- standard Motif arrows at right side.a
-
- 3/22/93 (bug fix) Fixed bug in tkPack.c that was causing memory to
- get trashed with the integer value 1.
-
- 3/22/93 (bug fix) Canvas text didn't print correctly if it contained
- an open paren (or other special character) immediately followed by
- an octal digit.
-
- 3/22/93 (bug fix) Text widgets didn't redisplay properly in cases
- where two or more groups of lines both got taller at the same time
- (e.g. from tag changes), causing two separate bit copies where the
- first bit copy's target area overlapped the source area for
- the second bit copy.
-
- 4/1/93 (bug fix) Changed canvases to use ISO Latin-1 font encoding
- if that's supported by the Postscript interpreter. Also added workaround
- for bug in NeWSprint related to stipple fills.
-
- 4/1/93 (bug fixes) Made various changes to focussing and grabs to
- eliminate extraneous focus events and generally improve behavior.
-
- 4/2/93 (bug fix) Modified tkWm.c not to wait indefinitely for the window
- manager to map or reconfigure a window: this led to deadlock in some
- situations, such as creating a new top-level window with a grab held.
-
- 4/19/93 (bug fix) Fixed another bug in tkWm.c that caused windows to walk
- across the screen in some situations. Also fixed problem where rapid
- posting and unposting of cascaded submenus (or menus?) could cause Tk
- to become confused about whether or not a window is mapped (added
- TkWmUnmapWindow procedure to make top-level unmaps synchronous).
-
- 4/24/93 (feature change) Changed the "after" command to allow times
- less than or equal to 0, and to use 0 whenever they occur.
-
- 4/26/93 (new feature) Implemented security check for "send" as proposed
- by Bennett Todd: incoming sends are now rejected unless (a) xhost-style
- access control is enabled and (b) the list of authorized hosts is
- empty. In other words, you have to use xauth to use send. This feature
- can be disabled by setting the TK_NO_SECURITY flag at compile-time.
-
- 5/15/93 (improvement) Switched to use Tcl_PrintDouble whenever returning
- real values as Tcl results. This potentially allows higher precision.
- Switched to use %.15g whenever printing reals in Postscript files.
- However, the change Tcl_PrintDouble causes incompatibilities. For
- now, it's disabled with a macro in tclInt.h that redefines Tcl_PrintDouble.
- Tk 4.0 will delete the macro, and you can also delete it now if you
- want the better (but incompatible) behavior.
-
- 5/19/93 (bug fix) Fixed divide-by-zero problem that could occur in
- closeness calculations for canvas oval items.
-
- 5/30/93 (bug fix) PROP and CONFIG were accidentally #defined to the same
- value in tkBind.c, which could cause incorrect %-substitutions in event
- bindings in a few exotic cases.
-
- 6/4/93 (improvement) Changed to use GNU autoconfig for configuration.
- Makefile format changed, and Tcl is no longer automatically included
- in Tk releases.
-
- 6/7/93 (bug fix) Fixed off-by-one error in rounding negative coordinates
- during redisplay of canvases.
-
- 6/9/93 (feature improvement) Modified default bindings for entries to
- keep one character visible to the left of the cursor during backspaces.
-
- 6/18/93 (feature improvement) Added patchlevel.h, for use in coordinating
- future patch releases, and also added tk_patchLevel variable to make the
- patch level available in scripts.
-
- 6/26/93 (bug fix) Fixed numeric problems in scales that occurred with
- very large scale values.
-
- 6/26/93 (bug fix) Polygon items in canvases could cause core dumps if
- the "coords" widget command was used to add one new coordinate.
-
- 6/26/93 (bug fix) Changed canvases to handle large stipple patterns
- gracefully (stipples used to jump around during redisplay and lose
- coherency).
-
- 7/1/93 (syntax change, new feature) Implemented the new packer syntax
- as described in the book. For now the old syntax will continue to be
- supported too. Converting over is straightforward except (a) use
- "-anchor" instead of "frame", and (b) padding is different (separate
- internal and external padding, plus pad amounts are *on each side*
- instead of total). Also added "pack propagate" command for keeping
- the packer from setting the master's requested size.
-
- 7/1/93 Changed copyright notices. The effect is the same as with the
- old notices, but the new notices more clearly disclaim liability.
-
- 7/7/93 (new feature) Added support for window stacking order. Windows
- will now stack in the order created (most recent on top), plus "raise"
- and "lower" commands may be used to restack (Tk_RestackWindow procedure
- is available from C level).
-
- 7/7/93 (reorganization) Moved main.c to tkMain.c, reorganized it to
- call Tcl_AppInit just like tclsh does, and added argv0 variable to contain
- application name, and added default Tcl_AppInit procedure for wish.
- Also added tkTest.c to hold C code for testing.
-
- 7/7/93 (new feature) Added new Tk-specific "exit" command, which cleans
- up properly before exiting. It replaces the Tcl "exit" command, and
- can be used in place of "destroy .".
-
- 7/9/93 (new features) Added tk_dialog library procedure that creates
- dialogs with a bitmap, message, and any number of buttons. Also changed
- default tkerror procedure to use tk_dialog plus offer the user a chance
- to see a Tcl stack trace.
-
- -------------------- Release 3.3 Beta 1, 7/9/93 -------------------------
-