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From: Uwe Klein on 16 Oct 2009 06:46 Bob Techentin wrote: > On Oct 15, 7:31 am, Roger O <roger.oberholt...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >>Is there any technical reason the notebook was dropped? Was it a case >>of who needs yet another notebook widget? > > > There was no _technical_ reason for dropping BLT's notebook, table, or > treeview. I just didn't need them. And good (supported) replacements > exist for all of them. I wanted to concentrate on the unique parts of > BLT - the things that I can't get anywhere else. blt has quite a lot of factored out components. plotting: graph, barchart, stripchart vector, vector expr, spline, hierarchical data: treeview tree ( object ) improving on MVC separation. uwe
From: Jeff Hobbs on 19 Oct 2009 14:48 On Oct 11, 8:34 am, Bob Techentin <techentin.rob...(a)mayo.edu> wrote: > As many of you know, I worked with a team of undergraduate students > last year on refactoring portions of the BLT toolkit so that it would > work with Tcl/Tk 8.4, 8.5, and beyond. I was particularly interested > in the vectors and graphs, as that is what we use. I also asked the > team to work on winop (for snap) and the embedded eps portions. The > team delivered binaries and source code last May, and it seemed to > work. But as I dug a little deeper, there were some build > dependencies, and the automated tests didn't work quite the way I > expected. I've managed to do a little more tweaking, and I think that > it is ready for an alpha release. > > http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/rbctoolkit/ > > RBC is: > - BLT's vector, graph, barchart, stripchart, winop, and eps > components > - TEA compliant > - 3800+ automated test suite, plus many more manual tests > - Works (for me) on win32, linux 32 bit and linux 64 bit, Tcl/Tk 8.4, > 8.5, and 8.6beta. .... > But if you're willing to try it out, I'd be more than happy to accept > any feedback. Please use the sf.net trackers to document issues or > problems. Those who are interested in trying this out and don't want to figure out the compile magic, you will not find this in the teapot. [teacup install rbc] is all you need. It doesn't include the demos, so if you want those, go ahead and download the tarball and run the demos from there after installing rbc as above. Jeff
From: Bob Techentin on 19 Oct 2009 15:38 On Oct 19, 1:48 pm, Jeff Hobbs <jeff.ho...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > It doesn't include the demos, so if you want those, go ahead and > download the tarball Actually, the demos aren't in the tarball. You'll have to get them from SVN. And only the 'graph1.tcl' tarball has been ported to RBC. Bob
From: Donald Arseneau on 20 Oct 2009 05:35 On Oct 19, 11:48 am, Jeff Hobbs <jeff.ho...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Those who are interested in trying this out and don't want to figure > out the compile magic, you will not find this in the teapot. [teacup > install rbc] is all you need. Huh??? Do you mean "now"? Donald Arseneau
From: Jeff Hobbs on 20 Oct 2009 11:51
On Oct 20, 2:35 am, Donald Arseneau <a...(a)triumf.ca> wrote: > On Oct 19, 11:48 am, Jeff Hobbs <jeff.ho...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Those who are interested in trying this out and don't want to figure > > out the compile magic, you will not find this in the teapot. [teacup > > install rbc] is all you need. > > Huh??? Do you mean "now"? Doh! Yes, rbc 0.1 is _now_ in the teapot. |