RBC - Refactored BLT Components - Initial Release
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From: Bob Techentin on 11 Oct 2009 11:34 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. RBC is not (yet): - documented - experienced - beautiful (see pkgIndex.tcl for an example) - free from Tcl/Tk internals - including Zoom-Stack - tested with starkits 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. Thanks, Bob Techentin -- techentin.robert(a)mayo.edu
From: Will Duquette on 11 Oct 2009 12:26 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..... Bob, you rock.
From: MSEdit on 12 Oct 2009 04:20 Excellent work Bob and team, I tried out the stripchart example and it works ok (even in a starpack win 8.4.12, 8.5.7 and 8.6b1). I had a problem with another example and will report back when I have had time to check it out. Have you kept all the options in the source code for BLT ? the graph element has -ylow/-yhigh and -weight which although not well documented are very useful. Is this based on the blt2.4Z source ? Martyn
From: Roger O on 12 Oct 2009 04:30 I have downloaded this and would like to see what's up. Should I be able to compile and link a C program against this? If so, how has the naming been changed from the BLT style? A quick look at the code tells me this is not a rename-recompile replacement. I understand that there are no docs. But is there at least a little advice on how one could try to evaluate it from code that was originally BLT?
From: Bob Techentin on 12 Oct 2009 09:09
On Oct 12, 3:20 am, MSEdit <mse...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Is this based on the blt2.4Z source ? > Yes, RBC is based on BLT 2.4z with both patches applies. Bob |