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From: Arndt Roger Schneider on 6 Nov 2009 08:58
Hi Lisp commuters,

It is my distinct pleasure to announce the
availability of Runtime Library 3.0
and Gestalt Items 1.1 for LTK and Lisp.

Both libraries are written in Tcl/Tk >= version 8.4.
LTK based Lisp Wrapper classes are part of the
libraries, making them accesible from Lisp.

The libraries contain a wide range of
composite windows for Tk:

Basic Container windows for
* scroll able dialogs
* automatic scrollbar management

Listboxes and Hierarchy
* Combobox
* A edit able listbox (called gistbox)
* Multi-column listboxes
* Tree

A complete AQUA compliant toolbar
infrastructure
* goolbar and zoolbar, toolbars
implemented in Tk canvas and / or TkPath and
TkZinc
* gooleditor the associated interactive
toolbar editor.
* A multi-line toolbar (galette)

Dialogs:
* A dual shell, could serve as an
interactive Lisp shell
* A Font selection dialog (Windows design)

tabset, status bar, ...


Take a look at the brand-new manual pages dedicated to Lisp:
http://gestaltitems.sourceforge.net/lisp/index.html

There are currently no Lisp specific examples inside the
Lisp manual pages, sorry.


Some Details about the Libraries:

All the composite windows
use explicit naming conventions
--they are predeterministic-- to keep
bi-directional communication between
Tcl and Lisp minimal.

Most of the composite windows either use the
Tk canvas or TkPath pathCanvas window in their
implementation. This makes it possible to convert
all the composites into SVG.
The SVG generator is a separate --unpublished-- tool
and not bundled with the libraries.
The manual pages contain such SVGs generated from Tk.

TkPath is highly recommended to gain a
visually sophisticated GUI. The libraries
do also work without TkPath. TkPath is
based on CAIRO under X11 and bypasses the
Tk X11-emulation layer under Windows and OSX.


Download Packages:
geitems11.tgz -- Gestalt Items Library in Tcl/Tk
geitemsLisp11.tgz -- Lisp classes for above Gestalt Items

rtl30.tgz -- Runtime Library in Tcl/Tk
rtllisp30.tgz -- Lisp classes for above Runtime Library

Also see the original documentation at:
http://gestaltitems.sourceforge.net

The Runtime Library (Tcl/Tk) is documented by two
books, the latest book is online at:
http://gestaltitems.sourceforge.net/rtl/index.html

The Gestalt Items book:
http://gestaltitems.sourceforge.net/geitems/index.html

All three books contain lots of Tcl/Tk examples
and screen shots (as bitmaps).

-roger
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