| Areas | The project areas |
| Good if student knows | C |
| Priority | (Low, Medium, High) |
| Difficulty | Medium? |
| Benefits to the student | Learning the Insides of tk, Widget writing, X Event handling |
| Benefits to Tcl | Modernization of our best Chart Display widgets |
| Mentor | Mentor's name/link |
Last year, a student project partially refactored the BLT library, making it compatible with modern Tcl releases. Much work remains, as described here :
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 (this is partly implemented now) or [spline] (what other major BLT functionality is missing?) - tested with starkits - ported to MacOS X Aqua environment (most important for full cross-platform usage)
Some comments here, and discussion of the idea