Version 22 of TkXext

Updated 2006-04-11 05:52:34

George Peter Staplin: I'm maintaining and extending TkXext again. It will be used to test Whim window manager.

Notible changes in the 3.6.4 release include:

  1. XTestGrabControl is now used in init.c, so that playback scripts work properly when they cause a grab indirectly.
  2. The old build system was removed.
  3. A new build system based on tickmake (used also in megapkg) replaced the old system.
  4. The documentation was updated for the new build system.
  5. Some build bugs were fixed.

TkXext is X-based; it's available only for Unix.

(more accurately, it's available as source, and good luck figuring out how to compile it under windows to work with Exceed [L1 ] or Reflection X [L2 ]... (do they even provide SDKs?) But if you do work it out, by all means let George know about it.)

GPS: I didn't hear from you about any problems. I'd be glad to help you, so please let me know what problems you ran into with Exceed or Reflections/X. BTW I'll add a configure option for X11 header and library directories, because I would imagine you have problems related to that. When I originally wrote the configure script I didn't plan on supporting many systems.

(problems? no, I was just commenting that it was theoretically possible, and saying 'good luck' to whoever tries it... while I do have access to both of the above-named products, they are not part of my development enviroment. My comment about letting you know is because I'm sure you'd like to hear about it if someone does do that, and so that you can add any necessary stuff to your makefile to support that configuration. I note with some amusement that after I added my comment yesterday, I revised it slightly to correct a product name and add URL for Reflection X, and your adding of your response managed to zap my revision.)

escargo: What about Cygwin? I'm running the Blackbox Window Manager [L3 ] using Cygwin/XFree86 [L4 ] on Cygwin [L5 ].

GPS: It probably would work under Cygwin's XFree86. I like Cygwin and their XFree86 port (used it for a while in NT 4), but for whatever reason the installer has a tendency to segfault in Windows XP Home. If it's fixed I may see what's needed (if anything) to make it work.

escargo: I am using Cygwin on Windows XP Professional. (I use the Blackbox Window Manager there; it makes people stare at my laptop, since it is obviously not Windows.) The only problems I had with setup were finding a reliable location on the internet to download from.

Here is a copy of the source and a binary shared library compiled on Slackware Linux 7.2 using Tcl/Tk 8.4a1. [L6 ] It compiled cleanly and worked great for me. I used it to embed the BRX web browser window into a frame inside a page in an Iwidget tabbed notebook.

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