Version 20 of tkhtml

Updated 2002-02-15 19:38:11

http://www.hwaci.com/sw/tkhtml/ is the home page for one of the Tk HTML widgets that renders HTML into formatted text with hyperlinks. It is a compiled extension.

Kitten, a compilation of extensions for the TclKit user, includes compiled versions of tkhtml for Linux, Solaris, and Windows.

ActiveTcl 8.3.4.1 includes compiled versions of tkhtml 2.0 [L1 ].

TkHTML is one of the numerous packages in the Tcl community which has its own pecular build requirements. Be certain to read carefully the COMPILE.txt instructions - and take their instructions literally ! You do NOT just do a compile; make ; make install on this package!

  1. You have to build in a directory OTHER than in the source directory.
  2. You have to be in that directory, and then invoke the source directory's configure
  3. You MUST specify the --with-tcl and --with-tk flags, pointing to the source tree
  4. You may very well have to modify the Makefile to do things like add -R flags, flags for locating the libraries for sockets, etc.

Neil Madden has provided a neat little 5 line .sig that points one to this wiki - see the code at Simple Tkhtml web page displayer.

TkHTML shares its code base with BrowseX; the latter uses TkHTML, and Peter MacDonald regularly updates the TkHTML CVS repository.

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