From: Greg McFarlane <gregm@iname.com> To: python-announce-list@python.org Subject: ANNOUNCE: Pmw megawidgets 0.8.5 Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 21:29:23 +1100 Pmw megawidgets Pmw.0.8.5 * Python 2.0 release * Pmw moved to SourceForge Pmw new home: http://pmw.sourceforge.net/ Pmw maintainer: Greg McFarlane <gregm@iname.com> A new release of Pmw is out. This is mainly a bug fix release for python 2.0, fixing a problem with Pmw.Counter caused by a change in the ascii representation of a long (no 'L'). Also, the home for Pmw development has moved to SourceForge. The Pmw sources and documentation are under CVS control and releases can be downloaded from there. I would like to thank Graham Dumpleton for allowing Pmw to be hosted at his web site for so long. I hope SourceForge will match the stability of Pmw's old site. Other changes in this release are: - Minor fixes to tests for Tk 8.3. - Fixed bug in Pmw.ScrolledFrame when given invalid flex options. - Added pmw2 font scheme, since the font used for balloon text with pmw1 is too small on Linux. - Removed syntax coloring from code window in demos. It did not look good and the pattern matching was not always correct. - Changed font size used for demos to 12 for Unix, since 14 looked too big under Linux. For more information on Pmw, see the (new) home page at http://pmw.sourceforge.net/ You can fetch the entire distribution from http://download.sourceforge.net/pmw/Pmw.0.8.5.tar.gz If you have any comments, enhancements or new contributions, please contact me (gregm@iname.com). ===================================================================== What is Pmw? Pmw is a GUI toolkit for building high-level compound widgets in Python using the Tkinter module. These compound widgets, called 'megawidgets', are constructed using other Tkinter widgets or Pmw megawidgets as component parts. It promotes consistent look and feel within and between graphical applications, is highly configurable and is easy to use. Pmw consists of: - A few base classes, providing a foundation for building megawidgets. - A library of flexible and extensible megawidgets built on the base classes, such as buttonboxes, notebooks, comboboxes, selection widgets, paned widgets, scrolled widgets and dialog windows. - A lazy importer/dynamic loader which is automatically invoked when Pmw is first imported. This gives unified access to all Pmw classes and functions through the Pmw. prefix. It also speeds up module loading time by only importing Pmw sub-modules when needed. - Reference documentation, consisting of complete listings of megawidget options, methods and components. Full descriptions are also available for all the base classes and several other megawidget classes. Descriptions of the other megawidgets will be released soon. - A test framework and tests for Pmw megawidgets. - A slick demonstration of the megawidgets. - An interface to the BLT busy, graph and vector commands. The interface to Pmw megawidgets is similar to basic Tk widgets, so it is easy for developers to include both megawidgets and basic Tk widgets in their graphical applications. In addition, Pmw megawidgets may themselves be extended, using either inheritance or composition. The use of the Pmw megawidgets replaces common widget combinations with higher level abstractions. This simplifies code, making it more readable and maintainable. The ability to extend Pmw megawidgets enables developers to create new megawidgets based on previous work. -- Greg McFarlane Really Good Software Pty Ltd Sydney Australia gregm@iname.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list