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From: Jean-Luc Fontaine <jfontain@mygale.org> Subject: moodss-5.1 - modular spreadsheet in Tcl/Tk Date: 15 Nov 1998 17:46:54 -0800 Hi everybody: here is a new version of moodss. Check it out! (or at least the screenshots at http://www.mygale.org/~jfontain/moodss3.gif or http://www.mygale.org/~jfontain/moodss4.gif :). NOTE: I am switching to bug-fix mode for a while, so please mail them bug reports! :^) ### CHANGES ### *** version 5.1 *** viewers with data cells originating from summary tables can now be successfully rebuilt from save file (may incur some save file incompatibilities with previous moodss versions) save file now stores all displayed tables column widths (useful after user resizing, for example) HTML help now includes images either found in the local directory or the /usr/doc/moodss-5.1/ directory if moodss was installed as a rpm viewers created from save file were not completely deleted when dropped in trash fixed graphs initial flat line problem and made it invisible again removed some memory leaks that occured when deleting some viewers all new viewers (except for free text) are now created with the same size removed programmer specific help from moodss global help window prevent data cell(s) drag and drop from within same summary table graph viewers created from save file had their time scale improperly initialized deleted summary table viewer now makes sure that viewers watching its data can eventually show that cell(s) data has become invalid found a way around core dumps (when exiting moodss, on Linux and probably other UNIXs) caused by use of graph viewers uses stooop 3.7, scwoop 2.6, tkpiechart 5.2.1 and BLT 2.4h ### README ### This is moodss (Modular Object Oriented Dynamic SpreadSheet) version 5.1. Moodss is implemented in the great Tcl language (requires at least versions 8.0 of Tcl and Tk, for UNIX or Windows). Moodss is a modular application. It displays data described and updated in one or more independent modules loaded when the application is started. Data is originally displayed in tables. Graphical views (graph, bar, 3D pie charts, ...), summary tables (with current, average, minimum and maximum values) and free text viewers can be created from any number of table cells through a simple drag'n'drop operation. Table rows can be sorted in increasing or decreasing order by clicking on column titles. The current configuration (modules, tables and viewers geometry, ...) can be saved in a file at any time, and later reused through a command line switch, thus achieving a dashboard functionality. The module code is the link between the moodss core and the data to be displayed. All the specific code is kept in the module package. Since module data access is entirely customizable (through C code, Tcl, HTTP, ...) and since several modules can be loaded at once, applications for moodss become limitless. For example, comparing a remote database server CPU load and a network load from a probe on the same graph becomes possible. Apart from a sample module with random data, ps, cpustats and memstats modules for Linux are included as examples (running "wish moodss ps cpustats memstats" mimics the "top" application with a graphic edge). Module contibutions are of course welcomed and will be included in my home page. Thorough help is provided through menus, widget tips, a message area, a module help window and a global help window with a complete HTML documentation. Development of moodss is continuing and as more features are added in future versions, backward module code compatibility will be maintained. I cannot thank the authors of tkTable, BLT and the HTML library enough for their great work. In order to run moodss, you need to install the following packages (unless you can use the rpm utility, see below): obviously Tcl/Tk 8.0 or 8.1 at (or at a mirror near you) http://www.scriptics.com/ or ftp://ftp.scriptics.com/ the latest tkTable widget library at: http://oprs.mchh.siemens.de/tcl/capp/tkTable/ and the latest BLT library at: ftp://ftp.tcltk.com/pub/blt/ (see the INSTALL file for complete instructions, for UNIX and also Windows platforms). Note: pre-compiled libraries for tkTable and BLT on Linux are available in my homepage. You also have the option of using the moodss rpm file (also in my homepage), if you are using a Redhat Linux system (5.1 or above). Whether you like it (or hate it), please let me know. I would like to hear about bugs and improvements you would like to see. I will correct the bugs quickly, especially if you send me a test script (module code with a data trace would be best). ### you may find it now at: http://www.mygale.org/~jfontain/moodss-5.1.tar.gz http://www.mygale.org/~jfontain/moodss-5.1-1.i386.rpm or: ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/incoming/moodss-5.1.tar.gz ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/incoming/moodss-5.1-1.i386.rpm to be moved soon into (not sure about the rpm): ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/sorted/apps/moodss-5.1.tar.gz ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/sorted/apps/moodss-5.1-1.i386.rpm Enjoy and please let me know what you think. -- Jean-Luc Fontaine mailto:jfontain@mygale.org http://www.mygale.org/~jfontain/ [[Send Tcl/Tk announcements to tcl-announce@mitchell.org Send administrivia to tcl-announce-request@mitchell.org Announcements archived at http://www.findmail.com/list/tcl_announce/ The primary Tcl/Tk archive is ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/ ]]