From: u199096679@spawnkill.ip-mobilphone.net Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl Subject: ANN: Alphatk text editor 8.0fc1 Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 11:28:11 GMT Alphatk version 8.0fc1 Alphatk's web site is at <http://www.santafe.edu/~vince/Alphatk.html>. Alphatk is a powerful text editor, implemented in Tcl/Tk. This release can be downloaded immediately from the above site. 8.0fc1 - last update: 03/03/2001 {23:03:47 PM} • added unicode and encodings help file. • simplified some dialogs code, beginnings of support for tabbed dialogs. • slightly better dnd support (dragging a file onto the status bar or menu bar should work on windows and unix). Note that most of the menu bar is a native-menu on windows, and therefore won't accept these kinds of drags. All of this requires 'tkdnd'. • AlphaTcl up to 7.4.1 (final release). • beginnings of support for a control-bar in the left margin (allowing things like line-numbers, debugger breakpoints etc. to be displayed). • added row/col display to status bar • ordinary clicking in the red 'modified' status indicator saves the window (as well as ctrl-clicking which worked before). • better implementation of the popup mode/encoding menus and the position indicator What is Alphatk? Alphatk is a text editor. It's most useful for programmers, those writing a lot of TeX or LaTeX documents, and for editing of HTML source files. It has very rich features to aid in writing and editing files of those document types. The programming languages strongly supported are C, C++, Java, Tcl, Perl, Matlab. Most other common languages are also supported, although perhaps not with quite such a rich feature set. Alphatk is written entirely in Tcl, the scripting and gui language developed by John Ousterhout (now at www.ajubasolutions.com). This means it is easily extendable, configurable etc. Most aspects of its behaviour can be configured using various 'Preferences' dialogs. If you can program in Tcl you can tweak it in any way you like. However it is designed to be used by people who cannot program in Tcl. Alphatk is a little like emacs, in that it is a very powerful text editor. However it was designed with a graphical interface in mind (for many years Alpha was a MacOS only product written in C. This is effectively a re-implementation of Alpha by emulating its inner functionality in plain Tcl). New releases will be made as frequently as is necessary to keep up with bug reports and feature requests. Bug fixes and code contributions are much appreciated. Alphatk would never have existed had it not been for Pete Keleher, the creator of 'Alpha', a MacOS only editor, and for the community of Alpha users who have contributed vast amounts of Tcl code which help make Alphatk the powerful editor it now is. Alphatk should run on Windows or Unix (on MacOS you can use Pete Keleher's editor Alpha which has approximately the same functionality). Alphatk will mostly run on MacOS, but there is a known menu problem. The ftp site for Alphatk is <ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/pub/alpha/tcl/alphatk/> Supported Platforms: I'm happy to support Alphatk on any platform on which Tk 8.1 or newer runs (i.e. please tell me if it doesn't run on your platform when using Tk 8.1 or newer). Alphatk is currently known to run on: Windows NT 4.0sp3,sp5,sp6, with any of Tcl/Tk 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4a1 Windows 2000sp1 with Tcl/Tk 8.3.2, Tcl 8.4a1/2 Solaris running X-windows, with Tcl/Tk 8.1, 8.3.2 RedHat Linux with Tcl/Tk 8.4a1 I assume it will also run under many more platforms, but I simply haven't tested it. -- Sent by vincentdarley from my-deja in area com This is a spam protected message. Please answer with reference header. Posted via http://www.usenet-replayer.com/cgi/content/new