Purpose: to document and review attempts to provide GUI toolkits for Tcl that are based on a library other than Tk's graphical library.
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What: ctaxt
Where: <URL: ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/languages/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/ctaxt1.2.tar.gz>
Description: Combine Tcl/Tk with other X Window toolkits (like Motif)
into a single graphical user interface.
Updated: 10/1998
Contact: <URL: mailto:[email protected]> (Holger Pleiss)
What: CTk
Where: <URL: ftp://ccfadm.eeg.ccf.org/pub/ctk/>
<URL: ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/languages/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/ctk4.0.tar.gz>
<URL: ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/languages/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/ctk4.0b1.tar.gz>
<URL: http://www.du.edu/%7Emschwart/ctk8.0.tar.gz>
<URL: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/libc5/>
Description: This is a version of Tk which uses curses. Applications with
a modern GUI-ish interface can be created for character terminals.
CTk is a subset of Tk, being unable to do things like scaling
canvases, selection, send, active backgrounds, etc.
A version 4.2 is available at ccfadm.
The version by Mr. Schwartz, at du.edu, has been upgraded to
work with Tcl 8, but does not yet support Tk 8 features.
There are rpms at redhat which have been upgraded with patches
to seem to work with Tk 4.2.p12/Tcl 7.4p3.
Updated: 02/2000
Contact: <URL: mailto:[email protected]> (Martin Andrews)
<URL: mailto:[email protected]> (Michael Schwartz)
<URL: mailto:[email protected]> (Karl O. Pinc)
What: EGR TIGER
Where: <URL: http://www.easterngraphics.com/products/tiger/>
Description: Tcl based Interpretative Graphics EnviRonment (TIGER) is
a tool for interpretative graphics programming, providing a one to
one binding for OpenGL 1.0.
Updated: 04/1999
Contact: <URL: mailto:[email protected]>
What: Tcl Fltk binding
Where: http://pages.infinit.net/cclients
Description: Stubs based extension that implements Tcl bindings to the
widgets and dialogs of the Fast Light Toolkit, a GUI development
toolkit that runs on Unix, Windows, and a few other places.
This binding is nice because it can co-inside visually with a Tk
application, even though the commands and widgets are completely
distinct from Tk.
Updated: 08/2001
Contact: mailto:[email protected]The Wiki page on Iain B. Findleton's Tcl Fltk has more information.
Peter G. Baum's gnocl, maintained at http://www.dr-baum.net/gnocl/ .
What: gnome-tcl
Where: <URL: http://cyberspace.mht.bme.hu/%7Eszekeres/gnome-tcl/>
Description: Tcl binding for GTk+.
Version 0.0.1 is for Tcl 8.2 and supports only some GTk+ bindings.
Updated: 09/2000
Contact: Unknown
What: Moat/TclMotif (Newmarch)
Where: <URL: ftp://csc.canberra.edu.au/pub/motif/tclMotif/tclMotif.tar.z>
<URL: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/devel_tools/tclMotif.1.4.tar.Z>
<URL: ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/languages/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/tclMotif.1.4.tar.gz>
Description: A Tcl shell (moat) which uses Motif widgets rather than
Tk widgets. Requires Tcl 7.3 and Motif 1.2.1.
Some Motif 2.0 support is present, but it is based on a beta
release of Motif 2.0.
A mailing list is available on
<URL: mailto:[email protected]> ; send a
"subscribe tclMotif your_name"
line to join.
Updated: 10/1998
Contact: <URL: mailto:[email protected]> (Jan Newmarch)
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What: PortBox
Where: From the contact
Description: A Tcl 7.x interface to the XVT GUI toolbox. It is not a
complete encapsulation of XVT, though it may be close enough to
be useful. It is freely distributable software, even though
XVT is not. It was developed with the Macintosh's MPW 3.2+ and SCO
Motif on XVT v3.02. It has not been ported to Windows. PortBox
requires an ANSI C compiler. This is *NOT* a version of Tk for
the Macintosh or Windows.
Updated:
Contact: <URL: mailto:[email protected]> (Cecil Coupe)
[[... Qt ...]] [[ [Petasis George] has worked on this.]]
What: TCLMOTIF (Barlow)
Where: <URL: ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/rom/euuc-freeware/MISCELLA/TCL/TCLMOTIF.Z>
Description: Ultrix port of Tcl 6 with Motif extension.
Updated:
Contact: <URL: mailto:[email protected]> (Doug Barlow, DECwest NSM/AD)
What: tclMotif extension of a Matrix widget
Where: From the contact
Description: Changes to tclMotif 1.2 to integrate the XbaeMatrixWidget
(a freely distributable Motif efficient, editable matrix widget) into
tclMotif.
Updated:
Contact: <URL: mailto:[email protected]> (Sriram Srinivasan)
What: TclWin
Where: <URL: http://www.bgi-sa.com/>
Description: Native MS-Windows GUI interface, for Windows 95/NT.
Requires Tcl 8.0 or ActiveTcl. Replaces Tk.
Create modeless dialog boxes, native window controls,
extended window controls, user drawn window controls and bitmapped
buttons with [tooltips] in dll form. A sample GUI editor written
in Tcl is provided. A new version is almost finished with
full MDI support (multi menu), Popup Menu, Growable and dockable
dialog boxes, Tooltips. Licence is free of charge,
doc is in the form of a Winhelp file,
Source available on request.
Updated: 12/1998
Contact: <URL: mailto:[email protected]> (N. Frankinet)
What: Tcl_GTk
Where: <URL: http://tcl-gtk.sourceforge.net/>
Description: A number of GTk widgets have been bound to Tcl 8.2,
based on GTk 1.2. Currently at pre-alpha version 0.03.
Updated: 07/1999
Contact: <URL: mailto:[email protected]> (Mark S. Patton)
What: Visual Tcl
Where: <URL: http://www.sco.com/products/vtcl/vtcl.html>
<URL: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>
Description: A MultiPlatform port of SCO Visual Tcl 1.20a. Extends the
Tcl 7.3/tclX 7.3/Tcl 7.6 environment with commands to support Motif 1.2.
Note that this approach even provides the possibility of
displaying your application on a character based display.
The cross platform distributions were originally
missing critical .o files necessary to create a new interpreter.
Recently this has begun to be corrected. SCO is working on a new
version based on Tcl/tclX 7.6.
Updated: 07/1999
Contact: <URL: mailto:[email protected]> (Mike Hopkirk)
What: wxTcl
Where: <URL: http://www.multimania.com/awaken >
Description: The wx is a new GUI extension to Tcl, based on wxWindows and
wxGTK. It's intention is to provide a developer with an extension
able to provide a native look and feel, contemporary looking
programming constructs, AND still be able to operate within a normal
Tcl and Tk application! The extension is considered beta at this
time, but should exhibit the possibilities to the developer.
Updated: 09/2000
Contact: <URL: mailto:[email protected]> (Olivier Paquay)