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<h1 ALIGN="CENTER">Changes to Pmw</h1>
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<p>
6 January 1997</p>
<ul><li><p>Release of version 0.1</p>
</ul>
<p> 14 February 1997</p>
<ul><li><p>Fixed bug in Counter demo for the Macintosh - the maximum size of an
integer is smaller than the value returned by time.time().</p>
<li><p>Fixed bug in Grid demo for Tk 4.2 - grid_bbox returns garbage if it is
called without update_idletasks. Also, grid_bbox can only have two
arguments in Tk 4.1.</p>
<li><p>Modified ScrolledText demo so that the text widget contains enough text
to require a vertical scrollbar.</p>
<li><p>Changes to PmwBase:</p>
<ul><li><p>Prefixed the name of several private variables with a double underscore.</p>
<li><p>Added symbolic constants for the indexes into an optionInfo list.</p>
<li><p>Changed names of several methods and variables to be more descriptive.</p>
<li><p>Removed options() method.</p>
<li><p>Simplified configuration option data structures. Modified option
handling code so that default options are set correctly. If an
option is created before initialise() is called then initialise()
checks if the option is set by the keyword arguments to
initialise(). If not, then it is given the value found in the
Tk option database, if a value exists, or the default value. If an
option is created after initialise() is called, then it is given the
value found in the Tk option database, if a value exists, or the
default value.</p>
</ul>
<li><p>Replaced usage of self._hull in megawidgets by interior() method.</p>
<li><p>Added autoclear option to ComboBox.</p>
<li><p>Fixed bug in ComboBox - fast clicking on the arrow button could result
in an attempt to grab a window that was not yet visible.</p>
<li><p>Added "sys.exc_traceback = None" to the except clauses of all try
statements so that references to objects in the stack trace would not
be left.</p>
<li><p>Added takefocus option to PushButton.</p>
<li><p>Modified the getcurselection() method of ScrolledListBox so that it
returns a string if the selection mode is <strong>'single'</strong> or <strong>'browse'</strong>, rather
than a tuple with one element. This also affects methods forwarded and
derived from ScrolledListBox.</p>
<li><p>Modified ScrolledListBox so that it avoids unnecessary updates by
using idle timer.</p>
<li><p>Modified ScrolledText to use grid instead of pack.</p>
<li><p>Added shutdown() function to Tk module to clean up all references to
the Tcl interpreter and then delete it.</p>
<li><p>Fixed bug Tk module for the Macintosh - update() was being called in
initialise() before the Tcl interpreter was created.</p>
</ul>
<p> 14 February 1997</p>
<ul><li><p>Version 0.1.1 completed and released internally.</p>
</ul>
<p> 6 March 1997</p>
<ul><li><p>Pmw now uses the standard Tkinter module. The Tk module has been
dropped. This means that the Tk module functions such as after,
bell, bind, update, etc, are no longer available and the equivalent
Tkinter methods should be used.</p>
<li><p>To restore some of the features of the Tk module, Pmw.initialise()
now adds run-time hooks into Tkinter to get notification of when Tk
widgets are created and destroyed. It also modifies the CallWrapper
class so that errors during callbacks and bindings can be displayed
in a window. If Pmw.initialise() is not called, Tkinter is not
modified and these features are not available.</p>
<li><p>If a Tk widget which is acting as the hull of a megawidget is
destroyed, then the megawidget is destroyed as well. This can
only happen if Pmw.initialise() is called.</p>
<li><p>Pmw.initialise() now takes the Tkinter root as its argument.</p>
<li><p>The parent of megawidgets now defaults to the Tk root. Previously,
the parent of non-toplevel megawidgets had to be given.</p>
<li><p>Added PmwBase.tracetk() function to get trace of calls to the Tcl
interpreter for debugging.</p>
<li><p>Added functions to PmwBase to display a busy cursor over the
application such as when a modal dialog is displayed or it is
blocked doing a long calculation. Uses busy command of the blt
extension, if present.</p>
<li><p>Created a nifty new demo which demonstrates most of the megawidgets
in a convenient way.</p>
<li><p>Added a TextDialog.</p>
<li><p>Added functionality to handle the grabbing of nested modal dialogs
correctly.</p>
<li><p>Added an activatecommand option to Dialog which allows, for example,
the PromptDialog widget to set the keyboard focus when it is
activated.</p>
<li><p>Added tests for Counter and logicalfont.</p>
<li><p>The ScrolledListBox selectioncommand is no longer given the widget
as its first argument.</p>
<li><p>Several method, function and component names were changed, to be
consistent with the coding conventions.</p>
<li><p>Some of the effects of moving from the Tk module to Tkinter are:</p>
<ul><li><p>The Tk module used to exit if there were no non-root toplevel
windows shown. This is no longer the case and so the application
must handle this explicitly, particularly if the root window is
withdrawn and the last non-root toplevel is deleted by the window
manager.</p>
<li><p>The Tk module bind functions and methods used to take a noEvent
argument to indicate that the Tk event should not be passed to the
callback. Tkinter does not support this.</p>
<li><p>The Tk module initialise() function should be replaced by
"root = Tkinter.Tk()" and root should be used instead of "Tk.Root()"</p>
<li><p>The Tk module quit() function should be replace by "root.destroy()".</p>
<li><p>Toplevels are not hidden when created. To be consistent,
MegaToplevels are not hidden either.</p>
<li><p>The hide and show methods are not available for Tkinter Toplevels,
only MegaToplevels</p>
<li><p>There is no grid_configure method.</p>
<li><p>Tkinter.Canvas.coords() returns a python list, not a tuple.</p>
<li><p>The Tkinter cget and configure widget methods always return
strings for the option values. The Tk module used to convert the
string to the appropriate python type (such as string, integer,
float, Variable, Image, callback function).</p>
<li><p>Tkinter Menu and Toplevel classes incorrectly have a pack method.</p>
<li><p>Menu class has no geometry method.</p>
<li><p>Canvas focus returns <strong>''</strong> rather than None.</p>
<li><p>Text mark_gravity returns <strong>''</strong> rather than None.</p>
</ul>
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<p> 13 March 1997</p>
<ul><li><p>Release of version 0.2</p>
</ul>
<p> 17 March 1997</p>
<ul><li><p>Set default WM_DELETE_WINDOW protocol of Tkinter.Toplevel to
destroy() and removed duplicated protocol request from all demos.</p>
<li><p>Modified text of ShowBusy demo to indicate that busy cursor will
only be seen if the BLT extension is present.</p>
<li><p>Replaced call to update() in PmwLabeledWidget.py with update_idletasks().</p>
<li><p>Changed name of PromptDialog component from <strong>'entry'</strong> to <strong>'entryfield'</strong>.</p>
</ul>
<p> 28 April 1997</p>
<ul><li><p>Version 0.3 released internally</p>
</ul>
<p> 19 August 1997</p>
<ul><li><p>Many changes made (see the version 0.4 porting guide for
more details).</p>
<li><p>The option propagation mechanism that iwidgets uses is too
cumbersome, too hard to understand and, in python, too slow.
Developed a new mechanism which is more explicit in naming
options. This resulted in most options which were simply
propagated to components being removed. Removed keep(), rename()
and ignore() methods and "usual" options.</p>
<li><p>For speed, Pmw no longer queries the Tk option database for
default values for megawidget options. Hence, resource names and
classes do not need to be supplied when creating options and
<strong>None</strong> is returned for the resource name and class when using
<code>configure()</code> to query the options. Option "types" no longer
used.</p>
<li><p>Changed method and component names to be more consistent.</p>
<li><p>Replaced most uses of pack() with grid().</p>
<li><p>Megawidgets no longer inherit from LabeledWidget. Instead they
call createlabel() to optionally create the label component.</p>
<li><p>Removed child site from EntryField and rewrote ComboBox
accordingly.</p>
<li><p>Wrote lots more documentation, including automatically generated
reference manuals.</p>
<li><p>Removed PushButton and rewrote ButtonBox to directly create
Tkinter.Buttons rather than PushButtons.</p>
<li><p>Added initialisation options - options which can be set at
creation time but not later using configure().</p>
<li><p>Added aliases for components.</p>
<li><p>Modified the base classes so that during option configuration,
components are configured <em>before</em> configuration called functions
are called.</p>
<li><p>Added several more megawidgets.</p>
<li><p>Added interface to BLT graph and vector commands.</p>
<li><p>Created PmwLazy module for lazy importing of Pmw - avoids loading
megawidgets which are not used.</p>
<li><p>Added several more functions for handling color and fonts.</p>
<li><p>Replaced Counter and EntryField <em>time</em> with <em>timeN</em> and <em>time24</em></p>
<li><p>Pmw.initialise() will now create Tkinter.Tk if not given root.</p>
</ul>
<p> 1 September 1997</p>
<ul><li><p>Release of version 0.4</p>
</ul>
<p> 5 September 1997</p>
<ul><li><p>Modified the base classes so that the Tk option database resource
class of megawidgets can be overridden in the call to the
constructor using the <strong>hull_class</strong> option.</p>
<li><p>The separators in Pmw.PanedWidget are now active - they can be
grabbed, like the handles, and moved around. The cursor now
changes to the correct left/right or up/down cursor when over a
separator or handle. (Clemens Hintze)</p>
<li><p>Fixed bug in MessageInfo demo Dismiss button. If it is invoked,
an error occurs saying "not enough arguments". (Mark Colclough)</p>
</ul>
<p> 9 September 1997</p>
<ul><li><p>Added the <strong>useTkOptionDb</strong> argument to Pmw.initialise which
specifies that the initial values of megawidget options are to be
set by querying the Tk option database.</p>
<li><p>When used to query options, the configure() method now returns the
resource class and name of the options.</p>
</ul>
<p> 19 September 1997</p>
<ul><li><p>Changed functions datestringtoint() and timestringtoint() to
datestringtojdn() and timestringtoseconds(). Changed return value
of datestringtojdn() to be Julian Day Numbers rather than seconds
since the epoch.</p>
<li><p>Fixed a bug in the date Counter due to use of time.timezone, by
replacing, when calculating date increments, calls to the time
module with calls to datestringtojdn().</p>
<li><p>Added century pivot year (setyearpivot function) to Counter date
datatypes to handle two-digit years.</p>
<li><p>Added date_dmy4, date_mdy4 and date_y4md datatypes to Counter.</p>
<li><p>Modified demos All.py and ScrolledText.py so that demos can be called
from directories other than the demos directory. (Case Roole and
Guido van Rossum)</p>
<li><p>Changed the default for the Pmw.Balloon <em>label_justify</em> option to
<em>left</em> to improve appearance of multi-line balloons. Pmw.Balloon
now replaces newlines with spaces in the statusHelp string so that
the strings look better when displayed in a Pmw.MessageBar.
(Andreas Kostyrka)</p>
<li><p>Pmw.Blt now calls <em>package require BLT</em> when checking for the
existence of Blt, so that it can be loaded if it is not statically
linked. (Clemens Hintze, Matthias Klose)</p>
<li><p>Copied earthris.gif and flagup.bmp files from Tcl distribution to
test directory, just in case they have not been installed.
(Jonathan Kelly)</p>
<li><p>Lots of improvements to the documentation and documenting recent
changes.</p>
</ul>
<p> 16 October 1997</p>
<ul><li><p>Modified Pmw.Balloon and Pmw.ComboBox to work around a bug in the
Windows95 version of Tk which caused the popup windows to appear
in the wrong place. (Fredrik Lundh and Jerome Gay)</p>
<li><p>Added Pmw.maxfontwidth() function. (Rob Pearson)</p>
</ul>
<p> 24 October 1997</p>
<ul><li><p>Changed PmwBase._reporterror to handle the class exceptions of
python 1.5. (Case Roole)</p>
</ul>
<p> 29 October 1997</p>
<ul><li><p>Fixed a bug in forwardmethods() function which occurred if the
<em>toClass</em> class had a method called <strong>type</strong>.</p>
</ul>
<p> 7 November 1997</p>
<ul><li><p>Changed tests/Test._getErrorValue to handle the class exceptions of
python 1.5. (Michael McLay)</p>
<li><p>Changed bug fix in forwardmethods() function to use the
<code>exec execString in d</code> construct. (Guido van Rossum)</p>
<li><p>Can now use Pmw.MegaArchetype as a base class just to get option
handling; it will not create the hull component unless requested.
Moved __str__() and interior() methods from Pmw.MegaToplevel and
Pmw.MegaWidget to Pmw.MegaArchetype class.</p>
</ul>
<p> 10 November 1997</p>
<ul><li><p>Added <em>textclass</em> option to Pmw.ScrolledText and <em>listboxclass</em>
option for Pmw.ScrolledListBox to allow embedding of custom
widgets.</p>
<li><p>Added Mitch Chapman's <strong>FontText</strong> module to the <code>demos</code> directory
and used it to display the demo source code in colour.</p>
<li><p>Added two notebook megawwidgets, Pmw.NoteBookR and Pmw.NoteBookS.
(Case Roole and Joe Saltiel)</p>
<li><p>Added Pmw.ScrolledCanvas megawidget. (Joe Saltiel)</p>
<li><p>Added Pmw.TreeBrowse megawidget. (Michael McLay)</p>
<li><p>Added Pmw.Group megawidget and modified to use <code>grid()</code> instead
of <code>pack()</code>. (Case Roole)</p>
<li><p>Release of version 0.5</p>
</ul>
<p> 12 November 1997</p>
<ul><li><p>Added <em>pyclass</em> option to components and removed <em>textclass</em>
option from Pmw.ScrolledText and <em>listboxclass</em> option from
Pmw.ScrolledListBox. (Suggested by Shen Wang)</p>
<li><p>Added label component to Pmw.ButtonBox megawidget.</p>
<li><p>Fixed mis-spelling of PmwTreeBrowse in Pmw.py.</p>
<li><p>Release of version 0.5.1</p>
</ul>
<p> 5 December 1997</p>
<ul><li><p>The pyclass option can now be None. If so, createcomponent
returns None.</p>
<li><p>Removed tagtype option from Pmw.Group. Can now use the more
general tag_pyclass instead.</p>
<li><p>Added tcl call to <code>load {} Blt</code> when testing for presence of Blt.</p>
<li><p>Added julian and papal options to Pmw.ymdtojulian and
Pmw.juliantoymd functions and made sure divisions give the same
result as C even when operands are negative.</p>
<li><p>Exported ymdtojulian and juliantoymd functions.</p>
<li><p>Fixed bug in activate method. Did not prepend TclError with Tkinter.</p>
<li><p>When the Blt busy hold command is called from showbusycursor, the
bindtags on the busy window are set so that no events cause
callbacks to occur for the toplevel or all bindings. Also, while
a busy window is up, the focus is changed to the busy window so
that no keyboard events are accepted. This fixes a bug where the
Tkinter._nametowidget function could crash with a <code>KeyError: _Busy</code>
if there was a binding on a toplevel window and the mouse
was pressed while the busy cursor was up.</p>
</ul>
<p> 9 December 1997</p>
<ul><li><p>Fixed bug in Pmw.datestringtojdn() when dealing with century year,
such as 2000.</p>
</ul>
<p> 10 December 1997</p>
<ul><li><p>Added <em>where</em> option to <code>Pmw.ScrolledText.importfile()</code>. (Graham
Matthews)</p>
</ul>
<p> 16 December 1997</p>
<ul><li><p>Modified Pmw.RadioSelect and Pmw.ButtonBox so that you can no
longer index their buttons using regular expressions. This
feature seemed to have little use and caused problems with buttons
labeled for example <em>a*</em> and <em>b*</em>. (Problem reported by Rob
Hooft)</p>
<li><p>Added updateFunction option to Pmw.busycallback(). If set, the
function will be called just after the command given to
Pmw.busycallback(). If the function is set the Tkinter update()
method, then this will clear any events that may have occurred
while the command was executing.</p>
</ul>
<p> 30 December 1997</p>
<ul><li><p>Changed ymdtojulian and juliantoymd functions to jdntoymd and
ymdtojdn, because the meaning of "julian" is ambiguous, whereas
the meaning of "Julian Day Number" is not (maybe).</p>
<li><p>Converted Pmw to use python 1.5 package mechanism. (Michael McLay
and Case Roole)</p>
<li><p>Removed Pmw.py and PmwLazy files. Added __init__.py, PmwLoader.py
and Pmw.def files. (Case Roole)</p>
<li><p>Applications can now specify at runtime which version of Pmw to
use and also which alpha versions, if any. (Case Roole)</p>
<li><p>Modified Pmw code for the version of Tkinter released with python
1.5.</p>
<li><p>Release of version 0.6</p>
</ul>
<p> 5 January 1998</p>
<ul><li><p>Fixed alpha version handling so that alpha versions do not have to
supply PmwBase.py and PmwUtils.py. (Case Roole)</p>
<li><p>Added example alpha directory and documentation. (Case Roole)</p>
</ul>
<p> 7 January 1998</p>
<ul><li><p>Added selectmode option to Pmw.RadioSelect megawidget. (Roman
Sulzhyk)</p>
<li><p>Added some changes to Pmw.ScrolledCanvas to get around some bugs.
(Joe Saltiel)</p>
<li><p>Release of version 0.6.1</p>
</ul>
<p> 8 January 1998</p>
<ul><li><p>Added some more changes to Pmw.ScrolledCanvas. (from Joe Saltiel)</p>
</ul>
<p> 12 January 1998</p>
<ul><li><p>Added Pmw.OptionMenu Megawidget. (Roman Sulzhyk)</p>
</ul>
<p> 20 February 1998</p>
<ul><li><p>Added new Pmw.MenuBar features to delete menus and menuitems,
enable and disable menu bar and to add cascade menus. (Rob Pearson)</p>
<li><p>Added extra arguments to Pmw.Color.spectrum for more control over
color choice.</p>
</ul>
<p> 23 February 1998</p>
<ul><li><p>Added canvasbind() method to Pmw.Balloon.</p>
<li><p>Fixed demos/All.py so that it will correctly determine which Pmw
version to use even if it is in a directory symlinked to the demos
directory.</p>
<li><p>Removed "import DemoVersion" from all demos, except All.py, so
that they will work unchanged when copied outside of the Pmw
distribution.</p>
<li><p>Release of version 0.6.2</p>
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