Tk::804delta(3pm)

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NAME

6       Tk::804delta - what is new for perl/Tk 804
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DESCRIPTION

9       This document describes differences between the Tk800 series and the
10       Tk804 series.
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Incompatible Changes

13       In Tk804.028, there are some additional incompatible changes:
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15       Return values of some Tk::Wm methods (e.g. aspect, wmGrid,
16       iconposition, resizable ...) were changed from returning tclish lists
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19       Tk::Wm::wmTracing needs argument for setting on/off, without argument
20       just return the current value.
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22       All Tk804 releases have the following incompatible changes:
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24       Tk804 will only work with perl 5.8.0 and above. For older perl versions
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27       curselection of Tk::Listbox now returns an array reference in scalar
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38       The fontActual method now returns the pixel value instead of the point
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41       Some enhancements from the "dash" patches are lost for now (i.e. -tile,
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44       The -state option is not available anymore for Tk::Text tags.  Use
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Enhancements

48       Tk804 is Unicode-aware.
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50       It is possible to build Tk with Xft support on X11. This is strongly
51       recommened if you are planning to make use of Unicode rendering
52       capabilities of Tk. It also gives anti-aliased fonts for regular text
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56       The new method chooseDirectory is available as a standard directory
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59       Tk::PNG and Tk::JPEG are bundled now with the perl/Tk distribution,
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62       Improvements to Tk::Listbox: new option -activestyle, new methods
63       itemconfigure and itemcget, new virtual event <<ListboxSelect>>.
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New Widgets

68       Tk::Labelframe
69           An alternative to Tk::LabFrame.
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75           An alternative to the CPAN module Tk::NumEntry.
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Selected Bug Fixes

Changed Internals

Platform Specific Problems

Future Directions

Reporting Bugs

82       If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles
83       recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.tk newsgroup.
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85       If you believe you have an unreported bug, please send a mail to
86       <ptk@lists.stanford.edu> and/or <nick@ing-simmons.net>.  Be sure to
87       trim your bug down to a tiny but sufficient test case.
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