• ANNOUNCE: Multi-entry widget package Mentry 4.4

    From nemethi@csaba.nemethi@t-online.de to comp.lang.tcl on Mon Mar 24 11:16:47 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.tcl

    I am pleased to announce version 4.4 of the multi-entry widget package
    Mentry.

    What is new in Mentry 4.4?
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    1. Included the same version 2.24 of the mega-widget utility package
    mwutil as in the most recent Tablelist, Scrollutil, and Tsw releases.

    2. Minor improvements in the documentation.

    How to get it?
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    Mentry is available for free download from the Web page

    https://www.nemethi.de

    The distribution file is "mentry4.4.tar.gz" for UNIX and "mentry4_4.zip"
    for Windows. These files contain the same information, except for the additional carriage return character preceding the linefeed at the end
    of each line in the text files for Windows.

    Mentry is also included in tklib, which has the address

    https://core.tcl.tk/tklib

    How to install it?
    ------------------

    Install the package as a subdirectory of one of the directories given
    by the "auto_path" variable. For example, you can install it as a
    subdirectory of the "lib" directory within your Tcl/Tk installation.

    To install Mentry on UNIX, "cd" to the desired directory and unpack the distribution file "mentry4.4.tar.gz":

    gunzip -c mentry4.4.tar.gz | tar -xf -

    On most UNIX systems this can be replaced with

    tar -zxf mentry4.4.tar.gz

    Both commands will create a directory named "mentry4.4", with the subdirectories "demos", "doc", and "scripts".

    On Windows, use WinZip or some other program capable of unpacking the distribution file "mentry4_4.zip" into the directory "mentry4.4", with
    the subdirectories "demos", "doc", and "scripts".

    How to use it?
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    The Mentry distribution provides two packages, called Mentry and
    Mentry_tile. The main difference between the two is that Mentry_tile
    enables the tile-based, theme-specific appearance of mentry widgets;
    this package requires tile 0.6 or higher. It is not possible to use
    both packages in one and the same application, because both are
    implemented in the same "mentry" namespace and provide identical
    commands.

    To be able to access the commands and variables of the Mentry package,
    your scripts must contain one of the lines

    package require mentry ?version?
    package require Mentry ?version?

    Likewise, to be able to access the commands and variables of the
    Mentry_tile package, your scripts must contain one of the lines

    package require mentry_tile ?version?
    package require Mentry_tile ?version?

    Since the packages Mentry and Mentry_tile are implemented in the
    "mentry" namespace, you must either import the procedures you need, or
    use qualified names like "mentry::mentry".

    For a detailed description of the commands and variables provided by
    Mentry and of the examples contained in the "demos" directory, see the
    tutorial "mentry.html" and the reference pages, all located in the
    "doc" directory.
    --
    Csaba Nemethi https://www.nemethi.de mailto:csaba.nemethi@t-online.de

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