• ANNOUNCE: Multi-column listbox and tree widget package Tablelist 7.10

    From nemethi@[email protected] to comp.lang.tcl on Tue Apr 21 17:26:40 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.tcl

    I am pleased to announce version 7.10 of the multi-column listbox and
    tree widget package Tablelist.

    What is new in Tablelist 7.10?
    ------------------------------

    1. Added the "-inactiveselectbackground" and "-inactiveselectforeground"
    configuration options, whose default values on the windowing systems
    "aqua" and "win32", as well as for the themes "aqua", "clam",
    "vista", "winnative", and "xpnative" make sure that the selection
    will appear in native colors also when the tablelist's body doesn't
    have the input focus.

    2. Added the "rowcount" and "header rowcount" subcommands, as synonyms
    for "size" and "header size", respectively (thanks to Ralf Richard
    Goebel for his proposal).

    3. Made the updates using the "-listvariable" option by several orders
    of magnitude faster (thanks to Alexandru Dadalau for reporting the
    poor performance of the original implementation).

    4. Adapted the scaleutil package to the recent changes related to the
    ttk::treeview widget, implemented by Brian O'Hagan.

    5. Extended the section "The Procedure tablelist::getScalingPct and Tk's
    Scaling Factor" in Tablelist Programmer's Guide by the recommendation
    that changing Tk's scaling factor via "tk scaling" should be done
    before loading Tablelist or Tablelist_tile (thanks to Mark
    Summerfield for his suggestion).

    6. The demo scripts no longer set the "-setgrid" option to true.

    How to get it?
    --------------

    Tablelist is available for free download from the URL

    https://www.nemethi.de

    The distribution file is "tablelist7.10.tar.gz" for UNIX and "tablelist7_10.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.

    Tablelist 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 Tablelist on UNIX, "cd" to the desired directory and unpack
    the distribution file "tablelist7.10.tar.gz":

    gunzip -c tablelist7.10.tar.gz | tar -xf -

    On most UNIX systems this can be replaced with

    tar -zxf tablelist7.10.tar.gz

    Both commands will create a directory named "tablelist7.10 with the subdirectories "demos", "doc", and "scripts".

    On Windows, use WinZip or some other program capable of unpacking the distribution file "tablelist7_10.zip" into the directory
    "tablelist7.10", with the subdirectories "demos", "doc", and "scripts".

    How to use it?
    --------------

    The Tablelist distribution provides two packages, called Tablelist and Tablelist_tile. The main difference between the two is that
    Tablelist_tile enables the tile-based, theme-specific appearance of
    tablelist 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 "tablelist" namespace and provide
    identical commands.

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

    package require tablelist ?version?
    package require Tablelist ?version?

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

    package require tablelist_tile ?version?
    package require Tablelist_tile ?version?

    Since the packages Tablelist and Tablelist_tile are implemented in the "tablelist" namespace, you must either import the procedures you need,
    or use qualified names like "tablelist::tablelist".

    For a detailed description of the commands and variables provided by
    Tablelist and of the examples contained in the "demos" directory, see
    the tutorial "tablelist.html" and the reference pages, all located in
    the "doc" directory.
    --
    Csaba Nemethi https://www.nemethi.de mailto:[email protected]

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  • From Harald Oehlmann@[email protected] to comp.lang.tcl on Thu Apr 23 11:55:33 2026
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    THanks, Csaba, great work, we all appreciate.
    Next release may have rotated labels support for Titles...

    Thanks for all,
    Harald

    Am 21.04.2026 um 17:26 schrieb nemethi:
    I am pleased to announce version 7.10 of the multi-column listbox and
    tree widget package Tablelist.
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