I am pleased to announce version 6.20 of the multi-column listbox and
tree widget package Tablelist.

What is new in Tablelist 6.20?
------------------------------

1. Added the "dumptostring" and "loadfromstring" subcommands, which
complement "dumptofile" and "loadfromfile", respectively (thanks
to Rolf Ade for his proposal).

2. The argument of the "tablelist::getTablelistColumn" command now may
also be the path name of a Tk core or tile checkbutton embedded into
a header label.

3. Added support for the case that the "default" theme was modified by
invoking the "themepatch::patch" command of the themepatch package,
which is bundled with the Scrollutil distribution.

4. Redisplaying a column (due to, e.g., setting its "-align", "-font",
"-formatcommand", or "-width" option) is no longer suppressed if the
column is hidden. This makes sure that on unhiding the column, its
elements will appear properly formatted (thanks to Alexandru Dadalau
for his example script that determined me to make this improvement).

5. Improvements related to moving a column interactively, especially on
Mac OS X/11+.

6. Several further improvements and minor bug fixes.

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

Tablelist is available for free download from the URL

https://www.nemethi.de

The distribution file is "tablelist6.20.tar.gz" for UNIX and
"tablelist6_20.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
directory at the same level as the Tcl and Tk script libraries. The
locations of these library directories are given by the "tcl_library"
and "tk_library" variables, respectively.

To install Tablelist on UNIX, "cd" to the desired directory and unpack
the distribution file "tablelist6.20.tar.gz":

gunzip -c tablelist6.20.tar.gz | tar -xf -

On most UNIX systems this can be replaced with

tar -zxf tablelist6.20.tar.gz

Both commands will create a directory named "tablelist6.20 with the
subdirectories "demos", "doc", and "scripts".

On Windows, use WinZip or some other program capable of unpacking the
distribution file "tablelist6_20.zip" into the directory
"tablelist6.20", 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 Tcl/Tk 8.4 or higher and 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 use the commands and variables implemented in the package
Tablelist, your scripts must contain one of the lines

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

Likewise, to be able to use the commands and variables implemented in
the package Tablelist_tile, 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:csaba.nemethi@t-online.de

On Mon, 24 Oct 2022 14:10:00 +0200, nemethi wrote:

> I am pleased to announce version 6.20 of the multi-column listbox and
> tree widget package Tablelist.
>
> https://www.nemethi.de
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Egad. This could be useful to a project I've been working on, but I never
even knew it existed, and I'm so far into my own project and have written
so much code already that I will just go on and stick to what I have.
Yours looks better, but I guess the world can't have too many options.

--
Luc
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