tkined-1.2.0 and scotty-1.2.0 are on ftp.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de in
/pub/local/tkined/. Many people asked if there is a US site with
tkined and scotty sources. If you are having problems reaching our
site, please wait a few days since I plan to upload a copy to the
`official' tcl archive ftp.aud.alcatel.com. I will announce it
in comp.lang.tcl.
Below is a short summary of changes:
o tkined maintains a history of used maps. Try the File->History menu.
o tkined dialogs now look more standard - whatever that is.
o tkined applications started while loading a saved map are killed when
the view is cleared or when a new map is loaded.
o The scotty sources are going to get a `normal' tcl extension. The
Makefile now builds a library libscotty.a which can be linked with
other extensions to get a hyper extended wish, if you like. Building
plain tcl interpreter with scotty extensions still requires some hand
tuning because of the Tk event loop emulation.
o Michael Kernchen (kernchen@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de) wrote a tcl interface to
the CMIP protocol based on the last public osimis implementation. It
is running but the whole isode / osimis code is very very fat and
newer versions require a license. We tested it against the oimsma
agent and it worked. But there might be bugs as we have no real CMIP
agents around...
o There is a new installation procedure, which will (in the normal case)
create the following directory structure:
/usr/local/lib/tkined/
apps/
bitmaps/
init.tcl
site/
tkined.defaults
/usr/local/lib/scotty/
agents/
init.tcl
mibs/
site/
The most important difference is that there is a startup file init.tcl
for tkined and scotty. The init.tcl file ends with a check to source
site/init.tcl if it exists. This convention allows you to customize
your setup in your site/init.tcl script without repeating those changes
with every new scotty or tkined release. Please read the init.tcl files
to get an idea how to load additional mib definitions etc. I promise to
never touch any files in the site/ directory during installation. The
site/ directory can also be used to hold a customized version of the
tkined.defaults file.
Note, that I do not cleanup any old files as you might have changed
them. Please remove old files manually or remove the lib directories
before installing 1.2.0.
I expect this to be the last version before we switch to Tk-4.0. I
will make some patches if needed, but development will slow down now
(as I have to get my Christmas presents ;-).
Juergen