Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 16:51:00 -0700 From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) To: into@violet.berkeley.edu, looking@violet.berkeley.edu, now..hackers@FreeBSD.org, this@violet.berkeley.edu Subject: fyi - Im Message-ID: <199504242351.QAA03566@violet.berkeley.edu>
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Path: agate!biosci!internet!biosci!not-for-mail From: zibi@NMSU.EDU (Zbigniew Perlinski) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.announce Subject: ANNOUNCE: BETA IXI Visual Tcl 1.0 Date: 24 Apr 1995 08:59:32 -0700 Organization: IXI Limited Lines: 73 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: usenet@net.bio.net Distribution: inet Message-ID: <9504241429.AA14751@alex.x.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net IXI Visual Tcl 1.0 technology for OSF/Motif development on SunOs and Solaris RISC Sparc stations is now freely available via anonymous ftp from IXI and SCO. An extension of the popular Tcl scripting language, IXI Visual Tcl supports rapid, easy-to-learn development of OSF/Motif tools and applications. IXI Visual Tcl is ideal for system administrators and software developers striving to provide their customers with a comprehensive graphical environment. IXI Visual Tcl is a multiplatform port of "SCO Visual Tcl 1.0" developed by The Santa Cruz Operation to provide a graphical user interface-building scripting environment for the new generation of SCO OpenServer systems management tools. SCO and IXI are making the Visual Tcl 1.0 technology freely-available via anonymous ftp described below. IXI Visual Tcl extends the Tcl 7.3 scripting enviornment with commands support OSF/Motif 1.2, as well as UNIX access and debugging commands provided by the TclX extensions. IXI Visual Tcl 1.0 is now available from the ftp site: ftp.sco.com via anonymous ftp: cd TLS mget tls074.* OR The SCO Visual Tcl Home Page at: http://www.sco.com/Products/vtcl/vtcl.html The official SCO Visual Tcl newsgroup is: biz.sco.vtcl However, this newsgroup will be replaced in the near future with the recently approved newsgroup: comp.sco.unix.programmer IXI Visual Tcl is ideal for - system administrators who would like to wrap Motif interfaces around UNIX commands, - hardware vendors who want to create Motif-based configuration and administrative interfaces, - software designers who want a flexible environment to quickly prototype easy-to-rework Motif application interfaces, and - software vendors who want to take advantage of "thin client" scripting to integrate their applications with Motif-compliant small-to-medium sized tools. Key Features of IXI Visual Tcl include... - DrawnList Widget (object browser similar to Microsoft File Manager) - Event-driven (callback) environment - Display engine for Motif 1.2 - Convenience Function Library - includes ComboBox, Spin support, and assorted widget combinations (e.g. text fields with labels or titles) - Motif geometry management (Forms, RowColumn and Bulletinboard) - Based on Public Domain U.C. Berkeley Tcl 7.3b - POSIX-specific and other tclX library extensions - e.g. fcntl, select, nice, kill, sockets, fmtclock, trace - Package library support, as well as vtcllib.a and header files for those wishing to extend the IXI Visual Tcl interpreter with C-based commands. Commercially supported IXI Visual Tcl is available from IXI Ltd as a part of a Premier Motif Development Pack. For additional information, send email to Zbigniew Perlinski, zibi@x.co.uk, or David Young, davidy@sco.com -- __ __ __ __ | |\ / /| | Zbigniew Perlinski Vision Park Email: zibi@x.co.uk | | \/ / | | Senior Software Cambridge UUCP : zibi@ixi.uucp | | / /\ | | Engineer CB4 4ZR Tel : +44 223 236 555 |__|/__/__\|__| IXI Limited United Kingdom Fax : +44 223 236 550
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