09/27/99 Release 4.0.1
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Mains changes/modifications since 4.0.0 are:
* Small bug fixes
* Integration of SRFI-9 (records)
* Accepts mailto: links in the browser
09/03/99 Release 4.0.0
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Mains changes/modifications since 3.99.4 are:
* Lot of Win32 fixes
* <Scroll-Frame>, <Toolbar> STklos classes.
* Integration of some finals SRFI (0, 2, 6, 8)
* define-syntax (but not let-syntax and let-syntax*)
* Lot of bug fixes.
* New License Policy (request for commercial apps no more needed).
02/02/99 Release 3.99.4
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Mains changes/modifications since 3.99.3 are:
* Works on Windows too (need some more testing, since this is
far from perfect)
* A console mode (which is used by default on Windows, but can
be used with the -console option on Unix)
* A new editor with Scheme fontification and indentation
* New kind of ports: virtual ports
* All the code dealing with files has been rewritten.
* As usual, some bug corrections
09/30/98 Release 3.99.3
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Mains changes/modifications since 3.99.2 are:
* Tk level is 8.0.3 (the latest stable Tk release)
* New STklos Classes:
+ <Hierarchy-tree> and <Hierarchy-item> to draw
hierarchy such as files/directories, class/metaclasses ...
+ <Notepad> to define ... notepads
+ <Scheme-text> which extends <Text> to "font-lockify"
Scheme buffers
* Method and generic function editor
* A class browser (type "(class-browser)" to access it)
* some new manual pages
* Base64 Encoding/Decoding extension
* Locale extension to treat strings and character using locale information
* Better installation scripts (+ some corrections)
* Bug corrections
06/09/98 Release 3.99.2
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This is mainly a bug correcting release
Otherwise:
* Can be compiled on AIX
* a new script file "stk-genmake" file can be used to build a
Makefile for extensions. It constructs a Makefile which uses
exactly the same options and compiler that was used to
build the interpreter.
* New function: write* to write cirular structures (rad has been
updated for reading such structures -- and format for writing them
too)
* Better HTML support
* New STklos slot allocation scheme: :EACH-CLASS
04/27/98 Release 3.99.1
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Mainly minor correction to 3.99.0 (installation problems principally)
Otherwise:
* Inclusion of the Metaclass init-keywords patch from J-M Kubek
<kubek@insa-tlse.fr>, which allows to initialize some slots of
a class when declaring it.
* Tk widgets can be initailized at creation time, even if they
are disabled (idea from Walter C. Pelissero
<wcp@luppolo.lpds.sublink.org>
04/10/98 Release 3.99.0
-----------------------
This is the pre-4.0 release. Why is is not called 4.0? Good question.
This version would have been numbered 4.0 if there was not a so long
time between this release and the previous one. Since I take so long
to release, I had time to add a lot of things to my "TODO list".
And this version misses some things that I consider important (even if
not visible form outside) to be called 4.0. Furthermore, ther is a big
absent since last release which is the port on Windows. The real 4.0
will have support for Windows.
Here are the main visible changes from previous release:
About Scheme
* A module system has been added
* Integration of the Bigloo MATCH-CASE and MATCH-LAMBDA
primitives. Furthermore, the file bigloo.stk provides
some compatibility between STk and bigloo modules.
* A simple FFI has been added. It allows to access C
functions without writing C code (works only on a
limited set of architectures for now).
* integrates the R5RS VALUES and CALL-WITH-VALUES
* multi-line comments have been added.
* The "-file" interpreter option is no more necessary
* Display of the prompt and of the eval result in the
REPL are now user definable.
* report-error mechanism has been enhanced a lot (work
is not completely achieved).
* new-primitives: append!, last-pair, C-string->string,
remove-file, rename-file, temporary-file-name, ...
* Numerous bug corrections
* ...
About Tk
* Integration of the Tk8.0 toolkit
* The old inspector has been adapted to work with
current release (not completely, but sufficiently
while the new version is terminated)
* Buttons, Checkbuttons and Radiobuttons can use a
:variable and :textvariable in a given environment.
This environment is given with the new :environment
option.
* New metaclass: <Tk-composite-toplevel>. This is
identical to the class <Tk-composite-widget>, except
that the widhet lives in its own toplevel window.
* make-image simplifies the usage of Tk images and uses
a cache, to speed-up access to already used images.
* The little square window, which used to appear as soon
as STk was launched, appears now only when the first
widget is mapped on screen.
* ...
About STklos
* The MOP of STklos is now very similar to the CLOS one.
Here are some of the new features:
o when a slot does not exists, the gf slot-missing
is called
o when a unbound slot is read, the gf slot-unbound
is called
o new generic functions slot-ref-using-class,
slot-set-using-class, slot-bound-using-class?,
slot-exists-using-class?, slot-definition-name,
slot-definition-options,
slot-definition-allocation,
slot-definition-getter, slot-definition-setter,
slot-definition-accessor, generic-function-name,
generic-function-methods,
method-generic-function, method-specializers
method-procedure, remove-method
change-object-class
* When a class is redefined, the instances and methods which uses it
are redefined accordingly, as in CLOS (i.e. if you add a slot in a
class, all its -- direct or indirect -- instances will have the new
slot added dynamically.
* New kind of slot allocation: "active". An active slot
is a slot for which you can put a daemon before or
after its reading/writing
* Standard behavior of class slots is now identical to
CLOS: when a class-slot is inherited, it is shared
with instances of the superclass. If it is redefined,
a new slot is created
* slot initializers are evaluated in the lexical
environment of the class definition.
* (Tk-)virtual slots can now have an :initform option.
* Generic functions can be now traced with the standard
TRACE function.
* Composite widgets have now a class slots which
contains the class of the object. This slot is
initialized by default to "Composite", but it can be
overloaded for a particular class. For instance
labeled entries use the value "LabeledEntry" by
default. This feature can be used for initializing the
X11 resource database. for instance you can have
STk*LabeledEntry*Entry*Background: white in your
.Xdefaults file to set the default value of background
of the entry of a <Labeled-entry> widget.
* New composites widgets: Gauge, Valued-Gauge,
Balloon-help
* The HTML-browser has been enhanced to access now the
web (i.e. you can grab distant texts or images). The
Web browser admit now applets written in Scheme.
* New kind of slot allocation: "active". An active slot
is a slot for which you can put a daemon before or
after its reading/writing
* extended types (defined in C) are now automatically
integrated in the STklos hierarchy.
* Several new classes for displaying messages boxes
* New class <Color-box> for choosing colors.
* New <Tk-Text-inset>. This class is the now the parent
class of <Text-window> and of (the new) class
<Text-image>.
* ...
09/26/96 Release 3.1.1
----------------------
This release is a bug correction release. It corrects a lot bugs.
A lot of theses bugs prevent to install it on some architectures.
Apart bugs:
- Version of Tk is now at Tk4.1p1 level (last stable version)
- a MS VC makefile is now provided for Win 32 thanks to
Caleb Deupree <cdeupree@erinet.com> (I have changed some things
from the Caleb file but cannot test them, I hope this is correct)
- Support for sockets on Win32 was done by Caleb Deupree on MS
VC. This should also work on BC++ but I'm not able to test it.
07/24/96 Release 3.1
--------------------
- Version of Tk is now at Tk4.1 level.
- STk run now on Win32!!!
Some details need a little more work (some oddities on file names
due to difference conventions between Unix and DOS, and things like
that). No socket support and no dynamic loading on Win32
- A complete documentation of STk widgets pages (both in nroff
and HTML format). The help command really allow you to browse
man pages now. Man pages are prefixed by "stk_" now to avoid confusion
with original Tk manual pages.
- STklos is now integrated to STk (it was dynamically loaded before).
This simplify its implementation and speed up generic functions:
o gf are now 2-4 time faster
o gf are now tail recursive
o the MOP for gf is now "public" (i.e. you can change the way
gf are called in Scheme -- it was not possible with previous
versions without using C).
- Port implementation is different: A port contains now its
input and output handler. New primitives to access the handler:
when-port-readable and when-port-writable.
BTW, The Tk function fileevent function is no more useful
(it is written in Scheme now for compatibility, but its usage
is deprecated). It may not be supported in a future release.
- New composite widgets: <Multiple-window> and <Inner-window>
which allow to have embedded windows. A multiple window
has a task bar below and allow to iconify inner-windows.
Some people think it looks like Win95 desktop ;-)
- pixmap extension doesn't require anymore the Xpm library. Code
is stolen from the Tix Library.
- New socket code which allow multiple concurrent connection
- Extended types can now have a compare function which is called
when eqv? or equal? is called. This modification should be
compatible with the previous extensions (I hope so)
- STklos: Two new methods: object-eqv? and object-equal? which are
called when applying eqv? or equal? to instances.
- A rewriting of bind-for-dragging canvas method. You can now specify
a :before-motion, which if it returns #f, forbid to move the selected
canvas item.
- New primitives:setenv!, posix-host-name, posix-domain-name,
posix-uname
- Option separator "--" allows to pass reserved keyword (sush as -help)
to a script. Option and parameter cannot be mixed anymore
(i.e. calling stk xyz -help ==> *argv* = ("xyz" "-help")
- HTML browser enhancement (support of the <FONT> tag with SIZE
and COLOR sub-tags. This must be compatible with the HTML spec.
- and of course many many bug corrections.
01/22/96 Release 3.0 (also called 3.0b2 by error)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Version of Tk is now at Tk4.0p2 level
- Support Pixmap images
- Strings can now contain null charters (printing of strings is more
friendly now in write mode
- Executable is now position independant(i.e. no path coded in hard in
the interpreter). STK_LIBRARY shell variable is no more necessary. We
can now make binary distributions.
- Signal can now be redirected to Scheme closures. The end of a GC
is seen as a signal.
- Trace on variable are changed (and re-work now): the associated trace
must be a thunk now.
- New option for buttons, checkbuttons, radiobuttons and entries:
:stringvalue.
This options tells if the value must be stringified or not.
For instance, with
(radiobutton '.c :text "Try" :variable 'x :stringvalue #f :value 100)
will set the "x" var to "100" whereas with
(radiobutton '.c :text "Try" :variable 'x :stringvalue #t :value 100)
value is set to the integer value 100
Default value for :stringvalue is #t for entries and #f for check and
radio buttons.
- stk-wtour demo is updated for STk 3.0
- In STklos, if a method M is defined and if it is already bound to
a procedure, the old procedure is called when no method is applicable.
Example:
(define-method car ((x <integer>)) (- x 1))
(car 10) ==> 9
(car (cons 'a 'b)) ==> a
As a consequence, this kind of method cannot call no-applicable-method
if parameters are not valid:
(car (vector 1 2)) ==> error car: wrong type of argument: #(1 2)
- Small change in the STklos hierarchy. <widget> is now a subclass of
<procedure> and its meta class is <procedure-metaclass>.
10/07/95 Release 3.0b1
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A lot of modifications. Briefly,
- Support of Tk4.0
- Closures are fully supported by Tk. That means that a callback can be
now a Scheme closure with its environment. GC problems with closures
and usage of the dirty "address-of" are definitively gone.
- HTML support (a browser is provided, should be extended to support
all HTML2.0)
- Documentation is now in HTML for the Tk commands (only a few commands
are ready for now, but they will be all defined in a near future).
- ....
07/15/95 Release 2.2
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This is the last release with Tk 3.6. Next release will integrate Tk 4.0
- Bug corrections
- Changing Makefiles and configure files for better dynamic loading
integration.
- Adding support for BLT-1.7. This library can be loaded dynamically
on system which support it
- New option which permit to change the initial amount of cells
- Uses really LESS memory.
- New GC. Now we have a set of heaps and a new heap is allocated as
soon as the global space is "nearly" filled.
- SLIB support (just type (require "slib") and after that process as
indicated in SLIB documentation
- Integration of the Suresh Srinivas STk-wtour demo.
- Adding support for Text in STklos: Definition of the <Text> class
(and companion <Text-tag> class).
- call/cc is now tail recursive. (Alas, methods and dynamic-wind are
not yet tail recursive).
- Better support for autoloading files
- Adding support for an exec function a` la Tcl (i.e. execute of a
unix process and keep its output in a Scheme string)
- General run-process for running Unix process were std{in,out,err}
can be redirected in files or in pipes.
- Some code has been rewritten to ease STk porting
- Adding support for regular expression pattern matching and
replacement
- There is now a light interpreter, called snow (for Scheme
NO Window); this is in fact the STk interpreter without Tk support.
This interpreter is an independant executable. It can be called
with the `snow' shell-script or by unsetting the DISPLAY variable.
- New organisation of intalled file to permit co-existence of
several version of STk or multi-architecture file sharing
- Dynamic loading support for NetBSD-1.0
- Dynamic loading support for HP
- Dynamic loading and dump support for FreeBsd.
- Dynamic loading for Linux (using ELF format or the DLD package)
- A mini interface builder (very simplistic, but usable)
- New contributions: A true Tetris game, a 8 queens simulation and
a demo of composite widgets.
- Every exported identifier now starts with the string "STk_" to
avoid name clashes when embedding the interpreter in an application.
- BSD sockets support
- Better integration with Emacs
- AMIB (A Mini Interface Builder)
- A lot of improvement in STklos
- .....
See the ChangeLog file for more information
==============================================================================
??/??/?? Release 2.1
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This is a major release version.
- STklos (the object layer) is now written in C. It is more than 150
times faster than before and it uses less memory (~ 1/100)!!!!
- Improvement of STklos
- STklos classes have been written for all the Tk library widgets
- Composites widgets can be easily defined in STklos. Access to those
widgets is identical to C written one.
- bindings can be now true lambda expression with their own
environment (rather than list which are evaluated in the global
environment).
- Hash tables have been added.
- Small constants are coded on a pointer rather than a cell
- Support for dynamic loading on SunOs (4 and 5). Dynamic loading
uses shared objects (it should work also on OSF1)
- Dump creates now smaller images.
- Modification of configure and Makefiles to correct of a lot
of installation problems.
- Runs on Solaris 2.3
- Bugs corrections
- Some modification to the error notifier
- Support of dynamic loading of shared objects on Solaris 1 & 2 (it
should work also on OSF1).
- ...
94/01/03 Release 2.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
STk 2.0 contains a completly rewritten Scheme interpreter. This new
interpreter is
- R4RS
- faster than previous release (~ 3 or 4 times)
- less bugged (I hope :-) )
- implements integers (32 bits and bignum) and floats
- cleaner with macros
This version contains also a prototype of a graphical inspector which
permits to see/modify a variable value. For widgets variables it permits
to modify interactively their behaviour. However, it doesn't yet contain
a C rewritting of the object layer as it was planned. This will be done
in a (probably the) next release.
93/09/02 Release 1.00 (first public release)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Forget it :)