About the Tix Programming Library

A LOT of new widgets:

The Tix library has by far the greatest collection of widgets for programming with Tcl/Tk. Highlights include: Hierarchical Listbox, Directory List/Tree View, SpreadSheet, Tabular Listbox, ComboBox, Motif style FileSelectBox, MS Windows style FileSelectBox, PanedWindow, NoteBook, Spin Control widget .... and many more. With these new widgets, your Tcl/Tk applications can acquire a great professional look and interact with your users in intuitive ways.

Rapid Prototyping New Widgets:

Tix comes with a complete Object-Oriented framework for building new customed widgets using TCL exclusively. It typically reduces the efforts of developing a new widget by a factor of ten or more.

XPM image suport:

This allows you to display color icons in XPM format. Supports transparent background.

Compound images:

A new image type called "compound" allows youto glue together a bunch of bitmaps, images and text strings together to form a bigger image. Then you can use this image with widgets that support the -image option. For example, you can display a text string string together with a bitmap, at the same time, inside a TK button widget.

Display Items and Display Styles:

Display items and display styles make it possible to display visual information in many formats.

Form geometry manager:

Works similarly to the Motif Form widget. You can specify geometry constraints using attachment rules.

Mwm window mamager support:

With the tixMwm command, you can communicate with the Motif window manager "mwm"; you can add new items to the Motif system menu and change the window manager decorations.

Getting more information about Tix

Tix Home Page:

The Tix Home Page at http://www.xpi.com/tix/ provides more detailed and up-to-date information about Tix.

The Tix Mailing List

There is a mailing list for the discussion of the development of both the Tix library and Tix-based applications. To subscribe, send me a mail to majordomo@xpi.com with the line "subscribe tix-info [your_address]" in the body of the mail. To send a message to the Tix mailing list, please use the address tix-info@xpi.com.

The Tix mailing list has been archived. You can find useful information at the Tix mailing list archives at: http://www.xpi.com/archives/archives.html.

Getting Techical Support for Tix

Bug Reports