Tk is a Graphical User Interface ToolKit.

Copyright (c) 1995-2003 Nick Ing-Simmons. All rights reserved.
This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, with the exception
of all the files in the pTk sub-directory which have separate terms
derived from those of the orignal Tix4.1.3 or Tk8.4 sources. See doc/license.html
for details of this license.

Tk804.025 is late-alpha/beta level.
(Previous stable release being Tk800.025.)
The code itself is probably at least as solid as Tk800 series, but
build process/tests need shaking down on non/Linux.

This a re-port of a perl interface to Tk8.4.
C code is derived from Tcl/Tk8.4.4.

Perl API is essentially the same as Tk800.025 but has not
been verified as compliant.

The goal of this release is Unicode support via perl's and
core-tk's use of UTF-8.

It also includes all the C code parts of Tix8.1.4 from SourceForge.
The perl code corresponding to Tix's Tcl code is not fully implemented.

This Tk804 is only likely to work with perl5.8+
Perl's UTF-8 support has improved since int was introduced in perl5.6.0.
Some functions (regular expression match in Text widgets) are known
to only work with perl5.8.1

Author has built against:

  Perl5.8.0
   Earlier versions worked with this - but it has Unicode mis-features.
   Not tried it recently.

  Perl5.8.1-RC*
   Pentium Suse Linux-8.2 gcc-3.3
   Visual C++ 6.0, Windows-XP, dmake
   Mingw 2.0, Windows-XP, dmake  (perl without PERL_IMP_SYS, that is
   broken for MinGW).

  Perl5.8.1
   Pentium Suse Linux-8.2 gcc-3.3
   Visual C++ 6.0, Windows-XP, dmake/nmake

For questions on this package try news:comp.lang.perl.tk or e-mail
to <ptk@lists.stanford.edu> or <nick@ing-simmons.net>

An experimental implementation of client side fonts via
freetype2, fontconfig and Xft is provided for Unix.
This is strongly recommened if you are planning to make use
of Unicode rendering capabilities of Tk. It also gives anti-aliased
fonts for regular text (if you have TrueType or Type1 fonts and
they are in your fontconfig config file).

See http://fontconfig.org

The author has installed
  http://fontconfig.org/release/xrender-0.8.3.tar.gz
  http://fontconfig.org/release/xft-2.1.2.tar.gz
  http://fontconfig.org/release/fontconfig-2.2.0.tar.gz

but it also works with versions in SuSE8.2

To try this install those libraries (or later ones?) and then do
  perl Makefile.PL XFT=1