Tk is a Graphical User Interface ToolKit.

Copyright (c) 1995-2000 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 Tix4.1.0 or Tk8.0 sources. See doc/license.html
for details of this license.

Tk800.022 is supposed to be production worthy.
It has minimal changes from Tk800.021 apart from bug fixes.

(Consider Tk800.016..Tk800.021 its beta releases, previous stable
release being Tk800.015.)

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

This a re-port of a perl interface to Tk8.0.5 (Scriptics's production release).

It also includes all the C code parts of Ioi Kim Lam's Tix4.1.0.006 release.
The perl code corresponding to Tix's Tcl code is not fully implemented.

>>> TK IS KNOWN NOT TO WORK WITH perl5.005_63 <<<
But does work with perl5.6.0 - although this required a couple of work-rounds
for perl5.6.0 ->isa bug.

This version (Tk800.022) requires perl5.005 or later on Win32
and 5.004_04 or later on UNIX.

This version also contains re-worked Image code based on tcl/tk Img extension
(version img1.2.3) by Jan Nijtmans: http://members1.chello.nl/~j.nijtmans/
Jan's "dash" patch is also merged.

Tk800.022 should build and run on Windows NT using Visual C++, Borland,
or with the Mingw32 port of GCC with perl5.005 or later.
Can be built using ActiveState's binrary distribution
(see README-ActiveState.txt).

The Mingw32 builds are stable now using older Mingw32s.
There are perl build issues with very new Mingw32 (2.95.*).

I have not tried a Borland build recently.

Author has built against:

  Perl5.6.0
   Pentium Suse Linux-6.1 egcs-1.1.2

  Perl5.6.0 (ithreads)
   Pentium Suse Linux-6.1 egcs-1.1.2

  Perl5.00503
   SPARC Solaris2.6, gcc-2.8.1
   Pentium Suse Linux-6.1 egcs-1.1.2

  Perl5.00502
   NT4.0 SP4  VC++6.0 (with ActivePerl build 518)
   NT4.0 SP3  egcs-1.2.1 Mingw32

  Perl5.00404
   Pentium Suse Linux-6.1 egcs-1.1.2