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.

Tk800.023 is supposed to be production worthy.
It has minimal changes from Tk800.022 apart from bug fixes.
In particular a rather nasty memory leak that afflicted Canvas rather 
badly has been fixed.

(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 <<<
This Tk has special workrounds for perl-5.6.0 ->isa bug which are 
only enabled for exactly that version.
Works with perl-5.7.0 and should work with most other "recent" perl releases.

This version (Tk800.023) 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.

Tk800.023 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 binary distribution
(see README-ActiveState.txt).

The Mingw32 builds are stable now using up-to-date gcc-2.95.2 version 
of Mingw32. There are perl build issues though you need 
to change 'fpos_t' to 'long long' in Mingw32/2.95.2's <stdio.h>.

I have not tried a Borland build recently.

Author has built against:

  Perl5.7.0
   Pentium Suse Linux-6.4 gcc-2.95.2
   NT4.0 SP4  Mingw32 (gcc-2.95.2) 

  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)

  Perl5.6.0
   NT4.0 SP4  VC++6.0 (with ActivePerl build 617)

  Perl5.00404
   Pentium Suse Linux-6.1 egcs-1.1.2