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Subject: ANNOUNCE: Tcl/Tk 8.3b2 Release - DN [1]

Jeffrey Hobbs <jeffrey.hobbs@scriptics.com> - 13 Jan 2000 - comp.lang.tcl

 Tcl/Tk 8.3b2 Release Announcement
 January 13, 2000

 We are pleased to announce the 8.3b2 releases of the Tcl scripting
 language and the Tk toolkit.  This is the second beta of the 8.3 minor
 upgrade release.  More details can be found below.  We'd like to thank
 all those that submit bugs and patches as they are the primary source
 of information for us to identify problems in the core.

 Where to get the new releases:
 ------------------------------

 Tcl/Tk 8.3b2 are freely available in open source from the
 Scriptics web site at
     http://www.scriptics.com/products/tcltk/8.3.html
 This web page also contains additional information about the
 releases, including new features and notes about installing and
 compiling the releases.

 For additional information:
 ---------------------------

 Please visit the Scriptics Web site.
        http://www.scriptics.com/
 This site contains a variety of information about Tcl/Tk in general,
 the core Tcl and Tk distributions, the TclPro tool suite, and much
 more.

 Thank you for your contributions:
 ---------------------------------
 As usual, this release includes contributions from the Tcl
 community. We have a page honoring these contributions at:
     http://www.scriptics.com/products/tcltk/contributors.html

 Summary of Changes / New Features since Tcl/Tk 8.3b1:
 --------------------------------------

 The following were the main changes in Tcl/Tk 8.3b2. A complete
 list can be found in the changes file at the root of the source tree.
 The more complete ChangeLog is also now included with each release.

 1. The clock command now supports scanning of common ISO 8601
 date/time formats.  Problems related to daylight/standard time
 crossover for relative time calculations were also fixed.

 2. Fixed \ooo (octal substitution) from acceptin 8 and 9.

 3. Improved build support for Tru64, NetBSD and Reliant Unix.

 4. Imported commands now also import their compile procedures.

 5. Fixed [info procs ::namesp::*] behavior to return procs in
 the namespace.

 6. Added support for setting permissions symbolicly (like chmod)
 in [file attributes $file -permissions ...].

 7. Fixed lsort -dictionary sorting quirkiness with characters that
 fall between 'Z' and 'a' (ie: [^`]).

 8. Fixed argument passing through eval and after in Tk runtime code.

 9. Fixed i18n problems with Mac clipboard.

 10. Removed the 8.3b1 introduced -state option for text tags, and
 added documentation for -elide (-state hidden == -elide true).

 11. Fixed several Windows wm bugs, including fixing deiconify to not
 perturb the zoomed state, as well as eliminating the possible flashing of
 unmapped toplevel in deiconify, and fixing unwanted mapping of transient
 windows, or loss of transient control.

 12. Extended 'wm state' to accept a state to set for the toplevel, and
 added support for zoomed (maximized) state on Windows.

 13. Prevented cursor from blinking when entry or text widget is disabled.

 14. Fixed memory leak and bug in -warp introduced in 8.3b1.

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    Jeffrey Hobbs                          The Tcl Guy
    jeffrey.hobbs at scriptics.com         Scriptics Corp.