• ANNOUNCE: Toggle switch widget package Tsw 1.2

    From nemethi@csaba.nemethi@t-online.de to comp.lang.tcl on Mon Aug 11 13:17:07 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.tcl

    I am pleased to announce version 1.2 of the toggle switch widget package
    Tsw.

    What is new in Tsw 1.2?
    -----------------------

    1. Added explicit support for the "droid" theme, which is the default
    in AndroWish, as well as for the themes "awarc", "awbreeze",
    "awbreezedark", "awdark", "awlight", and "plastik" (which "droid" is
    derived from).

    2. Made sure that on Android the widget's behavior is adapted to the
    touchscreen as input device.

    3. Improved the support for older macOS versions.

    4. Worked around the fact that for some third-party themes, the
    retrieval of the root style's foreground color returns an empty
    string.

    5. Guarded against a bug in the ttk::scale widget's "get x y" command.

    How to get it?
    --------------

    Tsw is available for free download from the Web page

    https://www.nemethi.de

    The distribution file is "tsw1.2.tar.gz" for UNIX and "tsw1_2.zip" for
    Windows. These files contain the same information, except for the
    additional carriage return character preceding the linefeed at the end
    of each line in the text files for Windows.

    Tsw is also included in tklib, which has the address

    https://core.tcl.tk/tklib

    How to install it?
    ------------------

    Install the package as a subdirectory of one of the directories given
    by the "auto_path" variable. For example, you can install it as a
    subdirectory of the "lib" directory within your Tcl/Tk installation (at
    the same level as the tk8.X or tk9.X subdirectory).

    To install Tsw on UNIX, "cd" to the desired directory and unpack the distribution file "tsw1.2.tar.gz":

    gunzip -c tsw1.2.tar.gz | tar -xf -

    On most UNIX systems this can be replaced with

    tar -zxf tsw1.2.tar.gz

    Both commands will create a directory named "tsw1.2", with the
    subdirectories "demos", "doc", and "scripts".

    On Windows, use WinZip or some other program capable of unpacking the distribution file "tsw1_2.zip" into the directory "tsw1.2", with the subdirectories "demos", "doc", and "scripts".

    How to use it?
    --------------

    To be able to access the commands and variables of the Tsw package, your scripts must contain one of the lines

    package require tsw ?version?
    package require Tsw ?version?

    Since the Tsw package is implemented in its own namespace called "tsw",
    you must either invoke the

    namespace import tsw::toggleswitch

    command to import the only public procedure of the tsw namespace, or use
    the qualified name tsw::toggleswitch. To access Tsw variables, you must
    use qualified names.

    For a detailed description of the commands and variables provided by Tsw
    and of the examples contained in the "demos" directory, see the tutorial "tsw.html" and the reference page "toggleswitch.html", both located in
    the "doc" directory.
    --
    Csaba Nemethi https://www.nemethi.de mailto:csaba.nemethi@t-online.de

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