No new postings have been made to the blog over the past week or so. Why's that you might ask? Is gnocl development dormant? After 10 days, not really. I've spent most of my available time working on my Ph.D thesis which, is now coming towards completion.This doesn't mean I haven't been doing Tcl/Gtk things. I've converted a thesaurus file into metakit format the other day and am currently putting together a gnocl front-end for it. I'm half thinking about creating a custom gnocl::thesaurus widget. Mind, there still a few touches to put to the splashscreen yet. I would be good to release 0.9.96 during the summer!
Given this module some attention today. Added some of the more package wide options to the module and created customised handler for setting the month. (For some odd reason months are are counted 0-11 whereas days are 1-31.) There's still a little more to do to this one including the addition of code to store diary details. Here's the working test script to show the range of options at work. The percentage substitution string item %e explores something that I've been toying with, the name of the signal/event that initiated the call. Ok, a script can keep its own internal trace but who knows, it might prove useful. #--------------- # calendarTest.tcl #--------------- # Author: William J Giddings # Date: 07/05/09 #--------------- #!/bin/sh # the next line restarts using tclsh \ exec tclsh "$0" "$@" #--------------- package require Gnocl set cal [gnocl::calendar] $cal configure -day 8 -month 7 -year 1956 $cal configure -rowHeight 1 -colWidth 1 $ca...
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