
                       ABOUT THE TIX PROGRAMMING LIBRARY

   The Tix library is an extension to the Tk toolkit that contains over
   40 new widgets for Tk. Features include: 

   A LOT of new widgets:
          The Tix library has by far the greatest collection of widgets
          for programming with Tcl/Tk. Highlights include: Hierarchical
          Listbox, Directory List/Tree View, SpreadSheet, Tabular
          Listbox, ComboBox, Motif style FileSelectBox, MS Windows style
          FileSelectBox, PanedWindow, NoteBook, Spin Control widget ....
          and many more. With these new widgets, your Tcl/Tk applications
          can acquire a great professional look and interact with your
          users in intuitive ways.

   Rapid Prototyping New Widgets:
          Tix comes with a complete Object-Oriented framework for
          building new customed widgets using TCL exclusively. It
          typically reduces the efforts of developing a new widget by a
          factor of ten or more.

   XPM image suport:
          This allows you to display color icons in XPM format. Supports
          transparent background.

   Compound images:
          A new image type called "compound" allows youto glue together a
          bunch of bitmaps, images and text strings together to form a
          bigger image. Then you can use this image with widgets that
          support the -image option. For example, you can display a text
          string string together with a bitmap, at the same time, inside
          a TK button widget.

   Display Items and Display Styles:
          Display items and display styles make it possible to display
          visual information in many formats.

   Form geometry manager:
          Works similarly to the Motif Form widget. You can specify
          geometry constraints using attachment rules.

   Mwm window mamager support:
          With the tixMwm command, you can communicate with the Motif
          window manager "mwm"; you can add new items to the Motif system
          menu and change the window manager decorations.

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  GETTING MORE INFORMATION ABOUT TIX

   Tix Home Page:
          The Tix Home Page at http://www.xpi.com/tix/ provides more
          detailed and up-to-date information about Tix.

   The Tix Mailing List
          There is a mailing list for the discussion of the development
          of both the Tix library and Tix-based applications. To
          subscribe, send me a mail to majordomo@xpi.com with the line
          "subscribe tix-info [your_address]" in the body of the mail. To
          send a message to the Tix mailing list, please use the address
          tix-info@xpi.com.

          The Tix mailing list has been archived. You can find useful
          information at the Tix mailing list archives at:
          http://www.xpi.com/archives/archives.html.

  GETTING TECHICAL SUPPORT FOR TIX

   If you have a question about using the Tix library, feel free to
   contact the Tix support team at the address tix-support@xpi.com.
   Please notice that this support service is currently provided only on
   a good-will basis with no implied obligations or guaranty.

  BUG REPORTS

   Tix is a large product and as such will certainly contain bugs. If you
   have encountered a bug while using Tix, please send a bug report to
   the address tix-bugs@xpi.com . We'll appreciate it if you can send
   along a small, self-contained program that demonstrates the behavior
   of the bug.

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