What is new in Mentry 3.3? -------------------------- 1. Added three new commands related to mentry widgets for IPv6 addresses. 2. Support for Windows Vista (including explicit support for the "vista" theme). 3. Updated the support for the themes "plastik" and "keramik"; added support for the "keramik_alt" theme. 4. Included the same version of the general mega-widget utility module "mwutil.tcl" as in Tablelist release 4.12. 5. Minor improvements in the code. What was new in Mentry 3.2? --------------------------- 1. New subcommands "adjustentry" and "setentryextrawidth", providing an easy way to set the optimal widths for the entry children. 2. Complemented the "attrib" subcommand with the new subcommands "hasattrib" and "unsetattrib". 3. Included a new mentry widget of type "DateTime" (thanks to Florian Murr for his proposal). 4. Added mouse wheel support for mentry widgets of types "Date", "Time", "DateTime", and "IPAddr". 5. Made sure that the default bindings are set up immediately when loading the package, prior to creating any mentry widget. 6. The "setThemeDefaults" command no longer throws an error if the current theme is not explicitly supported by Mentry. Instead, it uses the options set by the current theme and falls back to the "default" one for the rest. 7. Included the same version of the general mega-widget utility module "mwutil.tcl" as in Tablelist release 4.10. 8. Adapted the demo scripts to use the new "adjustentry" subcommand. What was new in Mentry 3.1? --------------------------- 1. Mentry_tile now supports tile 0.8 and Tk 8.5a6/8.5b1 (where tile is integrated in the core). The new commands "mentry::setTheme", "mentry::getCurrentTheme", and "mentry::getThemes" enable you to set and get the current theme and to query the available ones, without having to worry about the incompatibilities between the various tile versions. 2. Included the same version of the general mega-widget utility module "mwutil.tcl" as in Tablelist release 4.6. 3. Minor improvements in the code. What was new in Mentry 3.0? --------------------------- 1. Support for tile-compatibility: By just specifying "package require Mentry_tile" instead of "package require Mentry", the mentry widgets will have a modern theme-specific appearance and behavior. See the "How to use it?", "More on Mentry_tile", and "Tile-based demo scripts" sections of the tutorial "mentry.html" for details. 2. New command "mentry::setThemeDefaults", which can be used to make sure that classical Tk widgets, e.g., text, will have a theme- specific appearance, just like the tile widgets. 3. New subcommands "setentryfont" and "setentrywidth", for configuring individual entry components of mentry widgets. 4. Used the same package loading mechanism as in Tablelist 4.5 (thanks to Andreas Kupries for his valuable contribution). 5. The Mentry and Mentry_tile packages now require Wcb version 3.1. 6. The demo scripts are now provided in both a traditional and a tile-based version. What was new in Mentry 2.8? --------------------------- 1. This Mentry release is compatible with both the new Wcb version 3.0 (or higher) and the older Wcb versions 2.7 - 2.9. (Earlier Mentry releases don't work with Wcb versions having the major number 3). 1. New bindings for the and events in mentry widgets for date and time. 3. New bindings for the , , , and events in mentry widgets for IP addresses (thanks to Jean Romier for his valuable contribution). What was new in Mentry 2.7? --------------------------- 1. New bindings for the and events in mentry widgets for date and time. 2. Corrected three typos in the handling of the , , and events, introduced in the previous Mentry release. 3. Worked around a bug in the "clock format ... -format %p" command introduced in Tcl 8.4, causing an erronous behavior of the "putClockVal" command in non-default locales on UNIX for "Time" mentries with AM/PM indicator. 4. Improved the error handling related to the option database in the general mega-widget utility module "mwutil.tcl". 5. Improvements in the demo scripts. 6. Many improvements in the documentation, including a new Quick Reference section. What was new in Mentry 2.6? --------------------------- This release contains no new commands or subcommands; the improvements are mostly of internal nature: 1. Rewritten the bindings-related stuff by introducing own binding tags for the children of mentry widgets. This method is more Tk-like and has the additional advantage that it supports arbitrary widget names (in earlier releases, mentry widgets couldn't have '%' characters in their names). 2. When creating a mentry widget, the "-colormap" frame configuration option is no longer used, because it is bogus in some Tk versions on the Macintosh (and it isn't needed anyway). 3. Included the same version of the general mega-widget utility module "mwutil.tcl" as in Tablelist release 3.3. What was new in Mentry 2.5? --------------------------- 1. Applied a patch proposed (in a slightly different form) by Mats Bengtsson that works around a bug in the "info script" command on the Macintosh. 2. Improved and simplified the focus control (thanks to Juri Shimon and Gopal Reddy for their bug reports). 3. The invocations of "info exists" for array elements are no longer replaced with a call to a helper procedure (introduced in Mentry 2.0 because of a bug in some earlier Tcl versions). 4. Improved the Mentry Programmer's Guide. What was new in Mentry 2.4? --------------------------- 1. The "isempty" subcommand now has an optional "index" argument. 2. New "isfull" subcommand (with an optional "index" argument). 3. Simplified the demo scripts "phonenumber.tcl" and "ethernetaddr.tcl" by using the two subcommands mentioned above. 4. Further minor improvements in the demo scripts and documentation. What was new in Mentry 2.3? --------------------------- 1. Reverted the implementation of the focus control to the one contained in the pre-2.2 Mentry releases, because its simplified version from the last release failed to work as expected if a mentry was the only widget taking the focus during keyboard traversal. 2. Improved the performance of the Tcl command associated with a mentry widget. 3. Included the same version of the general mega-widget utility module "mwutil.tcl" as in recent Tablelist releases. 4. Further minor improvements in the code. 5. The distribution file "mentry2_3.zip" for Windows now includes the "mentry2.3" directory, hence it is no longer necessary to create this folder before unpacking the distribution file. What was new in Mentry 2.2? --------------------------- 1. Improved the handling of the case that all entry children of a mentry widget are disabled. 2. Made the focus control more straight-forward. 3. Extended the "How to use it?" section of the tutorial "mentry.html". What was new in Mentry 2.1? --------------------------- 1. Improved the error handling in the "attrib" and "configure" subcommands. 2. The demo script "ethernetaddr.tcl" now uses the callback "wcb::checkStrForRegExp" (introduced in Wcb 2.6) instead of the local procedure "checkStrForHex". 3. Further minor improvements in the code. What was new in Mentry 2.0? --------------------------- 1. When typing a character contained in the label following the current entry, the focus is no longer set to the next enabled entry child if the current entry is empty (thanks to Leslie Brooks for this suggestion). 2. When setting the focus to a mentry widget (e.g., with the standard keys Tab and Shift-Tab during keyboard traversal), its first enabled entry child now not only receives the focus (like in earlier releases), but in addition its contents is selected and the insertion cursor is moved to its end. 3. New "clear" subcommand to erase the contents of one or more entry children of a mentry widget (this was kindly proposed by Leslie Brooks). 4. Fixed a bug related to the initialization of the values of the configuration options when creating a mentry widget. 5. Whereever possible, eliminated the invocations of "info exists" for array elements. This works around a bug in Tcl versions 8.2 and 8.3.0 - 8.3.2 (fixed in 8.3.3 and 8.4a2), which causes excessive memory use when calling "info exists" on a non-existent array element. 6. The help variables used in the initialization of the "mentry" namespace are now declared with the "variable" keyword, in order to avoid any conflicts with global variables (thanks to Leslie Brooks for his bug report). 7. Improved the parsing of configuration and command options. What was new in Mentry 1.5? --------------------------- 1. The "-textvariable" configuration option and the "getarray" subcommand now raise an error if the argument is not an array. 2. Replaced "[focus]" with "[focus -displayof $win]", so that the code will work properly in applications using multiple displays. 3. Renamed "mentryBindingTag" to "Mentry". 4. Improvements in the documentation. What was new in Mentry 1.4? --------------------------- 1. The "put" subcommand now returns the value 0 if the attempted change gets canceled in any of the entry children by some before-delete or before-insert callback, and 1 otherwise. 2. For Tk versions 8.4 or higher the "mentry::mentry" command now supports the "-disabledbackground", "-disabledforeground", and "-readonlybackground" configuration options, as well as the value "readonly" for the "-state" configuration option. 3. Improved the error-handling and the geometry management in the implementation of the "-body" configuration option. 4. Moved several procedures from the file "mentryWidget.tcl" into the new general mega-widget utility module "mwutil.tcl". 5. Minor improvements in the demo scripts. What was new in Mentry 1.3? --------------------------- 1. Changed the implementation of the "-takefocus" configuration option, in order to work around a bug in the Tk library file "focus.tcl", introduced in Tk 8.3.1. 2. The "put" subcommand now restores the original contents of all affected entry children of the mentry widget if the change gets canceled in any of the entries by some before-delete or before- insert callback. (Thanks to Aryeh Koenigsberg for his suggestion.) 3. Fixed a small bug in the "attrib" subcommand. 4. Minor improvements in the code. What was new in Mentry 1.2? --------------------------- 1. Improved the behavior of mentry widgets during keyboard traversal with the standard keys: Shift-Tab now moves the focus out of the current mentry instead of setting it to the first enabled entry child of the widget, as it was the case in earlier releases. 2. The "mentry::mentry" command now supports the "-takefocus" configuration option. 3. For Tk versions 8.3 or higher the "mentry::mentry" command now supports the "-invalidcommand", "-validate", and "-validatecommand" configuration options. What was new in Mentry 1.1? --------------------------- 1. The tutorial and the mentry widget reference page now contain hyperlinks to the Wcb command reference, which has been included in the documentation. 2. Minor improvements in the code and documentation. What was new in Mentry 1.0? --------------------------- 1. As promised in Version 0.9, the Mentry package now includes a tutorial and reference pages in HTML format. 2. The Tcl command corresponding to a mentry widget now has a new subcommand named "entrylimit". 3. The package no longer makes use of any undocumented, private Tk library routines. 4. A new demo script "phonenumber.tcl" is provided and discussed in the tutorial.