jstools changes since 4.0/4.0

Changes from 3.0 to 4.0 are also documented, and Changes up through version 3.6/3.0 documented as well, albeit a little more haphazardly.

After version 4.0/4.0

• added M-/ Emacs bindings in jedit (specifically, jedit_bindings.tcl), documented
• added C-x h binding (select all) in jtextemacs.tcl, documented (should duplicate for entries)
  

• in my ~/.tk/textbindings.tcl, added reformatting code and Emacs fill­paragraph (to move to library)
  

• started list support for jdoc mode (to become jhtml mode)
• added configuration of list and <hr> tags in jdoc
• added support for (one level of) lists and horizontal rules in jtagconvert.tcl's HTML generation (still to do: TeX output)
  (should this and hypertext support move to a library?)
  

• rolled in Josê Bandeira's Portuguese localisation files - found a bunch of strings that were missing from the en files (and thus from his translations of them)
• started fixing typos and missing strings in en and pt files
  (fixed database files for jedit, jdoc, and jabbrevs, and usage in jstools for jfs.tcl and jprefpanel.tcl.)
• fixed hard­coded strings in jabbrevs script
  

• distinguish `Done' (now `Close') on jmore panel from `Done' on Global Preferences panel (and keys and Portuguese are different from `Done' in jedit)
• cleaned up rest of jstools string database, looked at jpeople and jhotlist database
• created new jhtml mode (almost identical to jdoc mode except for mode:jhtml:write)
  

• changed documentation for jldb.tcl to reflect the fact that app need not be exactly an application name
• changed jedit:apply_mode in jedit_modes.tcl to load in mode­specific string databases; created those databases for most modes
• fixed bug where `Done' button on mode­specific jedit prefs panel was causing prefs to be re­read from disk, overriding prefs changed in panel
  

• documented `Done' -> `Close' in jmore and jmore.tcl
• improved HTML generation - now sometimes distinguishes <br> from <p>, and may generate fewer superfluous <br>'s and <p>'s
• fixed bug where only first window opened in a mode would be initialised. (this bug was introduced in fixing the Mode­Specific Preferences `Done' button.) now the `Done' button doesn't cause prefs to be re­read from disk, but any other invocation of jedit:apply_mode does (kludge!)
• bumped version number to 4.0/4.1 in jinit.tcl and documentation
• fixed bug in heading menu commands in jdoc and jhtml modes
• documented jhtml mode; updated jdoc mode documentation
• re­generated HTML documentation
  

1995.12.31

• fixed jprefs.tcl documentation, which still talked about X resource files.
  

• added logical HTML styles to jedit_cmds.tcl, jedit_tags.tcl, jedit_menus.tcl, and jtagconvert.html
  NOT YET DOCUMENTED
• modified tagging of lists and anchors in jdoc-mode.tcl and jhtml-mode.tcl and cleaned them up a bit
  NOT YET DOCUMENTED
  

• told jmore about .jhtml files
  

• modified jtagconvert.tcl to generate HTML with titles, using (the first line of) the first level 0 heading
  

• modified jtagconvert.tcl (and prologue.ps) to allow parameterisation of fonts and sizes (not yet for headings) in generated PostScript. There's not yet a UI for choosing them.
  

• put new preference routines for dealing with preference modules and panels in jprefs.tcl and jprefpanel.tcl. Documented changes to jprefs.tcl.
  

• changed names of some procedures in jprefpanel.tcl
• documented (incompletely) addtions to jprefpanel.tcl.
• added PostScript and screen font preferences to global preferences in jprefs.tcl
• added j:tag:configure_fonts in jtexttags.tcl; modified jedit_tags.tcl and jmore.tcl to use it.
  

• added j:pref:colour_ui (and j:pref:color_ui); incorporated into j:pref:create_panel
  

• now recognises makefiles as code
  

• created sh-mode
• fixed word­deletion bugs in jentrykeys.tcl under Tk 4.X; may have introduced bugs under 3.6.
  

• finished changing js@calumet.org to js@aq.org.
• updated version number to 4.1/4.2.
  

1996.05.27

• added recognition of Perl, xbm, and xpm as code by jedit
• added -show option to j:prompt (and jprompt), documented
• made jdoc honour user's Web viewer preference
• removed jpathlib.tcl (which was unused)
• shortened name of jedit_fix_tkMenuButtonDown.tcl to jedit_fixMenuBind.tcl
• redid joptionbutton.tcl to support -variable and -command, and cget and invoke methods; updated documentation
• modified jfs.tcl to use new j:option features
• modified (with considerable trouble - have to get indirect lists working) jprefpanel.tcl to use option button
• added mkdir button in jfs.tcl, documented
• created j:hide_pointer and j:show_pointer (in jtkutils.tcl, documented
• set jbindtext.tcl and jbindentry.tcl up to hide pointer during typing
  

• quick­and­dirty support for a second level of nested lists (mainly in jtagconvert.tcl)
  

• added (ugly) support for a third level of nested lists in jhtml-mode.tcl (jtagconvert.tcl's support generalises to arbitrary depth)
• added rudimentary support for <body bgcolor="xxx" text="xxx"> in HTML generation based on colour tags on first character in file (jtagconvert.tcl)
  

• created jtail (in w-in-p) based on code posted by Jan Wieck <wieck@sapserv.debis.de>. Only works at end of a pipe.
  

• added (clumsy) capability to insert literal HTML (jtagconvert.tcl, jhtml-mode.tcl)
  

• added (temporarily) #000000 and #ffffff to Background and Foreground menus in jedit, because Netscape 1.1 chokes on named colours.
  

• fixed HTML preamble: <header> -> <head>, added DOCTYPE
  

• added Clear button to j:prompt, documented.
  

• continued update to jprefs.tcl; added j:pref:panel, j:pref:read_panel, and j:pref:write_panel, and renamed a couple of other procedures
• modified jprefpanel.tcl to use arrays and files associated with panels (rather than modules). The Save button is now consistently useful. :-)
• modified jpeople (in w-in-p) to use new mechanism for its preferences
  

• updated version number in jinit.tcl
• updated version number in documentation
• fixed positioning of j:option popup
• fixed a few bugs in sh mode
• documented sh mode
  

1996.09.12

• added separate font menu to jstools; this makes Alt­key shortcuts easier
  

• changed j:text:insert_string to j:text:insert, documented
• created new jtextcmds.tcl library, documented
• created j:cmd:text_cut, j:cmd:text_copy, and j:cmd:text_paste, which do the right thing depending on whether the current widget has rich­text formatting or not
• modified jedit_cmds.tcl to use above for Cut/Copy/Paste
• deleted (now superfluous) Rich Cut/Copy/Paste commands in jedit
• fixed bug where rich paste wouldn't replace selection if J_PREFS(typeover)
• made new Cut/Copy/Paste use files under ~/.tk if possible, documented
• added new functions for dealing with metainformation to jtexttags.tcl
  - j:tag:get_metainfo
  - j:tag:set_metainfo
  - j:tag:delete_metainfo
• modified j:tag:archive_text_widget and j:tag:restore_text_widget to save and load metainfo
• modified jtagconvert.tcl to use title and bgimage metainfo when generating HTML, if it exists
  

• removed some superfluous commands from the HTML menu in jhtml-mode
• added commands for setting body colour/image attributes to jhtml-mode (using new j:tag:set_metainfo)
• made jhtml-mode set text attributes (foreground, background, link colour, etc.) based on metainfo
• updated jtagconvert.tcl to use new text metainfo when generating <body> tag
  

• documented metainfo procedures in jtexttags.tcl
• added j:text:get_text_with_tags to use text dump command to get list of text and tags
• added j:text:tagged_insert as wrapper around Tk4 text insert command to insert text and tag it
  

• updated jhtml-mode documentation
• updated jtagconvert.tcl documentation
• documented j:text:tagged_insert in jtext.tcl documentation
• write j:tkversion (in jtkversion.tcl), documented
• modified jtextcmds.tcl to use plain­text cut­and­paste under Tk 3 (otherwise it would fail because the Tk 3 text widget insert command can't handle tags).
• added -default option to j:prompt_colour_rgb and j:prompt_colour_name, documented
• made scales longer in j:prompt_colour_rgb to improve colour resolution
• made Return in value field in j:prompt_colour_rgb do the right thing
• added -default to j:tag:get_metainfo, documented
• made jhtml-mode default to existing colours when specifying body attributes
  

• considerable work on a `document properties' (i.e. metainfo) user interface; working, but not yet incorporated into library
  

• cleaned up jentrykeys.tcl and jtextkeys.tcl a little bit (parallelism, mainly)
• created j:mkdir in jtclutils.tcl, documented
• created jhistory.tcl
• updated j:prompt, j:prompt_tcl, and j:prompt_unix (in jprompts.tcl) to use new history mechanism
  

• added arrows to j:prompt panel when history is in use
• updated jinstall to install lib/bitmaps directory (used by above)
• documented jhistory.tcl library
• documented history support in jprompts.tcl and jprompt
• modified j:dialogue (in jtkutils.tcl) so it always deiconifies and focusses the panel (makes life slightly simpler in jprompts.tcl)
  

• created j:tag:move in jtexttags.tcl to set typing tags based on tags around new insert postion; modified j:text:move to use it when the current text widget is rich
  Conceptual problem: the j:tag:move procedure has hard­coded information about properties of particular tags; there should be some way to provide an application­specific sanity­checking procedure instead
• documented j:tag:move, but also should have user­level documentation for typing
• modified `New List Item' command in jhtml mode so it creates an appropriate list item for the current list level (looking at the current tag list to determine the list level)
• added support for horizontal rules to PostScript generation
• added support for unordered lists to PostScript generation
  

• bug fix in j:fs; clicking OK without typing anything in the entry would give `no such file or directory' when trying to cd to ``'' on systems where [file isdirectory {}] is true
• implemented file history for j:fs (and added the option for directory history, but didn't implement it)
  

• added history support to j:variable_entry
• added history support to j:find
  

• added Meta-r binding to find panel
• added `Replace' command to jedit
  

• removed dependency on auto_execok's return value from hostname­finding code in jtkutils.tcl (it broke under 4.2)
  

• documented history support in jmetawidgets.tcl, jfindpanel.tcl, and the user­level Find panel documentation
• changed default history size to 30
• documented jedit's new `Replace' command
• completely localised jprefs.tcl and jprefpanel.tcl, fixing a couple of bugs along the way
• changed Return entry binding (all sets of bindings) from self_insert to no_op
  Inadequate - default button still doesn't get invoked.
  I need a whole new mechanism for default and cancel buttons, and j:ekb:return and j:tkb:return procedures.
  

• added -embedded, -command, -buttons flags to jedit:jedit
  PROBLEM - Meta-w to close window still works
  

• updated version numbers in documentation and jinit.tcl
• improved jinit.tcl documentation
• updated jedit programming documentation to describe embedding improvements
  

• fixed bug with saving preferences when $env(HOME)/.tk doesn't already exist
  

1996.11.05

• fixed bug where module names would be duplicated on a preference panel the second (etc.) time it was displayed
  

• added j:ldb:text and j:ldb:short_text, because having subsitutions performed is sometimes not what you want (e.g. filenames that contain dollar signs or brackets); documented
• updated library routines to use j:ldb:text and j:ldb:short_text where possible (this fixes bug where jmore would die on a filename with a bracket or dollar sign in it)
• created j:active_window in jtkutils.tcl; modified jedit to use it
  (UNTESTED UNDER OTHER VERSIONS OF TK/TCL)
  

• created j:parse_boolean_args and j:parse_boolean_argv, documented
• wrote j:text:find
• modified j:find in jfindpanel.tcl to use new j:text:find under Tk4.0 and greater
  

• made some changes to j:text:find (and how it's called by j:find)
• removed j:find:replace_regexp, which seems never to have worked anyway (for a sensible value of `worked').
• documented j:text:find
  

• minor changes to jtextbasic.tcl and jentrybasic.tcl
• worked on jfontsel (currently in w-in-p)
  

• added j:winfo and j:tlinfo in jtkutils.tcl
• added list option to j:winfo and j:tlinfo and documented them
• made jedit use j:tlinfo for filenames
  

• removed jbrowser (and documentation and supporting files); I wasn't maintaining it and I haven't heard of people using it
• modified jfindpanel.tcl to use j:current_window, so the same find panel can search in multiple documents (not yet documented)
  

• did some work on a new method for rich­text conversion (using conversion to plain text as a simple case)
  Fails if there are characters right on the right edge
  

• some changes for compatibility with 8.0a1 (e.g. putting braces around expressions, kludges to work around list bugs, etc) - not nearly complete yet
• worked on new jformat.tcl (possibly to be merged with other libraries) - cross­application formatting library with font/format/list commands
  

• fixed jperson so it sets NAME the same way j:jstools_init does (it had failed under shells that don't set the USER environment variable)
  

• added `wm protocol' handler for WM_DELETE_WINDOW to handle problem where process wasn't exiting when the last window was closed if any windows had een closed by the window manager. (Weird - I thought I'd done that a long time ago!)
• fixed j:new_toplevel so you can specify a -class; also fixed behaviour on illegal options
  (used to create the widget, but then raise an error without returning the widget name; now it doesn't create the widget.)
• made jedit toplevel (main) windows of class Jedit for convenience in setting X resources (may also be useful for counting/finding windows)
• added -width and -height flags to jedit and jedit:jedit; documented
  

• very kludgily fixed bug (caused by using j:ldb:text instead of j:ldb in various places) that messed up the error message from filtering text through a Unix command in jedit
  

• added support for HTML anchors and document­internal links in jtagconvert.tcl