jstools changes from 3.6/3.0 to 4.0/4.0

This documents changes between versions 3.6/3.0 and 4.0/4.0 of the jstools package. Changes after 4.0/4.0 are also documented, and Changes up through version 3.6/3.0 are documented too, albeit a little more haphazardly.

Before version 4.0/4.0

• wrote jnls.tcl
• started writing jnls.tcl document
• incorporated calls to j:nls in jstools libraries
• modified documents for them to mention it
  

• finished incorporating j:nls into jstools libraries (error calls)
• changed j:nls to use subst if available, and emulate it otherwise
• documented that fact
  

• wrote j:nls:underline, j:nls:accelerator, j:nls:set_defaults
• finished jnls.tcl library documentation
  (almost - needs a little reorganisation and a section on databases)
• began jcommand.tcl
  j:cmd:register
  j:cmd:list
  j:cmd:menuentry
  (to add: make accel display optional)
  j:cmd:button
  (needs work: size, and ability to show underline, accelerator)
  j:cmd:bind
• started documentation for jcommand.tcl
  

• renamed j:cmd:... procedures to j:command:...
• documented
  j:command:register,
  j:command:list,
  j:command:menuentries,
  j:command:button,
  j:command:buttonbar,
  j:command:bind
• added j:command:menuentry alias for j:command:menuentries
• started jstools.tcl library
• registered j:cmd:prompt_tcl and j:cmd:prompt_tcl in j:jstools_init
• modified jdoc to use jnls.tcl and jcommand.tcl libraries (changed jdoc Done button to Quit)
• modified jabbrevs to use jnls.tcl and jcommand.tcl libraries.
  

• modified jmore to use jnls.tcl
• BUG FIX: jmore now complains gracefully if you give it a directory name.
• modified jedit_cmds.tcl to register commands
• modified jedit_menus.tcl to use j:command:menuentries
• BUG FIX: fonts with spaces in name didn't work in -font option to j:more
  

• split jmenu.tcl off from jcommand.tcl
• redid documentation to match
• wrote j:menu:menubutton, j:menu:checkbuttons, j:menu:checkbuttons
• documented the above
• more work in jedit_menus.tcl to use new libraries
• Tk4 BUG FIX: removed reference to tk_entryBackSpace
• stole code from Tk library to replace reliance on internals in j:ek:see_insert
• Tk4 BUG FIX: now programmatically trash all Entry and Text keybindings :-)
  

• redid Filter menu in jedit to use command procedures - jedit_menus.tcl is done
  (changed Capitalise to Uppercase)
• added Filter command procedures
• wrote jedit:guarantee_selection and used in indentation cmds
• in j:command:bind, wrapped bind in a catch to deal with bad keysyms
• redid jedit_bindings.tcl to use j:command:bind
• made all punctuation that's handled specially checkpoint widget state
  (improves usefulness of checkpointing)
• added parenflash to Prefs menu
• added j:nls:short, modified j:command:button[bar] to use it
• made jedit:mkbuttonbar use j:command:buttonbar
• updated modes to use new button stuff: code, richtext, note, tcl, exmh, mh.
  

• documented j:nls:short in jnls.tcl.jdoc; documented it's use by j:command jcommand.tcl.jdoc
• documented parenflash on jedit Prefs menu
• documented checkpointing on punctuation in jedit
• started updating jedit_prog.jdoc
• added reading of ~/.tk/jstools.ad, ~/.tk/jstoolsrc.tcl to j:jstools_init
  

• added support for distinct accelerator string (j:nls:accelerator) and binding (j:nls:binding)
• documented above
• documented ~/.tk/jstools.ad, ~/.tk/app.ad, ~/.tk/jstoolsrc.tcl
• made j:jstools_init set JSTOOLS_VERSION, removed from boiler_header.tcl
• finished updating jedit_prog.jdoc
• updated jeditmodes/jdoc-mode.tcl for jnls usage
• checked following files for jnls usage:
  jedit_bindings.tcl
  jedit_checkpoint.tcl
  jedit_io.tcl
  (jedit_menus.tcl done)
  jedit_modes.tcl
  jedit_paren.tcl
  jedit_tags.tcl
  jedit_typing.tcl
  jedit_ui.tcl
  jedit_util.tcl
• started jtclutils.tcl with j:default
  

• updated jdoc-mode.tcl, mail-mode.tcl
• added Escape to j:cancel_button, documented
• updated jedit_cmds.tcl for jnls usage
• updated jedit_prefs.tcl for jnls usage; changed strings and layout
  

• added j:menu:docs
• updated jabbrevs to use it
  

• added help menu to jedit
  (didn't update all modes, just Tcl)
  

• documented j:menu:docs in jmenu.tcl documentation.
• played some with jbindtext.tcl, jbindentry.tcl; improved, but not fixed.
  

• added prefixes to NLS [now LDB] keys for jedit, jmore.
  (jabbrevs, jdoc don't really need it.)
• kludged together a workaround for Tk4 binding mechanism in jbind{text,entry}.tcl.
  [obsoleted by production release of Tk4.0]
• removed -relief flat (or sunken) from various commands in lib, bin
• removed some j:rules from jedit, jmore.tcl.
• axed j:current_focus (it didn't work, anyway)
  

• changed j:read_prefs and j:write_prefs to generate/read Tcl code
  also add .tcl to filename
• (jedit still has problem of Done button not working...)
  

• documented new jtclutils.tcl library
• documented changes to jprefs.tcl
  

• updated modes to use docs preference
• updated modes to use jnls throughout
• axed the old jhelp application (it didn't work any more)
• fixed bug where Delete didn't delete selection at beginning of text (or ^D at end)
• fixed bug in font­preference pane of jedit preferences panel (didn't work at all)
• fixed bug where jedit would die if you specified a non­existent mode
• fixed arguable bugs where panels couldn't handle jnls strings with substitutions
  (added uplevel's to perform substitutions in caller's context)
• fixed jedit bugs when user specified a directory or an unreadable file
• moved some jedit commands from Editor to File menu
• moved some jdoc commands from Doc Viewer to Document menu
• moved some jabbrevs commands from Abbrevs to File menu
• restarted work on jnewbrowser
  

• changed jbind* code to match new Tk4.0b3 patch (bind tag order)
• fixed some bugs related to jedit special bindings (punctuation, etc.)
• fixed bug where check for directory/unreadable file was in the wrong place
  

• removed Escape binding from j:cancel_button again (conflicts with Emacs keys)
• added break under Tk4 to j:cancel_button and j:default_button.
  

• added new wrapper scripts, and documented:
  jalert
  jcolname
  jcolrgb
  jconfirm
  jfs
  jprompt
• fixed bug in j:prompt_colour_* where user-specified prompt was being ignored because it wasn't found in nls database and there was a default given to the j:nls call
  

• improved Tk4.0 compatibility of jpeople (mostly bindings)
• started jedit HTML mode
  

• fixed bug where jprefs.tcl would fail when the directory it was writing to was a subdirectory of a directory that didn't exist (in practice, writing jedit mode­specific preferences when ~/.tk doesn't exist)
• added Esc-space Emacs binding
• more work on jedit HTML mode
  

• somewhere in here I fixed a bug where all jstools applications would fail if USER was undefined (e.g. under bash); now I'll use LOGNAME or the last element in HOME
  

• more work (still undocumented) on HTML mode
  

• updated copyright notice on all files (made less restrictive)
  

• Tk4.0 compatibility changes to jpeople
• bug fix: WM_DELETE_WINDOW handler for jpeople didn't pass a window name
  

• (re­)added PS organiser page output to jpeople
• added jpeople: prefix to all jpeople procedures that didn't have it already
• commented out some no­longer­used jpeople procedures
• integrated PostScript preamble (not yet sufficiently general) into jpeople script
• modified character encoding in jpeople PostScript preamble; made ISO accents non­spacing (yes, I know that violates the standard...)
• fixed several bugs with bindings not including break in Tk4, notably in jfs.tcl and the jdoc topic­selection panel. No doubt more to be found.
• fixed bug where j:tag:archive_text_widget added a newline at the end of the text in Tk4
• fixed jpeople's Save As... command
• documented html mode
• added global preferences for Web browser and man page viewer
• created jviewers.tcl to use new preferences
• made jdoc_hypertext.tcl use new procedures from jviewers.tcl
• documented commands moved from misc. menu to File menu in jabbrevs, jdoc, and jedit
  

• changed break to continue in j:nls:set_defaults; this fixed bug where if a key was repeated, the rest of the database wouldn't be read
  

• changed jnls.tcl (and databases) to use period instead of underscore as separator (e.g. en.uk.cockney instead of en_uk_cockney) and documented change; I think this is the standard
  

• overrode <B1-Leave> in jtextmouse.tcl to see if this fixes the problem with the selection becoming sticky
• commented out B3 bindings in jtextmouse.tcl - this lets gesture­cut and ­paste from my .tk/jeditrc.tcl work again
• minor changes to html-mode.tcl - mostly adding underlined characters to HTML menu
  

• added -line option to jedit:jedit in jedit_utils.tcl, documented
• added +linenumber command­line syntax to jedit command, documented
• changed nls/NLS to ldb/LDB throughout the code (including pathnames and documentation)
• changes to my ~/.tk/jeditrc.tcl implementing gesture commands and popups - this will eventually find its way into jedit and/or its own library (undocumented)
• fixed bug in j:ldb:read_database_recursively that prevented any but the most­specific database from being read
  

• worked on improving focus behaviour when various dialogue panels are closed
  

• fixed bug with jedit:pipe and jedit:text_regsub when sel.last was at the end of the text (not quite sure why it was occurring, but I worked around it)
• added missing `$w see insert' in j:text:replace
  

• fixed j:emb:sel_word for Tk4
• implemented TkMan support in jviewers.tcl (stole code from contrib/remote.tcl in distribution)
  

• documented jedit Help menu
• fixed jedit unindent command for lines beginning with tabs
• updated jedit documentation; flagged everything that currently needs attention
• fixed Tk4 scrolling bugs in jmore.tcl (and hence jmore)
• added -annotation option to jmore.tcl (and documented)
• added special processing of .jrt files to jmore (and documented)
  

• fixed (at least under 4.0) ergonomic bug in j:fs and j:prompt where end of a long pathname would be hidden after Tab
• fixed bug in j:fs where pressing Return after typing a full path (with initial slash) to a directory would return the directory rather than just cd'ing in the file selector
• kludgily made jtagconvert.tcl translate jdoc links, documented. (no interface to J_PREFS(html,jdoc_prefix) yet) (whole hypertext mechanism needs to be made more general; also, relative v. absolute links are a problem)
  

• fixed joptionbutton.tcl Tk4 binding bug where original listbox bindings were getting called
• modified jtextmouse.tcl to use Tk4.0 mechanism for drag­scrolling
• removed support for drag­scrolling under Tk3 from jtextmouse.tcl
• added gesture­cut, gesture­paste, two gesture menus to jedit, documented
• documented shell utilities in jstools main documentation
• removed mention of jhelp in jstools main documentation
• updated all documentation for version number
• updated all documentation and jabout.tcl for email address
  

• fixed bug where jmore wouldn't exit when you closed the last j:more window if there was a j:find panel open
• added .jdoc support to jmore; documented
• documented jviewers.tcl
  

• updated copyright notices in library file documentation
  

• updated html­mode documentation
  

• updated jcommand.tcl documentation
• updated jmenu.tcl documentation
  

• wrote jstools/ldb.jdoc
• updated jldb.tcl.jdoc
• updated all library documentation files for localisable parameters
• checked all library documentation files for flagged sections
• updated jtagconvert.tcl to handle foo.jdoc#anchor -> foo.html#anchor
• converted docs to HTML
  

• fixed jbrowser listbox bindings for Tk4
• added catch to focus -force... in jmore.tcl (need to do other dialogue panels)
  

• fixed some Tk4 binding and scrolling bugs in jbrowser
• added -underlines to jbrowser
• fixed address in about boxes
• made jcalendar create ~/Calendar if it doesn't exist; no longer tries to use ~/.xcal
• minor fixes to jmsgs
• some work on jlaunchpad
  

• cleaned up jstools.jdoc a little
• fixed old references to jnls.tcl (now jldb.tcl)
• added language_codes.jdoc and country_codes.jdoc and made appropriate links
• removed (superfluous) TkMan checkbox from jdoc preference panel; Global Preferences let you choose a man page viewer
  

• trimmed out Changes sections, removed Evolution heading from documentation (still need to merge old Changes sections into a single document or so)
• started jrtgrep tool (in etc, not yet w-in-p)
• started changing calumet.org to aq.org
  

• turned this list into a jdoc document
• turned old changes sections from individual jdoc files into a separate document, made links
  

• removed help-mode.tcl; it was broken, and there's no longer a jhelp to write documents for
  

• fixed bug in j:wm_client; it was searching for the existence of a hostname command with full pathnames but calling it without, so if the command existed but wasn't in your path you'd get an error
• changes to jmore.tcl and jmore executable to work around problem with widget destruction in Tk3 (bug in my code - not catching focusses, and I think also a bug in Tk3 to do with widget destruction - exit 0 seems not to work during deletion of a widget, so I wrap it in an after)
  

• calumet -> aq in jbr_cmds.tcl jdoc_cmds.tcl jedit_cmds.tcl and jtextmouse.tcl
• last few fixes to documentation (Tk compatibility section, `localisable', version numbers)
• added j:about_donations procedure, added Donations button to about boxes to list my favourite charities
  

• updated jslibraries.jdoc; it hadn't listed all the libraries