Source page: http://pdqi.com/w/pw/pdqi/Main/Status11

PDQI Status Report - January 2011

Summary

This document provides a snapshot of progress on the PDQI project for the first quarter: the period from Oct 1/10 through Dec 31/10. The objective of this quarter was to add some image handling refinements, push out the release of Wize 3.2, fix bug reports arising from the release, create a presentation program and to present Wize at the 2010 Tcl conference in Chicago.

New Image Operations

Two new operations have been added to Blt to add enhanced capabilities in shaped buttons. These are image blurs and transparencies. Together these enable placing shaped buttons on textured backgrounds.

Slider

Slider is a presentation program that was developed using Wize. It was used in giving the presentation at the 2010 Tcl Conference.

Slider supports:

1. fonts, colors and images
2. background tiles, shaped borders, and embedded windows.
3. embedded tcl/tk scripting

Here is the link to the slider documentation:

http://pdqi.com/w/pw/pdqi/Mod/Slider

Wize Release

Wize 3.1 was released on Soureforge.com on November 20th. The release included:

1. Windows and Linux binaries
2. Source for the entire Wize package
3. Source for BLT, broken out.

Version 3.2 which included mostly bug fixes was released on December 1st.

Bug Fix Release

The 3.1 release was followed by a number of bugs, including: scrollbars, image overrides, and improved tiling. These were released as Wize 3.2.

The 2010 Tcl Conference

Wize and GUI were presented at the 2010 17th international Tcl conference in Chicago in October. The presentation covered most of the major aspects of Wize and is available here:

http://pdqi.com/w/pw/pdqi/Main/Tcl2010

Conclusion

With this release, Wize is considered feature complete, which brings to completion the active development cycle of this project. With the 3.2 release, Wize has started to see more wider spread use. This include companies such as Magstar International Inc which is using Wize to develop their next generation Point of Sale system. There is also increased interest in using the BLT widget set for Linux based applications.

© 2008 Peter MacDonald