
  [ current support status of Tcl/Tk extensions ]

  *******<<<  RELEASE_DATE of the libraries : 2005/12/11  >>>*******

The following list shows *CURRENT* status when this file was modifyed
at last. If you want to add other Tcl/Tk extensions to the planed list
(or change its status position), please request them at the ruby-talk,
ruby-list, or ruby-dev ML. Although we cannot promise to support your 
requests, we'll try to do. 

If you want to check that wrapper libraries are ready to use on your 
environment, please execute 'pkg_checker.rb' with no arguments. The 
script may give you some hints about that.


  ***** IMPORTANT NOTE **********************************************

    'support' means that Ruby/Tk's wrapper libraries are released. 
    'not support' does *NOT* mean that the extension doesn't work
    on Ruby/Tk. 

    The version number of each extension means the latest version
    which is checked its feature. That is, it does NOT means only 
    version of working. Library files maybe include some features 
    which is included in the former version but removed from the 
    latest, and maybe able to support the later version then the 
    shown version.

    Even if the status of the extension is 'not support', you can 
    control the functions/widgets of the extension without wrapper 
    libraries by Tk.tk_call(), Tk.ip_eval(), and so on. 

    If you cannot use installed Tcl/Tk extension, please check the 
    followings. 

     (1) On your Tcl/Tk, does the extention work?

     (2) Do DLL libraries of the extension exist on DLL load-path?
         (See also "<ruby archive>/ext/tcltklib/README.ActiveTcl")

     (3) Is the Tcl library directory of the extension included in 
         library search-path of the Tcl interpreter linked Ruby/Tk?

    The check results may request you to do some setup operations 
    before using the extension. If so, then please write the step 
    of setup oprations into the "setup.rb" file in the directory 
    of the wrapper libraries for the extention (It is the wrapper
    libraries have the standard structure of the libraries in this 
    directory). The "setup" file is required before requiring the 
    Tcl library package (TkPackage.require(<libname>)). 

  *******************************************************************


===< support with some examples (may be beta quality) >=======================

Tcllib       1.8     
Tklib        0.4.1   http://sf.net/projects/tcllib               ==> tcllib

IWidgets     4.0.2   http://sf.net/projects/incrTcl              ==> iwidgets

BWidgets     1.7     http://sf.net/projects/tcllib               ==> bwidget

TkTable      2.9     http://sf.net/projects/tktable              ==> tktable
                         * see also <http://www.korus.hu/~fery/ruby/tktable.rb>
                                    written by Ferenc Engard (ferenc@engard.hu)

vu           2.3.0   http://tktable.sourceforge.net              ==> vu

TkHTML       2.0     http://www.hwaci.com/sw/tkhtml/index.html   ==> tkHTML

ICONS        1.0     http://www.satisoft.com/tcltk/icons/        ==> ICONS

TkImg        1.3     http://sf.net/projects/tkimg                ==> tkimg


BLT          2.4z    http://sourceforge.net/projects/blt
                        * see also tcltk-ext library on RAA 
                                (http://raa.ruby-lang.org/)
                      ==> blt

TkTreeCtrl   CVS/Hd(2005-12-02)
                     http://tktreectrl.sourceforge.net/          ==> treectrl

Tile         CVS/Hd(2005-12-07)
                     http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/        ==> tile



===< support (may be alpha or beta quality) >=================================

IncrTcl      CVS/Hd(2005-02-14)
                     http://sf.net/projects/incrTcl              ==> itcl, itk

TclX         CVS/Hd(2005-02-07)
                     http://sf.net/projects/tclx
                       ==> tclx (partial support; infox command and 
                                                   XPG/3 message catalogs only)

Trofs        0.4.3   http://math.nist.gov/~DPorter/tcltk/trofs/



===< possibly available (not tested; alpha quality) >=========================

winico       0.6
                     http://tktable.sourceforge.net
                       ==> winico (win32 only)

TkTrans      latest(2004-10-11)
                     http://www2.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~fuzz/tktrans/default.html
                       ==>  tktrans (win32 only)

TkDND        1.0a2   http://sourceforge.net/projects/tkdnd       ==> tkDND



===< plan to support (alpha quality libraries may be included) >==============

GraphViz     ***     http://www.graphviz.org/

Tkgeomap     ***     http://tkgeomap.sourceforge.net/index.html



===< not determined to supprt or not >========================================

Tix          ***     http://tixlibrary.sourceforge.net/
                        * see also tcltk-ext library on RAA 
                                (http://raa.ruby-lang.org/)

TkZinc       ***     http://www.tkzinc.org/

Wbc          ***     http://home.t-online.de/home/csaba.nemethi/

Mentry       ***     http://home.t-online.de/home/csaba.nemethi/

Tablelist    ***     http://home.t-online.de/home/csaba.nemethi/

ANIGIF       ***     http://cardtable.sourceforge.net/tcltk/

IMG_ROTATE   ***     http://cardtable.sourceforge.net/tcltk/

TclVfs       ***     http://sourceforge.net/projects/tclvfs/

vfwtcl       ***     http://sourceforge.net/projects/avicaptcl
                        * Win32 only

multicast    ***     http://sourceforge.net/projects/avicaptcl
                        * Win32 only

XBit         ***     http://www.geocities.com/~chengye/
                        * current implementation is for Windows only

QuickTimeTcl ***     http://hem.fyristorg.com/matben/qt/
                        * works under Mac OS (8,9,X) or Windows



===< may not support (already exist, out of Ruby/Tk scope, and so on) >=======

TkCon        ***     http://sf.net/projects/tkcon

Expect       ***     http://sf.net/projects/expect

TclXML       ***     http://sf.net/projects/tclxml

TclXSLT      ***     http://sf.net/projects/tclxml

TclDOM       ***     http://sf.net/projects/tclxml

TclSOAP      ***     http://sf.net/projects/tclsoap

Snack        ***     http://www.speech.kth.se/~kare/snack2.2.tar.gz
                        * use Snack for Ruby 
                              (see http://rbsnack.sourceforge.net/)

Tcom         ***     http://www.vex.net/~cthuang/tcom/

tDOM         ***     http://www.tdom.org

Mk4tcl       ***     http://www.equi4.com/metakit/tcl.html

Memchan      ***     http://memchan.sourceforge.net/

XOTcl        ***     http://www.xotcl.org/


===< tool (may not supprt) >==================================================

tbcload/tclcompiler 
             ***     http://www.tcl.tk/software/tclpro/


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