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Release 7.0.0 New Features

Visual Tcl programming

The Tcl base has been upgraded from Tcl7.3 to Tcl7.6, adding the following features to the Tcl core.

  New to current users of
Feature SCO OpenServer UnixWare
added event handling yes yes
timers yes yes
socket support yes yes

For users of the UnixWare operating system, Vtcl is entirely new. For users of the SCO OpenServer operating system, the following capabilities have been added to Vtcl.

  New to current users of
Feature SCO OpenServer UnixWare
can run servers stand alone from commandline yes yes
supports for socket connections interp<->server yes yes
help system suppression yes yes
ValueString specification on some widgets    
provided as widget value (callbacks or query) yes yes
provide widget value to a Tcl variable yes yes
Multi option GetValue on a single widget yes yes
allow (script perceived) blocking transient dialogs yes yes
tcl and vtcl libs as shared libs yes yes


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UnixWare 7 Release 7.1.4 - 27 April 2004