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Latest Release: Tcl/Tk 8.7a5 (Jun 18, 2021)
Tcl/Tk 8.7 is now in alpha development. Those seeking its new features,
or those invested in keeping their existing Tcl-related work compatible
with the next releases of Tcl and Tk are invited to try and track this
development work.
Download Tcl/Tk 8.7a5 Source Releases
Highlights of Tcl 8.7 (so far)
- Expanded Unicode Support
- Attached Filesystem Archives Include a zip archive of a
filesystem in libraries or executables. Allows them to carry support
data such as script libraries, encodings, message catalogs, images,
and more.
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New Notifiers: The central event handling engine in Tcl is now
constructed on top of the system calls epoll or kqueue
when they are available. The select based implementation also
remains for platforms where they are not.
- Comment syntax in expressions
-
regsub -command: Expand the power of your
substitutions with this new option permitting substitution of
values generated by script evaluation.
- Explicit decimal notation: Integer values may be optionally
marked by the prefix 0d to signal without ambiguity that they
are in decimal notation.
- Underscores in numeric literals 1_000_001 uses!
- New format for binary scan (TIP 586)
- Additional New Features: Package file introspection,
finer control of oo objection definitions.
Highlights of Tk 8.7 (so far)
- System tray and system notifications access
- Extended Alpha Channel Support: Photo images now support
ability of
image get and image put to query
and manipulate the alpha channel of images that support them.
- tag delete command for ttk::treeview
- Text on progress bars: Just what it sounds like.
- Mousewheel improvements
- Additional New Features: Capture
text ranges touched
by undo and redo operations, auto-reverse spinbox limits.
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