Tk/JComboBox version 1.13
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CHANGES OVERVIEW: (details below)
Maintenance release to correct memory leak, and minor documentation
problems.
OVERVIEW:
JComboBox is a Combo Box implementation that combines several features of the various Combo Box implementations available for Perl/Tk and attempts to provide a solution that should cover the majority of your Combo Box needs. The implementation tends to skew somewhat towards the Java and Win32 implementation of a Combo Box more than the Motif one.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed suggestions, code, and any other feedback. I'm not always able to incorporate that feedback, but I've always found it to be helpful. I hope this widget continues to be useful.
CHANGES for 1.13 RELEASE: (Full Change history in Changes file)
1.13 Maintenance/Bug Fixes:
There are no new features in this release. It contains some
minor changes to documentation, and test code. In addition it
contains one a fix for memory leaks due to the 8.4 version of
Listbox.
- Issue: JComboBox has exhibted memory leaks due to its use
of Tk::Listbox since the 804 (Tk8.4) release.
-- Any megawidget or application that uses Listbox
potentially has this issue, unless a workaround is
used. The workaround regards the new -listvariable
option and is less than intuitive, since as the docs
for Listbox state, -listvariable is not completely
implemented. Suffice to say, there are gotchas. The
real solution is to patch the C code so that it no
longer leaks. The fix I have in place will do for now.
Thanks to Zentara for his posts on c.l.p.tk and
Perlmonks that got me headed in the right direction.
- Issue: The new test for Pod has a minor typo, that will
result in a test failure instead of a skipped tests for
those system that do not have Test::Pod installed. This
problem was reported by bdz on c.l.p.tk. 5 Oct 06.
-- Resolution: Fixed typo.
- Issue: JComboBox docs need updating for binding/event
handling. Also pointed out by bdz on c.l.p.tk.
-- Resolution: Revised docs and example.
- Misc: Removed a few tabs from code, along with Line feeds,
that have found their way in again.
INSTALLATION
To install this module type the following:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
DEPENDENCIES
This module requires these other modules and libraries:
Tk
Tie::Array
Tie::Watch
Optional dependencies (for testing):
Test::Pod
COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
Copyright (C) 2001-2006 Rob Seegel (RobSeegel[at]comcast.net)
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.
