./x11/tk, Graphical toolkit for TCL (8.6 branch)

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 8.6.18, Package name: tk-8.6.18, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

This package contains the binary release of Tk, a GUI toolkit for Tcl.

The best way to get started with Tcl is to read ``Practical Programming in
TCL and Tk, 4th Edition'' by Brent Welch and Ken Jones, Prentice Hall PTR,
ISBN 0-13-038560-3. There's also the collectible ``Tcl and the Tk
Toolkit'' by John K. Ousterhout, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-20-163337-X.

This package contains the 8.6 branch.


Required to run:
[fonts/Xft2] [lang/tcl] [x11/libXScrnSaver]

Required to build:
[pkgtools/x11-links] [pkgtools/cwrappers] [x11/xorgproto]

Package options: threads, xft2

Master sites:

Filesize: 4492.469 KB

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   2026-06-04 11:54:32 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (2) | Package updated
Log message:
tk: updated to 8.6.18

8.6.18

Aqua: Non-menubar menu invisible if toplevel is on another display (chavez).

(bug) [a91b24] Correct macOSVersion on future macOS for older SDK builds (chavez)

(bug) [d93d96] Pointer arithmetic with NULL in ImgGetPhoto() (chavez)

(bug) [6c4795] leak in XCreateBitmapFromData() in ImgGetPhoto() (chavez)

(new) [04e173] Add support for Copy/Cut/Paste keys in X11 (nijtmans)

(bug) [95da0f] tkpWinRopModes[GXnoop] is R2_NOT, should be R2_NOP (chavez)

(bug) [2c240b] Install pkg-config file (oscarfv)

(bug) [816739] Install man pages (oscarfv)

(bug) [8b725d] Missing border pixels in alt theme on Windows (nemethi)

(bug) [265ff2] Artifacts in a few themed widgets on x11 and aqua (nemethi)

(bug) [a80e5f] Core dump Tk_GetFontFromObj (werner)

(bug) [6051a9] MS-Win canvas arcs with to small extend are drawn as 360 degrees \ 
(chavez,vogel)

(bug) [c23f79] Xft text is unusable for 32-bit visual when default visual is \ 
24-bit (werner)

(bug) [6da885] Aqua: avoid use-after-free during RefocusGrabWindow() (chavez)

(bug) [44b34c] Fix crash on exit due to faulty asm code in DllMain (fuentes)

(patch) [4d2baa] Improve the look of the ttk::spinbox widgets in the built-in \ 
themes (nemethi)

(bug) [edd1a6] Lack of bounds checking in argument parsing for some widgets

(bug) [fe5549] Error in ::tk::spinbox::ButtonUp on MacOS (SVIDevelopment)

(bug) [8e4fb0] crash in text sync subcommand (emiliano)

(bug) [c77b42] X11: crash by wm forget on menu (emiliano)

(bug) [5d2061] fails to build with glibc 2.43 (emiliano)

(bug) [e2418c] Pointer warp relative to the screen's root window fails if the Tk \ 
root window
	is withdrawn (leunissen)

(bug) [d8f964] Segfault under Windows when executing test file menu.test with
	"-singleproc 0" (nadkarni)

(bug) [7f67bb] Check recursive menu usage to avoid crash (werner, emiliano)

(patch) [aca995] Get rid of the ugly Motif-style cascade arrows on X11 (nemethi)

(bug) [556606] Block cursor in text widget may hide the character underneath (werner)

(bug) [011533] Flip ttk::notebook tab states "first" and \ 
"last" for "-tabplacement e*|s*" (werner)
   2026-01-12 23:25:04 by Roland Illig | Files touched by this commit (1)
Log message:
x11/tk: remove unknown configure option
   2025-08-27 17:08:22 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (25) | Package updated
Log message:
tcl tk: updated to 8.6.17

8.6.17
Bug fixes
   2025-07-27 11:25:55 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2) | Package updated
Log message:
tk: update DESCR and COMMENT
   2025-03-30 23:10:49 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (100)
Log message:
*: remove MirBSD support
   2025-01-25 22:32:12 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (4) | Package updated
Log message:
tk: updated to 8.6.16

8.6.16

* Assignment of invalid symbolic constant
	 NotifyNormal (vogel)
* Segmentation fault with bogus resource value
	(X11) (emiliano)
* Improved the appearance of the Treeitem.indicator element
* macOS Sequoia: warning: 'setShowsResizeIndicator:'
	is deprecated (vogel)
* with half-dead argument can cause
	hangup or even crash (vogel)
* SIGABRT from Tk_DeleteErrorHandler() (vogel)
* Workaround for X11 build with
	XQuartz: crash in XLoadQueryFont (vogel)
* Tk intialization overwrites thread specific data

8.6.15

* Invoke binding scripts for events with detail field
	NotifyInferior (leunissen, vogel)
	*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
* with xvfb (vogel)
* clearingdata
* Fix appearence of arrows in ttk widgets
* Add keycodes ISO_Group_Shift and dead_hamza (nijtmans)
* Improve look of the classic theme (gavilan)
* Improved focus ring for ttk (nemethi)
* now point aware (vogel)
* Fix default font detection for high DPI (vogel,nemethi)
* covering down arrow (vogel,gavilan)
* Fix performance of image copy (vogel)
* Fix image read with -from option for gif/png
* Throw error message on corrupt gif file
* fix segfault on menubutton destroy (MS-Win only)
* Improve focus ring for ttk widgets
* painting/clipping/scrolling of last
	item (bron,nemethi,werner)
   2024-04-06 07:37:48 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (26) | Package updated
Log message:
tcl, tk: updated to 8.6.14

Summary of Changes since Tcl/Tk 8.6.13:
--------------------------------------

This is a patch release, so it primarily includes bug fixes and corrections
to erratic behavior.  Highlighted changes are noted below.  The changes file
at the root of the source tree contains a more complete list.  The Timelines
of all changes are online.

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               http://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/timeline

   * [TIP 402] revise path normalization for x-platform UNC path support
        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

   * Harmonize Tk's parse of numbers (screen distance, etc) with Tcl
        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

   * Iconlist ignores options db for fg text color; affects dialogs
        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

   * Aqua: XPutImage() swaps red and blue channels
        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

   * [encoding convertfrom] handling of incomplete code sequences
        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

   * Harmonize handling of ~ in paths across platforms.
        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

   * Fix menu clone binding misbehavior, menu-20.1[2-6].
        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

   * Improved performance of [exec] and [open |$cmd] on unix-lke
     systems, especially with large memory footprints.

   * Improve performance of large treeview destruction.

   * Improve performance of large image insertions into text.

   * Improve widget creation performance due to poor font caching.

   * Fix notebook tab appearances when placed on edge other than top.

   * Enable treeview display of partial final line.

   * Win: restore [exec %var%] that was dropped in 8.6.13.

   * Allow [chan create {} $cmd].  Enables simulation of server channels.

   * Allow return from [tk scaling] in safe interps.

   * Prevent navigation by word exposing clues to masked entry contents.

   * Fix crashes or hangs in...
      - [chan pop] with pending input
      - thread finalization of reflected channels
      - [label .l -bitmap floppy]
      - [set tcl_precision 15; expr 6.4623485355705287e-27]
      - [tk busy forget] and [tk busy hold]
      - channel read into "string" Tcl_Obj can BO, and perform poorly
      - KVO crash after destroying Aqua's first root toplevel
      - Test treeview-6ee162c3f9
      - Test tailcall-bug-784befb0ba
      - Tests menu-40.[12]

   * Repair memory leaks and errors
      - Eliminate undefined realloc() calls
      - Silence many warnings from -fsanitize=function
      - Flawed interfacing with XIM
      - Tcl_UtfToExternal writing to one-byte buffer
      - Tcl_UtfToUniChar() handling of 0xC1.
      - Tk_ConfigureValue could call wrong free() routine.
      - tests getuncichar-1.* in utf.test
      - ...and many more

   * No more support for 32-bit Cygwin

   * ::tcl_platform(osVersion) updated to report Windows 11

   * Accommodate macOS deprecation of sprintf()

   * Silence macOS 14 warnings about secure restorable state.

   * Code changes to support ASan use-after-return detection

   * Revise Tcl_MakeFileChannel() to better partner with pledge()

   * Prevent false [clock format] error reports on FreeBSD

   * Region clip & copy make better use of OS facilities.

   * Update handling of Apple FourCC creator codes.

   * Text selection omits first character, text-38.1

   * Windows: improved support of non-BMP pathnames

   * Fixed some Y2038 limitations

   * Fix photo color drawing on X11 32-bit visuals.

   * Fix <<MenuSelect>> regression on menus with -tearoff

   * Correct rounding of [nsFont pointSize].

   * zlib comment/filename error handling (zlib-8.19, zlib-8.2[012])

   * Prevent theme change attempts after Tk finalize.

   * Make dialogs robust against parent destruction.

   * Make [tk_chooseColor] robust against failed grab.

   * Fix menu parsing of @x,y indices.  menu-22.[6-9]

   * Fix inconsistent results from [font measure].

   * Fixed [clock scan|add] handling of abbreviated options

   * Avoid endless loops replacing [unknown] or [history].

   * Fix polluted error messages from [send -option].

   * PNG photo image decoder missed a 0xFF entry.

   * Fix failing winTime-2.1 on Windows

   * test string-2.20.1 failed on big endian platforms

   * Updated bundled packages, libraries, standards, data
      - Itcl 4.2.4
      - sqlite3 3.44.2
      - Thread 2.8.9
      - TDBC* 1.1.7
      - tcltest 2.5.7
      - libtommath 1.2.1
      - zlib 1.3.1
      - Unicode 15.1
      - tzdata 2024a
   2023-11-12 14:24:43 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2569)
Log message:
*: revebump for new brotli option for freetype2

Addresses PR 57693