This is version 0.2 of the Rbc library. It should be considered alpha quality software.
Rbc is an extension of the Tcl/Tk toolkit and contains refactored components from version 2.4z of the BLT library. These components were refactored so that they would function with version Tcl/Tk 8.5.
Later, it was updated by Emiliano Gavilán to work with Tcl/Tk 9.0.
This is my personal fork of Emiliano repository.
This fork has updated documentation to markdown format, additional code
in graph.tcl library. Also I am going to apply any further
improvements from Emiliano repository.
Rbc is available from: https://github.com/georgtree/rbc-tk9
More information on BLT is available from: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/blt/files
Rbc is intended to work with Tcl/Tk versions 8.7 and 9.0, although it may work with others. Rbc is a TEA compliant extension, although it is not (yet) entirely free of dependency on Tcl/Tk private structures. So, for compilation you need Tcl/Tk sources.
Rbc is a subset of BLT, contains the essential components for developing data graphing applications. Some BLT components have been superseded by advances in Tcl and Tk, and some others have been extracted into separate extensions. Rbc contains the following BLT components:
graph, barchart, stripchart
These components use an X-Y coordinate system to plot data and are meant to be used with vector data objects. The graphs will automatically be redrawn should the vector data change.
vector
This component is used to manage floating point values. They are meant to be used to handle data for the plotting components.
winop
This component provides basic window operations.
For binary installations, just unzip or untar the package into your Tcl library.
Rbc is a TEA compliant extension. You should be able to unpack the source code, and perform the usual configure/make /make install procedure. Making the test target will run the automated test suite.
Since Rbc still depends on some Tcl/Tk private data structures, you may experience some difficulty in bulding it against some Tcl distributions which do not have the complete set of public and private headers.
In order to fulfill degree requirements, the four of us undertook the refactoring of a few commonly used BLT components. The project was proposed by an alumnus of the students’ institute and was accepted by the school’s Computer Science and Software Engineering Department. The project began in the Fall of 2008 and culminated on the students’ graduation in the Spring of 2009. In addition to refactoring parts of BLT, we also began developing a graphical data analysis tool that is designed to work with Rbc (and BLT) and be easily extensible. For more information see the GDAT project available at: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gdat/
In keeping with the spirit of BLT, we have released this project to the open source community in hopes that you will continue development and add more components from the BLT library that are compatible with version 8.5 and later of Tcl/Tk.
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