Swarm 1.0.5 / Swarmdocs-1.0.5 / Swarmapps-1.0.2 (repost)

[Marcus G. Daniels]

To the collectively evolving,

Here's another stabilization release:  a few bug fixes and some
interface simplifications...


   http://www.santafe.edu/projects/swarm/release.html


                Release Notes for Swarm Version 1.0.5

 1. Variant method names for passthru to setWindowGeometryRecordName have been
    eliminated.  In these cases, the resulting key is computed from the
    components involved.  Thanks to Ken Cline for the idea.  For these
    `GUIComposite' objects, the macro SET_COMPONENT_WINDOW_GEOMETRY_RECORD_NAME
    is used for naming the subcomponents; it uses the subcomponent widget
    instance variable argument as the name.

 2. The macro SET_WINDOW_GEOMETRY_RECORD_NAME provides a convenience
    interface to setWindowGeometryRecordName:.  This macro takes a widget
    instance variable as an argument and derives the archiving key from that.

 3. The methods create[Complete]ProbeDisplayFor:setWindowGeometryRecordName:
    have been removed in favor of the macros CREATE_ARCHIVED_PROBE_DISPLAY 
    and CREATE_ARCHIVED_COMPLETE_PROBE_DISPLAY.  These macros derive the
    archiving key from the argument variable.
 
 4. Save and Quit no longer result in a timestep.  Thanks to Rick Riolo
    for reporting this.

 5. Using the method enableDestroyNotification: notificationMethod:
    with a target object (e.g. the parent) and handler method, it is possible
    for your application to disable top level user interface features after
    user kills from the window manager.  See heatbugs for an example of this.

 6. ProbeDisplays were not equipped with #5, so kills from the window
    manager could result Tk becoming confused (a fairly common operation 
    with popular window managers like fvwm95).  Thanks to Pietro Terna
    for his assistance in debugging this.
 
 7. Histo and Canvas are now subclassed from ArchivedGeometryWidget; their
    geometry can now be saved.

 8. Active graph items in a BLTGraph were not being properly hilighted
    with BLT 2.3.  Thanks to Pietro Terna for reporting this.

 9. Fixed problem with ClassDisplayWidget misdirecting armSuperButton.

10. The path for BLT support files is checked before Swarm is started.



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