eTcl 1.0 RC22

eTcl is a "batteries-included", thread-enabled Tcl/Tk runtime, available as a single standalone executable. eTcl includes several popular extensions (Sqlite, Thread, Zlib, ...), together with a Tcl wrapper for the Pixane image processing library.
Installation:
Just copy executable wherever you want on your device (memory or storage card), and launch it.
- Unobstrusive executable. No registry to set, no external dependencies.
- Standalone executable. Tcl and Tk scripts packed into executable (using VFS). Optimized startup time.
New Tcl user experience on PocketPC
- Optimized for XScale devices
- Faster Arc/Chord/Pie emulation, improved for ARM architecture without FPU
- Efficient WSAAsyncSelect() emulation. Sockets, and fileevents on sockets, should be fully functionnal (in both client and server modes)
- Support for native menu
- Improved native look and feel.
- Windows Mobile specific extension: manage SIP, change (X) button action (closing Correct handling of mouse (actually touchscreen) events
- Support for intercepting hotkeys (calendar, notes, etc...)
- New porting approach, based on very minor changes to generic Win32 port (and no changes to generic part of Tcl/Tk distrib).
- Patch to Tcl or Tk distribution is only few kilobytes large, everything else has been moved into a minimal emulation library. This should allow us to keep synced with future Tcl/Tk release.
- Easy build process. Nothing but Evc4 and a native Tcl interpreter required to build binaries for all target architectures supported by Evc (Cygwin, external libraries, etc... not required)
- Works fine into Microsoft Pocket PC 2003 Emulator. Debugging code made easier
Included native extensions:
- Pixane: script your image transformation, support for reading and writing several popular image formats (PNG, JPEG), support for TrueType fonts
- Sqlite 3: a self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL database engine
- Zlib: native deflate/inflate support
- Zipfs: easily Mount your ZIP files into Tcl Virtual Filesystem
Included Pure Tcl extensions:
- EvoTcl: A very large set of tcl utilities (OOP, Database, HTML/XML parsing, ...). See http://www.evolane.com/software/evotcl/
Enhancements:
- This release focuses on performance optimization (especially for WinCE) and code stabilization.
- It adds support for reading tclkits, together with an automatic tclkit to eTcl kit converter.
- It embeds up-to-date versions of several built-in packages, such as sqlite 3.4.1, libpng 1.2.18, and tile and tkhtml3 CVS snapshots.
- Tile has been moved into the normal version.
- The Mac OS X bundle declares associations so eTcl kits can be launched directly from the Finder.
- Binaries for linux-powerpc have been made compatible with Linux on Playstation 3.