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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-0417
2010-01-12 20:06:18
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Name : blt
Product : Fedora 12
Version : 2.4
Release : 32.z.fc12
URL :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/blt/
Summary : Widget extension to the Tcl/Tk scripting language
Description :
BLT is a very powerful extension to Tk. It adds plotting widgets
(graph, barchart and stripchart), hierarchy tree and table, tab
notebook, table geometry manager, vector, background program
execution, busy utility, eps canvas item, drag and drop facility,
bitmap command and miscellaneous commands.
Note: this version is stubs enabled and therefore should be compatible
with Tcl/Tk versions after and including 8.3.1.
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Update Information:
This update fixes a bug with rendering rotated text that appeared with Tk 8.5.
The documentation has been moved to a subpackage, and one missing library file
was added back.
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ChangeLog:
* Sat Jan 9 2010 Wart <wart at kobold.org> 2.4-32.z
- Fix segfault caused by use of uninitialized array
- Add upstream patch for drawing text on a bitmap (bz #486165, bz #530277,
bz #504388)
- Add ZoomStack widget (bz #503483)
- Split doc into subpackage (bz #492453)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #538629 - blt's "marker create text" shows nothing on the
screen
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538629
[ 2 ] Bug #530277 - blt demo programs crash
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530277
[ 3 ] Bug #504388 - blt tabset produces an X11 error BadMatch (invalid parameter
attributes)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504388
[ 4 ] Bug #486165 - immediate SEGV crash in BLT, including its own demos
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486165
[ 5 ] Bug #492453 - Please split documentation into blt-doc subpackage
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492453
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update blt' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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