Tcl/Tk wish and Cygwin/X
Jean-Sebastien Trottier
jst1@email.com
Fri Feb 25 06:50:00 GMT 2005
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 11:00:13PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
[...]
> So, cygwin's tk package is MSWin, not X.
>
> There was some talk about providing a split personality version of tk
> (either X or MSWin, like XEmacs is) -- but that talk only got to the
> dabbling stage. The current maintainer of tcl/tk, cgf, is
> understandably not enthusiastic about embarking on this effort.
[...]
BTW, I'm still very well determined to make this happen... if/when time
permits. Up to now, my time has been extremely limited.
I brought it up to the state where I had both the Win32-GDI and
X versions of Tk as separate DLLs and, when doing a "package require
Tk", the proper version would be loaded based on the DISPLAY environment
variable...
However, the Win32-GDI version would not display anything and the
X version had some minor issues which I can't recall at the moment...
My guess is, it has to do with the fact that Tcl is built "the unix way"
but the Win32-GDI Tk makes assumptions about features/quirks/behaviors
it expects from a Win32 Tcl.
IOW: Work is on the way... don't despair!
Cheers for now,
Sebastien
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