Re: [MACTCL] Tcl Objective-C

[Jim I. <ji...@ap...>]

It would be a fair, but not prohibitive bit of work.  The trickiest  
part is probably sync'ing the Cocoa event loops with the Tcl event  
loops.  But whatever Python does would probably work for Tcl as well,  
since I would strongly bet they are both select-friendly event loops...

Note that getting a Cocoa bridge to work alongside Tk Aqua is going  
to be a LOT of work, if it is even possible.

One reason why we are less motivated to do this for Tcl is that we  
use Tk for one of the major purposes that the bridge folks use a  
Cocoa bridge - namely to build GUI's.  But access to non-GUI AppKit &  
Foundation classes would be a useful thing.  And if you were using  
classes that didn't require sync'ing with the Tcl event loop, it  
would probably not be all that hard, given the many models you have  
to copy from.

Jim


On Apr 8, 2005, at 8:31 PM, Jan de Leeuw wrote:

> Well, there now exist bridges for Perl (CamelBones), Ruby (RubyCocoa),
> AppleScript (Studio), SmallTalk (F-script), Caml (CocoaCaml),  
> Python (PyObjC), Basic,
> (CocoaBasic), Java (Apple Bridge), and even for R (RCocoa). So I am  
> not
> sure why it would be too much work to have one for Tcl, obviously the
> other bridge-people did not think it too much work.
>
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