Re: [MACTCL] Development with TCL advice

[Virden, L. W. <lv...@ca...>]

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From:  Jason T. Slack



 >  1. Can the GUI be created in TCL?=20
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Tcl is a small interpreter originally intended to be "plugged into"
applications to give them a common internal language. It has, over the
years, become more popular to write code in Tcl, and add on special code
(commonly referred to as packages or extensions) to the Tcl interpreter,
even though this is, in a sense, the "reverse" idea.
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One of the most popular packages for Tcl is Tk, which provides the
ability to quickly create GUI applications.
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 >  2. Can you mix a TCL and C++/Objective-C? =20
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Tcl's extension capability is pretty flexible. I've seen efforts like
http://www.swig.org/ , which is a project to create "bindings" between
existing libraries to Tcl . I know that people in the community have
mixed Tcl and C++, and I recall hearing of people who had done this with
Objective-C.
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 >  3. Qt has an architecture where I can create plugins and load them
at app startup to determine what functionality is available for the
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 Tcl has the package capability which permits one to dynamically load
new binary packages at any point in the runtime (assuming the platform
permits dynamic loading of code).

 >  4. I would be interested in creating a GUI Toolkit based upon TCL
perhaps, thoughts?
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There are a variety of GUI toolkits available, but it is common for
people with special needs to create their own sets of additional widgets
or megawidgets.
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 >  Can i get honest opinions on where I might head given the
information that I have provided?
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I've been as honest as I know how... Take a look over at
http://wiki.tcl.tk/ for more information.=20
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