Re: [MACTCL] tcl tk problems after upgrade to mavericks

[Ned D. <na...@ac...>]

In article <31B...@gm...>,
 ph....@pu... wrote:
> I use a small program called "Ding: Dictionary lookup"
> It makes use of tcl/tk. It was joyful to use until I upgraded to Mavericks.
> Any keys I type into its search bar simply NOT show up,
> only after moving the window or hitting return.

There is a known refresh problem with Cocoa Tk on OS X 10.9 (Mavericks).  It 
has been fixed in the Tk trunk with a patch.  The Tk issue is here:

https://core.tcl.tk/tk/tktview?name=53f7a1b553

You can read an earlier thread about it here:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.tcl.mac/7194

There is a source patch for Tk 8.5 (and should work for Tk 8.6) that can be 
extracted from here:

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/8609f6df9974#l2.5

You should open an issue on the MacPorts bug tracker against the Tk port 
asking for the patch to be applied.

https://trac.macports.org/newticket

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 na...@ac...