[MACTCL] Problems running wish from a shell

[Ruediger G. <rg...@r-...>]

Hello,

I recently was quiete busy with other projects, and hence didn't spend
much time with Tcl/Tk and tix.

However, in order to check my  preliminary tix-port I need run tixwish
from the Shell rather than from the finder (There is a demo script
which would make testing easy, but its written in a mixture of sh and
tixwish). Unfortunately, if I start tixwish from the shell no window
is opended, unless I cded to the path where the tixwish is located 
(or copied or linked to (sym or hard)). Even worse If I start wish
in gdb wish a window is opend either, indepent of path I am on.

Since my tixwish is only an extended wish my problem occurs in both.
And I tried to find out the difference by hacking printf's into the wish
code. Everything seem to be identical (as far as I can tell from my printfs).
The only difference is that the call of ShowWindow(GetWindowFromPort(destPort));
in line 171 of macosx/tkMacOSXSubwindows.c. 
As far as I can tell destPort and GetWindowFromPort(destPort) have reasonable values
in both cases. But since the Carbon structures WindowRef and CGrafPort
are not documented in the Developer tools documentation. I can"t figure out, whether
there is an import difference in there value.
So this would be a task for someone more experienced wth Carbon (This port
ist my first contact to the Carbon API). Anyone, Or at least any hints? 


BTW: Another quirk (of less importance) came to my mind. If I double click on a 
tcl-/tk-script, I can make wish start, but loading the script and running it.
It would be nice to have tcl/tk-scripts uasabel as normal programs, just be started
by double clicking.


BTW: I checkout the current version from CVS today. Hence the mentiond bug are not due 
to old TCl/Tk versions,

Yours

R"udiger




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