Re: [MACTCL] Re: Installing TCL/TK on MacOS X

[Daniel A. S. <st...@ic...>]

James,

On Thursday, Aug 28, 2003, at 15:58 Australia/Sydney, James Wettenhall 
wrote:

> BWidget and Tktable both worked fine in wish, but Tktable didn't
> work in R.  The error I got:
>      unknown color name "systemWindowBody"
> apparently suggests a conflict between Aqua Tcl/Tk and X11
> Tcl/Tk.  Note that Tktable has a binary shared library, whereas
> BWidget does not.  (BWidget widgets worked fine in R.)

this has come up before, you need to build TkTable yourself for tk/X11, 
you seem to have a prebuilt tkTable for TkAqua, they are not compatible.

> Another Mac administrator who tried installing R and Tcl/Tk for
> me on a different MacOS X computer installed :
> http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/tcltkaqua.html
> with the same version of R (above)
>
> and I ended up with the same error.

I don't understand that, this should be the aqua version of Tk (I 
provide Apple with the download above... same as the one at 
tkaqua.sf.net)

> Does anyone have any good tips for "hiding" Aqua Tcl/Tk
> directories from the Tcl/Tk search path if I want to just use
> X11 Tcl/Tk?

this is for tcl/tk built with fink? If they build it properly, I think 
/sw/lib should be early in the $auto_path, any extensions there will be 
found before extensions later in the auto_path such as in /Library/Tcl

can you provide us with the result of
	% puts $auto_path
for your fink version of tcl ?

Preventing extensions  that depend on TkAqua from loading in TkX11 is 
something that is on my todo list for a future BI distribution, all Tk 
extensions that depend on [tk windowingsystem] should really check for 
the value they need in their pkgIndex.tcl before loading...
but given that this is not been a problem until TkAqua and TkX11 became 
possible on the same platform, no current extensions deal with this 
issue.

> Also, does anyone have any good tips for building Tktable from
> source in MacOS X with X11?  I couldn't find much information in
> the README file in the Tktable source from:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/tktable

TkTable is a fully TEA2ified extension and thus building should be as 
easy as

	./configure --prefix=/sw \
         --with-tcl=/sw/lib \
         --with-tk=/sw/lib
	make; sudo make install

(or whatever locations are appropriate for the fink tcl/tk install, 
look for tclConfig.sh resp tkConfig.sh)

Cheers,

Daniel

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