Re: [Plplot-devel] Prescriptions for running tkdemos.tcl under wish and tcldemos.tcl under tclsh

[Maurice L. <mj...@ga...>]

Alan W. Irwin writes:
 > I confirm those display problems on my system with the above recipe.  I
 > think the problem is that you have set up everything so that "package
 > require Plplotter" indirectly executes
 > 
 > load ./drivers/tkwind_drv.so Plplotter
 > 
 > (see pkgIndex.tcl).  That is perfect for source "runAllDemos.tcl", but that
 > is not correct for either "source tkdemos.tcl" (under wish) or "source
 > tcldemos.tcl" (under tclsh).

Hmm.. ok that makes sense, although it is a bit odd.  One of these days I'll
have to get around to merging the two forks if possible.

 > Instead, for the tkdemos.tcl case
 > "package require Pltk" should indirectly execute
 > 
 > load ./drivers/tkd_drv.so Pltk
 > 
 > (very different from the load command above).
 > 
 > Similarly, for the tcldemos.tcl case
 > "package require Pltcl" should indirectly execute
 > 
 > load ./libplplottcltkd.so.5.1.0 Pltcl
 > 
 > Maurice, can you put that required extra functionality (with generalization
 > to the installed case once the plplot/tmp case works) into pkgIndex.tcl? (I
 > tried more or less blindly following what you did for the "package require
 > Plplotter" case, but ran into errors due to my extremely limited knowledge
 > of tcl).

So much for my break from plplot until next week.. :/

I was curious & thought it'd be a quick fix so I started work on it already.
I've devised a nice way to handle everything, still in the testing phase,
a bit more work than a "quick fix" but oh well, kind of cool at least.
Should get it committed tonight.

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Maurice LeBrun    mj...@ga...
Research Organization for Information Science and Technology of Japan (RIST)