Re: [TCLCORE] TIP Roundup

[Donal K. F. <don...@ma...>]

Joe English wrote:
> Donal K. Fellows wrote:
> 
>> I've got a list of all the open TIPs that can target 8.6 still here.
>> [...]
>> High Priority and demanding of real effort:
>>    TIP #180	Add a Megawidget Support Core Package
> 
> Same as before: publish this as an extension first, let it
> cook for a while as people use it, and if it ends up being
> useful *then* decide whether to integrate it into the core.

I'm talking to Damon about this out-of-band. (Timezone differences slow
communication a bit, but I think we're making good progress. There's a
fair chance that it will end up as a pure Tcl package.)

> Remember TIP#48!

And the Alamo too!

>>    TIP #197	Text Widget Persistant Cursor
> 
> I still don't understand the motivation behind this one.

On Win and OSX, the cursor doesn't show when the focus isn't in the text
widget. This is correct *most* of the time, but not always. For example,
when you're using a full text editor, it can be very useful to see where
you are working even when the focus is elsewhere. I'm not quite sure
whether there's enough control over the look of the non-focus cursor,
but that's a separate thing.

>>    TIP #210	Add 'tempname' Subcommand to 'file'
> 
> Same as before: change the order of the arguments from
> 
> 	file tempfile ?template? ?namevar?
> to
> 	file tempfile ?namevar? ?template?
> 
> and it's good to go.  As currently specified, it forces callers
> to supply a template if they want to get the filename back.
> One of the main points of the TIP is for Tcl to take care
> of all the hairy platform-specific details of where temp files
> should go; the propsed interface defeats that.

Sounds good to me.

Donal.