Re: [TCLCORE] Tcl/Tk port for Maemo 5 (N900)

[Youness A. <kak...@ka...>]

Hi Alexandre,

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:19 AM, Alexandre Ferrieux <
ale...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi Youness,
>
> On 9/29/09, Youness Alaoui <kak...@ka...> wrote:
> >
> > I'm wondering if anyone would be interested in making a port of the
> latest
> > Tcl/Tk for Maemo 5, or would be ready to help me make that port. Nokia
> gives
> > extensive support for developers and you can get all the info you need
> from
> > here : http://maemo.org/development/
> > It would also be nice if the hildonized version of Tcl/Tk would get
> merged
> > upstream (with #ifdef MAEMO if necessary) so that we don't need to redo
> > everything when a new version of tc/tk is released.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> As to the hildonization of Tk, I suspect there is a parallel with the
> GUI adaptation done for Windows Mobile in eTcl (windowless window
> manager, virtual keyboard, hard buttons).
> Just wanted to make sure you knew about it ;-)
>
> -Alex
>
Thanks for the response, I know about eTcl and tried it a long time ago but
it wasn't hildonized or anything.
I also found this in the wiki : http://wiki.tcl.tk/15408 (about the first
maemo version on the Nokia 770). The last comment seems to say that eTcl is
hildonized but I just tested it and it's not actually (the hildon system
changed from Maemo 4 to Maemo 5, so maybe that's why it failed to load the
hildon library/code on Maemo 5).
Also note that Maemo is not like Windows Mobile, we're not talking about a
windowless window manager, the thing runs an X server, the window manager
does handle windows, just a bit differently (you still have a title bar, an
X button to close and you can have as many windows opened as you want). But
I do agree that the GUI adaptation done by eTcl would be a lot easier to use
in order to adapt Tcl/Tk for Maemo too, however I don't seem to be able to
find etcl's source code either and it looks like it's closed source.. so I'm
not sure how much help I might get from them.. I'll add evolane's support in
CC in case they want to join in to this discussion.
Thanks, I hope we can get this to work nicely!
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