Re: [MACTCL] Tablelist irritations...

[Williams T. <pha...@gm...>]

Jerry,

I'm not familiar with the Bwidget combobox as I personally use the Bryan
Oakley combobox.  Do you call the

tablelist::addBWidgetComboBox ?name?

command prior to creating the tablelist?  That would be important to do
if you currently do not.

As for using #!/usr/bin/wish, I also cannot start the script from the
command-line; however, if I do a 'which wish', I get a different wish --
/opt/local/bin/wish.  If I specify #!/opt/local/bin/wish at the top of
the file, I can launch directly from the command-line.  If you are
trying to make the script cross-platform compatible, you may want to
avoid this line altogether and create proper shell script to handle the
initial start-up -- just a thought.

I haven't run across the scrollbar problem before.  Do you have some
example code that I can view/play around with?

Thanks,
Trevor Williams



Jerry LeVan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My first Tablelist application ofxConvert.tcl is finally ( basically ) functional.
> 
> It will parse OFX data from my bank and credit card into a Tablelist where I can
> 'clean up' the data and save the result in a CSV format that I can import into
> my postgresql home db.
> 
> One of the columns in the table is critical in that the content is used as a foreign
> key in the data base and consequently no 'spelling' errors can be permitted.
> 
> I decided to use the BWidget Combo box as the editable field for this column.
> 
> Regrettably with apples Tcl/Tk the results are ugly and not very user friendly, on
> my Fedora systems the Combo box works a treat :).
> 
> On the mac side when the cell is selected for editing the 'disclosure' item
> appears in the field and clicking on it brings up the combo box list.
> 
> Unfortunately the combo box (frame ) does not receive focus ie the scroll bar
> is grayed out, the window (of the combo box) does not allow resizing and the dots
> in the frame are gray...
> 
> Fortunately the *interior* of the combo box can be scrolled with the mouse and clicked on
> to select an item.
> 
> In order to dismiss the combo box I have to click in the cell being edited and do
> a control-return to end the editing.
> 
> Does anyone know of a fix? Is this an apple tcl problem or is it something a bit
> deeper? ( ie does this problem go away with with active states tcl?)
> 
> I have attached a scrollbar to the table and a couple of times the down
> arrow of the scrollbar has appeared to get stuck in the 'on' state and
> cause the app to eventually crash.
> 
> I (re)found out that a Tk script cannot be executed directly if the initial
> line is #!/usr/bin/wish.
> 
> I can start a Tk program if I use #!/usr/bin/tclsh and do a package require Tk.
> Unfortunately scripts started this way appear to be rather unstable.
> 
> Does anyone know why? ( I don't have any of the above problems if I run
> the script on a Fedora 14 system.)
> 
> Frustrated...
> 
> Jerry
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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