Re: [MACTCL] Compiling Tcl/Tk & event handling

[Ned D. <na...@ac...>]

In article 
<138...@we...>,
 Michiel de Hoon <mjldehoon-/E15...@pu...> 
 wrote:
> I would like to compile Tcl/Tk from source to be able to dig around in the 
> source code and see how it functions.
> Without making any changes to the source code, I noticed that when I run wish 
> on a minimal Tcl script, events are not being handled correctly; e.g. mouse 
> clicks only seem to be processed if I move the mouse out of the window. In 
> contrast, ActiveState's wish run on the same script works perfectly fine.
> This suggests that there is some problem with my build process; I used 
> "configure --enable-threads --enable-framework --enable-aqua" followed by 
> "make", "make install" from the macosx directory. Does anybody know what I 
> may be doing wrong? 

Are you running on OS X 10.9 Mavericks?  If so, you'll need to apply the 
fix for this problem which, AFAIK, is not yet in an official 8.5.x or 
8.6.x source release:

https://core.tcl.tk/tk/tktview?name=53f7a1b553
https://core.tcl.tk/tk/info/5a5abf71f9

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 na...@ac...