[MACTCL] Re: tcl_platofrm & MacOSX

[Daniel A. S. <st...@ic...>]

At 9:50 -0700 on 14/9/01, Jim Ingham wrote:

>The only problem here how to identify the presence of the MacOS 
>specific code in Tcl, like the resource manager code.  I think it 
>would also be really nice to add some interface to the 
>NSFindStuffInBundles API's, since this would be very useful to 
>reimplement the D&D Tclets stuff for MacOS X.  We can't use Darwin 
>for this, since any of this that depends on Foundation or Carbon 
>won't be present on Darwin, only on true MacOS X...

yes that's a good point. would you want put this sort of osx specific 
feature into the MacTcl package below or into a separate package 
(MacOSXTcl ?)

>I think that for the Mac code in Tcl I am going to solve this 
>differently, moving all that code (like the resource manager stuff) 
>out to a separate package.  This is because I don't want to have to 
>link the base Tcl library to Carbon.  I would be happier with doing 
>a package require for this.  So you can test for whether you have 
>these capabilities by doing:
>
>if {[catch {package require MacTcl}]} {
>...
>}
>
>or something like that.  I haven't done this yet, but it should not 
>be too hard to separate out most of this stuff.

excellent, I was very much thinking along the same lines.

I've carbonized some of the mac only commands already for AlphaX, 
notably 'beep' is in VoSe, in osxMacTcl.c

I assume the goal would be that [package require MacTcl] would 
succeed on platform==macintosh as well? (but possibly with less 
features?)

Cheers,

Daniel
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