Re: [MACTCL] Anybody home?

[Jim I. <ji...@ap...>]

Chris,

The responses on this list go up and down based on how busy people are.  
Usually you get a faster response, but this must be a 'triple down' 
period - for those old enough to remember biorhythms...  You should ask 
Mac specific questions here, you will usually get a faster response on 
these, but you might also want to ask generic Tcl/Tk questions on 
comp.lang.tcl.  There is a much larger audience there, and for general 
questions you will get helpful answers there from a broader range of 
folks.

Anyway, if you are developing a Tcl script the best way to run it is to 
fire up the Wish Shell application, and use the File->Source menu item, 
navigate to your script, and select it.  Wish has two windows 
originally, one is the console window, and one the Tk main (".") 
window.  You can type tcl/tk commands straight at the console as well, 
which is useful both when you are playing around and for debugging your 
scripts.

Drag & Drop of scripts can be made to work, but it is not turned on by 
default because it is not clear what should happen when a second script 
is dropped on the same running Tcl application.

On resources: there are a bunch of good books on Tcl, some of them 
discuss the Mac.  Brent Welch's book Practical Programming in Tcl/Tk is 
very good, as is the Harrison/McLennan book Effective Tcl.  There are a 
few more recent ones as well, but I haven't really looked at them.  
There is a FAQ on Mac specific Tcl stuff which should be at:

http://tcl.activestate.com:8002/software/mac/macFAQ.html

but it seems to have gotten lost in the move to ActiveState.  I 
submitted a bug to their webmaster about this.  It hasn't been worked on 
in a while, but everything there is pretty much correct.

Enjoy,

Jim


On Friday, November 9, 2001, at 06:09  AM, Chris Scott wrote:

> Anybody else on this list? I previously posted a question about running
> scripts, and where to start with tcl/tk and got not a single response. 
> If no
> one responds to posts, I'll stop posting. But can anyone recommend a 
> list
> where I can ask questions and get some help if I need it? Thanks.
>
> - Chris
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Jim Ingham                                                           
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