Re: [MACTCL] Anybody home?

[Chris S. <ka...@ma...>]

Thanks Jim and everybody else that reassured there are in fact other people
out there working on this stuff:) I appreciate the help!

- Chris

on 11/9/01 12:33 PM, Jim Ingham at ji...@ap... wrote:

> 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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