Re: [MACTCL] HINTS PLS -- tcl on MacOX X

[Franc B. <br...@cb...>]

Many thanks Jim,

I may also give Tk build a try as per your suggestion and will let you know ...

My experience is not at the level of "resource" commands but I may pitch-in
to test something if I can follow the instructions ...


Thanks again ... Franc


At 9:18 AM -0800 09/11/2001, Jim Ingham wrote:
>Franc,
>
>First off, if you have plain Tcl scripts that will run in Tcl 8.3, then
>the simplest route is to just use the installed Tcl.  The standard user
>install of MacOS X has a version of the Unix Tcl, and pretty much
>everything that will work on any other Tcl will work here.  Just fire up
>Terminal.app, run tclsh, and you are all set...
>
>If you want to run Tk scripts, or need Tcl 8.4, then probably the
>simplest thing to do is get the MacOSX Tk binaries that I put up on the
>tcl.sourceforge.net site.  If you cd to your home directory and untar
>the gzipped tar file there, you will get the Tcl & Tk libraries in
>~/Library/Frameworks, and the Wish Shell.app in ~/Applications.
>Double-click on Wish Shell.app, and you will get a console window just
>like on Classic MacTk, and you can type commands at that, or use the
>Source menu item to source them in.
>
>The other option is to get XFree86, and XDarwin, and then either get or
>build the X11 version of Tcl/Tk.  This is a lot more work, and unless
>you have some other need for X11 stuff, or if you need the "send"
>command, probably not worth the effort.  Also, I would rather people
>whack on the native port, since in the long run this is a better way to
>run Tcl/Tk apps on X, and I would appreciate some help finding bugs,
>performance issues, etc of the native version.
>
>If you need the "resource" commands, or any of the other Mac specific
>Tcl/Tk commands, then you might consider pitching in.  I haven't gotten
>these ported to X yet, but there is a macosx folder in the tcl directory
>on sourceforge, and anyone who wants to help getting missing stuff moved
>from MacTcl to MacOSX Tcl will earn my gratitude.  Daniel & I talked
>about taking some of the very Mac specific stuff and putting it in a
>library that gets loaded into Tcl by default, rather than built straight
>in.  But this is a later concern.
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Jim
>
>On Friday, November 9, 2001, at 06:07  AM, Franc Brglez wrote:
>
>> I'll be installing MacOX X on my Titanium Powerbook this weekend and
>> would
>> like to give at  least my own tcl scripts a dry run ...
>>
>> Any hints and suggestions on "installing tcl (which one)" if not entire
>> tcl
>> tcltk under MacOX X will be most timely and appreciated.
>>
>> Many thansk ... Franc Brglez
>>
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