Re: [MACTCL] Some progress getting Tk to work with Ruby

[Tony L. <to...@me...>]

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>SUGGESTED CHANGE TO tkMacOSXInit.c:TkpInit()
>When a Ruby script that uses Tk starts up, it calls the following 
>Tcl/Tk functions to get started:
>	Tcl_FindExecutable
>	Tcl_CreateInterp
>	Tcl_Init
>	Tk_Init
>What I noticed is that there are some very important looking 
>functions that only get called from tkMacOSXAppInit.c:main() or 
>tkMacOSXAppInit.c:Tcl_AppInit(). Specifically, they are 
>tk_MacOSXSetupTkNotifier(), TkMacOSXInitAppleEvents(interp), and 
>TkMacOSXInitMenus(interp).

I just got Python/TkAqua (Tkinter) to work. What I did was to put 
those TkMacOSX* calls in the Tkinter code directly. What stumped me 
was that TkMacOSXSetupTkNotifier must be called early, which is 
clearly documented; so I made sure it happened before 
Tcl_CreateInterp. Actually, it must be called before 
Tcl_FindExecutable as well.

>SO WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE ME ?
>Well, acutally, not much better off :-( I can now guarantee that my 
>event loop is running which is a Good Thing (TM). However, I still 
>only see the window appear when I run under gdb. And when I click on 
>the window I get a new message about SetFrontProcess failing with an 
>error code of "-600".

I think this means your executable is not a .app bundle when, to be a 
gui program, it must be.

-Tony

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