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

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

Jim, et al

At 17:27 -0800 on 6/12/01, Jim Ingham wrote:

>I know this.  But you do have to figure out how to make an acceptable MacOS
>X GUI app (acceptable to the Window Manager, that is).  I was suggesting
>this as the fastest way to figure out how to build one.  It doesn't look
>like any magic is getting done during the build phase, so it must be that
>Carbon gets info that makes it happy from the App package during
>initialization.  You will either need to bundle ruby as a .app, or figure
>out what you have to set to get Carbon happy, and add that to your require
>"tk" stage.=A0
>
>I don't know enough about this to tell you how to do this.  Your best bet i=
s
>to write Apple's Carbon developer's mailing list with this question.
>Someone there is bound to know the answer.
>

I have tried to find the minimal subset of conditions to make Carbon 
happy before and haven't found anything short of a more or less full 
app package that worked. in particular, from a single file MachO 
executable I don't seem to be able to satisfy Carbon's requirements 
to allow GUI to be brought up.

this would be very desirable e.g. in the tcl/tk space for things like 
doing [package require Tk] from tclsh to bring up GUI only when 
needed (e.g. in exceptional/rare circumstances) without having to 
load wish from the outset.

if anybody finds out if there is a programmatic way to convince 
Carbon to bring up the event loop in particular from a single file 
cli app, I'd be very interested...

Cheers,

Daniel
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