Re: [MACTCL] Mac OS X: help with C app which uses Tk?

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

On 1/9/02 9:07 AM, "Ashley Ward" <ash...@nt...> wrote:

>> on 3/1/02 12:32 AM, Jim Ingham at ji...@ap... wrote:
>>> On 1/2/02 12:35 PM, "Ashley Ward" <as...@dc...> wrote:
>>>> on 31/12/01 8:14 PM, Jim Ingham at ji...@ap... wrote:
>>>>> At 7:24 PM +0000 12/21/01, Ashley Ward wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>> started it from.  When I click in the app's window to bring it to the
>>>>> front
>>>>> in an attempt to use it, I get this message from tkMacOSXMouseEvent.c:241
>>>>> (the function TkMacOSXProcessMouseEvent) on stderr:
>>>>> 
>>>>> SetFrontProcess failed,-600
>>>>> [...]
>>>>> Any ideas why SetFrontProcess would fail in this way?
>>>>> 
>>>> I need to chase down the SetFrontProcess thing.  This call usually
>>>> succeeds,
>>>> but there is some glitch that causes it to occasionally fail.  It doesn't
>>>> seem to be harmful, however, so I haven't looked into it further.
>>> 
>>> It always fails with my app.  And as it fails, I can't give the app focus
>>> and so I can't interact with it.  A fairly major problem :(
>> 
>> I will see if I can think of some good diagnostics for you to insert...
> 
> I've now managed to compile the Tcl and Tk libraries -- thanks for the
> explanations about the move of MacOSXOpenBundleResources, Jim -- and I'm
> linking my application with them.  (By the way: can anyone tell me the
> equivalent of 'ldd' on Mac OS X so I can check this?).
> 

otool -L

Is what you want, I think.

> I still get the SetFrontProcess error, every time I try to give my app
> focus.

Are you building your app as an app package (I may have asked this before, I
forget).  There are problems with getting the WindowServer to recognize you
if you are not wrapped in a proper App package.  It is easy to get PB to do
this for you.  You don't even need to use PB to build your App.  If you are
already using a Makefile, then make one target that is a "Legacy Makefile
Target" that builds your App, and an App target that builds the App package,
and copies the binary into the correct place in the package.

Jim

> 
> Ash.
> 
> PS I haven't updated my Tcl/Tk from CVS for a few days -- would that help?

No, I haven't done anything since before Christmas.

Jim
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