Re: [MACTCL] Hello... (INTRO)

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

Joaqin,

Welcome...

On Thursday, February 28, 2002, at 12:01  PM, macnerd wrote:

>
> Hi all.
>
> I am a whitebox server QA tester.  I am interested in learning 
> scripting languages to
> see how they can benefit testing.  I am now using ActivePerl on 
> Windows, and I am
> using tools to do OLE Automation with MS Outlook 2k.  I would like to 
> monitor other
> languages like tcl/tk and python as well.
>
> Personally, I own a pc-box, a G4 cube, and a g4 titanium.  I run both 
> Mac OS 9.x
> and Mac OS X. I like MacOS X because they added korean and chinese 
> support
> recently, and also because it is UNIX, and it is well ... cool.  I do 
> web-projects
> with XML and SOAP stuff at home using Linux.
>
> On the Mac OS, I would like monitor and play with some thigns:
>
>    - use AppleEvents to puppeteer applications and have better 
> integration with the MacOS

There are two extensions to use AppleEvents from Tcl, TclAppleScript, 
and TclAE.  The former compiles AppleScript code & executes it, the 
latter sends raw apple event.

>    - use Carbonized version to have pretty gem-like Aqua buttons under 
> MacOS X

Have fun!

>    - have a build system in MPW for classic builds as I get aggravated 
> with CodeWarrior
>      proj files NEVER working.  Move resources to .r's to better 
> maintainability and check-in,
>      if this is not done already.

Somebody had MPW project files a while ago.  The problem was that the 
MPW C libraries are buggy, and so some things didn't work.  The previous 
reason for using MPW was 'cause it was free.  Don't know if these are 
still around (I didn't keep them) but if you can find them you might get 
them to use the MW C libraries instead...

>
> For general technologies I am interested in the following to work with 
> Mac OS
>
>    - TclDP, Tix, and other toys common in tck/tk world

TclDP has not been maintained for a while.  I don't think it runs on 
Tcl8.3 or 8.4.  Somebody wrote a Tcl only version of some of the RPC 
stuff in TclDP.  There isn't a UDP module for Tcl right now, IIRC...  
Tix has never been ported to Classic MacOS but a MacOS X port is in the 
works.

>    - TclSOAP
>    - any and all freeware XML solutions (expat, DOM, SAX, TrAX, PDOM)
>    - CGI parsing algorithms
>    - TclODBC
>    - Combat (CORBA in Tcl)
>    - AOLServer
>    - DB server (there was one out there but it disappeared)
>

Any standard Tcl extensions (as opposed to Tk extensions) compile pretty 
straightforwardly on Mac OS X, but are much harder to get working on 9.  
Tk ones can be trickier...

Jim
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Jim Ingham                                   ji...@ap...
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