Re: [MACTCL] latest tk

[Vince D. <vi...@sa...>]

On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Philip Aker wrote:
> There's a few minor problems with the HIGgyness of those intro 
> windows but nothing serious. 

I've made quite a few cosmetic improvements to the overall interface, and
am going to upload a new version later today.  if you have anhy specific
suggestions, send 'em along...

> items. I can't select any OS X applications like to set up my 
> browser to be OmniWeb. Same kind of problem for AppleScript 
> mode->Open Dictionary. 

At least ethe first of these problems (can't select application) I
mentioned on this list a couple of days ago, but Jim Ingham doesn't know
the answer yet (and I certainly don't!).

> Popup menus in dialogs behave slightly 
> erratically--almost like the control region is displaced and 
> have to _really_ click them to get a reaction. There are 
> occasional partial frame rectangles drawn around them as well. 

I've noticed both of these problems too.  More 'aquatk' issues to
resolve...

> Dialog backgrounds are non-standard and there are mismatched 
> "Cancel" and "OK" buttons (fonts, sizes, baseline matching). 

The buttons stuff i think I've fixed now, and I believe Jim is working on
getting those aqua backgrounds...

> Tried a text editing window. The underline for the selection 
> region seems unusual. 

I should work on that....

> Buttons in the status window are too 
> large, and it seems to me, now that there are so many items in 
> the mode popup, there should be categorized sub-menus. 

It is hard to get small controls in aqua, but I agree those buttons are
too large!  Any suggestions for categorized sub-menus of modes?  Could be
a good idea.

> I also 
> tried Tk console. Big problem with 'ls'. Command doesn't exist! 
> 'pwd' is ok.

'ls' is now not a Tcl command but a unix command, but it should still be
found automatically by Tcl --- shall have to look into that.

> I quit and then immediately tried to start again just to see how 
> launch time would be without the initialization overhead. 
> However the splash screen (which is very pleasing BTW) just kept 
> on a comin'. That is, it looked like it was trying to close but 
> then would show itself again. Endless loop situation. Had to 
> force quit.

I have seen that with an older version, but not with this one -- again I
shall have to debug.  Did it work when you tried a third time?

Thanks for all the comments and suggestions.  I'm going to upload a newer
version later (also with tcl/tk compiled with optimisations on, which
seems to make a bit of a difference on my old mac).

cheers,

Vince.