Re: [TCLCORE] New TIP #725: Add command ::tk::mac:GetInfoAsJSON

[Marc C. <cul...@gm...>]

Harald,

Comments are  welcome!  That was the point of my message.

I did a little more research and I can report that there is, in fact, an
Info.plist template in the Tcl/macosx directory.  It is used when Tcl is
built as a framework.  That is because every macOS framework must include
an Info.plist file.  (Frameworks and Applications are both subclasses of
Bundles, and Bundles have Info.plist files.) It is conceivable that an
Objective C library which is within a framework could access an
infoDictionary for the framework.  I don't know if that is the case or not.

Also, there is a file tclMacOSXBundle.c which claims:
*      This file implements functions that inspect CFBundle structures on
 *      MacOS X.

That file contains a function Tcl_MacOSXOpenVersionedBundleResources.  But
the purpose of that command seems to be to find the path to the
Resources/Scripts directory for the current version of Tcl within the
bundle.  (That is the directory where packages are installed.)

However,  I still don't see any evidence that there could be an analogous
command for tclsh.  Also, I don't know of a use case for such a thing.

- Marc

On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 11:10 AM Harald Oehlmann <
har...@el...> wrote:

> Am 13.06.2025 um 18:04 schrieb Marc Culler:
> > On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM Harald Oehlmann
> > <har...@el... <mailto:har...@el...>>
> wrote:
> >
> >     - why tk::mac and not tcl::mac namespace ? As this applies probably
> to
> >     tclsh also, no?
> >
> >
> > I don't think it applies to tclsh. unless the Tk package has been
> > loaded.  There is no NSApplication created by tclsh, and hence no
> > Info.plist file and no mainBundle object available.  The NSApplication
> > object is instantiated in tkMacOSXInit.c which does not get run when
> > tclsh starts.
> >
> > - Marc
>
> Marc,
> thanks for the clarification. If you ask, you get comments, sorry for that.
> I appreciate your always brilliant initiative to make the Mac platform
> support better and that one small requests leads to action, which may
> have needed some nights of work.
>
> Cudos,
> Harald
>