Re: [TCLCORE] TIP 742: Add Mouse Wheel Zoom Support to Tk Console

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

Eric,

I fixed your fork by moving your work to a branch named tip_742.  I think
that is probably what you had intended to do.  Please pull and update to
that branch before continuing.

- Marc

On Sun, Dec 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM Marc Culler <cul...@gm...> wrote:

> Eric,
>
> You created a fork in the main branch when you merged the code for TIP
> #742.  Please close it.
>
> - Marc
>
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM EricT <tw...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> Harald,
>>
>> Thanks for sponsoring the TIP 742.
>>
>> I've created a local implementation branch for TIP #742 (Add Mouse Wheel
>> Zoom Support to Tk Console), but I don't have write access to push it to
>> the core repository.
>>
>> Attached is the patch file with the implementation. The changes are
>> minimal - just adding a Control+MouseWheel binding to library/console.tcl
>> that generates the existing <<Console_FontSizeIncr>> and
>> <<Console_FontSizeDecr>> virtual events.
>>
>> Could someone with write access please create the implementation branch
>> tip-742-mousewheel-zoom and apply this patch?
>>
>>
>> Regards, the console freezing. Yes, it is a definite no-no to create very
>> long lines, as for example, [string repeat  xyz 25000] will pretty much
>> kill the console. However, this is not very common for debugging output. In
>> that case, when I would output quite a bit of text, from say a trace, the
>> console killer then would be when the text widget would try to do the "see"
>> operation on each line to position to the end of the text widget.
>>
>> This I avoid by only doing a single "see" every 100 ms or so. Then in
>> that context, I have good performance. But it only addresses the one
>> problem where I'm doing thousands of relatively short lines (100 chars or
>> less per line).
>>
>> I would consider this more of a hack, not a real solution to address
>> console performance.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Eric
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM Harald Oehlmann <
>> har...@el...> wrote:
>>
>>> Eric has authored this TIP:
>>>
>>> https://core.tcl-lang.org/tips/doc/trunk/tip/742.md
>>>
>>> I think, this is a good idea.
>>> Is the unix console ready? Any action there?
>>>
>>> Eric, I sponsor your TIP.
>>> Can you make an implementation branch and a call for discussion, then
>>> vote?
>>>
>>> There was the discussion on the revised text widget on c.l.t. The
>>> console uses the text widget.
>>> You had a contribution there.
>>>
>>> What I see with the console:
>>> - lots of content with very long lines.
>>> - You resize the widget or scale the font
>>> - The widget freezes as the line break algorithm has to run. To my
>>> knowledge, this is very fast with the revised text widget.
>>>
>>> You had a proposal on c.l.t. Perhaps, this may also be added here.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Harald
>>>
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