Re: [MACTCL] Problems with TclTkAquaBI-8.4.2.0.dmg

[Daniel A. S. <st...@ma...>]

Stefan,

On Tuesday, Mar 11, 2003, at 10:01 Australia/Sydney, Stefan Kuhr wrote:

> I just recognized that the new package TclTkAquaBI-8.4.2.0.dmg refers 
> to Mac OS X 10.1 inside the readmes whereas the inside the tcl-mac 
> mailing list it's mentioned that this package only supports Jaguar.

thanks, I'll fix that for the release

> After installing this package on Mac OS X 10.2.4 I discovered the 
> following problem after starting tclsh from Terminal:
>
> % package require Tk
> can't find package Tk
> %

this is by design (i.e. it's a known deficiency in tclsh...)

at the moment, tclsh doesn't support loading AquaTk dynamically, you 
have to use wish to get AquaTk (statically). However you can load 
tk/x11 dynamically if you build and install that.

making this work is on the todo list, but not all that high up. If you 
want to have a look at it, the problems are with wish startup not being 
factored properly into tk startup (c.f. tkMacOSXAppInit.c). Also you'll 
have issues as long as tclsh is not a bundled application, see the list 
archives for more about that.

> And some other little version problems
>
> grep -r "Tk 8.0" *
> iwidgets/iwidgets.tcl:package require Tk 8.0
> iwidgets4.0.2/iwidgets.tcl:package require Tk 8.0
> tklib0.1/cursor/cursor.tcl:package require Tk 8.0
> tklib0.1/datefield/datefield.tcl:package require Tk 8.0

not sure I understand what you mean, these should load fine from wish, 
no?

> grep -r "Tcl 8.0" *
> iwidgets/iwidgets.tcl:package require Tcl 8.0
> iwidgets4.0.2/iwidgets.tcl:package require Tcl 8.0
> Tclxml2.6/sgml-8.0.tcl:package require -exact Tcl 8.0
> Tclxml2.6/tclparser-8.0.tcl:package require -exact Tcl 8.0
> Tclxml2.6/xml-8.0.tcl:package require -exact Tcl 8.0
> tcllib1.3/math/combinatorics.tcl:package require Tcl 8.0

I think these are fine also, don't these packages load for you?

> And also  I am missing some documentations like the one from [incr 
> Tcl].

all extensions install their manpages into /usr/local/share/man etc
the Tcl & Tk docs are in html format inside Tcl.framework.

HTH

Cheers,

Daniel

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