Re: [MACTCL] Loading Tk into Panther tclsh

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

John,

On Tuesday, Jan 27, 2004, at 11:49 Australia/Sydney, John Seal wrote:

> When running X11 and tclsh8.4, how can I load Tk?  [package require 
> Tk] doesn't do it, and neither does [load {} Tk].  I've tried 
> massaging the tcl_ and tk_ library and libPaths in various ways with 
> no success.

the TclTkAquaBI doesn't come with TkX11 installed, except in the form 
of tclkit, which I would suggest you look into using. Inside tclkit, 
you can [package require Tk] fine. tclkit is at /Library/Tcl/bin/tclkit

for the 8.4.5 BI I'm getting ready at the moment, I also make available 
binaries of Tcl/Tk X11, built in the standard unix manner:
	http://tcltkaqua.sourceforge.net/8.4.5b1/tar/Tcl_X11-8.4.5.tar.gz
	http://tcltkaqua.sourceforge.net/8.4.5b1/tar/Tk_X11-8.4.5.tar.gz

however, these won't be part of the standard installer

> I'm developing an app that has to run either with or without a GUI, so 
> we can't assume a valid DISPLAY when we start up.

this again suggest tclkit as a good option

> This is on Panther 10.3.2 with TclTkAquaBI8.4.4 installed, although 
> I'm not certain that's what I'm getting when I invoke tclsh. "which 
> tclsh" says /usr/bin/tclsh, which points to /usr/bin/tclsh8.4.

the 8.4.4 BI overwrites /usr/bin/tclsh8.4 that comes with Panther with 
it's own copy, unfortunately, the 8.4.5 BI will fix that.

Cheers,

Daniel

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