Re: TkDesk-code digest, Vol 1 #13 - 1 msg

[Sean W. <yo...@et...>]

Good to know someone is still out there.

I'm thinking that just about any direction is a good one at this point.

-Sean

On Jun 30, 2005, at 11:14 PM, tkd...@li... 
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>    1. tkdesk on cygwin/X and a small patch (Doug VanLeuven)
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> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:05:22 -0700
> From: Doug VanLeuven <ro...@so...>
> To: tkd...@li...
> Subject: tkdesk on cygwin/X and a small patch
>
> Hi,
> Been a year since any posts.  Ping.
>
> My goal is to offer tkdesk for cygwin/X as a static package that 
> includes
> X based tcl/tk libs.  I've been using this on my machine for a couple 
> weeks now
> without any issues.
>
> I've got tcl/tk 8.4.11, itcl 3.3, and BLT 2.4z compiled as pure unix 
> static
> libs.  This is because no on maintains the X tcl/tk for cygwin/X 
> because of
> issues with the cygwin maintainer and his maintenence of a windows 
> tcl/tk
> for use with gdb insight.  I don't want to step into that.
>
> I'll need to re-add the static code from the older tkdesk.  I tried to 
> use
> the supplied tcl/tk, but the windows based tcl/tk implements the 
> registry
> differently and tkdesk usage of the registry for default look & feel 
> didn't
> quite work right.  For instance, setting a default scrollbar width in 
> the
> registry didn't work.  Each scollbar would need to be set using 
> "pathname
> command".  There are other complications as well.
>
> It's not on your wish list, but tkdesk really needs extended acl 
> capability to
> be useful on most modern file systems, including cygwin on ntfs.  I'll 
> be
> adding that capability for myself and would like to contribute it 
> upstream.
> My thinking now is that will be another itcl class.  Or maybe someone
> already did this?
>
> It always bothered me that the vertical scrollbars sometimes wouldn't 
> disappear
> when in dynamic scrollbar mode.  Here's a simple patch that fixes that.
>
> Regards, Doug
>
> --- dsk_Listbox.tcl.orig        2005-06-30 16:13:16.784000000 -0700
> +++ dsk_Listbox.tcl     2005-06-30 16:24:27.862125000 -0700
> @@ -724,8 +724,7 @@
>              if !$sb_packed {
>                  pack forget $frame.rframe
>                  pack $frame.sb -side left -padx $pad -fill y
> -               pack $frame.corner -in $frame.bframe -side $sbside 
> -fill y \
> -                       -before $frame.hsb
> +               pack $frame.corner -in $frame.bframe -side $sbside 
> -fill y
>                  raise $frame.corner
>                  set sb_packed 1
>              }
> @@ -737,8 +736,7 @@
>              if !$sb_packed {
>                  pack forget $frame.rframe
>                  pack $frame.sb -side left -padx $pad -fill y
> -               pack $frame.corner -in $frame.bframe -side $sbside 
> -fill y \
> -                       -before $frame.hsb
> +               pack $frame.corner -in $frame.bframe -side $sbside 
> -fill y
>                  raise $frame.corner
>                  set sb_packed 1
>              }
>
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