Re: [Togl-chat] Mac OS X Tk internal headers

[Greg C. <gre...@us...>]

On 8 July 2006, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> Is there any plan to remove the internal Tk headers requirement from
> the Mac OS X AGL build?  Is it possible?  Too difficult?  Since Apple
> doesn't supply internal headers in theirs in Tiger, it would be nice
> to not have to mess around with grabbing them from source, or
> installing a separate Tcl/Tk that has them.
>
> I'm not much of a programmer, but I can help test.  I can poke around
> and see if there is something that will work, if I know what to look
> for.

There are no plans to remove the internal Tk headers requirement for Mac 
OS X -- in particular because Togl needs the TkMacOSXGetDrawablePort 
function and because using the appropriate internal Tk functions makes 
maintaining Togl easier.

Normally, I'd recommend compiling the latest and greatest Tcl/Tk for Mac 
OS X because there are many important bug fixes in each minor release, but 
there is a bug (1480105) in Tcl/Tk 8.4.12 and 8.4.13 that breaks Togl on 
Mac OS X, so use 8.4.11 or patch the Tk source :-(.

This won't help you now, but when the 2.0 version of Togl comes out, I 
plan to put binary distributions on sourceforge for Mac OS X, Linux and 
Windows.  That is reasonable for 2.0 because all of the Togl entry points 
are available through a stubs interface.  The 2.0 pre-alpha CVS version 
works on Mac OS X.

 	Greg Couch
 	a Togl maintainer