Re: Tcl/Tk wish and Cygwin/X

[Jean-Sebastien Trottier <jst1 at email dot com>]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 11:00:13PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
[...]
> So, cygwin's tk package is MSWin, not X.
> 
> There was some talk about providing a split personality version of tk 
> (either X or MSWin, like XEmacs is) -- but that talk only got to the 
> dabbling stage.  The current maintainer of tcl/tk, cgf, is 
> understandably not enthusiastic about embarking on this effort.
[...]

BTW, I'm still very well determined to make this happen... if/when time
permits. Up to now, my time has been extremely limited.

I brought it up to the state where I had both the Win32-GDI and
X versions of Tk as separate DLLs and, when doing a "package require
Tk", the proper version would be loaded based on the DISPLAY environment
variable...

However, the Win32-GDI version would not display anything and the
X version had some minor issues which I can't recall at the moment...

My guess is, it has to do with the fact that Tcl is built "the unix way"
but the Win32-GDI Tk makes assumptions about features/quirks/behaviors
it expects from a Win32 Tcl.


IOW: Work is on the way... don't despair!


Cheers for now,
Sebastien

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