Re: New Swarm user wannabe

[glen e. p. ropella]

Hal L. DeVore writes:
 > I have come to the conclusion that my problems are due to having Tcl/Tk 
 > 7.6/4.2 rather than 7.5/4.1 or even 7.4/4.0.  I was misled into believing 
 > that Swarm would work with 7.6/4.2 by a post I found in the mail archives.

Hmmm.  Swarm does work with Tcl/Tk 7.6/4.2.  But, one must apply
a change to BLT 2.1 in order for it to work.

 > Some things sort of work but with continuous spewing of errors, Heat Bugs, 
 > for example, appears to work but spews Tcl errors continuously.  The very 
 > simplest tutorial, OTOH, fails to run at all.

What kind of errors?

 > At any rate I'm digging around trying to decide if I want to make an 
 > attempt to make Swarm work with Tcl/Tk 7.6/4.2 or just go dig up a copy of 
 > 7.5/4.1

Definitely continue with 7.6/4.2.  It's a simple fix to BLT and
unless there's some other problem, it is far easier than having
two tcl/tk's on your system.

glen