Re: [Swarm-Support] Using Aqua tcl/tk on Mac OS X?

[Bill Northcott]

The problem is to build BLT.  I had a go with AquaTcl/Tk 8.4.1 but it was 
too hard.

Tk extensions tend to make direct calls to X11 routines.  AquaTk emulates 
many of these but not enough for BLT.
Also the BLT maintainer is less than responsive.  I sent him a set of 
patches to get BLT to build against X11 on MacOS X.  I got no 
acknowledgement and they do not seem to have been incorporated in the 
source code.

There is a new Tcl/Tk 8.4.2 version available, but although it adds quite 
a few more X11 functions, but I gather from the mail lists that they are 
stil not enough for BLT, which seems to be one of the worst Tk extensions 
for making X11 calls.

You are welcome to have a go at porting BLT and/or modifying AquaTcl/Tk. 
It would be great if it worked.

An alternative track which is being worked on is to move the whole GUI to 
GNUstep.  It is a big job would potentially make porting easier to non X11 
systems.

Finally there is not a big incentive to move away from X11 now that Apple 
have produced a proper accelerated server and made it fairly clear that it 
will be supported into the future.  It is being used by commercial 
products like Matlab.

Bill Northcott

address@hidden wrote on 09/04/2003 08:43:48 PM:

> Some time ago, I saw that there was a release of the aqua port of tcl/tk
> made available from the software download page of Apple's web site. Is 
it
> possible to use this version of tcl/tk with the OS X version of Swarm?

> Just curious.

> Jason

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