Running demos in Active Tk

[Joel Hammer]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:04:47AM +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> I always get the source and compile for both platforms. Fewer questions
> that way. And easy to do.

Unfortunately, I have absolutely no experience compiling anything for
windows.

Active State, from where I got my free versions of Tcl/Tk, sell a thing
called Komodo, which is an IDE of some sort. I am trying out the free
version now. I am hoping that there is some sort of WYSIWYG builder in
it, although I  am still on the first lesson.


Have you tried Komodo?

Thanks,

Joel

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:04:47AM +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > Just a heads up for anyone fooling with Tcl/Tk in linux.
> >
> > I downloaded the Active Tcl package for both linux and windows. This
> > really appears to be a working cross platform product.  I am getting
> > enthused. The learning curve appears to be considerable.
> >
> > There is a really nice set of demos for Tk, which were easy to display
> > in windows but which I couldn't find how to run in linux. There are
> > demos present in the linux package, but they are all subroutines. I
> > couldn't find any main program.
> >
> > So, I had to cp the widget.tcl program from the Tk demos folder on my
> > windows box (widget.tcl) into my linux demos folder, ran wish -f
> > widget.tcl, and the demos worked just fine, exactly like windows.
> >
> > I have no idea why this was necessary. I couldn't find any main program
> > for the demos in linux.
> 
> It is the same file and the same command line. I do not know about the
> ActiveState distro. I always get the source and compile for both
> platforms. Fewer questions that way. And easy to do.
> 
> Be sure to check out:	BWidgets, Blt, Img, TkTable, and tcllib.
> 
> These are the most useful (IMO) extensions when making GUIs. And they seem
> to be well supported over the years. Tix was interesting for a while, but
> BWidgets is less hassle, being a script-only extension.
> 
> There are some WYSIWYG builders, but I have had various degrees of luck
> with these.
> 
> >
> > Joel
> >