Running demos in Active Tk

[Roger Oberholtzer]

The windows installable is OK. However, we maintain a nice one with a
friendly install/uninstall. You are welcome to check it out.


> 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
>> >
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