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Re: ATTENTION: Tcl/Tk transition


On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 06:31:59PM -0500, Reini Urban wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> Here are some of the previous discussions:
>>
>> Interest in "native" Tcl/Tk/Expect/Itcl/... packages?
>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-10/msg00316.html
>>
>> Does anyone use insight on cygwin?
>> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-08/msg00089.html
>>
>> tcl/tk/expect/dejagnu/gdb/insight
>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-09/msg00311.html
>>
>> gitk unusable in cygwin-1.7.6-1 because tcltk-20080420-1 is native win32
>> app.
>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-08/msg00913.html
>>
>> ====NOTE====
>> in the gitk thread above, Reini Urban, the cygwin perl and parrot
>> maintainer, was vehemently against switching tcltk from GDI to X11. ?I
>> wonder if his opinion has changed in the past year...
>
>No, I'm still against it, but in minority.
>I tried to fix it, but ran out of time.
>
>Maybe later I can come up with a tk/tcl-native.

I don't see why you need a tcl-native but it should be possible to use
the Windows version of tk to do Windows-native GUI stuff without relying
on X11.  The trick is getting that + Cygwin paths, signals, etc.  to
play together.

cgf


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