Tk, Tcl/Tk, Tkx

[Sandy]

I have been using Tk for quite some time now, however when I moved to a MAC recently, I discovered the Tk rendering leaves something to be desired.

Research pointed me to using the 'real' Tk via Tcl/Tk or Tkx.

Does anyone have any preferences between Tcl/Tk or Tkx?

After some rudimentary research last night, I was not able to determine if it is easy to create MegaWidgets in either Tcl/Tk or Tkx. I have created a number of them for myself, and wish to continue using them.

Sadly, I also discovered that Tcl/Tk does not support a Canvas->createGrid. (sad)

Any comments?

Sandy

[jellisii2]

I've successfully used Tkx in the past. That said, it was a few years ago, and I was a complete neophyte to Perl on the GUI. TKDocs was the reference I used. Some help from some of the friendly monks around here and I was able to make something that is still being used to this day, which is kinda nice.

[Anonymous Monk]

If you just want better looks, try Tcl::pTk, its like using Tk.pm

After that the only sane choice is Tcl::Tk

Tkx? Never choose it voluntarily, Tkx is the worst possible option, its practically abandonware

[Sandy]

Tcl::pTk fails all the tests It also complains that Tix is not included. Is this true (something I can ignore... ??) Am I missing something?

[~/Downloads/Tcl-pTk-0.90] make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_h
+arness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/after.t ..................... 1/8 Tcl::pTk::Error: Undefined subrout
+ine &Tcl::_current_refs_widget called at /Users/sandy/Downloads/Tcl-p
+Tk-0.90/blib/lib/Tcl/pTk/Widget.pm line 1214.

    while executing
"::perl::CODE(0x7ff211520ea8)"
    ("after" script)

 Error Started at t/after.t line 36.

 Stack Trace:
  at /Users/sandy/Downloads/Tcl-pTk-0.90/blib/lib/Tcl/pTk.pm line 891.
     eval {...} called at /Users/sandy/Downloads/Tcl-pTk-0.90/blib/lib
+/Tcl/pTk.pm line 891
     Tcl::pTk::DoOneEvent('Tcl::pTk=SCALAR(0x7ff211005e80)', 0) called
+ at /Users/sandy/Downloads/Tcl-pTk-0.90/blib/lib/Tcl/pTk.pm line 869
     Tcl::pTk::MainLoop() called at t/after.t line 36
t/after.t ..................... Failed 1/8 subtests 
t/afterDestroy.t .............. Undefined subroutine &Tcl::_current_re
+fs_widget called at /Users/sandy/Downloads/Tcl-pTk-0.90/blib/lib/Tcl/
+pTk/Widget.pm line 1308.
 at t/afterDestroy.t line 15.

[Anonymous Monk]

Tcl::pTk fails all the tests It also complains that Tix is not included. Is this true (something I can ignore... ??) Am I missing something?

Can't really ignore it, Tix plays a part in the "looks".

Should be simple to install, last time I did it with http://downloads.activestate.com/ActiveTcl/releases/

teacup update-self
teacup verify
teacup install Tix
teacup install Plotchart
teacup install ctext

[Sandy]

thank you, that is the kind of info I was looking for