Re: tcl/tk visual gipsy --beginner questions

From: marvin (scary_at_movie.com)
Date: 11/19/03 

Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:09:15 -0500

"marvin" <jamesmc@localnet.com> wrote in message
news:vrnj0pk778ib5@corp.supernews.com...
> hi-
>
>
>
> questions--
>
> 1) are most gui builders similar to place? pack and grid were designed to
> make it easy before the drag and drop capabilities of
>
> visual gipsy were introduced... right? is it ok to use place in visual
gipsy
> and never look back or is there a reason to learn
>
> the geometry rules behind pack and grid?
>
>
>
> 2) going through the tutorial i edited the tutorial2.tcl file. i placed a
> proc in there so i could run it in an event. i saved it under
>
> notepad and it worked. a problem i had was somehow the tcl file
compressed
> taking out lots of whitespace. it reminded me
>
> of what i recently read about in xhtml about how view source sometimes
> doesnt work because they compress it to increase
>
> performance of page rendering. of course this was undesired because now i
> cant go back in and edit the tutorial2.tcl file.
>
> anyway to get back those VERY nicely formatted code files? now i am
> beginning to think
>
> it is an editor problem because the code is compressed in notepad but not
> when i open it in word.
>
> i have not chosen
>
> an editor yet for tcl/tk.
>
>
>
> i tried opening tutorial2.tcl in wish but it cant find a package. i
think
> visual gipsy has more
>
> packages than wish uses (maybe).
>
>
>
> an observation i have is having the gui code and the procs in the same
file
> could get rather large. i know for instance in
>
> delphi the pascal code can get separated into units. i havent read
anything
> about this yet. the only thing i have read that
>
> i could use if i wanted to separate some code from the gui is code in C++
> and then create the dll and load the dll.
>
>
>
> I dont want to commit to an editor with a debugger because in another
> month i am going to
>
> buy komodo for its built in debugger and editor. this visual gipsy has
the
> potential to be really cool if i can get it to
>
> work. i dont think i'd want to work in tk without drag and drop!!
>
>
>
> please let me know about any of this.
>
> i am just learning this for entertainment right now. no reason has
> presented itself why i actually need to use this yet.
>
> the same can be said about c++, php, xhtml, and office suite stuff i have.
> someday maybe i will find a use for this stuff :-)
>
> thanks
>
> marvin
>

hi again-

i think i need to use an ifc file for handwritten code. i will experiment
with that and try to come up with an editor during my next work session.
i think i answered my own questions so you dont really need to respond
anymore.
thanks
marvin

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