Re: Found it once on wiki

Alexandre Ferrieux wrote:
On Dec 26, 2:53 pm, Richard Owlett <rowl...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Richard Owlett wrote:


I can't run BLT at the moment. I have reason to suspect some system wide
house keeping problems. The "package require BLT" causes an abnormal
termination.

Not my housekeeping *THIS* time.
Seems BLT 2.4 is known not to work with Tcl 8.5

Seems to work fine with Tcl 8.4


If you permit generic advice,

Generic can have broader application. It is, after all, generic ;)

People tend assume the questions I ask are always related. NOT!
I'm recently retired, so I can play with a variety of wild ideas I've had. I'd like to become competent in a couple of languages (FORTH, Tcl) that could be useful for my projects. I plan to return to school, Computer Information Systems did not exist when I was in school [how may here programmed in CUPL under CORC ;} I'm interested in signal processing, FFT papers were just being written when I was in school.

I think it is better to crystallize
one's needs re BLT and project them into the 8.5+ universe than to
stick to 8.4 forever. Doing this exercise you will learn a lot of
what's already there in the Tcl (and Tk) core.

I've not been particularly interested in BLT as the examples in BLT related pages weren't touting anything that seemed particularly useful to _*MY* PROJECTS_ . Someone pointed towards some BLT code. When I read the code, it didn't attract my interest. BUT, the person had essentially said "Try it. You'll like it." So I put in the effort to try it. When I got it to run, I saw why they thought it might be of interest.

For the rest, work is
currently being done to bring vectors and graphs aboard the Arch, and
[bgexec] is approximately emulated in 8.6. And of course any extra
need that you can make a convincing case about covering in the core,
is worth mentioning...

I think what I really need to do is understand Tcl functionality that has been available for several MAJOR revisions. For number crunching Scilab is convenient. For multi-dimensional graphics, Gnuplot much more relevant.

Tcl is after all "tool *CONTROL* language". Isn't it.



-Alex

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Relevant Pages

  • Re: BLT overhaul
    ... I assume you're using the BLT 2.4z source to start? ... We just tweak it for new tcl releases, and 8.5 doesn't look like a show-stopper for us. ... tried to get rid of BLT's copies of Tcl internals, ... leave different namespaces) and such. ...
    (comp.lang.tcl)
  • Re: Found it once on wiki
    ... Seems BLT 2.4 is known not to work with Tcl 8.5 ... I'd like to become competent in a couple of languages (FORTH, Tcl) ... Computer Information Systems did not exist when I was in school [how may ... what's already there in the Tcl core. ...
    (comp.lang.tcl)
  • Re: BLT vs Tcl/Tk 8.5.2 ?
    ... current cvs HEAD of Tcl and BLT and the above error is gone. ... I compiled on MacOS X with target X11 and without patching the BLT ... bltUnixFont.c:1298: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ... bltUnixFont.c:1837: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from ...
    (comp.lang.tcl)
  • Re: Found it once on wiki
    ... Not my housekeeping *THIS* time. ... Seems BLT 2.4 is known not to work with Tcl 8.5 ... what's already there in the Tcl core. ...
    (comp.lang.tcl)
  • Tcl core work [Was: Re: BLT ZoomStack ( and an enq. for Mr. J. Hobbs )
    ... :I could never get behind why BLT was not pulled into tcl. ... BLT is one large extension. ... you want to move into the core, and begin breaking the BLT code ... into the core, then perhaps your vision could be fulfilled. ...
    (comp.lang.tcl)