On 02.09.2020 22:46, Fergus Daly via Cygwin wrote:
Can't entirely recall* when wish8.4 was versioned up to the current wish8.6 in Cygwin, or whether there was an intermediate wish8.5 - I think it must be nearly a decade ago, or possibly longer - but I do remember that 1. wish8.4 "worked" in bash and rxvt terminals (I think all this preceded mintty) AND also in xterm 2. wish8.[56] "fails" in bash and mintty terminals and insists on DISPLAY being set, i.e. requires XWin (by which I mean wish was the driver for Tcl/Tk menus, windows, other displays). Actually I hung on to the components that comprise wish8.4 and toggle between them at will and can confirm the truth of (1) and (2) above. Generally though, I guess users have upgraded to wish8.6 long since and if they use it to provide Tcl/Tk menus (?) or sidebar Help Tcl/Tk windows (?) are used to requiring e.g. xterm in XWin in order to do so.
can you please provide a test case ? If I remember right the graphic was moved long time ago from GDI to X11 due to the burden to do maintain the GDI fork.
ALL THIS in Cygwin-32. Recent unconnected threads in this list have persuaded me to trial Cygwin-64 (and, if happy, I'll jettison the Cygwin-32 platform). I have installed it identically (see setup -P below). The many contexts in which wish8.6 has worked properly in Cygwin-32 are, for me, failing uniformly in Cygwin-64. By this I mean, Tcl/Tk menus are mutely failing to appear, Tcl/Tk Help windows are mutely failing to appear. Can't think what I'm getting wrong. But a good first step would be: have any of you, in advancing from Cygwin-32 to what was intended to provide identical functionality in Cygwin-64, experienced similar unexplained glitches, and managed to solve them? Or is this experience unique? If you can help with this specific Tcl/Tk problem, that would be perfect!
almost all has been ported from 32 to 64 and works The very few exceptions are dead applications
BTW I use setup-x86[_64] -P ..,..,tcl-tix,tcl-tk-devel,..,.. to build the supporting platforms. Thank you! * "Can't entirely recall .. .." (line 1): Typing "site:cygwin.com searchstring" into the Google search bar used to yield pages of output, including hits for very specific strings e.g. "site:cygwin.com fergus grap" to remind myself what I asked about grap as long ago as 2001 - and, much more helpfully, what somebody kindly answered. Now, after a measly trickle of hits, Google explains the paucity with a reference to data protection. I know I asked specifically about the loss of versatility with wish8.4 at the time, but cannot find the thread. Is there a vehicle which still permits an exhaustive search of the entire Cygwin project mailing archive?
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