On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Brian Raven wrote: > It's not absolutely clear whether Tcl needs to be installed for Tkx to > work, and therefore the GUI. I had installed the new Tkx module with > build 817 but it didn't work until I installed Tcl. I could find no > mention of the requirement in the documentation, the installation > procedure doesn't check and neither do the example scripts which just > hang. So an explicit statement whether Tcl needs to be installed, or > that everything that Tkx needs from Tcl is installed with Perl would > be useful. Also, if the latter, how would 818 interact with an > existing installation of Tcl?
There is no need for an ActiveTcl installation for using Tkx with ActivePerl. A significant subset of the widgets and the core Tcl engine are bundled in a single library that is included in ActivePerl. There is a (currently) undocumented mechanism to tell Tkx (actually, Tcl.pm) to use a local ActiveTcl installation instead of the bundled library. This should only be necessary if you need to use Tcl code or widgets not included in ActivePerl, or if you have a later release of ActiveTcl that may include widget bug fixes not yet released in a new ActivePerl release. The 818 release should include a list of all bundled widgets. One other thing to keep in mind though: PerlApp (in PDK 7.0) will be able to wrap applications using Tkx, but it will not be able to detect dependencies on additional Tcl modules. So if you want to easily wrap your applications in standalone executables, then you may want to restrict yourself to the "standard" set of widgets. The informal "rules" for building the bundled widget set have been: * Need all widget types that PerlTk has support for. * Obviously everything needed for the PPM GUI application. * Everything used by the PDK GUI applications, which are also built using Tkx. We think these rules should provide a reasonably comprehensive set of functionality right out of the box. We are open to suggestions for other "essential" widget types, but we don't want to bundle the complete Tcl distribution. Cheers, -Jan _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
