Xotcl April 2005

xotcl@alice.wu.ac.at

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6 discussions

RE: RE: XotclIDE errorReport
by Lehmann, Eckhard 08 May '05

08 May '05

> Example. You can use method-forwarding feature in XOTcl for > delegating calls to objects to underlying widget. That's what I mean... > If you do not want to develop own XOTcl widget set there > are no reasen to rewrite BWidget to XOTcl. XOTcl code can > use all tcl packages (Even ITcl). It would be better to have a special XOTcl widget set, agreed (especially interresting for that is, that it could look like Gtk on Linux/GNOME, look like windows on Windows and look like Mac on Man, which isn't always true for the current Tk). But that's nothing I can do - I don't have enough time and experience with developing widget sets, I am only a user of these things. That's why I started to use Tcl/Tk some time ago... because I need to solve "real world problems" quick and painless. I am looking for a quick and usable way to get things work. The BWidgets are around there for some time, they are tested and mature, and many people use them now with "plain old Tcl" in real world applications. Okay, having a wrapper for Bwidgets in XOTcl is maybe an "only half way solution" of the widget-problem, but it is still good enough for almost all people who want to develop XOTcl and are searching for a set of widgets which makes full use of the XOTcl features (like the windows operating system: Its only a half way good operating system but it's enough for almost all people :-)). Combine the maturity and usability of Tk and Bwidget with the (very interresting) features of XOTcl, so that people can derive from and mixin XOBwidget classes and quickly get their jobs done with XOTcl/XOBwidget - and there will be many more users of XOTcl, XOTclIDE and Tcl itself (especially "old style Tcl'ers" are more likely to switch to XOTcl, I think). After or parallel to that it is still possible to start developing a special widget set for XOTcl. That's only my opinion and I know it is better discussed on the xotcl mailing list. That's why I post a CC to the list as well. Eckhard ;)

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new doesnt check for existing object handle.
by Ben Thomasson 18 Apr '05

18 Apr '05

Hi Gustaf, Have you fixed or considered fixing this issue? I see this in 1.3.6. Is there a way to set the beginning handle number? >xotclsh % Object ::xotcl::__#0 ::xotcl::__#0 % Object new ::xotcl::__#0 % Thanks, Ben

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xotcl latest TEA patch
by Jeff Hobbs 07 Apr '05

07 Apr '05

The following is a patch to upgrade a pristine xotcl 1.3.6 to the latest TEA 3.2: ftp:/tcl.activestate.com/pub/incoming/xotcl.changed.patch.gz I would recommend including it for 1.3.7. Nothing major, but it adds support for a few odder platform variants. Jeff

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Request for XOTcl proc and var type ahead in tkcon
by John McGlaughlin 07 Apr '05

07 Apr '05

Jeff, Can an extension be added to tkcon so that the interpreter becomes aware of XOTcl proc, instprocs and associated vars for type ahead capability. Lazy, John

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serialize usage
by Aamer Akhter 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

Hello, I seem to be missing something basic in the usage of Serializer: package require XOTcl namespace import ::xotcl::* package require xotcl::serializer set a [Object new] $a set b hello Serializer deepSerialize $a the last command doesn't seem to return anything. I had expected the creation and config code for $a. What am I missing? -- Aamer Akhter / aakhter(a)gmail.com

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Safe interp for xotcl
by Ben Thomasson 04 Apr '05

04 Apr '05

Hi Gustaf, Is there a safe interp for xotcl, or does xotcl work with the safe interp in Tcl? Thanks, Ben

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