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- Tk 8.0 for Windows
-
- by Scott Stanton
- Sun Microsystems Laboratories
- scott.stanton@eng.sun.com
-
- SCCS: @(#) README 1.18 97/08/13 18:52:02
-
- 1. Introduction
- ---------------
-
- This is the directory where you configure and compile the Windows
- version of Tk. This directory also contains source files for Tk
- that are specific to Microsoft Windows. The rest of this file
- contains information specific to the Windows version of Tk.
-
- 2. Distribution notes
- ---------------------
-
- Tk 8.0 for Windows is distributed in binary form in addition to the
- common source release. The binary distribution is a self-extracting
- archive with a built-in installation script.
-
- Look for the binary release in the same location as the source release
- (ftp.smli.com:/pub/tcl or any of the mirror sites). For most users,
- the binary release will be much easier to install and use. You only
- need the source release if you plan to modify the core of Tcl, or if
- you need to compile with a different compiler. With the addition of
- the dynamic loading interface, it is no longer necessary to have the
- source distribution in order to build and use extensions.
-
- 3. Compiling Tk
- ----------------
-
- In order to compile Tk for Windows, you need the following items:
-
- Tcl 8.0 Source Distribution (plus any patches)
- Tk 8.0 Source Distribution (plus any patches)
-
- The latest Win32 SDK header files
-
- Borland C++ 4.5 or later (32-bit compiler)
- or
- Visual C++ 2.x or later
-
-
- In the "win" subdirectory of the source release, you will find two
- files called "makefile.bc" and "makefile.vc". These are the makefiles
- for the Borland and Visual C++ compilers respectively. You should
- copy the appropriate one to "makefile" and update the paths at the top
- of the file to reflect your system configuration. Now you can use
- "make" (or "nmake" for VC++) to build the tk libraries and the wish
- executable.
-
- In order to use the binaries generated by these makefiles, you will
- need to place the Tk script library files someplace where Tk can
- find them. Tk looks in one of two places for the library files:
-
- 1) The environment variable "TK_LIBRARY".
-
- 2) In the lib\tk8.0 directory under the Tcl installation directory
- as specified in the registry:
-
- For Windows NT & 95:
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sun\Tcl\8.0
- Value Name is "Root"
-
- For Win32s:
- HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SOFTWARE\Sun\Tcl\8.0\
-
- 2) Relative to the directory containing the current .exe.
- Tk will look for a directory "..\lib\tk8.0" relative to the
- directory containing the currently running .exe.
-
- Note that in order to run wish80.exe, you must ensure that tcl80.dll,
- tclpip80.dll (plus tcl1680.dll under Win32s), and tk80.dll are on your
- path, in the system directory, or in the directory containing
- wish80.exe.
-
- 4. Test suite
- -------------
-
- The Windows version of Tk does not pass many of the tests in the test
- suite. This is primarily due to dependencies in the test suite on the
- size of particular X fonts, and other X related features as well as
- problems with "exec". We will be working to develop a more general
- test suite for Tk under Windows, but for now, you will not be able to
- pass many of the tests.
-
- 5. Known Bugs
- -------------
-
- Here is the current list of known bugs/missing features for the
- Windows beta version of Tk:
-
- - There is no support for custom cursors/application icons. The core
- set of X cursors is supported, although you cannot change their color.
- - Stippling of arcs isn't implemented yet.
- - Some "wm" functions don't map to Windows and aren't implemented;
- others should map, but just aren't implemented. The worst offenders
- are the icon manipulation routines.
- - Under Win32s, you can only start one instance of Wish at a time.
- - Color management on some displays doesn't work properly resulting in
- Tk switching to monochrome mode.
- - Tk seems to fail to draw anything on some Matrox Millenium cards.
- - Send and winfo interps are not currently supported
- - Printing does not work for images (e.g. GIF) on a canvas.
- - Tk_dialog appears in the upper left corner. This is a symptom of a
- larger problem with "wm geometry" when applied to unmapped or
- iconified windows.
- - Some keys don't work on international keyboards.
- - Grabs do not affect native menus or the title bar.
- - PPM images are using the wrong translation mode for writing to
- files, resulting in CR/LF terminated PPM files.
- - Tk crashes if the display depth changes while it is running. Tk
- also doesn't consistently track changes in the system colors.
-
- If you have comments or bug reports for the Windows version of Tk,
- please direct them to:
-
- Scott Stanton
- scott.stanton@eng.sun.com
-
- or post them to the newsgroup comp.lang.tcl.
-