Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl & Tk Question

[Mark Pease <peasem@primenet.com>]

On Mon, 20 Jan 1997 04:23:08 +0000 (GMT) charlie@tardis.ed.ac.uk (Charlie
Stross) wrote:

>On Sun, 19 Jan 1997 Scrapsky@aol.com wrote:
>
>The pTk distribution on CPAN contains the Tk 4.1 source code,
>modified so that it can be compiled as a dynamically-loadable
>extension to Perl (via XS). It also contains Perl glue to talk to
>the extension.
>
>> Matthias, Do you have any input on meshing MacPerl with Tk?
>
>Now you're asking the right person ;-) You might also want to
>ask Nick Ing-Simmons (nik@tiuk.ti.com) (author of Perl/Tk)
>and Peter Prymmer (whose address I can't find, but who keeps
>the FAQ). Not to mention Ray Johnson, who ported the Tk part
>of Tcl/Tk to MacOS.
>
>
>-- Charlie Stross

As I understand it, the Mac port of Tcl/Tk was done using the latest
version that moved the event handling stuff out of Tk into the core Tcl.
Nick has not released the pTk that matches that version because
Perl needs to have an equivalent event handling mechanism added
to the core or as an extension. Nick has stated that he is working
on the events stuff, but until its done, we are out of luck on
a MacPerlTk (sniff).

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Mark Pease                      peasem@primenet.com
Author of "Software Engineering with Perl"