[GRASS-dev] WinGRASS needs TclTk 8.4

[Michael Barton]

It seems like using 8.4 would be a lot easier.

If we were staying with TclTk, it would be worth it to solve this  
kind of upgrade issue. But if we are switching to wxPython, I'm not  
suure that it's worth it.

Michael
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On Jan 29, 2008, at 2:24 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:

> On Jan 15, 2008 6:51 PM, Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>  
> wrote:
>> Moritz,
>>
>> In accidental testing, we've discovered that WinGRASS won't run  
>> with TclTk
>> 8.5. It needs 8.4. William Kyngesbury also ran into a problem with  
>> TclTk 8.5
>> for Mac.
>
> You can fix that by adding the missing headers to
> visualization/nviz/src/
>
> example for 8.4.9:
>
> ls *8.4.9*
> tkInt8.4.9.h  tkIntDecls8.4.9.h
>
> The togl.c contains a set of 'if' + 'elif' to reflect the various
> version numbers,
> so update that, too. It's pretty straightforward...
>
> Step-by-step:
>
> 1. download TK from http://tcl.sourceforge.net
>     -> File Distributions
>        -> View All Project Files
>            -> tk8.4.9-src.tar.gz (example)
>
>    extract:
>     tar xvfz tk8.4.9-src.tar.gz tk8.4.9/generic/tkInt.h
>     tar xvfz tk8.4.9-src.tar.gz tk8.4.9/generic/tkIntDecls.h
>
>    and add here (rename!)
>      tkInt.h      -> tkInt8.x[.y].h (e.g. tkInt8.4.9.h)
>      tkIntDecls.h -> tkIntDecls8.x[.y].h (e.g. tkIntDecls8.4.9.h)
>
> 2. change within tkInt8.x[.y].h the include statement from  
> tkIntDecls.h
>    to tkIntDecls8.x[.y].h
>
> 3. edit togl.c
>    add 'elif' statement with new names according to version
>    of TK
>
> 4. complain about these stupid things to Tcl/Tk developers
>
> (cited from README therein).
>
> Markus