[GRASS-dev] Re: tcltk 8.3 and v.digit toolbox

[Michael Barton]

Still catching up with a lot of traffic over past 24 hours.

I'll look at the demo file, but giving the frame a honeydew background is a
good substitute if that fails.

We already use bwidgets for most of the widgets listed below. Only in a few
cases (generally noted in the bwidgets docs) have there been new tk widgets
that supercede these. The more complicated issue is changes to existing
TclTk widgets and other syntax. This is only a gism issue as you point out.
It's not that substitutes can't be found or worked out, it's just that I
don't have much in the way of time to do it, and it's additionally difficult
since I'm running 8.4--as are most people who can test. I've already had to
put wxGRASS aside for a month (and am already forgetting what I learned this
past summer) while doing necessary bug fixes on TclTk 8.4 code for 6.2 and
6.3. So I'm not against it as long as it doesn't degrade the UI, I just
don't want to be the person who has to make gism work with 8.3.

On the other hand, as you note, v.digit needs to work with both old and new
GUI. So as long as we maintain d.m, I agree that v.digit should be backward
compatible. So let's get this one set and see what happens next.

Michael
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> From: Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>
> Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 22:03:34 +1300
> To: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>
> Cc: <grass-dev at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: [GRASS-dev] Re: tcltk 8.3 and v.digit toolbox
> 
> Michael Barton wrote:
>> It turns out that bwidget LabelFrame is not just a drop in replacement
>> for the tk 8.4 labelframe. For one thing, LabelFrame seems buggy in
>> the version of bwidgets that GRASS uses and the frame border will not
>> draw with a label there. Second the options are slightly different.
> 
> Yes, I can't get a frame border either. Thanks for translating the options.
> 
> There are (Very Good) bwidget instructions and demo.tcl in the GRASS 5
> source code. (hopefully you found them?)
> 
> [should we copy into GRASS 6 lib/external/bwidget?
>  252K    demo/
>  368K    BWman/
> ]
> 
> cd grass-5.4.0/src/libes/bwidget/demo/
> wish demo.tcl
> 
> in the demo the LabelFrames borders work correctly, so I think it is
> something we are overlooking (???).
> 
> 
>> If you want to replace the labelframe statement in toolbox.tcl (ca.
>> Line 223) with the following and see what happens,
> 
> I do want to replace it for 6.2,
> 
>> On my Mac, running x11, it creates the label but does not draw the
>> box, no matter what I do. This is problematic, but maybe it at least
>> runs on 8.3.
> 
> As it works in demo/demo.tcl, I think it's a fixable bug on our behalf.
> ( somewhere :-/  window parent/child relationship? lack of content?)
> 
>> Again, I can't say if there are any other 8.4 features that won't run
>> on 8.3, so I'm not sure it's worth it anyway.
> 
> .. but but but .. are there bwidget replacements for those we can use?
> 
> === (lib/external/bwidget/README.grass) ========
> only requires 2 lines of code in your Tcl/Tk script to use the new widgets.
> Some of the new widgets include
> 
>     On mouse over help balloons
>     Tabbed notebook panes - like worksheets in Excel
>     Directory tree listing
>     Combination box or drop down option list
>     Progress bar
>     Many others
> ================================================
> 
> seems to me that there should be replacements, and we don't (really)
> have to worry about finding any we don't know about until we get an
> error report. And then it's a (hopefully) quick fix. We are pretty
> sure this is the only v.digit problem, and pretty sure that d.m is ok
> (so I'm not as worried about gis.m).
> 
> 
>> LabelFrame .bpf -bd 1 -relief groove -side top -anchor n \
>>     -text [G_msg "mouse button actions (left, right, center)"]
> 
> works for me (besides missing border). I expect it will work on all
> platforms (I can't see why it wouldn't).
> 
> An immediate solution: adding "-background HoneyDew" makes the
> "-relief groove -borderwidth 1" failure less important.
> 
> 
> thanks,
> Hamish
> 
>