[Brian Theado] 20Jan2005 - Inspired by the wealth of Tcl/Tk games available at [sdarchive] and elsewhere, I wrote some code that can be used to browse and execute a bunch of applications all bundled together into a single starkit. I bundled together over 60 games in a just over 2MB starkit that can be downloaded from http://tkoutline.sourceforge.net/tkgamepack.kit. Run the program and see a hierarchical list of Tcl/Tk games. Click on the game title to launch it. Click on the game's url to find more information. Add the title of a game to the command line and that game will be run directly. [http://tkoutline.sourceforge.net/tkgamepack.png] '''Implementation details.''' * Each game is itself an unmodified starkit. Each starkit's vfs resides as a subdirectory of the main directory of the Game pack starkit * Each game is launched in its own slave interpreter. * Most of the starkits were pulled unmodified from [sdarchive]. I found a couple of dozen more games on the wiki and at [tclapps] that I starkitified and added in. Some of these needed a "package require Tk" added. * I did have to modify one game [dots and boxes] because it was trying to do some things with the console that didn't work in a slave interpreter. * The interface for selecting games is an outline from [tkoutline]. The full functionality of tkoutline is also available (see the miscelleneous category) just because it is there. * I find the interface to be a bit cluttered, but using an outline was the easiest way for me to get this working (and I am motivated to make use of my own code). * Adding new games involves adding new text to the launcher outline (using the full version of tkoutline) and adding a new starkit vfs. ''Way cool! I've wondered for a long time when someone would take the initiative on this ;) -[jcw]'' ---- [LV] So, if people come up with additional script only games, how would they go about requesting the code be added? [Brian Theado] - putting a request here seems like a good start. ---- [LV] So each time I select a game, a new starkit will end up in the real world flat directory where the starkit resides? Is there no way to run the starkits from where they are in the bundle? I tried to find out for myself, but I see this error when I try to run your starkit: invalid command name "option" while executing "option add *Text.wikimarkup "wikilinks urls style" user" (procedure "openAppLauncherOutline" line 3) invoked from within "openAppLauncherOutline [file join $::starkit::topdir applauncher]" (procedure "applauncher" line 31) invoked from within "applauncher" invoked from within "if {[llength $argv] == 0} { applauncher } else { set nestedkit [lindex $argv 0] set nestedkitmain [glob -nocomplain [file join $starkit::t..." (file "/volws/lwv28/ldatae/WWW/tkgamepack.kit/applauncher.tcl" line 68) invoked from within "source $starkit::topdir/applauncher.tcl" (file "./tkgamepack.kit/main.tcl" line 3) invoked from within "source ./tkgamepack.kit/main.tcl" ("uplevel" body line 1) invoked from within "uplevel [list source [file join $self main.tcl]]" The problem is that your application launcher program is missing that package require Tk that you mentioned having to add in a few games. The reason your app is working is probably because you are using Windows. Unfortunately, this is one of the differences between Windows and non-Windows tclkits. [Brian Theado] - Yep. Thanks for the report and I have added the package require Tk. Redownload and try again. I guess I didn't explain the implementation well enough. It is a single file and stays a single file. All the games run from within the starkit. [NEM] - I get an error on startup on Mac OS X: bad event type or keysym "grave" while executing "event add <> " .... (procedure "mapKeysToEvents" line 5) .... This may well be a Mac OS X/Wishkit specific bug. [LV] Interesting - well, that appears to be a tkoutline bug in the outlinewidget code. It should be simple enough to add a new switch case for MacOS X. What other keys are missing on the MacOS keyboards? [Brian Theado] - Thanks for the report. As a quick fix I just removed that key binding entirely--it is mostly irrelevant to this application. Please redownload and try again. I guess noone on MacOS X has tried using tkoutline for the past year :(. Or just not telling me about the problems they encounter. I've had trouble with this one before. Originally I was binding to , but that only worked on windows and I added a conditional to use if not on Windows. I guess I'll rethink this binding for the next release. I don't think I'm using any other exotic bindings that will cause problems. [PWQ] ''21 Jan 05'', ''LV'', while the application may be causing the error I would not class this an bug. This is yet another example of people destroying the platform independance feature of tcl by adding in native components. the grave key should be implemented on all platforms and just ignored (or remapped) on ones that don't support it. There is an increasing tendancy to make applications not work on anything other than windows because of these features. ''[jcw]'' - Nah. Maybe when on Windows, people 1) simply forgot the other 5%, 2) know too little about *nix, 3) just postpone it, or 4) leave it to those 5% to deal with it...'' ---- [Category Games]