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.
Implementation details.
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?
[Removed information about package require Tk error that has been fixed]
Brian Theado - 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.
Discussion about keysym error (which has been fixed) moved to Cross platform keysyms.
If you get an error like "couldn't open setup.tcl, no such..." like Felipe Voloch reported, then try getting the latest version of tclkit. Any tclkits built in 2004 or later (and probably some in 2003) contain the fix for launching starkits in slave interpreters.