What: wxTcl
Where: http://www.multimania.com/awaken
Description: The wx is a new GUI extension to Tcl, based on wxWindows and
wxGTK. Its intention is to provide a developer with an extension
able to provide a native look and feel, contemporary looking
programming constructs, AND still be able to operate within a normal
Tcl and Tk application!
The developer has discontinued development of it, but the source
is available from <URL: mailto:[email protected] >
if someone would like to continue work on it....
Updated: 09/2000
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Olivier Paquay)RLH -- Very cool!
Lots of examples should be created...
RLH 2005-07-09: Is someone going to pick this up as a project? Wx is a really good toolkit and it is part of every other dynamic language project you can think of. It would be a shame to let it "die".
escargo 11 Jul 2005 - Just wanted to point to the Wx Widgets home page [L1 ]. It would be interesting to know how well SWIG would gobble up the Wx Widgets code to produce an alternative binding that Tcl could use.
Maybe it is easier to make a binding to the wx-c.dll of the wx.NET-project on [L2 ]. This static library of the WxWidgets also exists for Linux and MacOS.
escargo 11 Jul 2005 - It would be interesting to know the performance and complexity tradeoffs of the different methods for binding Tcl and the Wx Widgets. (I know that SWIG needs certain wrappers, but I don't know what the wx-c.dll binding would require.)
RLH - Along those lines, if we could go that route would be to add Tcl support to wxGlade [L3 ] and have a nice UI builder as well. The wxGlade folks just need someone knowlegable in Tcl and wxGlade (probably more of Tcl would be a better help).
VK 12-jul-2005 While interesting ideas indeed, lack of sources is surprising. May be it is possible creating SF project, and making everyone who is interesting to be able to participate? Personally, I hardly can spent many time on this, but I can bother organizing a project on SF.
RLH 23-Aug-2005: Is anyone interested in working on this?
8/23/05 - I am interested. Do you wish (as your first note indicates) to create samples or do you wish to create a project and carry forward with wxWidgets and TCL? Dereck
RLH I would be interested in seeing wxTcl go forward and if it gets mature enough to start working with the wxGlade folks to get Tcl included as a project language. I have briefly talked with the wxGlade people and they are interested in getting Tcl into the mix but don't have any Tcl experience.
RLH 28-Aug-2005: I have tried contacting the author(s) using the email addresses above to no avail. We are going to have to start from scratch if we want wxTcl to go forward. Maybe looking at how the wxPython or wxRuby folks do it would provide insight into the way we should go?