TCL/TK 8.4 for Windows

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Hi,

How can I get the 8.4 version of TCL/TK installed to work with my
version of Ruby?

I have installed Ruby for windows, and it appears to be 1.8.1-10 Ruby
with 8.3 TCL/TK - so no TkPanedWindows.

x = TkPanedWindow.new(root) gives a

invalid command name `panedwindow’ (NameError) ,

in tk_call

Or do I have another alternative?

Many thanks

Ian

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Ian,

If you download the ActiveTCL 8.4.4 source you should be able to compile it
with MSVC. I have gotten this to work, but I have not gotten ActiveTCL8.4.5
to work.

If you can’t or don’t want to compile I can set you up an ftp site and let
you download the dlls’ and such for 8.4.

let me know as soon as you can, cause i wont’ be back in to the office until
Monday.

Zach

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Hobson [mailto:NewGroups@ntlworld.everything.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 6:52 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: TCL/TK 8.4 for Windows

Hi,

How can I get the 8.4 version of TCL/TK installed to work with my
version of Ruby?

I have installed Ruby for windows, and it appears to be 1.8.1-10 Ruby
with 8.3 TCL/TK - so no TkPanedWindows.

x = TkPanedWindow.new(root) gives a

invalid command name `panedwindow’ (NameError) ,

in tk_call

Or do I have another alternative?

Many thanks

Ian

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Ian - posting to a Newsgroup. Please remove everything to reply.

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Ian Hobson wrote:

Hi,

How can I get the 8.4 version of TCL/TK installed to work with my
version of Ruby?

I have installed Ruby for windows, and it appears to be 1.8.1-10 Ruby
with 8.3 TCL/TK - so no TkPanedWindows.

x = TkPanedWindow.new(root) gives a

invalid command name `panedwindow’ (NameError) ,

in tk_call

Or do I have another alternative?

Many thanks

Ian

If compiling isn’t bother, you could use mingw AFAIK it’s compatible
with MSVC binaries or recompile ruby and libs with it(better have a bit
o’ time, not much really), I have tcl/tk8.4.4 working, btw I use
MinGW-3.0.0-rc2, with the latest version(3.1.0-1) couldn’t compile tcl/tk.

www.mingw.org

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If you are on Windows and you would like one of the following:

Ruby 1.8.1preview2 with tcl/tk 8.4.4 ( available now )

or

Ruby 1.8.1preview3 with tcl/tk 8.4.4 ( will have ready in next day or
two )
Ruby 1.8.1preview3 with tcl/tk 8.4.5 ( will hopefully have ready in next
day or two )

Then please email me privately.

thanks,

Zach