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>  From: activetcl-bounces@[...].com 
>  [mailto:activetcl-bounces@[...].com] On Behalf 
>  Of Andreas Kupries
>  Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 12:25 PM
>  To: Bahr, Michael; activetcl@[...].com
>  Subject: Re: [Activetcl] TclApp and Tablelist
>  
>  
>  > > Note however that this is dependent on whether the package is 
>  > > available through .tap file or teapot.
>  > >
>  > > To diagnose better I would have to know what paths are 
>  declared for 
>  > > the TAP search, and what repositories are used.
>  >
>  > Here is my Teapot Resposirories:
>  > C:/Documents and Settings/mbahr/Teapot/repository 
>  > C:/tap_help_repository
>  >
>  > And my TAP Search Paths:
>  > c:/tcl/lib/tcl8.4
>  > c:/tcl/lib
>  >
>  > I installed ActiveTcl 4.9.19 yesterday--uninstalled .18 
>  then installed 
>  > .19.
>  
>  Given that you switched from AT 8.4.18 to AT 8.4.19 I 
>  compared the tklib.tap of both distributions and found no 
>  differences beyond cosmetic stuff, i.e.
>  changes of version number for some packages, including tablelist.
>  
>  What I noted however is that the tklib.tap file defines only 
>  'tablelist::common', but not 'tablellist'. This explains both 
>  why 'tablelist' is not found and 'tablelist::common' is, also 
>  why 'tablelist::common' works. The latter: The 
>  tablelist::common TAP definition contains all files in the 
>  tablelist directory, including those for the 'tablelist' 
>  package in all variants, and their package index file. With 
>  all that wrapped the runtime is fine, finding all tablelist 
>  related packages just fine.
>  
>  Now, the question I am asking myself is how AT 8.4.18 worked 
>  for you with 'tablelist'. I am right now guessing that it did 
>  not. Did you make other AT updates in the last few days, 
>  beyond the TDK update ?

It has been over a year since I wrapped my app [ :-) ]  so I never knew
if things were ok or not with 8.4.18, .17, .16, .15  (the releases were
coming frequently).


>  
>  We have the archives of the older releases still around and 
>  knowing which versions of AT you used over time would help in 
>  narrowing down the search.
>  
>  I am not thinking anymore that this is an issue with TDK or 
>  TclApp itself, but only something with the TAP files provided 
>  by ActiveTcl.
>  
>  

I will try this mod and get back to you.

>  As a workaround note that TAP files are plain text, as such 
>  they can be read and modified with any text editor.
>  
>  In AT 8.4.19 the tablelist definitions are around line 320, 
>  or look for 'tablelist::common'.
>  
>  Add the following lines
>  
>  	Package {tablelist 4.9}
>  	See   tablelist::common
>  	Platform *
>  	Desc     {...}
>  
>  This defines 'tablelist' as an alias of 'tablelist::common', 
>  afterward TclApp should find it, with your project unchanged, 
>  i.e. witohut the tablellist to tablelist::common replacement.
>  
>  Or you simply rename 'tablelist::common' to 'tabllelist' in 
>  that tap file.
>  
>  As for how the definitions should have looked like in my 
>  opinion, see the block before line 320, for module 'style'. 
>  You see one hidden definition __style containing the relevant 
>  files, and then all actual (= user visible) style packages 
>  aliased to it.
>  
>  I am currently at a loss why this did not happen for 
>  tablelist. Well, not in general, only in the details. This 
>  file is generated, and I believe that changes to the package 
>  index file are tripping up the generator. This however 
>  requires deeper investigation of the tklib codebase before I 
>  can confirm/reject this hypothesis.
>  
>  Got your next mail while writing this one ...
>  
>  > Hi Andreas, prior to Tablelist being included in the ActiveTcl 
>  > distribution I had to create my own .tap files.  On another drive I 
>  > found an older ActiveTcl install [dated 4/17/2006] and had 
>  Tablelist 
>  > 4.5.  The tap files were located in Tcl\lib\tap\ directory. 
>   Here is 
>  > the contents
>  >
>  > format  {TclDevKit Project File}
>  > fmtver  2.0
>  > fmttool {TclDevKit TclApp PackageDefinition} 3.2
>  >
>  > ##  Saved at : Wed Oct 25 11:04:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time 2006
>  > ##  By       : mbahr@MBAHR
>  
>  Ok, so you had a manually created tap file for the package 
>  and all related ones, and with that it works, of course.

Just so that you know I do not use this any more since Tablelist is
included.  That was then this is now.  :-\}

>  
>  Seems that I will have to go through all older distributions 
>  until the given date and check if the generated tap file for 
>  tklib was ever correct with regard to tablelist.
>  
>  
>  --
>  	Andreas Kupries <andreask@[...].com>
>  	Developer @ http://www.ActiveState.com
>  	Tel: +1 778-786-1122
>  
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