On 19/06/2007, at 5:04 AM, Kristoffer Lawson wrote:
>  I am slightly disappointed that Python has gained so much attention
>  in the Apple world with its Cocoa extensions. Would be great to see
>  Tcl get a bit more of that.

I guess you need to write some code then.  I have been working on a  
package that uses Tcl/Tk as a GUI for Objective-C code.  The most  
recent tclObjc code that I could find dates back to 1994!  It is also  
badly broken.  As I discovered after much tiresome hacking.  OTOH  
Python has a nice working two way Cocoa bridge.  Indeed our code will  
only run on current MacOS X because the work the PyObjc people have  
done on libffi.

We cannot use AquaTcl/Tk anyway because the main reason we use Tk is  
for BLT which itself won't work under AquaTk because it grovels  
directly in X11.  R also has issues with not being able to uses Aqua  
Tcl/Tk packages with the Cocoa GUI.

We basically decided to bite the bullet, ditch the Tcl/Tk and do a  
new Apple/GNUstep Appkit one.

I am thinking that maybe Apple is less than frank when it says on its  
developer site that Tcl/Tk is a viable GUI on MacOS X.

Bill Northcott


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