Bill Northcott wrote:
>  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.

BLT may be an issue, but the real problem there is a maintainer that is 
less than communicative with the rest of the Tk development world.  He 
has a great widget set - it would be great if he didn't ostracize 
himself in developing it.  I don't think that getting BLT to work on 
standard Tk APIs (and thus on OS X) would be a tremendous amount of work.

>  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.

I'm not sure what you are so grumpy about (aside from BLT as noted 
above), but have you seen the Tcl Dev Kit or Perl Dev Kit on OS X? 
Click on the first image at:
	http://www.activestate.com/Products/perl_dev_kit/fix.plex
or	http://www.activestate.com/Products/tcl_dev_kit/deploy.plex

Does it have nits?  Yes (most specifically, I'd like more native OS X 
toolbuttons), but it blends in very well.  You can do it, and without a 
lot of effort as well.

-- 
   Jeff Hobbs, The Tcl Guy, http://www.ActiveState.com/

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