26 Mar 2005 lloydwood   » (Journeyer)

On 24 March 2005, nutella wrote:

I don't believe Tk is available for Cygwin so my Perl and Python scripts that rely on Tk will have to wait for a while.

Insight Tcl/Tk can be installed easily as an option in the Cygwin setup installer. It's a bit unusual, in that Tk windows live in Windows windows outside the main X window. The net result of this is that if you mix Tk and X calls for the same window, you crash. On the other hand, you don't have to launch the X server just to run a pure Tk application under Cygwin and Insight.

I'm doing all my development work on SaVi on Cygwin these days for convenience. And the fisheye view there is disabled under Cygwin, because it tries to draw with X inside an Insight Tcl Tk window that isn't in X...

You could, of course, build the usual Tcl/Tk from source.

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