Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 08:14:54 04/18/02
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On April 17, 2002 at 19:37:01, Allen Lake wrote: >On April 17, 2002 at 11:47:57, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>On April 17, 2002 at 11:30:20, Allen Lake wrote: >> >>>On April 17, 2002 at 10:05:01, Roy Eassa wrote: >>> >>> >>>>I have not abandoned re-doing it in Tcl/Tk. The DLL problems people are >>>>apparently having now raises the priority of doing it in SOMETHING that does not >>>>require any special DLLs (DLLs are the bane of my existence; Microsoft even >>>>started using them in their Mac apps, where DLLs previously did not exist!). >>>> >>> >>>When you decide to go ahead with the TCL version, take a good look at the >>>analysis.tcl file for Shane Hudson's Scid database program. The engine analysis >>>functionality for Scid seems very similar to what you are trying to do with >>>Chest -- spawn a separate application, feed it data, and capture and display the >>>output from the program. >> >> >> >>Thank you for that EXTREMELY useful input! > > >Actually, I posted similar information when you first mentioned doing a Chest >GUI in TCL, but I believe it got lost in the deluge of posts concerning one or >another of the more active discussions here. > >I also took a brief look at doing it myself, but haven't had much spare time >recently to sift through the Scid source and piece it together. I'll be happy >to contribute what I can to your efforts though -- beta testing and such. Thanks again. I _did_ see your earlier post and made a mental note to check out Scid's source code, but your more recent post provided more details specific to where I'm currently at in the process (earlier I didn't have even a stop-gap program working yet). A beta-tester would be nice, and having somebody to fill in the occasional crucial tidbit of knowledge would be great. This programming task would be small and quite simple for somebody who has those key bits of knowledge -- which I usually don't. For starters, I've installed a Tcl/Tk environment (is there a "best" free one for Win32?) on my PC and played with it and also with a tutorial app. But I don't yet see what are the minimum ingredients required to produce a single, stand-alone (no DLLs!!) executable program that has a GUI -- one that you can give to somebody else who does NOT have any Tcl/Tk stuff on the system and yet they can run it fine.
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