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Subject: Re: Two small Tcl/Tk questions (mostly off-topic)

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 10:14:11 04/18/02

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On April 18, 2002 at 12:35:41, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>On April 18, 2002 at 12:02:10, Dan Andersson wrote:
>
>>First of all Tcl is just scripting, Tk is the graphics toolkit. It's fairly
>>independet of Tcl. ActiveState's ActiveTcl and Komodo are very good. And TclPro
>>is Scriptics own Tcl IDE. These are very very good. And VisualTcl is also a hit.
>>All these are freely available. And there are some Tcl wrappers out there, that
>>wrap Tcl/Tk in exe files. I don't have a name on on but a few years ago they
>>existed. And there is always the possibility to use the UPX executable file
>>compressor to create a standalone program if all else fails.
>>
>>MvH Dan Andersson
>
>I'm not really know Tcl/Tk, but if Roy would use these, would that mean that the
>GUI could also be used on another platform (say.. Linux :) ? :)
>
>Sargon


That's my goal.  Win32 first, then Linux, then -- surprise! -- Macintosh.  The
issue for Macintosh is, I think, that CHEST has not been compiled for that
platform yet.  But I have a Mac and an old (but not incredibly old) Metrowerks
C/C++ compiler so I plan to give it a shot.  If and when I can get CHEST to
build for the Mac, doing the GUI on top of that should be pretty easy
(especially if by then I've already successfully done it for the other
platforms).

I don't know if there are any fast, dedicated chess-problem-solving programs for
the Mac.  If not, this will bring this ability to a whole new audience.

Heiner Marxen's program, CHEST, rules as a problem-solver!



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