Author: Allen Lake
Date: 11:27:51 04/18/02
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On April 18, 2002 at 11:14:54, Roy Eassa wrote: >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. > I can surely "feel your pain." I'm sure I drove Shane Hudson absolutely crazy with novice mistakes when I was trying to help out with improved Winboard engine support in Scid. >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. The best "free" Tcl environment for Win32 that I know of is the ActiveState distribution (http://tcl.activestate.com). There's also a free Tk GUI building tool called Visual Tcl (http://sourceforge.net/projects/vtcl/). Yet another Sourceforge project -- freewrap (http://freewrap.sourceforge.net/) -- might solve your problem of creating a standalone package that doesn't require the user to install Tcl to be able to run your program. Also along this line, there's mktclapp (http://www.hwaci.com/sw/mktclapp/) which also provides a way to create a standalone executable. I can't swear to the usefulness of any of these products except the ActiveState Tcl distribution, but they seem to be highly recommended on comp.lang.tcl. Sorry to have more pointers than answers.
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