Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 09:08:20 04/19/02
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On April 18, 2002 at 14:27:51, Allen Lake wrote: >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. Allen, to follow up: I am looking at Visual Tcl right now and it looks great! It seems to be exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. Thanks again for the tip!
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