Tk and porting
- Posted by MAP <ddhinc at ALA.NET>
Apr 09, 1998
I'd like to take a moment to add my vote to the Tk implemtation
suggestions put forth by a couple of others here. Up until
yesterday I had never experimented with Tcl/Tk, and knew little
about it. I happened upon a site, http://sunscript.sun.com/about/
and downloaded of few of the offerings; specifically the
Tcl/Tk 8.0 implementation for windows and the SpecTcl Gui builder.
I was amazed at how much the demos could do with so little coding,
and I was highly impressed with the SpecTcl program (I also tried
the vtcl program someone else here mentioned, it was nice but
I still prefered SpecTcl).
The down side to these was that it was Tcl and not Euphoria!
Tcl's code is a bit terse and foreign looking (to me at least),
and doesn't run at any blazing speed. Furthermore, I failed to
find any mention of any implementations that produce compiled
executables if they exist... something which I feel is a definite
drawback when your aim is to produce a comercial product.
I would love to see Euphoria take advantage of some of these
things. If Euphoria is ever ported to other platforms, Tk does
seem like a good lib to base it on, since it is already ported to
many, and provides a standardized method of accessing it across
them all. And I'd like to see something like SpecTcl ported to
Euphoria as well. It already has some support for languages
other than Tcl such as java and even Html. If a version could
be made that creates Euphoria programs, creating windows
programs would be so easy that we could all throw away our
other tools and live happily in a one language world, Euphoria!:)
Christopher D. Hickman
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