Re: Anyone try running Insight/gdbtk thru tcl2perl ?

On Dec 19, 2004, at 3:26 PM, konovalo wrote:

>
>> Jeff Hobbs has mentioned this on the clp.tk newsgroup recently,
>> and mentioned Tcl::Tk was "80% compatible", which caused me to
>> ask if he could enumerate the 20% thats currently missing.
>> Perhaps you can provide that info ?
>
> In my understanding those 20% are:
> - events %-something and Tk::Ev done differently so source-level 
> compatibility lacks here: you must add few keystrokes  everywhere when 
> "%" variables vere used.
> - pure-perl perlTk widgets are not supported.
> - Most widget methods are implemented, but not all of them. Addition 
> of widget's method to Tcl::Tk is trivial but some of methods were just 
> not caught at the moment. On the contrary, with Tcl::Tk you can work 
> with perlTk syntax with widgets that are in Tcl/Tk but not in perlTk.  
> (see http://www.vkonovalov.ru/perl-tcltk.htm as example, namely 
> $bltgraph->elementCreate(qw/line1 -symbol triangle/,...) ) That said,  
> with Tcl::Tk you get more methods compared to perlTk but not full 
> perlTk coverage.

I've been meaning to look at the above more some time now.  Will do so 
"real soon now", but lack of Perl mega-widgets is a show-stopper, no?

>
> Best regards,
> Vadim.
>
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