Re: Funny business with Perl/Tk 804.027-4, Entry and Optionmenuwidgets.

Nick Ing-Simmons <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.tk
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W Knol <[email protected]> writes:
>I made a hash of the version numbering. Apologies.
>

No problem.

>I wasn't aware of compatibility issues between 800 and 804 - the Entry widget 
>doc reads the same - so I posted the story to provide a pointer for other 
>users. It took me a bit of time to figure it out.
>
>Wilbert Knol

I re-arranged the your/my quoted e-mail bellow as a summary.

>Perl/Tk 804.027 caused me the probems and required the work-arounds mentioned. 
>Version that worked: 800-025
>Version that doesn't: 804-027
>
>>
>> Tk800 -> Tk804 is quite a major change.
>>
>> Tk800 has not been under active development for years, last
>> patch I have recorded is back in 2002.
>>
>> Tk804 is much closer to mainstream tk core (but is still slipping).
>>
>> If you really meant Tk800 then yes Tk804 it is incompatible in several
>> ways with it, but maintaining Tk800 diverged from core Tk was becoming
>> impossible.
>
>Fair enough. 
>


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