Re: problem with japanese input in Tkx

BTW, I have confirmed this issue myself.  I will look into it later this 
week to narrow down the cause and/or version and a possible solution.

On 09/02/2011 3:55 PM, vadrer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in perlmonks user forum, someone complains about problems that program
> crashes when hiragana input is attempted
> (http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=887089)
>
> Sample program is nothing special:
>
> use Tkx;
>
> Tkx::ttk__frame(".c",  -padding =>  "3 3 12 12");
> Tkx::grid( ".c", -column =>  0, -row =>  0, -sticky =>  "nwes");
> Tkx::grid_columnconfigure( ".", 0, -weight =>  1);
> Tkx::grid_rowconfigure(".", 0, -weight =>  1);
>
> Tkx::ttk__entry(".c.feet", -width =>  7, -textvariable =>  \$feet);
> Tkx::grid(".c.feet", -column =>  2, -row =>  1, -sticky =>  "we");
> Tkx::ttk__button(".c.calc", -text =>  "Search", -command =>  sub {search();});
> Tkx::grid(".c.calc", -column =>  3, -row =>  3, -sticky =>  "w");
>
> sub search {
>     #...;
> }
>
> Tkx::MainLoop();
>
> This most likely refers to problem in Tk itself
>
> I haven't tried far-east languages input on windows, but 'scim' input does
> not work for tk application in my linux setup.
>
> So, I have two questions actually,
>
> 1, is this problem confirmed? I see some discussion at
>   http://community.activestate.com/forum/activetcl-8581-crashed-when-input-chinese-char
> so it is noted that 8.4.19 is free of this problem
>
> 2, where is tcl/tk user support mailing list is?
>
> Regards,
> Vadim.
>