Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 11:50:41 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: me@muc.ditec.de Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, ports@freebsd.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Subject: Re: Ports INDEX browser update Message-ID: <199612190120.LAA02188@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <m0va0nO-000Pa5C@tartufo.muc.ditec.de> from Michael Elbel at "Dec 18, 96 02:09:00 pm"
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Michael Elbel stands accused of saying: > > >I don't see why not. The termCanvas and the term widgets are > >independant, and the "ComBlock" (Communications Block) structure is > >used to pass requests back and forth (basically a request code and > >some registers for holding value). As long as you had some code to > >read the comblock and DTRT with the requests contained therein upon a > >Tk text widget, I don't see a problem. > > Well, I disagree. You'd have to make Tcl's text widget understand > ComBlocks as input (including all the functions calls that are implied > in a ComBlock). I daresay that's not as easy as doing it the other > way around. The biggest stumbling block from my POV was actually that nothing other than the widget command for the Tcl Text widget is exposed, so I would have had to translate all the drawing commands into ascii for passing to the Text widget. That was enough to turn me off the idea; I took the wimps way out and used TkSteal to reparent an Xterm instead. > Michael Elbel, DITEC, Muenchen, Germany - me@muc.ditec.de -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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