On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 06:31:59PM -0500, Reini Urban wrote: >On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: >> Here are some of the previous discussions: >> >> Interest in "native" Tcl/Tk/Expect/Itcl/... packages? >> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-10/msg00316.html >> >> Does anyone use insight on cygwin? >> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-08/msg00089.html >> >> tcl/tk/expect/dejagnu/gdb/insight >> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-09/msg00311.html >> >> gitk unusable in cygwin-1.7.6-1 because tcltk-20080420-1 is native win32 >> app. >> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-08/msg00913.html >> >> ====NOTE==== >> in the gitk thread above, Reini Urban, the cygwin perl and parrot >> maintainer, was vehemently against switching tcltk from GDI to X11. ?I >> wonder if his opinion has changed in the past year... > >No, I'm still against it, but in minority. >I tried to fix it, but ran out of time. > >Maybe later I can come up with a tk/tcl-native.
I don't see why you need a tcl-native but it should be possible to use the Windows version of tk to do Windows-native GUI stuff without relying on X11. The trick is getting that + Cygwin paths, signals, etc. to play together. cgf