Hi Alan,

I can definitely have a look - it has been a rather busy period for me, but 
after this week
it should be more relaxed.

Regards,

Arjen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 9:48 PM
> To: Maurice LeBrun; Arjen Markus
> Cc: PLplot development list
> Subject: Re: [Plplot-devel] Pltk segfault
>
> On 2013-11-05 00:45-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>
> [...]
> > % plstdwin .
> > % plxframe .plw
> >
> > segfaults with the Debian versions of Tcl/Tk8.5 and itcl... version 3.
>
> I discovered by comparison with examples/tk/runAllDemos.tcl that the source 
> of this
> issue (I am pretty sure, but I would appreciate confirmation from Maurice) is 
> that you
> should use plframe rather than plxframe inside a wish environment. 
> Accordingly I
> made the appropriate change in the tkdemos.tcl logic (revision 12663) and 
> with two
> caveats ([1] a pretty rough logic hack that only works if you follow the
> examples/tk/README.tkdemos instructions religiously, and [2] a lack of access 
> to
> libplplotd constants such as $::PLPLOT::PL_PI [namespace
> issues???]) I now have tkdemos.tcl working under wish.  For example, the 10th 
> and
> 12th examples work fine since they do not require libplplotd constants.  These
> changes to tkdemos.tcl do not compromise its long-standing ability to work 
> without
> issues under plserver.
>
> So we are back in business with tkdemos.tcl under wish after many years when 
> it did
> not work at all.
>
> @Maurice and Arjen: as Tcl/Tk experts here would you be willing to follow up 
> on
> those two caveats to extend the current proof-of-concept to a smooth and 
> complete
> result?
>
> Alan
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