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From: "Konovalov, Vadim (Vadim)** CTR **" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jeff Hobbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Sylvain Thibault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <tcltk@perl.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:30 AM
Subject: RE: using packages with Tkx
From: Jeff Hobbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Konovalov, Vadim (Vadim)** CTR ** wrote:
>> From: Sylvain Thibault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> I had to move tkkit.dll to a writable directory and then
it worked. It
>> generates a tkkit.dll slightly bigger than the original one.
>
> tkkit.dll is updated and gets bigger? How so?
This is a side-effect of the virtual file system in
particular that is
used with the stardll (STand-Alone Runtime DLL). It is a metakit
database. If you do random inserts, it can go up in size.
There is a
vacuum operation that can be done, but it isn't necessary.
That's cool! :)
Thanks for letting know.
>> You can find out where your Activetcl is mapped by:
>> "puts [join $::auto_path \n]" in the tcl shell
>>
>> In my case this is accomplished by adding these 2 lines to
my script:
>>
>> Tkx::lappend('::auto_path',
>> 'C:/Tcl/lib/teapot/package/win32-ix86/lib');
>> Tkx::lappend('::auto_path', 'C:/Tcl/lib/teapot/package/tcl/lib');
>
> these 2 lines should not belong to your script: next time
tkkit.dll will
> be packaged differently, and you'll be lost and frustrated,
yet direct paths
> also a problem
These 2 lines are independent of the tkkit, rather they are
tied to the
Tcl install.
The problem is that Sylvain inserts these lines into the script, which is
wrong direction of resolving th eproblem, IMO.
BR,
Vadim.
Actually Vadim, for img::jpeg I ended up modifying tkkit.dll. I included
the teapot path solution for the sake of completeness. Agree that
activating packages that are already in tkkit.dll is the elegant solution.
However, what about a case where a package is not in the current tkkit.dll
but in the teapot packages ? How would one go about adding one such package
to tkkit.dll ? Don't think packaging the whole tcl tk is a solution for
most people as you said yourself.
Sylvain
