On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Tim Jenness wrote:
> On Jan 24, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Peter W. Draper wrote:
>
>> Since the BLT library continues to be a pain (the developer seems only
>> interested in keeping it working for his own purposes, fair enough but
>> it has left us somewhat dangling) I've had a quick look for possible
>> replacements (it's several years since I was forced to upgrade BLT for
>> Tcl/Tk 8.5). There are two likely looking developments. The rbc
>> project:
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/rbctoolkit/
>>
>> and the BLT component in Wize:
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/wize/files/
>>
>> sadly both look like they would require a fair amount of effort. rbc is
>> missing at least two commands, "busy" and "table" and the Tcl and C
>> namespaces have changed, so maybe the Wize project would be easier to
>> adopt. After upgrading from BLT 2.5 to 3.0 I expect there's some
>> gotchas to sort out going back and there have been improvements to
>> existing BLT commands in Wize.
>>
>
> Ah. So Wize ships a BLT2.5 that works with TCL8.5. That might be an
> interesting way to go since we only went to 3.0 to support the new TCL.
> Do you think it will "just work" then? Or were there changes made to the
> rest of the system specifically for issues relating to 3.0?
Well, I managed to get Skycat and GAIA built against it and displaying
images, but there were some changes made to the scripts moving from 2.5 to
3.0 that stop the interactive slices from working. I'll have a futher play
with this sometime soon.
Cheers,
Peter.
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