On Thu, 1 Aug 2013, Tim Jenness wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Peter W. Draper <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> I would be happy if we didn't have to use BLT and
> could do it all with
> native widgets. If it's simply a case of changing
> namespaces then I'm all
> for it.
>
>
> No it isn't that simple, otherwise I would have done it. Skycat
> doesn't just use the widget commands it also uses the blt::vector,
> blt::graph and blt::busy commands. The vector and graph commands are
> the backing for the interactive slicing.
>
> Good (or bad, depending on your point of view).
Don't remember many fun moments grappling with BLT, but we don't have much
choice. It is even worse than just Tcl level commands, the BLT C API is
also used to access vector to get the interactive performance.
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