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From: ezkcdude <zamir.evan@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Where is TASH, the Tcl/Tk binding?
Date: 24 May 2007 08:57:17 -0700
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On May 24, 8:07 am, Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homep...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24 Maj, 14:56, ezkcdude <zamir.e...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I understand not wanting to use Tcl+Ada, but how about calling Tk from
> > Ada? How does one go about doing that?
>
> There is basically no way to call Tk directly. It was designed to be
> called from Tcl interpreter.
>
> Normally, the Tk library for whatever language has an *embedded* Tcl
> interpreter that makes actual Tk calls. It is encapsulated, so you
> might as well pretend you don't know about that interpreter somewhere
> there. :-)
>
> Interestingly, the Tkinter binding for Python also works this way (it
> has "inter" in the name for a reason!), which brings a question why
> the hell should we use two interpreters one on top of another...
>
> Just for fun:http://cpptk.sourceforge.net/
>
> --
> Maciej Sobczakhttp://www.msobczak.com/

Thanks, when you put it that way, it doesn't make sense to me either.