Help! problems running tcl/tk apps

[Mumit Khan]

Paul Thiessen <paul@grserv.med.jhmi.edu> writes:
> I'm having trouble running C/C++ programs compiled and linked with
> cygwin's tcl/tk libraries (I'm using the latest download of the full
> cygwin release). The program compiles just fine, but when I run it I get
> the errors (shown is the start of a long list of errors) shown below. I've
> tried copying the libraries from cygwin's shared/{tcl,tk}8.0/ directories
> into one of the directories mentioned below, but to no avail. Where is
> this MouseWheel stuff coming from anyway? I don't see it in any of these
> tk/tcl library files... Confused.
>   Any idea why this is happening or how I can set things up so that it
> works properly?
>   Thanks,
> 
>  - Paul
> 
> Errors:
> 
> Can't find a usable tk.tcl in the following directories:
>     /usr/local/lib/tk8.0 /usr/local/lib/tk8.0 /usr/local/lib/tk8.0
> D:/tk8.0 D:/s
> hare/tk8.0 D:/library D:/share/tk8.0 D:/tk8.0/library D:/library
> /usr/local/tk8.
> 0/library
> 
> /usr/local/lib/tk8.0/tk.tcl: bad event type or keysym "MouseWheel"
> bad event type or keysym "MouseWheel"
>     while executing
> "bind Listbox <MouseWheel> {
> %W yview scroll [expr - (%D / 120) * 4] units
> }"
>     (file "/usr/local/lib/tk8.0/listbox.tcl" line 128)
>     invoked from within
> 

Cygwin b20.1 comes with Tcl/Tk 8.0p2, but MouseWheel wasn't introduced
till 8.0.4 (or was it 8.0.3?). You're out of luck, sorry.

Of course, you could my 8.0.4 binaries instead (or use the diffs to build
from sources). See http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/tcl/

Regards,
Mumit


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