[Gardeners] McCLIM, CLX + Win32 (was help wxCL / Ltk)

[Matthew Astley]

A minor observation based on an old email,

On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 09:04:05PM -0800, Dwight Holman wrote:

> I have managed to bundle and/or run applications with Ltk on
> Windows, [...] only requirement is a Tcl/Tk binary.  Tclkit works,
> which means all requirements can be included in one (small)
> download.
> 
> McCLIM works well on Mac and Linux, but the most mature backend is
> the CLX backend.  A dependency on X kills hopes of Windows use (for
> beginners). [...]

Seeing these two together reminded me that the Win32 port of Tk
contains (so I'm told) some significant portion of X11 operations.

A friend told me this while relating the story of porting a Tcl/Tk app
to Windows.  It contains some custom widgets written with libX and
these ported quite cleanly because of Tk's low level X11 emulation.

I don't know the details, but perhaps the portable-clx folks would be
interested?  I can find out more - project is staden.sf.net and I
think it's the trace viewer widget.


Matthew  #8-)