Re: [Gcl-devel] Is GCL-TK broken ?

[Vadim V. Zhytnikov]

Mike Thomas ?????:

> Hi Vadim.
>
> | I just tried a simple example from
> | the very beginning of gcl-tk.info:
> |
> |  >(in-package "tk")
> |  >(tkcoonect)
> |
> | It fails with message that si::open-named-socked
> | must have less than two arguments.  Indeed,
> | in /gcl-tk/tkl.lisp this function is invoked as
> | (si::open-named-socket 0 nil) while in socket.c
> | it is defined with 1 argument.
> |
> | Anyone tried gcl-tk?  Any success?
> | It seems that at present TK package is broken.
>
> You don't say what platform, but it is definitely broken on Windows and
> unlikely to be fixed in a hurry.

Sorry, it's Linux (by default ;-)

> The Windows binary of GCL comes with a basic binding to the JAPI java GUI
> library.  An example of how to use it is included below.
>
> If you build GCL from source on Linux you can probably easily get that
> binding working there too - I haven't had feedback on it.  Just get libjapi
> and japi.h from the JAPI web site.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mike Thomas.

I'll try this a bit later.  JAPI seems to be interesting but
now I just want to know what is the real state of affairs
with gcl-tk.

Best wishes,

Vadim


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