Date: Wed, 18 Dec 96 14:09 MEZ From: me@muc.ditec.de (Michael Elbel) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: ports@freebsd.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Subject: Re: Ports INDEX browser update Message-ID: <m0va0nO-000Pa5C@tartufo.muc.ditec.de> References: <199612050041.LAA18501@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <5511.849761164@time.cdrom.com>
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In lists.freebsd.ports you write: >> Ok; the 64-dollar question : could we replace the termCanvas widget >> with the Tcl text widget? If this can be done at runtime, then we win >> with a 'term' (rather than 'text') widget that knows how to execute >> programs and disply their output. >I don't see why not. The termCanvas and the term widgets are >independant, and the "ComBlock" (Communications Block) structure is >used to pass requests back and forth (basically a request code and >some registers for holding value). As long as you had some code to >read the comblock and DTRT with the requests contained therein upon a >Tk text widget, I don't see a problem. Well, I disagree. You'd have to make Tcl's text widget understand ComBlocks as input (including all the functions calls that are implied in a ComBlock). I daresay that's not as easy as doing it the other way around. -- Michael Elbel, DITEC, Muenchen, Germany - me@muc.ditec.de Fermentation fault (coors dumped)
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