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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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