[scilab-Users] Scilab 5.2 Beta: Still no Tcl/Tk under OSX

[Stephane Mottelet]

Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre.ledru at scilab.org> a écrit :

> Le jeudi 05 novembre 2009 à 20:17 +0100, Stephane Mottelet a écrit :
>> Hi all,
>>
>> there is still no Tcl/Tk in the OSX version. Is there
>> any hope that Tcl/Tk will be supported on this platform
>> before being removed from all platforms (I presume this
>> is more or less planned for version 6 ?)
> There are some conflicts between the way the JVM and Tk are instantiated
> in Scilab.
> The JVM needs to be launched into a dedicated thread by the
> CoreFoundation (Apple API). [1] This way blocks the Tk startup.
> We spend some time on this issue but we don't know any fix for this.
> Maybe there is... I will be happy to apply a patch for it.
>
> About the removal of Tcl/Tk, for now, there is no such thing planned but
> even if we remove it, we will continue maintaining the interface and
> distributing it through ATOMS (our module manager).

Well, I hope that the native Scilab uicontrols will one
day be able to replace all the Tk stuff !

S.