{"id":7144,"date":"2014-04-07T05:07:24","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T19:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=7144"},"modified":"2020-03-30T19:44:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T09:44:10","slug":"tcltk-bats-and-ball-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tcltk-bats-and-ball-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Tcl\/Tk Bats and Ball Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tcl\/Tk Bats and Ball Tutorial (try twirling round bottom of image for a synopsis ... 'do the twirl now')<\/p><\/div>\n

Good news today is a breakthrough on a put-off project, getting Tcl\/Tk to work with Mac OS X Mavericks<\/a> and Xcode 5.1<\/a> on a MacBook Pro laptop … answering, partially, the previous Tcl\/Tk So Brilliant (but where do you start?) Primer Tutorial<\/a> lament … yayyyyyyyyyyyyyy!<\/p>\n

Was a bit of a battle combining environmental issues and coding issues, and there is an ongoing unresolved (ease of) deployment issue (with Mavericks (ie. Mac OS X 10.9) … lead is Homebrew<\/a> (what happened to the excellent Package Manager?!)).<\/p>\n

Think Tcl\/Tk is definitely worth the time to try GUI applications, which we do here with Xcode C++ code, which utitizes Tcl scripting and Tk GUI.<\/p>\n

The environmental requirements<\/a> to get it up and running (again … had it working quite a long time ago (with Mac OS X Darwin or one up from this … see below it was Mac OS X 10.5.8\/Xcode 3.0)) revolved around updating (personally, had to start again with a full reinstall<\/a>) Macports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The coding issues revolved around a Mac OS X alternative to gettimeofday() function and the 64-bit architecture of a modern Macbook Pro laptop.<\/p>\n

Today’s Mac OS X Mavericks application built with Xcode 5,1<\/a> is a Bats and Ball game<\/a> with up to four players (4 players\/1 keyboard = twister?) reminiscent of those twee tennis games you used to play in the foyer before playing a squash game, back in the ’70s … please don’t do the maths!<\/p>\n

If you would like this application for a Mavericks Mac maybe an ad-hoc style of install could be arranged if you drop me an email<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Please enjoy today’s Tcl\/Tk tutorial made up of two visual parts … “twirling” around bottom of picture above, and clicking for a video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

These links were useful (so, thanks):<\/p>\n