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[PATCH] tcl/tk8.5: fix changing colors through Edit->Preferences

From
Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Date
Mar 26, 2008, 18:45 UTC
Message-ID
<20080326184526.2240.qmail@b31b9595cabb35.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>

With tcl/tk8.5 the lset command seems to behave differently. When changing the background color through Edit->Preferences, the changes are applied, but new dialogs, such as View->New view... barf with

 Error: unknown color name "{#ffffff}"

Additionally when closing gitk, and starting it up again, a bad value has been saved to ~/.gitk, preventing gitk from running properly; it fails with

 Error in startup script: unknown color name "{#ffffff}"
 ...

This commit changes the color dialogs to not handle variables containing just a single color value as tcl lists, which fixes the issue. Tested with tcl/tk8.4 and 8.5.

Dmitry Potapov reported this problem through
 http://bugs.debian.org/472615
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
---
 gitk |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gitk b/gitk
index 84ab02e..9a4d9c4 100755
--- a/gitk
+++ b/gitk
@@ -8045,11 +8045,11 @@ proc doprefs {} {
     grid $top.cdisp - -sticky w -pady 10
     label $top.bg -padx 40 -relief sunk -background $bgcolor
     button $top.bgbut -text [mc "Background"] -font optionfont \
-	-command [list choosecolor bgcolor 0 $top.bg background setbg]
+	-command [list choosecolor bgcolor {} $top.bg background setbg]
     grid x $top.bgbut $top.bg -sticky w
     label $top.fg -padx 40 -relief sunk -background $fgcolor
     button $top.fgbut -text [mc "Foreground"] -font optionfont \
-	-command [list choosecolor fgcolor 0 $top.fg foreground setfg]
+	-command [list choosecolor fgcolor {} $top.fg foreground setfg]
     grid x $top.fgbut $top.fg -sticky w
     label $top.diffold -padx 40 -relief sunk -background [lindex $diffcolors 0]
     button $top.diffoldbut -text [mc "Diff: old lines"] -font optionfont \
@@ -8069,7 +8069,7 @@ proc doprefs {} {
     grid x $top.hunksepbut $top.hunksep -sticky w
     label $top.selbgsep -padx 40 -relief sunk -background $selectbgcolor
     button $top.selbgbut -text [mc "Select bg"] -font optionfont \
-	-command [list choosecolor selectbgcolor 0 $top.selbgsep background setselbg]
+	-command [list choosecolor selectbgcolor {} $top.selbgsep background setselbg]
     grid x $top.selbgbut $top.selbgsep -sticky w
 
     label $top.cfont -text [mc "Fonts: press to choose"]
-- 
1.5.4.4
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