Re: Trouble with gitk and ActiveState tcltk on OS X

From: Seth Falcon <seth@userprimary.net>
Date: Feb 11, 2008, 15:51 UTC
Message-ID: <m2zlu71ofs.fsf@userprimary.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080211044941.GX24004@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

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> For what its worth I use the native Tcl/Tk that ships with Mac OS X,
> /usr/bin/wish, which is really in /Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework.
> I've never used the ActiveState Tcl/Tk package on Mac OS X.
>
> git-gui builds against the Tk.framework I mentioned above when on
> Mac OS X.  In particular the git-gui Makefile seems to ignore the
> setting of TCLTK_PATH when it sees the above mentioned Tk.framework
> is available in your filesystem.
>
> The reason why you get nice icons for git-gui is because we use a
> feature of the Aqua port Tcl/Tk framework that allows us to create a
> full Mac OS X app by copying a tiny executable from the framework,
> and supplying our own resource bundle.  The bundle configures
> the icon.  Its the only way to get a custom icon on Mac OS X.
>
> Launching gitk from within git-gui (Repository -> Visualize History)
> uses the same app and bundle, so gitk inherits the icon too.
> I'd also bet gitk works this way, because it isn't launching through
> the ActiveState Tcl/Tk port.
>
> In short, why not just use the native Aqua Tcl/Tk that Apple ships?
> Why go through X11 and MacPorts?

Hmm. I don't doubt that I've inadvertently made things harder than they need to be, but...

I've just tried uninstalling the ActiveState stuff and removing the MacPorts stuff.

Indeed git gui runs, but I no longer get the nice icon (instead a default Tcl/Tk icon with a feather). Launching gitk from the git gui menu results in the same behavior for me: it launches and its menu appears, but no window. It is quite odd because I can open the preference window for gitk via the menu and _that_ mini window does appear. Same thing if I launch gitk from the command line.

If I try to open the "Git Gui.app" I get: ziti:git-gui seth$ open Git\ Gui.app/ LSOpenFromURLSpec() failed with error -10810 for the file /Users/seth/src/git-MASTER/git-gui/Git Gui.app.

I've recently upgraded my system to Leopard, so I wouldn't be surprised if that is related to some of these issues.

Is there a big difference between how git gui uses Tcl/Tk and gitk? It seems really odd to me that one works and the other not so much :-\

Any other things to try or suggestions of where to look for root causes?

Thanks again,

+ seth

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