# Trouble with gitk and ActiveState tcltk on OS X 5 messages from 2008-02-10 to 2008-02-11. Participants: Seth Falcon, Shawn O. Pearce, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo, Jay Soffian. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/12015 ## Seth Falcon, 2008-02-10 21:15 Subject: Trouble with gitk and ActiveState tcltk on OS X Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/m2ve4wh5sx.fsf%40ziti.evri.corp ``` Hi all, I'm hoping that another OS X git user can point me in the right direction... I installed the ActiveState tcltk and set the following in git/config.mak: TCLTK_PATH=/usr/local/bin/wish8.5 With this, git gui works great (I get a real icon when switching apps and the overall look is more consistent than when I was running with X11 + MacPorts tcltk). But gitk does not work. gitk starts up but no window appears. The menus appear, but that's it. If I start X11 and switch the wish path to /opt/local/bin/wish in the gitk script, then things work. Any suggestions for running gitk without X11 on OS X? Thanks, + seth -- Seth Falcon | seth@userprimary.net | blog: http://userprimary.net/user/ ``` ## Shawn O. Pearce, 2008-02-11 04:49 Subject: Re: Trouble with gitk and ActiveState tcltk on OS X Message-ID: <20080211044941.GX24004@spearce.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080211044941.GX24004%40spearce.org In-Reply-To: ``` Seth Falcon wrote: > I'm hoping that another OS X git user can point me in the right > direction... > > I installed the ActiveState tcltk and set the following in > git/config.mak: > > TCLTK_PATH=/usr/local/bin/wish8.5 > > With this, git gui works great (I get a real icon when switching apps > and the overall look is more consistent than when I was running with > X11 + MacPorts tcltk). 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? -- Shawn. ``` ## Kalle Olavi Niemitalo, 2008-02-11 08:26 Subject: Re: Trouble with gitk and ActiveState tcltk on OS X Message-ID: <87myq7c30t.fsf@Astalo.kon.iki.fi> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/87myq7c30t.fsf%40Astalo.kon.iki.fi In-Reply-To: <20080211044941.GX24004@spearce.org> ``` "Shawn O. Pearce" writes: > In short, why not just use the native Aqua Tcl/Tk that Apple ships? With the Tcl 8.4b and Tk 8.4 that Apple bundles with Mac OS 10.5.1, two-finger scrolling with the MacBook touchpad does not work in gitk, and I think buttons in dialog boxes were sometimes invisible. Upgrading both to 8.4.16 (Tk still Aqua) fixed these problems for me. ``` ## Seth Falcon, 2008-02-11 15:51 Subject: Re: Trouble with gitk and ActiveState tcltk on OS X Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/m2zlu71ofs.fsf%40userprimary.net In-Reply-To: <20080211044941.GX24004@spearce.org> ``` "Shawn O. Pearce" writes: > 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 -- Seth Falcon | seth@userprimary.net | blog: http://userprimary.net/user/ ``` ## Jay Soffian, 2008-02-11 17:59 Subject: Re: Trouble with gitk and ActiveState tcltk on OS X Message-ID: <76718490802110959y10df4bc6xfe98a9de57a4f8a@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/76718490802110959y10df4bc6xfe98a9de57a4f8a%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20080211044941.GX24004@spearce.org> ``` On Feb 10, 2008 11:49 PM, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > 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. Under 10.5, it's /System/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework and the app is now /System/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Resources/Wish\ Shell.app. I'll work on a patch for the git-gui Makefile in next (or master?) to work w/both 10.4 and 10.5 if I can figure out the darn Makefile quoting (loathe whitespace in path names). j. ```