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I've been thinking of writing an extensible editor scriptable with Tcl, but - surely someone somewhere must have already written one, no? I couldn't find anything that wasn't just a toy.
I've been thinking of writing an extensible editor scriptable with Tcl, but - surely someone somewhere must have already written one, no? I couldn't find anything that wasn't just a toy.
At least that is how it went for me. Once I got basic functionality working it turned into something that evolves instead of being written; working on some project and realize a certain feature would be great, open editor's built in console and write a few procs, send it to the interpreter, test, save, continue on with other project, fully intend to document and improve/generalize later, repeat until it turns into something only you can use.
I've been thinking of writing an extensible editor scriptable with Tcl, but - surely someone somewhere must have already written one, no? I couldn't find anything that wasn't just a toy.
Alphatk for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphatk
I've been thinking of writing an extensible editor scriptable with Tcl, but - surely someone somewhere must have already written one, no? I couldn't find anything that wasn't just a toy.
A lot of people on Hackernews get wistful for VB. But the VB of the Unix world is still here—Tcl/Tk. It's not for the faint of heart, but it's the fastest way I've seen to get from zero to functional GUI. Entire desktop environments have been built in it—before GNOME 1.0 even came out. It even has metaprogramming capabilities that approach Lisp in flexibility.
I think Qt Creator is still the best option I've used there. It has a very good GUI form editor (probably the only one I've ever used that is good). You can have a basic GUI up and running in like 5 minutes tops. And C++ is a much better language than TCL, and Qt is a much better GUI toolkit than Tcl/Tk.
Just steer clear of QtQuick and QML. It's kind of trash. QtWidgets is still supported though.
I've been thinking of writing an extensible editor scriptable with Tcl, but - surely someone somewhere must have already written one, no? I couldn't find anything that wasn't just a toy.
An interesting one I hacked around with for a while is [ma](https://github.com/kdltr/ma). It's a single window implementation of an acme-like editor. It was originally written (& still used by) Felix Winkleman, the creator of chicken scheme
Here's a talk I gave many years ago at the Toronto Usenix Symposium about porting SimCity to TCL/Tk: http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/simcity/keynote.html At that point in history (1993), TCL/Tk was ideal for what I wanted to do. It was very easy to integrate with C code (exposing the SimCity simulation engine and callback as TCL commands), and implement custom Tk components (like pie menus) and services (like a real…
A lot of people on Hackernews get wistful for VB. But the VB of the Unix world is still here—Tcl/Tk. It's not for the faint of heart, but it's the fastest way I've seen to get from zero to functional GUI. Entire desktop environments have been built in it—before GNOME 1.0 even came out. It even has metaprogramming capabilities that approach Lisp in flexibility.
VB and Tcl/Tk are very different at a fundamental level. Nowadays the closest to VB would be Lazarus[0]. There is also Gambas[1] though personally i haven't tried that recently (it also cannot make binaries for Windows FWIW) and back when i did, it was very clunky. Though there was an attempt[2] to make a Visual Tcl at some point. IIRC one neat aspect was that the program was actually live while you were designing it…
TCL can be so customized that it’s unrecognizable, breaking all compatibility between hosts.