Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andy Foster <[email protected]> · Mon, 12 Nov 2001 11:16:22 +0000 (GMT)

Hi Bill,

On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Bill Cruise wrote:

> We have been using TCL/TK (et_wish) for our system GUI, and have
> generally been very pleased with it.  I do have a few questions
> that I would like to throw out to the group:
>
> 1. we are using a version in which etca.c is dated 10-9-95.  Is there
>    anything newer than this?

The "et_wish" we are currently using comes from an EPICS extension
called "caTCL". Some code changes are dated 2000.
I believe that "etca.c" is part of an older EPICS extension called tcl_et?
So it would probably be worth getting hold of "caTCL".

>
> 2. we are still running TCL version 7.6, and TK version 4.2.  Has
>    anyone moved on to version 8?  Any problems moving up?  Was there
>    any noticable performance improvement?

We are linking against:
tcl 8.3.4
tk  8.3.4
BLT 2.4u

We don't really have an expanse of applications so I could not comment
on performance improvement etc. All I can say is that the
examples we have tried appear to work with these new versions of Tcl/Tk.

Cheers,

Andy

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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