[PD-dev] tcl 8.5 help browser bug and a fix

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Feb 27, 2007, at 1:17 PM, ico at vt.edu wrote:

> Quoting Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org>:
>
>>
>> I don't know exactly.  I thought 8.5 was backwards compatible, but I
>> could be wrong.
>
> OK, so how about the following patch then? I just checked this out  
> and the 8.4
> syntax does work on 8.5 but in the current code it is never  
> accessed due to the
> existing "if" statement. The new fix simply comments the "if"  and  
> "else"
> statements making the 8.4 style of closing children widgets  
> mandatory for all
> versions, and since it appears that 8.4 works fine with this code,  
> this appears
> to be a universal fix for this issue.
>
> Please see attached (diff -uw against the fresh CVS checkout).
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Ico
> <u_main.tk.patch2>

You'll have better luck uploading this to the patch tracker.  I'll  
take a look when I get a moment.

.hc


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