[PD-dev] msgcat on windows

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I forgot to mention, if "namespace require msgcat" doesn't cause the  
crash, then it should be possible to use "namespace exists" to test  
whether the 'msgcat' namespace is present.

.hc

On Aug 18, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

>
> Hmm, that's a bummer.  msgcat was included in at least 8.2 if not  
> earlier, so its got to be there.  I am guessing there is some other  
> issue.  Any Windows people want to take a stab at this?
>
> http://tcl.tk/man/tcl8.2.3/TclCmd/msgcat.htm
>
> .hc
>
> On Aug 18, 2009, at 1:11 AM, Miller Puckette wrote:
>
>> RIGHT, that was the other thing I couldn't get to work -- I think  
>> msgcat
>> doens't esist on the tcl version I'm running on win32 (8.4),  
>> although my
>> mac swears its tcl is also an 8.4 and there's a perfectly good  
>> msgcat there.
>> I think msgcat's a great thing and would like to know how to detect  
>> if
>> it's there on someone's random system so it can be ised if it's  
>> there.
>> If it isn't, just 'requiring' it crashes tcl, drat.
>>
>> cheers
>> M
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:35:35AM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey Miller,
>>>
>>> I just renamed *_panel to dialog_*, that name works fine for me.   
>>> Plus
>>> I replaced all tabs with 4 spaces, which it looks like you did as
>>> well.  I just recently created dialog_array.tcl and  
>>> dialog_canvas.tcl
>>> for those dialogs and cleaned things up some with the panels.
>>>
>>> I just noticed another thing, you disabled msgcat on Windows.  I
>>> haven't done any Windows testing yet, so I am guessing you had
>>> troubles with msgcat on Windows.  AFAIK, msgcat should work fine on
>>> Windows.  Can you shed some light on the issue?
>>>
>>> .hc
>>>
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