Re: Availability of OS X-specific features

> I appreciate the info, although I fear much of this may be (and writing
> an extension certainly is) beyond my abilities. Just as a matter of
> clarification, I didn't mean to suggest that the core should
> necessarily have this functionality; I was hoping (perhaps selfishly,
> given my lack of ability) that extensions to provide it already existed.

I've added a brief example on how to set the application dock tile from
a png image to the wiki:
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/Ffidl
as you'll see, it's really not very complicated.

> I'm now careening off-topic, but is there any particular reason why the
> subject of Tcl on Macintoshes should be ghetto-ized into a sourceforge
> mailing list, rather than discussed on a long-standing newsgroup?

Others have already responded to this, I'd just add that that my advice
to go to the list was purely pragmatic, because I know from experience
that most of the mac tcl/tk folks read the tcl-mac list but not the
newsgroup.
Personally, I know that while I try to read the newsgroup on a regular
basis, if time is short, I'll have a harder time ignoring list msgs
arriving on their own in my mail client as compared to having to
remember to fire up my news reader (c.l.t is the only newsgroup I read,
but I'm probably on close to 100 mailing lists...)

I don't disagree that I'd be nice in theory to have all mac discussions
on c.l.t but in practice, people are on tcl-mac and not on c.l.t for
historical reasons, and there is not much anyone can do about that at
this point.
It appears that tcl-mac development has been discussed on separate
mailing lists since the very first mac port of Tcl 7.3 in 1994, google
still finds some traces of historical tcl-mac lists:
        http://www.ralentz.com/old/mac/unix/tcl.html
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mactcl/messages/1

FWIW, the tcl-mac sourceforge list has three web archives
        http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=tcl-mac
        http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Browse/Threaded/tcl-mac
        http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.tcl.mac
and as a result it is very googleable in my experience (adding MACTCL
to the query sometimes helps since that string appears in every subject
line).

Cheers,

Daniel
Received on Tue Jan 3 03:09:17 2006