StrikeLight

With the recent release of Tcl/Tk8.5, I was eager to update one of my programs (Written in Delphi) that uses an embedded Tcl/Tk scripting engine (with the Tslc component). I ran into a few stumbling blocks when attempting to do so. The update wasn't as seamless as it was when upgrading between Tcl/Tk8.4.x revisions. A couple of major problems that were encountered: Windows created through Tk8.5 were unusable, bindings not triggered, etc.. The other main problem was with using scripts that made use of Tix, a module that extends functionality of Tk with better widgets and what not, where they would fail to execute properly due to color code issues. For the first problem, I found that by pressing the alt-key, the Tk windows became functional again (I have no idea why), so in my application, I created a Tcl command from Tslc, 'pressaltkey' which emulates the key-press of the alt-key, and called this command through a Tslc eval during the initialization of Tcl/Tk. For the second problem, it appears that Tk8.5 doesn't like hexadecimal color values, so I had to edit some scripts in the Tix library to use color names instead (eg. black). I only hope that Tcl/Tk8.5 isn't this troublesome between revisions.