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RE: New pbForth GUI
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Date: 
Tue, 16 May 2000 21:45:54 GMT
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Jeff Hazen wote:

> This is a great idea, Ralph.  I've wanted to just fool around in pbForth,
> but have been intimidated by the apparent front-end learning curve.  I'm a
> mechanical guy, I don't do TclTk, Gnu, etc.,  I've been spoiled by GUI
> front ends and install programs.

Me too. I got tired of dinking around with HyperTerminal...

I'm not sure at all about an NT installation, so I'm hoping some others
will step in here...

> Do I need to run Tcl, and then open your scripting files?  The only one
> that opens (by itself) into anything other than a gray box is Rcxtk.tcl.
>  Am I missing a prerequisite bit of knowledge??

No, If you unzip the distribution, there should be a .lnk file which
shows up as a shortcut file. Right click on it and edit the program target
and startup directories to where you actually unzipped everything to.
Make sure it looks something like:

c:/some/silly/path/rcxtk.tcl

Then double click the short cut. If you have installed the Tcl self-extracting
binaries, it should launch the Tcl shell automagically.

> On a different note, I just stopped using my WinCE machine, and got a
> Handspring Visor (Palm Clone).  I put the Quartus Forth on it, and I've
> been fooling around there.  Any luck or thoughts about using the ir port
> for direct Rcx control?  From my reading of the user groups, it clearly
> requires some very low level coding on the Palm.  Just curious.....

Once the dust settles here, I plan on a simple GUI for he Palm that
does exactly what the Tcl thing does on your desktop.

Please feed any bits of info on the NT installation to the
group. I did a quick google serch and came up with a few sites that had
giveio. I'm not even sure if it's needed. Please check out the FAQ at
Scriptics for more info on running Tcl under NT...

Cheers,

Ralph Hempel - P.Eng

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  RE: New pbForth GUI
 
This is a great idea, Ralph. I've wanted to just fool around in pbForth, but have been intimidated by the apparent front-end learning curve. I'm a mechanical guy, I don't do TclTk, Gnu, etc., I've been spoiled by GUI front ends and install programs. (...) (26 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)

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