Tycho on the Macintosh

External Mac Tcl places to go

  • Tycho distribution at UC Berkeley
  • Itcl homepage
  • Sun Mac Tcl Home Page Mark Roseman's Tcl Projects Page
  • Metrowerks, makers of CodeWarrior
  • Tcl and Itcl Internet Resources

  • Tycho/Macintosh bugs

    Note that tycho0.1.1 does not work on the Mac.
    We are making Mac Itcl binaries available so that developers can work on the port.
  • Starting Tycho may crash your mac. The bug seems to be caused by the lines in Tycho.tcl that create the TclShell.
  • Tycho0.1.1 does not handle spaces in pathnames very well. Tycho will work best if the distribution is installed in a directory that has a pathname that contains no spaces.
  • There are pathname problems with the FileBrowser. Currently, it is not possible to open a file. See the Tcl filename man page for information about pathnames on the mac.
  • Starting Tycho requires sourcing the tycho-mac script by hand. There must be a better way.
  • Tycho on the mac should use an installer.

  • Installing Tycho on the Macintosh

    1. The Tycho home page at http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/tycho/Tycho.html has a link to the downloads page that contains Tycho sources and Itcl binaries for the Mac.
    2. Download both the Tycho distribution and the Itcl distribution and place them in directories next to each other. For example,
    3. The Tycho distribution could be in mac:devel:tycho0.1.1
    4. The Itcl distribution could be in mac:devel:itcl2.2-ppc
    5. Install Itcl by following the instructions in the README-mac file.
    6. Move the tycho-mac script from tycho0.1.1:lib:mac to the top level Itcl directory. In this example, tycho-mac would end up at mac:devel:itcl2.2-ppc:tycho-mac.
    7. To start up Tycho, start Itkwish, then type source tycho-mac.

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    Last updated: 12/16/96, comments to: tycho@eecs.berkeley.edu