How can I use tcl/tk 8.2.2 in Python

Robin Becker robin at jessikat.demon.co.uk
Wed Jan 5 12:55:19 EST 2000


In article <38736F93.24A867B7 at gssec.bt.co.uk>, Alan Gauld
<alan.gauld at gssec.bt.co.uk> writes
>> I try to use Tkinter with tcl/tk 8.1~8.2.
>> And I get an error that tell me It can not find tcl80.dll .....
>
>I don't really understand why this happens but I suspect you 
>have some Tcl/Tk DLLs in your Windows\System32 directory.
>
>Delete(or rename if your nervous) those DLLs and the error 
>should go away.... Its worked (several times) for me! :-)
>
>Alan G.
>

I think base Python 1.5.2 assumed tcl/tk 8.0.x and there fore needs
tcl80; you have to patch _tkinter.c and rebuild it to make it work with
8.1/8.2.
-- 
Robin Becker



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