Peter, thanks for the message; thanks also to Daniel Herring and Victor. It turns out that I did not have tcl and tk installed. I now have them and all is well in that at the shell (bash) wish -> a blank window and a % prompt
while inside SBCL (ltktest) and (ltk::ltk-eyes) do their thing. As does the first example from the documentation. So thanks all, once more. ;;;; My lisp experience is with Franz's Allegro and their common graphics. There I can open a window and keep the listener/repl alive. From the repl (setf w make-a-window-syntax) then allows me to do things like (draw-to w some-graphic) from that REPL. This facility is important to the application I'm interested in porting; I guess it means that I must learn how to program with threads/processes to obtain this behaviour.
Cheers /Greg Bennett *** Peter Herth wrote:
Hi Greg,
the problems with web applications refer to windows - on Linux with SBCL (a combination I am using myself) I had never such problems. To run tcl/tk, LTk tries to run "wish". Can you check whether wish is in your path and which version it is? Just type wish at the shell and see what happens. If it is not in the path, either add it to the path, or change the variable *wish-pathname* to contain the wish executable to run. (On some systems it is called wish8.4 or wish8.5 for example).
If that all does not help, please try to paste the whole error output into a mail.
Peter
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