PortTk - a portable interface for Tk

Introduction

Porting Tk to new UI environments has been a matter of debate for a long time. Our project was to find out is it possible to make an portable interface for Tk and if it is, how it can be done. The result is a proof of the Tk's portability concept. In this document we refer to our portable interface as PortTk.

PortTk is created by Filip Karlemo (fkarlemo@snakemail.hut.fi), Ari Kiviluoma (akiviluo@snakemail.hut.fi) and Kimmo Joki-Korpela (kjk@snakemail.hut.fi) as a project course at Helsinki University of Technology. Our supervisors Pertti Kasanen, Hannu Aronsson and Sami Tikka introduced the idea of PortTk.

If you are not interested to know PortTk in detail, read only the summary and the comments. PortTk source files are available on ftp. Click here to get MS Windows version and here to get X version . The packages contain the same files, but they are packed differently. The installing instructions are here

Contents:

• Manual
  • 1. Tutorial
  • 2. The original Tk
  • 3. How PortTk is organized on a directory level
  • 4. Reference manual
    • 4.1 Listing of the PortTk portable interface data structures
      • src/system_dependent_dir/dptk.h
    • 4.2 Listing of the PortTk portable interface functions
      • src/system_dependent_dir/dptk.c
      • src/system_dependent_dir/dp2d.c
  • 5. PortTk, the X version
  • 6. PortTk, the Windows version
    • Examples of definitions:
    • Example of code
  • 7. What's not implemented in PortTk
  • 8. Continuing PortTk for Windows
  • 9. Using PortTk for other environments (e.g. Mac, Amiga)
  • 10. Summary and comments of the project PortTk
  • Glossary