[vtkusers] VTK Tcl interface on Win98/ME

[Eduardo Kortright]

Dear VTK Gurus,

I have noticed that the Tcl shell that comes with the pre-compiled Windows
VTK 4.0 binaries is not as friendly on Win98 or WinME as it is on Win2000 or
WinXP.  It seems to run on Windows' "MSDOS prompt" utility and you cannot
retrieve previous commands (e.g. by using the up-arrow key) or edit the
current command line.  It is very difficult to even paste text from other
windows (you have to move the mouse around to coax the text to come out of
the clipboard), and as far as I know you cannot copy or cut text.

These limitations do not exist if you run Tcl by itself (wish83); the shell
that appears has all the basic text editing features.  My question is: does
anyone know how to run VTK from this nicer Tcl shell instead of the ugly
MSDOS shell?  Or is there some way to fix this behavior?

Thanks for any help you can offer.

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Eduardo Kortright
UNO Computer Science
eduardo at cs.uno.edu