Is there a Tk to Tkx translator script?

hsfrey has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm attempting to use Tkx with Active State perl, but there are several Tk modules (like Tk::Table) that don't seem to have been converted to Tkx.

The respective syntaxes seem similar enough that a perl script should be able to do the translation.

Has such a translator been written? Is it available?

I don't grok either language well enough to try writing it myself.

Yes, I saw the similar all-caps prior question from 5 years ago, but it didn't really answer my question.

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Re: Is there a Tk to Tkx translator script? by LanX (Saint) on Jul 11, 2016 at 19:37 UTC
I doubt a translation is easily feasable. IIRC (not sure) does tkx provide an abstraction to write TCL semantically in Perl. Perl/Tk on the other hand is a OO framework interfacing with the underlying C bindings to the Tk lib, hence bypassing TCL. While the latter is the cleaner approach it hasn't been updated to newer versions of Tk, while Tkx doesn't need to, cause TCL commands are generated and send over a bridge. If you think a code translation is possible, then I'd rather opt for a new class framework with same interface, but generating TCL like tkx does. (Doesn't such a project already exist?)² Keep in mind that TCL is very lisp like, just where in lisp-dogma everything is a list, TCL -dogma makes everything a whitespace separated string. Not an expert. .. HTH! See also Perl TK Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :) Je suis Charlie!} Update ²) indeed, Tcl::pTk ! AnoMonk++	[reply]
Re: Is there a Tk to Tkx translator script? (Tk, Tcl::pTk) by Anonymous Monk on Jul 11, 2016 at 23:13 UTC
Tcl::pTk, Tcl::pTk::TkHijack, Tcl::pTk::Facelift You do know you can install Tk and you don't have to use Tkx, right? There is absolutely no reason to learn Tkx, no reason to convert or switch, Tk is still available/installable. Tkx is the worst possible option	[reply]
[Crossposted SO] Re: Is there a Tk to Tkx translator script? by LanX (Saint) on Jul 11, 2016 at 20:22 UTC
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38310991/is-there-a-tk-to-tkx-translator-script It is considered polite to inform about crossposting so people do not waste their effort in one site not knowing about the progress at the other one. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :) Je suis Charlie!}	[reply]
Re: [Crossposted SO] Re: Is there a Tk to Tkx translator script? by hsfrey (Beadle) on Jul 11, 2016 at 23:51 UTC
The pedantic sysops at SO blocked the question as "not being about programming". I had hoped that the sysops here would be less pedantic.	[reply]
Re^2: [Crossposted SO] Re: Is there a Tk to Tkx translator script? by Laurent_R (Canon) on Jul 12, 2016 at 14:17 UTC
LanX has provided an answer to your question, maybe it would be nice to thank him for that. He also said that it is considered polite to inform about cross-posting and gave the sound reasons for that. I don't think this is being pedantic. Especially, please don't do that to someone who has just tried to help you.	[reply]

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