Hello Monks,

This is both a news and a search for help...

A previous thread about Tk::Zinc from smackdab , flyingmoose, and merlyn expressed some interests in Tk::Zinc. However the version at that time was not working with perlTk 804 on linux.

The new Tk::Zinc release available on CPAN now works with ptk804 on linux. The update doc is also available on http://www.tkzinc.org/index.php?n=Main.Documentation (previous site has been stolen www.openatc.org)

There are still some serious limitations for a better availability of TkZinc. I am quite sure monks with high levels C skills could provide some generous help for the following points:
- we still do not know how to make it work on winXP with perl (the pb is more or less a makefile.pl pb and a winXP perl/tk + zinc compilation pb]. We know this is mostly perl/tk compilation problem because TkZinc works well on windows with Tcl!
- there are still some undefined symbols in the Zinc.o. This makes the "make test" fails because the PERL_DL_NONLAZY environment variable is set to 1

We knows there is a serious bug when using both perl/tk 804, and openGL due to fonts initialisation and utf-8 glyphs handling. Launching small Tk::Zinc script may require more than 15s which is of course not acceptable. This should hopefully be fixed in next release...

I hope this release offer could however interest some of you. Feedback welcome on our mailing list

In reply to Tk::Zinc 3.2.97 on cpan now works with perlTk 804 by christopheM

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