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2020-10-30 17:05:49	oatmealraisin	Hello, I'm having issues creating a menu for a project called Pure Data. I've identified that the program doesn't start because of an error when creating a menu
2020-10-30 17:06:04	oatmealraisin	I'm getting the error 'ErrorMsg: expected integer but got "Mono"'
2020-10-30 17:06:41	oatmealraisin	I'm using linux, TK/TCL versions 8.6.10-2
2020-10-30 17:07:19	greycat	the error message should help you figure out which command is receiving the wrong data
2020-10-30 17:07:58	dbohdan	oatmealraisin: Could you post the relevant source code line?
2020-10-30 17:08:39	oatmealraisin	dbohdan: I'll gist the entire file, but it's in pd_menus.tcl:38
2020-10-30 17:09:27	oatmealraisin	https://gist.github.com/oatmealraisin/06c400bc285b992dfe4c51bc8b010431
2020-10-30 17:09:35	greycat	you're passing the wrong value, so you just have to figure out why
2020-10-30 17:10:34	oatmealraisin	greycat: I'm not sure what you mean, this is the error message from a `menu .menubar` line, and it seems that that's the way to create menus?
2020-10-30 17:11:09	oatmealraisin	There was no error info. I'm sorry if I'm hard to direct, I've never used TCL/TK, i'm just trying to get a project to run
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2020-10-30 17:14:09	dbohdan	oatmealraisin: The errorInfo you want is a global variable.  Access it with $::errorInfo, not $errorInfo.
2020-10-30 17:15:01	dbohdan	But that's outdated.  In Tcl 8.6 you should instead write something like [try { command ... } on error {msg opts} { puts stderr [list $msg $opts] }].
2020-10-30 17:15:15	oatmealraisin	Ohhhh! I know what's happening
2020-10-30 17:15:26	oatmealraisin	The 'Mono' it's complaining about is my font definition
2020-10-30 17:15:33	oatmealraisin	Which is a monospace font
2020-10-30 17:15:56	oatmealraisin	wow
2020-10-30 17:16:18	oatmealraisin	dbohdan: that's incredible, thank you so much!
2020-10-30 17:16:23	dbohdan	You're welcome!
2020-10-30 17:16:39	dbohdan	If you are totally new to Tcl, read this before you proceed: https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/tcl/
2020-10-30 17:16:42	dbohdan	It won't take you long
2020-10-30 17:17:31	oatmealraisin	Thanks, finding docs was pretty difficult. Seems the tutorialspoint one is out of date, and the official docs are pretty in the weeds
2020-10-30 17:18:19	oldlaptop	there exists an official tutorial: https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/tutorial/tcltutorial.html
2020-10-30 17:18:32	oldlaptop	the manpages themselves are reference material, as is typical for such things
2020-10-30 17:18:47	oldlaptop	but the entire language/environment *is* documented in them, for what that's worth
2020-10-30 17:18:52	oldlaptop	including what little syntax exists
2020-10-30 17:19:13	oatmealraisin	Right, definitely feels like much of the GNU type projects, man pages are like a car manual hah
2020-10-30 17:19:29	dbohdan	That's a grave insult
2020-10-30 17:19:32	oatmealraisin	:O
2020-10-30 17:19:43	oldlaptop	they're nothing like gnu's nasty little stub "manpages" :P
2020-10-30 17:19:55	oatmealraisin	Sorry!
2020-10-30 17:20:08	dbohdan	j/k
2020-10-30 17:20:10	oldlaptop	"here's a few of the most important flags, go type 'info foo' and stop bothering me"
2020-10-30 17:20:57	oatmealraisin	oldlaptop: Thanks #kernel, very cool
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2020-10-30 17:21:11	dbohdan	oatmealraisin: http://tkdocs.com/ is a nice introduction to Tk specifically
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2020-10-30 17:22:10	oatmealraisin	All of these resources are great. I've already added a few modifications to the source to change the colorschemes of a lot of Pd, it's pretty ugly by default
2020-10-30 17:22:15	ischain	<kbk> Well, I've gone and done it.  If anyone still has mailto:[email protected] ([email protected]) in their contact list, that avatar is no more - I've officially entered the ranks of the retired.
2020-10-30 17:22:30	oldlaptop	tkdocs doesn't show off https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.6/TkCmd/grid.htm#M28 though! :(
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2020-10-30 17:23:30	ischain	<kbk> Once I've had some time to rest and regroup, you might begin to see some more Tcl activity from me. 🙂