Starpacker

anoved

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Mar 26, 2008, 11:37:20 PM3/26/08

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I made a little utility based on SDX for making Starpacks. I wrote it
mostly for practice and for my own convenience, but perhaps it will be
useful for others.

http://anoved.net/2008/03/starpacker.html

I think it has some VFS version problems with Windows Tclkits, but I
haven't had an opportunity to work them out. (Any advice or
information on that would be useful.) I use it on Mac OS X.

Be well,
Jim

anoved

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Mar 27, 2008, 11:54:05 AM3/27/08

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On Mar 26, 11:37 pm, anoved <Jim.DeV...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I made a little utility based on SDX for making Starpacks. I wrote it
> mostly for practice and for my own convenience, but perhaps it will be
> useful for others.
>
> http://anoved.net/2008/03/starpacker.html

I updated the post with a little video (http://www.viddler.com/explore/
anoved/videos/20) demonstrating Starpacker in use.

Jim

Pat Thoyts

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Mar 27, 2008, 4:13:26 PM3/27/08

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On 27/03/2008, anoved <Jim.D...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
[snip]

> I think it has some VFS version problems with Windows Tclkits, but I
> haven't had an opportunity to work them out. (Any advice or
> information on that would be useful.) I use it on Mac OS X.

Some of the windows tclkit executables use vqtcl instead of mk4tcl for
the metakit interface. If you use one of the vqtcl exes
(tclkit-gui.exe or tclkit-cli.exe) then it can't merge vfs trees - you
need mk4tcl for that (tclkit.exe or tclkitsh.exe) .

This may or may not be the problem.

Pat Thoyts

anoved

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Mar 27, 2008, 6:27:16 PM3/27/08

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On Mar 27, 4:13 pm, "Pat Thoyts" <pattho...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> [snip]
> > I think it has some VFS version problems with Windows Tclkits, but I
> > haven't had an opportunity to work them out. (Any advice or
> > information on that would be useful.) I use it on Mac OS X.
>
> Some of the windows tclkit executables use vqtcl instead of mk4tcl for
> the metakit interface. If you use one of the vqtcl exes
> (tclkit-gui.exe or tclkit-cli.exe) then it can't merge vfs trees - you
> need mk4tcl for that (tclkit.exe or tclkitsh.exe) .

I'm still not sure what the problem was, but I tried a slightly older
Windows tclkit from Equi 4 (8.4.16) and it appears to work. I've
updated the post again to include a screenshot and download link for
the Windows version (http://anoved.net/2008/03/starpacker.html).

Thanks,
Jim

anoved

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Mar 27, 2008, 6:42:42 PM3/27/08

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On Mar 26, 11:37 pm, anoved <Jim.DeV...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I made a little utility based on SDX for making Starpacks.

> I use it on Mac OS X.

Also I should note that the "Create Mac application package" option
attempts to insert a line of code in main.tcl of the output starpack
to strip the Carbon process serial number argument from argv (per
http://wiki.tcl.tk/12987#pagetocaf666f28). This may fail depending how
the starkit is set up. As a work-around, you can still build an Aqua
starpack without the application package option - it'll just launch
through the terminal.

Jim

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