- How the current version started
As can be seen in my presentation
APWTCL at the
10th European Tcl/Tk Users Meeting 2012 this year and on the wiki page there has been a reimplementation of
incr tcl in javascript based on
Jim Tcl. This version was the first version
wtk from
Mark Roseman as an interface for handling basic widget support. Following that
APWTCL (Javascript) version there was another implementation of
APWTCL (Java) for supporting
Android smartphones and an implementation in Objective-C for support of
iPhone
s.
When arriving at the point for building support for
wtk widgets the first approach was to use the administrative part of
wtk mostly as it was and to replace sending of
javascript code to the displaying part by a generic message (string based) interface.
On the client side there should be a small interpreter for decoding the messages and for switching and dispatching to the appropriate functions for doing the displaying and event handling work.
This was first implemented for the
iOS version, later on there was a port of that code to Java to support
Android.
