Hello out there,
prompted today by todays answer to 'What is the state of Tcl
debugging?' I thought I'd give TclProDebug a try. I downloaded it
alright but when I started it said 'can't find package Winico'.
Now, the search for Winico led to a page on SourceForge containing
TkTable but no Winico.
If anybody has a link to this package it would be greatly appreciated.
Helmut

Am 18.04.2023 um 17:00 schrieb Helmut Giese:
> Hello out there,
> prompted today by todays answer to 'What is the state of Tcl
> debugging?' I thought I'd give TclProDebug a try. I downloaded it
> alright but when I started it said 'can't find package Winico'.
> Now, the search for Winico led to a page on SourceForge containing
> TkTable but no Winico.
> If anybody has a link to this package it would be greatly appreciated.
> Helmut

Yes, the package is obsoleted by changes in Tk and by twapi.
I have used it 20 years ago. I am sure, I still have it. May answer on
Friday, I am on travel.
Harald

Helmut Giese <hgiese@ratiosoft.com> wrote:
> Hello out there,
> prompted today by todays answer to 'What is the state of Tcl
> debugging?' I thought I'd give TclProDebug a try. I downloaded it
> alright but when I started it said 'can't find package Winico'.
> Now, the search for Winico led to a page on SourceForge containing
> TkTable but no Winico.
> If anybody has a link to this package it would be greatly appreciated.
> Helmut

Going to: https://sourceforge.net/projects/tktable/

And clicking on the "Files" tab shows a "winico" directory.

Clicking on the winico directory shows three sub-directories (0.6, 0.5,
0.4).

Inside 0.6 appears to be source and other files for winico.

Note, I did not download any of them to actually verify their contents.

On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 15:44:04 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote:

> Helmut Giese <hgiese@ratiosoft.com> wrote:
> > Hello out there,
> > prompted today by todays answer to 'What is the state of Tcl
> > debugging?' I thought I'd give TclProDebug a try. I downloaded it
> > alright but when I started it said 'can't find package Winico'.
> > Now, the search for Winico led to a page on SourceForge containing
> > TkTable but no Winico.
> > If anybody has a link to this package it would be greatly appreciated.
> > Helmut
>
> Going to: https://sourceforge.net/projects/tktable/
>
> And clicking on the "Files" tab shows a "winico" directory.
>
> Clicking on the winico directory shows three sub-directories (0.6, 0.5,
> 0.4).
>
> Inside 0.6 appears to be source and other files for winico.
>
> Note, I did not download any of them to actually verify their contents.

I have a Winico06.dll file that is part of a very old version of Tkabber.
It's dated 2007 and has been here sitting on my disk since then.

Apparently, freewrap 673 also uses it because it bundles a doc about it,
but maybe not freewrap 674 because it doesn't include that doc.

--
Luc
>>

Thanks to all of you who responded.

Forget all about winico - it won't suffice. Here is what I did:
- I unwrapped TclProDebug.kit
- Thanks to Rich's hint I got winico06.src and unpacked it into
<your path>\TclProDebug.vfs\lib\
- Starting it via 'main.tcl' I got the message
couldn't load scicons.dll'
issued from a line
lappend parameters iconImage [winico load dbg scicons.dll]
So apparently winico was now found but attempted to load a
'scicons.dll'. A cursory search didn't turn up anything - which is
understandable, given that the package was abandoned 18 years ago.

As the whole purpose of winico is to place an icon on the taskbar (a
feature I used exactly three times so far) I decided to mask all uses
of it. So I
- commented lines 28 and 29 of .../src/'startup.tcl and line 12 of
..../lib/debugger/system.dll

The next call lead to an error which I corrected by adding a '$' to
line 1 of .../lib/dbgext/dbgext.tcl - and, voilà, TclDebug started.

If it works at all and how it performs I don't know - it was too late
by now. Maybe more tomorrow.
Helmut

On Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at 3:48:03 PM UTC-4, Luc wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 15:44:04 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote:
>
> > Helmut Giese <hgi...@ratiosoft.com> wrote:
> > > Hello out there,
> > > prompted today by todays answer to 'What is the state of Tcl
> > > debugging?' I thought I'd give TclProDebug a try. I downloaded it
> > > alright but when I started it said 'can't find package Winico'.
> > > Now, the search for Winico led to a page on SourceForge containing
> > > TkTable but no Winico.
> > > If anybody has a link to this package it would be greatly appreciated..
> > > Helmut
> >
> > Going to: https://sourceforge.net/projects/tktable/
> >
> > And clicking on the "Files" tab shows a "winico" directory.
> >
> > Clicking on the winico directory shows three sub-directories (0.6, 0.5,
> > 0.4).
> >
> > Inside 0.6 appears to be source and other files for winico.
> >
> > Note, I did not download any of them to actually verify their contents.
> I have a Winico06.dll file that is part of a very old version of Tkabber.
> It's dated 2007 and has been here sitting on my disk since then.
>
> Apparently, freewrap 673 also uses it because it bundles a doc about it,
> but maybe not freewrap 674 because it doesn't include that doc.
>
> --
> Luc
> >>
freeWrap 6.74 (and 6.75) does include winico. The winico README/license is now included in the main freeWrap PDF document.

On Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at 5:31:03 PM UTC-4, Helmut Giese wrote:
> Thanks to all of you who responded.
>
> Forget all about winico - it won't suffice. Here is what I did:
> - I unwrapped TclProDebug.kit
> - Thanks to Rich's hint I got winico06.src and unpacked it into
> <your path>\TclProDebug.vfs\lib\
> - Starting it via 'main.tcl' I got the message
> couldn't load scicons.dll'
> issued from a line
> lappend parameters iconImage [winico load dbg scicons.dll]
> So apparently winico was now found but attempted to load a
> 'scicons.dll'. A cursory search didn't turn up anything - which is
> understandable, given that the package was abandoned 18 years ago.
>
> As the whole purpose of winico is to place an icon on the taskbar (a
> feature I used exactly three times so far) I decided to mask all uses
> of it. So I
> - commented lines 28 and 29 of .../src/'startup.tcl and line 12 of
> .../lib/debugger/system.dll
>
> The next call lead to an error which I corrected by adding a '$' to
> line 1 of .../lib/dbgext/dbgext.tcl - and, voilà, TclDebug started.
>
> If it works at all and how it performs I don't know - it was too late
> by now. Maybe more tomorrow.
> Helmut
It looks like the TclProDebug code itself is trying to import some icons from the scicons.dll file. Have you checked whether this DLL is part of the TclProDebug software package?

What version are you using?.
I've taked a look to the code of version 2.0 and the debugger start with tclprodebug.tkapp located in bin directory (i'm using the Magicsplat distribution) wich call startup.tcl where you see this line :

if {0 && $::tcl_platform(platform) == "windows"} {
package require Winico
lappend parameters iconImage [winico load dbg scicons.dll]

In other words, Winico never is used ...
You can download the version 2.0 from https://github.com/flightaware/TclProDebug