- [Manfred Rosenberger] ever tried Woof!
- Marty Backe suggested tcljava and swank, "particularly the latter." CL observes that Swank is for use with the Jacl part of Tcljava.
- Tom Poindexter suggested: "You might try WeirdX, it's an X11 server written in Java, and runs as a browser applet. I've used this in the past to deliver Tcl/Tk applications for internal users. It's suitable for running on fast, secure networks."
- Tom also suggests: "Proxy Tk would also be an idea, but to my knowledge, it never made it into public consumption". Bryan Oakley also offered the same suggestion, continuing: "The short summary is, you write tk on the server which drives a thin client that translates the tk commands into java widgets in the client. The software isn't available, but it looks like a fairly straight-forward thing to reinvent. Unless your guis are trivial, it may take less effort to reinvent proxytk than it would be to recode all of the GUIs in Java."
- Several folks suggested VNC. As of 2006, CL is doing a lot of work with VNC-in-a-browser; expect this to become public in late September.
- Donal Fellows suggested: "If you end up having to do Java GUIs, start by porting the Tk geometry managers to Java as the standard ones are not really very good (GridBagLayout sucks a lot more than you might think at first. Trust me.) That'll save you much frustration."
- Roy Terry suggested: "You can run Tcl/Tk as an activeX object using TclControl. I believe, but haven't done the work, that you could also package the tclcontrol along with the needed Tcl/Tk dlls, etc. into a CAB file and have the whole thing download seamlessly on Windows." A paper [1] provides details.
- CL also believes that good engineering judgment in such a matter depends on details. Is the GUI just a buttons-and-entry form-oriented office-automation sort of thing, or does it involve a lot of canvas sophistication? What network characteristics can be assumed? What security and licensing models are involved?
- Roy Keene suggested: It should be possible to emulate the Tk functionality in Tcl, and also provide an HTML rendering engine for the psuedo-Tk widgets in HTML. An incomplete example [2] [3] is available for examination. A Tkweb screenshot ( http://www.rkeene.org/projects/tkweb/tkweb-test1-2.png
) is also available. This method is also discussed by Wilfred J. Hansen [4] . - Æjaks Although not directly compatible with Tk, Æjaks provides a very similar programming model.
- By 2010, HTML5 has caught up sufficiently to offer canvas, SVG, and other interesting advances that duplicate parts of Tk's style.
Googie - 2011-05-28 - I was playing a little with ajax lately (using jquery) and I believe Tk can be implemented (more or less accurately) using tools like jquery or [dojo] or something similar for frontend, then some object orientation package on Tcl side (TclOO most probably) + json::write from Tcllib. What do you guys think?
[Martin Cleaver] - 2011-12-16 - believes that transpiling tcltk into coffeescript and html5 would be a worthy goal.
- https://twitter.com/#!/mrjcleaver/status/144383825890377728
- https://twitter.com/#!/markroseman/status/144418651011948545
FireTcl - 2015-08-18 23:53:41I developed FireTcl. It's a framework that embeds Tcl into Firefox.It uses behind the scenes the XPCOM component js-ctypes, and coroutines for emulating interactivity with the browser (execute javascript, manipulate the DOM,...)https://sourceforge.net/projects/firetcl/
Jeff Smith = 2017-12-18: Check out CloudTk for viewing Tk applications (unmodified) in a modern web browser.
