Before porting Tcl scripts to a PocketPC or PDA running Windows/CE, check this list for known problems of the two current ports, and some workarounds.
8.4a2 port by Rainer Keuchel:
- canvas: arcs and ovals are not shown (Regular polygons for a workaround)
- canvas: lines of width > 1 are always black, -fill color is ignored
- font families only lists initial letter of font names (font families workaround)
- puts stdout not possible (puts workaround)
- text: Cursor often jumps to a different position
- slow
- exec often does not work (e.g. pword, iexplore), but works with both wish and calc (the CE calculator)
- Native file selectors allow only to choose files from /My Documents and (only one level?) below
8.4.3 port by Jeffrey Hobbs:
- menus are not shown
- scrollbars always move to one end, no intermediate position possible
- fileevent readable on a socket seems to trigger once and only once regardless of whether the socket is actually readable (see PocketPC socket/fileevent strangeness)