[Magic-dev] Re: Magic toolbar (layer palette)

[R. Timothy Edwards]

Dear Musab,

> I noticed that the magic has a pallete to choose the diffirent
> layout objects( I saw a snapshot to the program on the magic
> download site ), But I couldn't find it in the software, I don't
> know if there a specific command that would appear it.  I
> installed magic 7.3.2, and the stable versions 7.2.x , but couldn't
> find the palette, I also could not find the cellmgr, or the techmgr.
> would you please tell me what is wrong?

There are several possible solutions to your problem:

1) Make sure that you have compiled magic with the Tcl/Tk
extension.  This is automatic in the 7.2.63 version and above,
but before that requires "./configure --with-tcl" followed by
"make tcl" and "make install-tcl".  It also requires having
Tcl/Tk installed on the system.  I don't know if this is true
of Mandrake 9.1.  If not, then it can be downloaded from
www.tcl.tk.

2) Make sure you invoke magic as "magic -w".  Otherwise, the
toolbar, cell manager, and tech manager will not appear.

3) The toolbar and cell and tech managers are not visible
until the appropriate option is selected from the "Options"
menu.

4) The cell manager is not available unless you have compiled
and installed the package "BLT" for Tcl/Tk.  You can check if
it has been installed from the "tkcon" console that appears
along with the layout window in magic.  Choose "Interp->Packages"
from the menu.  If the "Packages" pop-down menu has an entry
"Blt Loaded", then you don't need to do anything else.  If
not, you can get BLT from http://blt.sourceforge.net/.

				Regards,
				Tim