I'm stumped. When executing dosboxgui.tcl from /tmp:

1scott@trousersnake:/tmp$ tclsh8.4 dosboxgui.tcl proc_browsers.tcl
2Application initialization failed: this isn't a Tk applicationunknown color name "Black"
3Error in startup script: couldn't read file "./proc_browsers.tcl": no such file or directory
4    while executing
5"source [file join $libPath proc_browsers.tcl]"
6    (file "./dosboxgui.tcl" line 267)
7scott@trousersnake:/tmp$

After moving all the tcl files to ~/.dosbox/dosboxgui/ :

1scott@trousersnake:~/.dosbox/dosboxgui$ tclsh8.4 dosboxgui.tcl
2Application initialization failed: this isn't a Tk applicationunknown color name "Black"
3couldn't find: /home/scott/.dosbox/dosboxgui/dosboxgui.ini, using default settings
4save settings called: /home/scott/.dosbox/dosboxgui/dosboxgui.ini
5using default language
6Error in startup script: can't invoke "option" command:  application has been destroyed
7    while executing
8"option add *Button.padY 0"
9    (procedure "gui::build" line 25)
10    invoked from within
11"gui::build"
12    (file "./dosboxgui.tcl" line 276)
13scott@trousersnake:~/.dosbox/dosboxgui

Running it with tcl 8.3 wasn't much of an improvement:

1scott@trousersnake:~/.dosbox/dosboxgui$ tclsh8.3 dosboxgui.tcl
2syntax error in expression "[file type $scriptBase] eq "link""
3    while executing
4"if {[file type $scriptBase] eq "link"} {
5    set libPath [file dirname [file readlink $scriptBase]]
6} else {
7    set libPath [file dirname $scriptBase..."
8    (file "dosboxgui.tcl" line 6)
9scott@trousersnake:~/.dosbox/dosboxgui$

Am I doing something wrong? I'm not too familiar with how tcl needs to be handled 😒

nm I'm dumb, needed to move /etc/X11/rgb.txt to /usr/share/X11/

Version 0.5.1 is out - a bugfixing release:

• on Linux systems please consider that there's an issue when running dosboxgui.tcl without the path. So instead of running "./dosboxgui.tcl" please use "~/pathToDosboxgui/dosboxgui.tcl" instead. Will get this fixed soon hopefully.

Get it here.

Hooray! DOSBox 0.65 is out! And I'm just taking a look at the new features.
While doing this I realized that there was still something left to fix in the DOSBoxGui, which I just did.
It was a small glitch rendering the gui useless on some Windows systems.

Get DOSBoxGui 0.5.3!

i get the error

1invalid command name "option"
2    while executing
3"option add *Button.padY 0"
4    (procedure "gui::build" line 25)
5    invoked from within
6"gui::build"
7    (file "/home/spearhead/dosboxGui.0.5.1/dosboxgui.tcl" line 278)

when i try to start either 0.5.1 or 0.5.3.

I'm running on Ubuntu Dapper and tcl 8.4
Is there any way to fix that?

I like this. The interface is nice and clean.

very nice, the first frontend for linux that i like! thx!

Thanks for the positive feedback!
I hope to enhance the functionality and the general usability during the next weeks. When I find the time, that is.

So if anyone has ideas for new features or enhancements, let me know!

you asked for it :)

i think a quite obvious feature would be to let the user select the machine-type (vga,herc,...).

and it would be nice to be able to define a specific dosbox-executable per game if you have several versions for different games.

any news on the GUI? Did you find any time to code something? ^^

I'm currently recoding the GUI in Python, so it'll take some time for the next update I guess.

If you find errors or really necessarry features I'll of course fix them in the current version. Just let me know.

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1invalid command name "option"
2    while executing
3"option add *Button.padY 0"
4    (procedure "gui::build" line 25)
5    invoked from within
6"gui::build"
7    (file "/home/spearhead/dosboxGui.0.5.1/dosboxgui.tcl" line 278)

when i try to start either 0.5.1 or 0.5.3.

I'm running on Ubuntu Dapper and tcl 8.4
Is there any way to fix that?

I get the same on Fedora Core 5 x86_64. Am I doing something wrong?

The same under debian unstable.

loaded settings from: /home/miles/.dosbox/dosboxgui/dosboxgui.ini
save settings called: /home/miles/.dosbox/dosboxgui/dosboxgui.ini
using default language
invalid command name "option"
while executing
"option add *Button.padY 0"
(procedure "gui::build" line 25)
invoked from within
"gui::build"
(file "/home/miles/Desktop/folder bez nazwy/dosboxgui.tcl" line 273)

For some people it does work. Which distro are you using?

The fact that it doesn't work under ubuntu is understandable since it's based on debian sid/unstable. Maybe it's some bug inside tcl8.4??

how did you two try to start it? I got it to work as far as i can remember (it's been a while) by running it with "./dosboxgui" and not with "tcl dosboxgui"

EDIT: oh and also, i was using Ubuntu, so i can say it can be run on Ubuntu 😀

Sorry for using the bugmenot account, but I dont wanted to register just to post a bug.

lasse@mastermind:~/dosboxgui$ tclsh /home/lasse/dosboxgui/dosboxgui.tcl loaded settings from: /home/lasse/.dosbox/dosboxgui/dosb […]
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lasse@mastermind:~/dosboxgui$ tclsh /home/lasse/dosboxgui/dosboxgui.tcl
loaded settings from: /home/lasse/.dosbox/dosboxgui/dosboxgui.ini
save settings called: /home/lasse/.dosbox/dosboxgui/dosboxgui.ini
using default language
invalid command name "option"
while executing
"option add *Button.padY 0"
(procedure "gui::build" line 25)
invoked from within
"gui::build"
(file "/home/lasse/dosboxgui/dosboxgui.tcl" line 273)

I'm using tcl 8.4 under (x)ubuntu dapper.
For more questions, my email adress is slow.motion(a)unlimitedmail.org

Check if you have tk8.4 installed. And then run "sh /home/lasse/dosboxgui/dosboxgui.tcl" and not tclsh. It should work this way.

@shutdownrunner: so it works for you now?

@Spearhead: Yes it does. I just didn't have tk. I found in debian packages database which package contains wish and it worked. A lucky guess

Thank you for the help. tried it with "sh" and it worked. 😊

But how can I change something in the default.conf or loading my own dosbox.conf? the gui seems to overwrite the default.conf everytime I start it. Because i want to load a german keyboard driver.

I can't seem to get it to run on Mac OS X 10.4.7 on a Mac Pro... It outputs an error when I try to launch it in the terminal (That's how you launch it, right? ./dosboxgui.tcl ?)