man1/db_engine_wish

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Name

db_engine_wish - TCL/Wish interpreter for AccelNET

Synopsis

db_engine_wish <tcl_file> <args>

Description

This program provides an interface between TCL and AccelNET. It adds the wish toolkit so that graphical components are available to the programmer.

This allows various types of graphical clients for AccelNET to be written in TCL rather than writing them in C. For example one could construct a custom control panel using this facility.

It uses version 8.0.5 of the Tcl and Tk libraries.

Arguments

Parsing of the arguments is simple minded. All of the arguments marked "required" must be present or the program will complain and exit.
tcl_file - optional

The TCL program to be executed by db_engine_wish.

If no filename is present the interpreter is started with a command prompt in the same way as wish(1) operates.

args - optional

Additional arguments which may be accessed by the tcl program.

Notes

The latest version of the AccelNET TCL commands are documented in db_engine_cmds.notes and db_engine_mngr_cmds.notes in the src directory.

Older versions of the .notes files are also kept in the src directory as db_engine_cmds_<version>.notes and db_engine_mngr_cmds_<version>.notes.

modified_widgets.notes in the src directory explains the enhancements which have been made to the wish widget set.

This program needs to have /AccelNET/tcl installed to function properly.

Development on this version of db_engine has ceased. Programs should be ported to db_engine_tcl_v2(1) and db_engine_wish_v2(1) as time allows.

Manual Page Revision

$Id: db_engine_wish.1,v 1.1 2006/08/28 14:37:17 kitchen Exp $

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