man1/db_engine_wish_v2

Name

db_engine_wish_v2 - TCL/Wish interpreter for AccelNET

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 8.5a4 of the Tcl and Tk ibraries.

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_v2.
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

This manual page needs a lot more added to it.

The latest version of the AccelNET TCL commands are documented in db_engine_cmds_v2.notes and db_engine_mngr_cmds_v2.notes in the src directory.

Older versions of the .notes files are also kept in the src directory as db_engine_cmds_v2_<version>.notes and db_engine_mngr_cmds_v2_<version>.notes.

Eventually the commands should be made into a set of manual pages.

This program needs to have /AccelNET/tcl_v2 installed to function properly.

The older versions of the program are db_engine_tcl and db_engine_wish. These versions are available because there are known differences in behavior of the Tk libraries and possibly the Tcl library. Programs using db_engine need to be examined to ensure they function correctly with the newer version of db_engine.

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

Manual Page Revision

$Id: db_engine_wish_v2.1,v 2.0 2006/08/28 14:57:04 kitchen Exp $

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