A Tcl Shell
This section demonstrates the text widget with a simple Tcl shell application. It uses a text widget to prompt for commands and display their results. It uses a second Tcl interpreter to evaluate the commands you type. This dual interpreter structure is used by the console built into the Windows and Macintosh versions of wish. The TkCon application written by Jeff Hobbs is an even more elaborate console that has many features to support interactive Tcl use.
Example 22-4 is written to be used with the browser from Example 22-3 in the same application. The browser's Run button runs the current example in the shell. An alternative is to have the shell run as a separate process and use the send command to communicate Tcl commands between ...
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