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author | William Joye <wjoye@cfa.harvard.edu> | 2017-09-22 18:57:19 (GMT) |
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committer | William Joye <wjoye@cfa.harvard.edu> | 2017-09-22 18:57:19 (GMT) |
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diff --git a/tcl8.6/doc/AppInit.3 b/tcl8.6/doc/AppInit.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..44b2d6b --- /dev/null +++ b/tcl8.6/doc/AppInit.3 @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +'\" +'\" Copyright (c) 1993 The Regents of the University of California. +'\" Copyright (c) 1994-1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc. +'\" +'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution +'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. +'\" +.TH Tcl_AppInit 3 7.0 Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures" +.so man.macros +.BS +.SH NAME +Tcl_AppInit \- perform application-specific initialization +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +\fB#include <tcl.h>\fR +.sp +int +\fBTcl_AppInit\fR(\fIinterp\fR) +.SH ARGUMENTS +.AS Tcl_Interp *interp +.AP Tcl_Interp *interp in +Interpreter for the application. +.BE + +.SH DESCRIPTION +.PP +\fBTcl_AppInit\fR is a +.QW hook +procedure that is invoked by +the main programs for Tcl applications such as \fBtclsh\fR and \fBwish\fR. +Its purpose is to allow new Tcl applications to be created without +modifying the main programs provided as part of Tcl and Tk. +To create a new application you write a new version of +\fBTcl_AppInit\fR to replace the default version provided by Tcl, +then link your new \fBTcl_AppInit\fR with the Tcl library. +.PP +\fBTcl_AppInit\fR is invoked by \fBTcl_Main\fR and \fBTk_Main\fR +after their own initialization and before entering the main loop +to process commands. +Here are some examples of things that \fBTcl_AppInit\fR might do: +.IP [1] +Call initialization procedures for various packages used by +the application. +Each initialization procedure adds new commands to \fIinterp\fR +for its package and performs other package-specific initialization. +.IP [2] +Process command-line arguments, which can be accessed from the +Tcl variables \fBargv\fR and \fBargv0\fR in \fIinterp\fR. +.IP [3] +Invoke a startup script to initialize the application. +.IP [4] +Use the routines \fBTcl_SetStartupScript\fR and +\fBTcl_GetStartupScript\fR to set or query the file and encoding +that the active \fBTcl_Main\fR or \fBTk_Main\fR routine will +use as a startup script. +.LP +\fBTcl_AppInit\fR returns \fBTCL_OK\fR or \fBTCL_ERROR\fR. +If it returns \fBTCL_ERROR\fR then it must leave an error message in +for the interpreter's result; otherwise the result is ignored. +.PP +In addition to \fBTcl_AppInit\fR, your application should also contain +a procedure \fBmain\fR that calls \fBTcl_Main\fR as follows: +.PP +.CS +Tcl_Main(argc, argv, Tcl_AppInit); +.CE +.PP +The third argument to \fBTcl_Main\fR gives the address of the +application-specific initialization procedure to invoke. +This means that you do not have to use the name \fBTcl_AppInit\fR +for the procedure, but in practice the name is nearly always +\fBTcl_AppInit\fR (in versions before Tcl 7.4 the name \fBTcl_AppInit\fR +was implicit; there was no way to specify the procedure explicitly). +The best way to get started is to make a copy of the file +\fBtclAppInit.c\fR from the Tcl library or source directory. +It already contains a \fBmain\fR procedure and a template for +\fBTcl_AppInit\fR that you can modify for your application. + +.SH "SEE ALSO" +Tcl_Main(3) + +.SH KEYWORDS +application, argument, command, initialization, interpreter |