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authorjan.nijtmans <nijtmans@users.sourceforge.net>2011-08-14 08:23:53 (GMT)
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[Patch 3124554]: Move WishPanic from Tk to Tcl
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@@ -45,6 +45,13 @@ application's executable, if possible. If it fails to find
the binary, then future calls to \fBinfo nameofexecutable\fR
will return an empty string.
.PP
+On Windows platforms this procedure is typically invoked as the very
+first thing in the application's main program as well; Its \fIargv[0]\fR
+argument is only used to indicate wheter the executable has a stderr
+channel (any non-null value) or not (the value null). If \fBTcl_SetPanicProc\fR
+is never called and no debugger is running, this determines whether
+the panic message is sent to stderr or to a standard system dialog.
+.PP
\fBTcl_GetNameOfExecutable\fR simply returns a pointer to the
internal full path name of the executable file as computed by
\fBTcl_FindExecutable\fR. This procedure call is the C API