wish(1)
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NAME
tixwish - Windowing shell for interpreting Tix commands.
SYNOPSIS
tixwish ?fileName arg arg ...?
OPTIONS
-display display Display (and screen) on which to dis-
play window.
-geometry geometry Initial geometry to use for window.
If this option is specified, its value
is stored in the geometry global vari-
able of the application's Tcl inter-
preter.
-name name Use name as the title to be displayed
in the window, and as the name of the
interpreter for send commands.
-sync Execute all X server commands syn-
chronously, so that errors are
reported immediately. This will result
in much slower execution, but it is
useful for debugging.
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DESCRIPTION
Tixwish is a simple program consisting of the Tcl command
language, the Tk toolkit, and a main program that reads
commands from standard input or from a file. It creates a
main window and then processes Tcl commands. If tixwish
is invoked with no arguments, or with a first argument
that starts with ``-'', then it reads Tcl commands inter-
actively from standard input. It will continue processing
commands until all windows have been deleted or until end-
of-file is reached on standard input. If there exists a
file .tixwishrc in the home directory of the user, tixwish
evaluates the file as a Tcl script just before reading the
first command from standard input.
If tixwish is invoked with an initial fileName argument,
then fileName is treated as the name of a script file.
Tixwish will evaluate the script in fileName (which pre-
sumably creates a user interface), then it will respond to
events until all windows have been deleted. Commands will
not be read from standard input. There is no automatic
evaluation of .tixwishrc in this case, but the script file
can always source it if desired.
OPTIONS
Tixwish automatically processes all of the command-line
options described in the OPTIONS summary above. Any other
command-line arguments besides these are passed through to
the application using the argc and argv variables
described later.
APPLICATION NAME AND CLASS
The name of the application, which is used for purposes |
such as send commands, is taken from the -name option, if |
it is specified; otherwise it is taken from fileName, if |
it is specified, or from the command name by which tixwish |
was invoked. In the last two cases, if the name contains |
a ``/'' character, then only the characters after the last |
slash are used as the application name. |
The class of the application, which is used for purposes |
such as specifying options with a RESOURCE_MANAGER prop- |
erty or .Xdefaults file, is the same as its name except |
that the first letter is capitalized.
VARIABLES
Tixwish sets the following Tcl variables:
argc Contains a count of the number of arg argu-
ments (0 if none), not including the
options described above.
argv Contains a Tcl list whose elements are the
arg arguments (not including the options
described above), in order, or an empty
string if there are no arg arguments.
argv0 Contains fileName if it was specified.
Otherwise, contains the name by which
tixwish was invoked.
geometry If the -geometry option is specified,
tixwish copies its value into this vari-
able. If the variable still exists after
fileName has been evaluated, tixwish uses
the value of the variable in a wm geometry
command to set the main window's geometry.
tcl_interactive
Contains 1 if tixwish is reading commands
interactively (fileName was not specified
and standard input is a terminal-like
device), 0 otherwise.
X RESOURCES
Tixwish makes use of several X Resources to determine the
Toolkit Options for the Tix library. These X resources
must be set using RESOURCE_MANAGER properties or .Xde-
faults files before tixwish starts running. These
resources must be associated with the main window of the
tixwish application. These options include:
Name: tixScheme
Class: TixScheme
Specifies the color scheme to use for the Tix
application. Currently only these schemes are sup-
ported: Blue, Gray, SGIGray, TixGray, and TK.
Name: tixFontSet
Class: TixFontSet
Specifies the FontSet to use for the Tix applica-
tion. A FontSet designates the fonts to use for
different types of widgets. Currently only these
FontSets are supported: 12Point, 14Point and TK.
For example, you may put these two lines in your .Xde-
faults file
*tixwish.tixScheme: Gray
*tixwish.tixFontSet: 12Point
SCRIPT FILES
If you create a Tcl script in a file whose first line is
#!/usr/local/bin/tixwish
then you can invoke the script file directly from your
shell if you mark it as executable. This assumes that
tixwish has been installed in the default location in
/usr/local/bin; if it's installed somewhere else then
you'll have to modify the above line to match. Many UNIX
systems do not allow the #! line to exceed about 30 char-
acters in length, so be sure that the tixwish executable
can be accessed with a short file name.
PROMPTS
When tixwish is invoked interactively it normally prompts
for each command with ``% ''. You can change the prompt
by setting the variables tcl_prompt1 and tcl_prompt2. If
variable tcl_prompt1 exists then it must consist of a Tcl
script to output a prompt; instead of outputting a prompt
tixwish will evaluate the script in tcl_prompt1. The
variable tcl_prompt2 is used in a similar way when a new-
line is typed but the current command isn't yet complete;
if tcl_prompt2 isn't set then no prompt is output for
incomplete commands.
KEYWORDS
shell, wish, Tk, toolkit