From 4f07b603cbef2923caebd20d45962445a3f71694 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pat Thoyts Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 22:14:02 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Renaming README file --- Readme | 56 -------------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 56 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 Readme diff --git a/Readme b/Readme deleted file mode 100644 index d170ca0..0000000 --- a/Readme +++ /dev/null @@ -1,56 +0,0 @@ -WinSend -------- - -This is a first go at implementing the Tk send command for Tk under MS -Windows using COM to handle the registration and interprocess -communication for us. Briefly this package when loaded into an -interpreter will automatically register the interp in the system's -running object table. The winsend interps command can be used to show -all the registered interpreters and unlike using DDE this command will -not be blocked by badly behaving windows applications. - -An example (from tkcon): from a concurrent tclsh: - % package require winsend | % package require winsend - 0.5 | 0.5 - % winsend interps | % winsend interps - tkcon.tcl | tkcon.tcl TCLSH.EXE - | % winsend send tkcon.tcl set x 1 - | 1 - % set x | - 1 | - % winsend send TCLSH.EXE set y 2 - | % after 2000 {set zx 1} ; vwait zx - 2 | % set y - | 2 - | % exit - % winsend interps | - tkcon.tcl | - -As you can see from the above session - we require an event loop to be -running to handle the incoming send. Technically, this is because we -are using an Apartment threaded object and COM apartments serialize -access to object by using the Windows message queue. A future version -could side-step this by creating a free-threaded object but we are -trying to implement Tk's send here. - -An interesting side-effect is that we can access the running tcl -interpreter from any COM based scripting language. Here is an example -of a VB script file you can run using 'cscript test.vbs' under -windows. It will also work from MS Words macro editor etc. You need to -start up an interpreter and load the winsend package (for instance - -using tkcon): - -Set interp = GetObject("\\.\TclInterp\tkcon.tcl") -interp.Send "puts {Hello from VB Script}" -WScript.Echo interp.Send("info tcl") - -You should see the message printed in your tkcon window and see your -Tcl version printed in your DOS box. - -See - http://tclsoap.sourceforge.net/winsend.html -and - http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tclsoap/winsend-0.5.zip -for the docs (this document) and code respectively. - -Pat Thoyts. -- 2.23.0