Tcl Programmers Manual

# Wily Tcl Programmers Manual

this is a package of tools for communicating with wily using the Tcl library. the file wily.c defines a thin veneer round wily's libmsg.

this compiles with wily-0.13.1[89] with tclversion 7.4.

the files wtcl.c and wtk.c compile against wily.c to give a tclsh alike with wily support called wtcl, and a wish alike with wily support called wtk.

the only addition to standard tcl/tk is the ``wily'' command. this has several subcommands

wily init
  connects to wily. should be called before any other wily command
wily isconnected
  checks that we can still talk to wily. returns boolean.
wily list
  returns a list of window ids (integers).
wily name <id>
  returns the name of the window with given id.
wily new <filename>
  opens a new window with given filename.
wily attach <id>
  offer to collect events for window with given id. we collect _all_ events.
wily setname <id> <name>
  set the name of window with given id to the given new name.
wily settools <id> <tools>
  appends the given tools to the tools for window with given id.
wily read <id> <begin> <end>
  returns the text between points <begin> and <end> in window <id>.
wily replace <id> <begin> <end> <text>
  replaces the text between points <begin> and <end> in window id with .
wily exec <id> <command>
  just as if <command> had been b2'd in window <id>.
wily goto <id> <string> <bool>
  as if string had been b3'd in windows <id>. if <bool> is true then we jump to and select the result.
wily length <id>
  the length of the text in window <id>
wily wouldblock
  return boolean. true if there is no event in queue. false if there is.
wily event
  returns a string describing the event.
wily bounce
  return the last event received back to wily.

"stephen" sp106@york.ac.uk