Re: FORTH accessing Tcl/Tk functionality via DLL in WinXP

Hello Richard,
Welcome to Forth!! One way that I have done this sort of thing in
the past is to set up a pipe between the two processes (Forth on one
end, Tcl/Tk on the other end). Then you can issue Tcl/Tk commands
directly from Forth. That way it really makes no difference what
program is generating the Tcl/Tk input. I have done this with Forth,
Lisp, OCaml, C / C++, Dylan, and on and on....

Cheers,

David McClain
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On Oct 5, 2007, at 12:35, Richard Owlett wrote:

> I'm a RAW newbie to Tcl/Tk.
> I'm an inexperienced FORTH programmer.
> [FORTH's attraction is primarily colon definitions]
>
> My environment:
> 1. WinXP Pro SP2
> 2. Tcl/Tk
> a. what is distributed with scilab-4.1
> b. ActiveState's 8.4.14 distribution of Tcl/Tk
> 3. FORTH
> a. SwiftForth 3.0 from FORTH Inc. ( www.forth.com ) active
> b. Win32Forth probably acceptable but not currently installed
>
> My goal:
> Explore possibilities of FORTH + Tcl/Tk
>
> My *IMMEDIATE* question
> After making a calculation in FORTH how do i display it in Tcl/Tk?
>
> I make *ABSOLUTELY* _NO_ claim that a sane person would do this. It is
> just a question of how each may talk to other. I've got some VAGUE
> ideas
> of how that might be useful.
>
> Said ideas *_NOT_* open to discussion ;\
>
> I've posted preliminary version to comp.lang.forth and comp.lang.tcl
>
>
>
>
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