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

Leon Wagner wrote:
> Here's the approach I would take:
>
> 1) Use a free tool like DLL Export Viewer (http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/dll_export_viewer.html) to list the functions exported by
> the DLL you're interested in. The DLLs are in the /Tcl/bin directory.

Just downloaded it. I wasn't sure how I was going to find which
functions were exported without plowing thru source code.
Thanks.

>
> 2) Look at the prototypes in the corresponding .h file(s) in /Tcl/include for the arguments to pass to each function.
>
> 3) Open the DLL with LIBRARY in SwiftForth
>
> 4) Use Function: or CFunction: to import the desired functions. (The first makes Pascal-style calls; the second is C-style. I
> don't know which are used by the Tcl binaries, but you can figure that out either by reading the .h files or trial and error.)
>
> Good luck and let us know what you come up with!
>
> --Leon
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: sftalk-bounce_at_forth.com
>>[mailto:sftalk-bounce_at_forth.com] On Behalf Of Richard Owlett
>>Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 4:20 PM
>>To: sftalk_at_forth.com
>>Subject: [sftalk] Re: FORTH accessing Tcl/Tk functionality
>>via DLL in WinXP
>>
>>Ron Oliver wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Richard Owlett wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>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 ;\
>>>
>>>
>>>Since your ideas are vague and unmentionable, [ *SNIP much* ;]
>>
>>Please note my sanity disclaimer ;]
>>
>>SwiftForth has mechanism to access routines in DLL's.
>>I have Tcl/Tk DLL's.
>>
>>How do I access Tcl/Tk functionality from SwiftForth
>>
>>USING *DLL's* ?
>>
>>That there a probably better ways are *_ABSOLUTELY irrelevant_* !!!!!!
>>
>>
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