ATwish - Summary of commands and procedures

The following information is a brief summary for programmers working with the Australia Telescope National Facility extension to the WISH interpreter for the Tcl/Tk language.

The stadard release commands for Tcl and Tk

These commands are that which are standard to the Tcl and Tk kits as they come from the Internet. Additional documentation can be found in the books "Tcl and the Tk Toolkit (J. K. Ousterhout) and Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk (B. Welch).

The ATwish Tk extension

at_createproc image proc
at_setef id
at_createtimer milliseconds proc
at_send proc_id string
at_queryproc item proc_id
at_stopproc item proc_id

The ATwish local definitions file

The definitions that are made in the AT_DEFS file are

Compliance with Motif
The standard ATNF icon

In addition, the following procedures are defined in the AT_DEFS file as well.

at_dialog master title text bitmap default args
at_restorecursor wclist
at_setcursor root cursor
at_tab entrylist

Outstanding items

The following items need to be modified (OK, it's a bug list):

at_dialog needs to recognise a grab context and return it when finished.
Pop-up menus.
at_dialog should display a withdrawn window.
at_dialog returns the default incorrectly.

Original: Derek McKay (1-Dec-1994)
Modified: Derek McKay (14-Nov-1995)