TclControl
v2.0b build 03

16/09/1999

Overview and Changes

This is an experimental alpha release of TclControl, an ActiveX control containing a Tcl interpreter and Tk! With TclControl you can re-use your Tcl/Tk scripts within ActiveX containers, such as Visual Basic, Visual C++, Delphi and Internet Explorer!

This version applies the following changes to the first version:

Requirements

TclControl has been tested on Tcl8.0.5 and Tcl8.2 with Windows9x. It may work with NT 4sp3, but this hasn't been tested. I would be interested to know of any interesting configurations that TclControl did/didn't work with.

Installation and Uninstallation.

Before installing this version, please ensure that any previous version of the control has correctly uninstalled. Then run the Tcl script TclControl_Install.tcl in the bin directory, and press on the button marked 'Install...'. The program will automatically detect the version of Tcl and select the appropriate installation. All versions of the DLL should be in the same directory as the running script. The rest of the installation is fairly straighforward. Uninstallation is via the same Tcl script.

Examples

I've made a couple of examples using the control - one with HTML, and the other with VB. The HTML example runs with IE4 and above. The VB examples also provides an executable: TclVB.exe

Known Problems

None so far ... so let me know! :-)

For flames, suggestions or bug reports please email me: fuzz@sys.uea.ac.uk.

Have fun!
Farzad Pezeshkpour
www.sys.uea.ac.uk/~fuzz