wish(1)                                                           Tk Applications                                                          wish(1)

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NAME

       wish - Simple windowing shell

SYNOPSIS

       wish ?fileName arg arg ...?

OPTIONS

       -colormap new       Specifies that the window should have a new private colormap instead of using the default colormap for the screen.

       -display display    Display (and screen) on which to display window.

       -geometry geometry  Initial  geometry  to use for window.  If this option is specified, its value is stored in the geometry global variable
                           of the application's Tcl interpreter.

       -name name          Use name as the title to be displayed in the window, and as the name of the interpreter for send commands.

       -sync               Execute all X server commands synchronously, so that errors are reported immediately.  This will result in much  slower
                           execution, but it is useful for debugging.

       -use id                                                                                                                                     |
                           Specifies  that  the main window for the application is to be embedded in the window whose identifier is id, instead of |
                           being created as an independent toplevel window.  Id must be specified in the same way as the value for the -use option |
                           for toplevel widgets (i.e.  it has a form like that returned by the winfo id command).

       -visual visual      Specifies the visual to use for the window.  Visual may have any of the forms supported by the Tk_GetVisual procedure.

       --                  Pass  all  remaining arguments through to the script's argv variable without interpreting them.  This provides a mecha-
                           nism for passing arguments such as -name to a script instead of having wish interpret them.
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DESCRIPTION

       Wish is a simple program consisting of the Tcl command language, the Tk toolkit, and a main program that reads commands from standard input
       or  from a file.  It creates a main window and then processes Tcl commands.  If wish is invoked with no arguments, or with a first argument
       that starts with ``-'', then it reads Tcl commands interactively from standard input.  It will continue processing commands until all  win-
       dows  have  been  deleted  or  until end-of-file is reached on standard input.  If there exists a file .wishrc in the home directory of the
       user, wish evaluates the file as a Tcl script just before reading the first command from standard input.

       If wish is invoked with an initial fileName argument, then fileName is treated as the name of a script file.  Wish will evaluate the script
       in fileName (which presumably creates a user interface), then it will respond to events until all windows have been deleted.  Commands will
       not be read from standard input.  There is no automatic evaluation of .wishrc when the name of a script file is presented on the wish  com-
       mand line, but the script file can always source it if desired.

OPTIONS

       Wish  automatically  processes  all  of  the command-line options described in the OPTIONS summary above.  Any other command-line arguments
       besides these are passed through to the application using the argc and argv variables described later.

APPLICATION NAME AND CLASS

       The name of the application, which is used for purposes such as send commands, is taken from the -name option, if it is specified;   other-
       wise it is taken from fileName, if it is specified, or from the command name by which wish was invoked.  In the last two cases, if the name
       contains a ``/'' character, then only the characters after the last slash are used as the application name.

       The class of the application, which is used for purposes such as specifying options with a RESOURCE_MANAGER property or .Xdefaults file, is
       the same as its name except that the first letter is capitalized.

VARIABLES

       Wish sets the following Tcl variables:

       argc           Contains a count of the number of arg arguments (0 if none), not including the options described above.

       argv           Contains a Tcl list whose elements are the arg arguments that follow a -- option or don't match any of the options described
                      in OPTIONS above, in order, or an empty string if there are no such arguments.

       argv0          Contains fileName if it was specified.  Otherwise, contains the name by which wish was invoked.

       geometry       If the -geometry option is specified, wish copies its value into this variable.  If the variable still exists after fileName
                      has been evaluated, wish uses the value of the variable in a wm geometry command to set the main window's geometry.

       tcl_interactive
                      Contains  1  if  wish  is  reading  commands interactively (fileName was not specified and standard input is a terminal-like
                      device), 0 otherwise.

SCRIPT FILES

       If you create a Tcl script in a file whose first line is
              #!/usr/local/bin/wish
       then you can invoke the script file directly from your shell if you mark it as executable.  This assumes that wish has  been  installed  in
       the  default  location  in /usr/local/bin;  if it's installed somewhere else then you'll have to modify the above line to match.  Many UNIX
       systems do not allow the #! line to exceed about 30 characters in length, so be sure that the wish executable can be accessed with a  short
       file name.

       An even better approach is to start your script files with the following three lines:
              #!/bin/sh
              # the next line restarts using wish 
              exec wish "$0" "$@"
       This  approach has three advantages over the approach in the previous paragraph.  First, the location of the wish binary doesn't have to be
       hard-wired into the script:  it can be anywhere in your shell search path.  Second, it gets around the 30-character file name limit in  the
       previous  approach.   Third, this approach will work even if wish is itself a shell script (this is done on some systems in order to handle
       multiple architectures or operating systems:  the wish script selects one of several binaries to run).  The three lines cause both  sh  and
       wish  to  process  the script, but the exec is only executed by sh.  sh processes the script first;  it treats the second line as a comment
       and executes the third line.  The exec statement cause the shell to stop processing and instead to start up wish to  reprocess  the  entire
       script.   When  wish  starts  up, it treats all three lines as comments, since the backslash at the end of the second line causes the third
       line to be treated as part of the comment on the second line.

       The end of a script file may be marked either by the physical end of the medium, or by the character,  '32'  ('u001a',  control-Z).   If |
       this  character  is  present  in  the file, the wish application will read text up to but not including the character.  An application that |
       requires this character in the file may encode it as ``32'', ``x1a'', or ``u001a''; or may generate it by use of commands such as  for- |
       mat or binary.

PROMPTS

       When  wish  is  invoked interactively it normally prompts for each command with ``% ''.  You can change the prompt by setting the variables
       tcl_prompt1 and tcl_prompt2.  If variable tcl_prompt1 exists then it must consist of a Tcl script to output  a  prompt;   instead  of  out-
       putting  a  prompt wish will evaluate the script in tcl_prompt1.  The variable tcl_prompt2 is used in a similar way when a newline is typed
       but the current command isn't yet complete; if tcl_prompt2 isn't set then no prompt is output for incomplete commands.

KEYWORDS

       shell, toolkit

Tk                                                                      8.0                                                                wish(1)