Tcl_CreateObjCommand(3) Tcl Library Procedures Tcl_CreateObjCommand(3)
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NAME
Tcl_CreateObjCommand, Tcl_DeleteCommand, Tcl_DeleteCommandFromToken, Tcl_GetCommandInfo, Tcl_GetCom-mandInfoFromToken, Tcl_GetCommandInfoFromToken,
mandInfoFromToken, Tcl_SetCommandInfo, Tcl_SetCommandInfoFromToken, Tcl_GetCommandName, Tcl_GetCom-mandFullName, Tcl_GetCommandFullName,
mandFullName, Tcl_GetCommandFromObj - implement new commands in C
SYNOPSIS
#include <tcl.h>
Tcl_Command
Tcl_CreateObjCommand(interp, cmdName, proc, clientData, deleteProc)
int
Tcl_DeleteCommand(interp, cmdName)
int
Tcl_DeleteCommandFromToken(interp, token)
int
Tcl_GetCommandInfo(interp, cmdName, infoPtr)
int
Tcl_SetCommandInfo(interp, cmdName, infoPtr)
int |
Tcl_GetCommandInfoFromToken(token, infoPtr) |
int |
Tcl_SetCommandInfoFromToken(token, infoPtr) |
CONST char * |
Tcl_GetCommandName(interp, token)
void
Tcl_GetCommandFullName(interp, token, objPtr)
Tcl_Command
Tcl_GetCommandFromObj(interp, objPtr)
ARGUMENTS
Tcl_Interp *interp (in) Interpreter in which to create a new command or that con-tains contains
tains a command. |
char *cmd- |
Name (in) | |
Name of command.
Tcl_ObjCmdProc *proc (in) Implementation of the new command: proc will be called when-ever whenever
ever cmdName is invoked as a command.
ClientData clientData (in) Arbitrary one-word value to pass to proc and deleteProc.
Tcl_CmdDeleteProc *deleteProc(in)
Procedure to call before cmdName is deleted from the inter-preter; interpreter;
preter; allows for command-specific cleanup. If NULL, then
no procedure is called before the command is deleted.
Tcl_Command token (in) Token for command, returned by previous call to Tcl_Cre-ateObjCommand. Tcl_CreateObjCommand.
ateObjCommand. The command must not have been deleted.
Tcl_CmdInfo *infoPtr (in/out) Pointer to structure containing various information about a
Tcl command.
Tcl_Obj *objPtr (in) Object containing the name of a Tcl command.
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DESCRIPTION
Tcl_CreateObjCommand defines a new command in interp and associates it with procedure proc such that
whenever name is invoked as a Tcl command (e.g., via a call to Tcl_EvalObjEx) the Tcl interpreter
will call proc to process the command.
Tcl_CreateObjCommand deletes any existing command name already associated with the interpreter (how-ever (however
ever see below for an exception where the existing command is not deleted). It returns a token that
may be used to refer to the command in subsequent calls to Tcl_GetCommandName. If name contains any
:: namespace qualifiers, then the command is added to the specified namespace; otherwise the command
is added to the global namespace. If Tcl_CreateObjCommand is called for an interpreter that is in
the process of being deleted, then it does not create a new command and it returns NULL. proc should
have arguments and result that match the type Tcl_ObjCmdProc:
typedef int Tcl_ObjCmdProc(
ClientData clientData,
Tcl_Interp *interp,
int objc,
Tcl_Obj *CONST objv[]); |
When proc is invoked, the clientData and interp parameters will be copies of the clientData and |
interp arguments given to Tcl_CreateObjCommand. Typically, clientData points to an application-spe- |
cific data structure that describes what to do when the command procedure is invoked. Objc and objv |
describe the arguments to the command, objc giving the number of argument objects (including the com- |
mand name) and objv giving the values of the arguments. The objv array will contain objc values, |
pointing to the argument objects. Unlike argv[argv] used in a string-based command procedure, |
objv[objc] will not contain NULL. |
Additionally, when proc is invoked, it must not modify the contents of the objv array by assigning |
new pointer values to any element of the array (for example, objv[2] = NULL) because this will cause |
memory to be lost and the runtime stack to be corrupted. The CONST in the declaration of objv will |
cause ANSI-compliant compilers to report any such attempted assignment as an error. However, it is |
acceptable to modify the internal representation of any individual object argument. For instance, |
the user may call Tcl_GetIntFromObj on objv[2] to obtain the integer representation of that object; |
that call may change the type of the object that objv[2] points at, but will not change where objv[2] |
points.
proc must return an integer code that is either TCL_OK, TCL_ERROR, TCL_RETURN, TCL_BREAK, or TCL_CON-TINUE. TCL_CONTINUE.
TINUE. See the Tcl overview man page for details on what these codes mean. Most normal commands
will only return TCL_OK or TCL_ERROR. In addition, if proc needs to return a non-empty result, it
can call Tcl_SetObjResult to set the interpreter's result. In the case of a TCL_OK return code this
gives the result of the command, and in the case of TCL_ERROR this gives an error message. Before
invoking a command procedure, Tcl_EvalObjEx sets interpreter's result to point to an object repre-senting representing
senting an empty string, so simple commands can return an empty result by doing nothing at all.
The contents of the objv array belong to Tcl and are not guaranteed to persist once proc returns:
proc should not modify them. Call Tcl_SetObjResult if you want to return something from the objv
array.
Ordinarily, Tcl_CreateObjCommand deletes any existing command name already associated with the inter-preter. interpreter.
preter. However, if the existing command was created by a previous call to Tcl_CreateCommand,
Tcl_CreateObjCommand does not delete the command but instead arranges for the Tcl interpreter to call
the Tcl_ObjCmdProc proc in the future. The old string-based Tcl_CmdProc associated with the command
is retained and its address can be obtained by subsequent Tcl_GetCommandInfo calls. This is done for
backwards compatibility.
DeleteProc will be invoked when (if) name is deleted. This can occur through a call to
Tcl_DeleteCommand, Tcl_DeleteCommandFromToken, or Tcl_DeleteInterp, or by replacing name in another
call to Tcl_CreateObjCommand. DeleteProc is invoked before the command is deleted, and gives the
application an opportunity to release any structures associated with the command. DeleteProc should
have arguments and result that match the type Tcl_CmdDeleteProc:
typedef void Tcl_CmdDeleteProc(ClientData clientData);
The clientData argument will be the same as the clientData argument passed to Tcl_CreateObjCommand.
Tcl_DeleteCommand deletes a command from a command interpreter. Once the call completes, attempts to
invoke cmdName in interp will result in errors. If cmdName isn't bound as a command in interp then
Tcl_DeleteCommand does nothing and returns -1; otherwise it returns 0. There are no restrictions on
cmdName: it may refer to a built-in command, an application-specific command, or a Tcl procedure.
If name contains any :: namespace qualifiers, the command is deleted from the specified namespace.
Given a token returned by Tcl_CreateObjCommand, Tcl_DeleteCommandFromToken deletes the command from a
command interpreter. It will delete a command even if that command has been renamed. Once the call
completes, attempts to invoke the command in interp will result in errors. If the command corre-sponding corresponding
sponding to token has already been deleted from interp then Tcl_DeleteCommand does nothing and
returns -1; otherwise it returns 0.
Tcl_GetCommandInfo checks to see whether its cmdName argument exists as a command in interp. cmdName
may include :: namespace qualifiers to identify a command in a particular namespace. If the command
is not found, then it returns 0. Otherwise it places information about the command in the Tcl_Cmd-Info Tcl_CmdInfo
Info structure pointed to by infoPtr and returns 1. A Tcl_CmdInfo structure has the following
fields:
typedef struct Tcl_CmdInfo {
int isNativeObjectProc;
Tcl_ObjCmdProc *objProc;
ClientData objClientData;
Tcl_CmdProc *proc;
ClientData clientData;
Tcl_CmdDeleteProc *deleteProc;
ClientData deleteData;
Tcl_Namespace *namespacePtr;
} Tcl_CmdInfo;
The isNativeObjectProc field has the value 1 if Tcl_CreateObjCommand was called to register the com-mand; command;
mand; it is 0 if only Tcl_CreateCommand was called. It allows a program to determine whether it is
faster to call objProc or proc: objProc is normally faster if isNativeObjectProc has the value 1.
The fields objProc and objClientData have the same meaning as the proc and clientData arguments to
Tcl_CreateObjCommand; they hold information about the object-based command procedure that the Tcl
interpreter calls to implement the command. The fields proc and clientData hold information about
the string-based command procedure that implements the command. If Tcl_CreateCommand was called for
this command, this is the procedure passed to it; otherwise, this is a compatibility procedure regis-tered registered
tered by Tcl_CreateObjCommand that simply calls the command's object-based procedure after converting
its string arguments to Tcl objects. The field deleteData is the ClientData value to pass to
deleteProc; it is normally the same as clientData but may be set independently using the Tcl_SetCom-mandInfo Tcl_SetCommandInfo
mandInfo procedure. The field namespacePtr holds a pointer to the Tcl_Namespace that contains the
command.
Tcl_GetCommandInfoFromToken is identical to Tcl_GetCommandInfo except that it uses a command token
returned from Tcl_CreateObjCommand in place of the command name. If the token parameter is NULL, it
returns 0; otherwise, it returns 1 and fills in the structure designated by infoPtr.
Tcl_SetCommandInfo is used to modify the procedures and ClientData values associated with a command.
Its cmdName argument is the name of a command in interp. cmdName may include :: namespace qualifiers
to identify a command in a particular namespace. If this command does not exist then Tcl_SetCommand-Info Tcl_SetCommandInfo
Info returns 0. Otherwise, it copies the information from *infoPtr to Tcl's internal structure for
the command and returns 1.
Tcl_SetCommandInfoFromToken is identical to Tcl_SetCommandInfo except that it takes a command token
as returned by Tcl_CreateObjCommand instead of the command name. If the token parameter is NULL, it
returns 0. Otherwise, it copies the information from *infoPtr to Tcl's internal structure for the
command and returns 1.
Note that Tcl_SetCommandInfo and Tcl_SetCommandInfoFromToken both allow the ClientData for a com-mand's command's
mand's deletion procedure to be given a different value than the ClientData for its command proce-dure. procedure.
dure.
Note that neither Tcl_SetCommandInfo nor Tcl_SetCommandInfoFromToken will change a command's names-pace. namespace.
pace. Use Tcl_Eval to call the rename command to do that.
Tcl_GetCommandName provides a mechanism for tracking commands that have been renamed. Given a token
returned by Tcl_CreateObjCommand when the command was created, Tcl_GetCommandName returns the string
name of the command. If the command has been renamed since it was created, then Tcl_GetCommandName
returns the current name. This name does not include any :: namespace qualifiers. The command cor-responding corresponding
responding to token must not have been deleted. The string returned by Tcl_GetCommandName is in
dynamic memory owned by Tcl and is only guaranteed to retain its value as long as the command isn't
deleted or renamed; callers should copy the string if they need to keep it for a long time.
Tcl_GetCommandFullName produces the fully-qualified name of a command from a command token. The
name, including all namespace prefixes, is appended to the object specified by objPtr.
Tcl_GetCommandFromObj returns a token for the command specified by the name in a Tcl_Obj. The com-mand command
mand name is resolved relative to the current namespace. Returns NULL if the command is not found.
SEE ALSO
Tcl_CreateCommand, Tcl_ResetResult, Tcl_SetObjResult
KEYWORDS
bind, command, create, delete, namespace, object
Tcl 8.0 Tcl_CreateObjCommand(3)
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