'''Starpal - TCL Development and Starkit generation'''

Let's say you wanted to work on a file called web.tcl. Wouldn't it
be nice to see a menu choice of 'Starpal'? 

[http://www.nonags.org/members/zipguy/tcl/starpal/stp_main_normal.jpg]

If you did have this menu choice then you would see the dialog

[http://www.nonags.org/members/zipguy/tcl/starpal/stp_convert.jpg]

If you did pick 'Ok' then you'd see the wsf to qwrap it like 

[http://www.nonags.org/members/zipguy/tcl/starpal/stp_wrapped.jpg]

Then you'd be asked 'Do you want to Unwrap web.tcl'

[http://www.nonags.org/members/zipguy/tcl/starpal/stp_wrap_unwrap.jpg]

and if you replied 'Ok' you'd see the unwrap command run

[http://www.nonags.org/members/zipguy/tcl/starpal/stp_unwrapped.jpg]

and you'd then see the Starpal's main screen.

Starpal auomatically determined that the TCL file had no KIT file
and walked you through the neccesary steps to make the .KIT file,
which is a Starkit file, as well as cleverly automatically switching
you to the .KIT file.

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Even futher, if you already has a .KIT file exist when opening 
the .TCL file, you would have seen

[http://www.nonags.org/members/zipguy/tcl/starpal/stp_whoops_kit.jpg]

If you had asked to unwrap your .KIT file and you already have
the web.vfs subfolder you would have seen

[http://www.nonags.org/members/zipguy/tcl/starpal/stp_unwrap_over.jpg]

which would have warned you about the situation but still would have
allowed you do overlay the web.vfs file system.

	
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Is anyone interested in it?
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[wcf3] This looks nice...I'm interested :-)
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[LV] That last image isn't showing up on the page.
Also, I didn't understand why there were two buttons for edit, or for that matter why a wrap and run button when you have a wrap and a run button?  

What other features might be useful in such a tool?
Perhaps a ''stand-alone wrap'' mode?

[ZipGuy] 04/15/05 Lots of questions.
The last image didn't show - it wasn't introduced nor present.

Why are there two buttons for edit? Good question!
Let's just read them. Hmm.... looks like 
"ML Edit - Navigator, Syntax Highlighting"
   or
"Xedit   - Navigator"
So, it let's you choose two editors with different features. I guess it just edits the web.tcl file which is below the web.kit file in the sub-folder web.vfs/lib/app-web/ . 
Further, if you don't have Xedit.exe or ml.kit on the subfolder of Starpal then, shazam, it puts them there so it can use them!  Also it unpacks the file called wsf.kit which is used for Wrapping and UnWrapping purposes for Windows. Notice that ml.kit can run the alternate file called ../main.tcl which is in the above folder. This in turn will run web.tcl which is the saved version rather than the web.kit file! Also you could use the button "Run xxx.vfs/main.tcl" to do this as well. 

Why have a "Wrap + Run" button? Simple because you wanted both and didn't want to have to wait for "Wrap" and when it finished hit "Run".

'Stand alone wrap mode'? What are you talking about?

[RHS] Another option for editting might be just to have one ''Edit'' button, but make the editor to use (or the command to run in order to edit) configurable. That way, folks could use the editor of their choice.

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[Category Tclkit]