Version 0 of VisualDSP builtin Tcl use

by Theo Verelst

I've been working with Analog Devices' 'VisualDSP' Digital Signal Processor Integrated Development Environment (version 3.5.6 june 2004), which has tcl built in.

 info patchlevel 
 8.3.1

The tcl has got most things built in, even sockets, though no Tk.

There are tcl commands (see help 'Overview of Tcl scripting') to add menu items, though, and also one can invoke all existing menu's, just use

 dspclickmenuitem "Session:Select Session:BF561...."

for instance to select a session from the menu (for instance when two evaluation boards are connected).

Unfortunately, well throughthoughtness is limited: for instance Open Project will simply present the user with the windows (I run it on XP, I think it isn't available on linux) file selector, while I'd prefer to simply have a tcl script load the IDE with all kinds of stuff. The

Main complaint more to Analog or the programming company: tcl should be able to do more ! It shouldn't be all too hard to make the usability of tcl more profound.