Purpose: to discuss this Tk introspection tool

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Tkinspect [ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/languages/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/tkinspect-5.1.6.tar.gz] has quite a history in the [Tcl/Tk] environment.  Created by [Sam Shen], tkinspect provides the ability to examine and modify the procs and variables of any Tcl/Tk application with a working "send" command.

Later, Sam moved on and a few other people have since made
modifications.  [John Robert LoVerso] [http://www.schooner.com/~loverso/tcl-tk/] modified tkinspect so that it  used comm instead of send.  This allowed one to run tkinspect
under any operating system which supports sockets.

[Paul Healy] then wrote a patch so that tkinspect knows about Tcl 8 namespaces [ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/languages/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/tkinspect-5.1.6p3.patch.tar.gz].

[Tako Schotanus] wrote a patch for TkInspect so it worked with incr Tcl [http://huizen.dds.nl/%7Equintess/].

Tkinspect is currently in need of an adoptive parent who could integrate the various fixes and modifications into a great tool.


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[PT] writes: I've created (locally) a CVS repository with tkinspect-5 and the above patches applied. The incr Tcl patch need some work to update with otherwise I have it working nicely on unix and windows using current [tcllib] [comm] or [send] for Tcl 8.3+.

Where would we like to keep and maintain this? It could be added to the [tcllib] project on sourceforge as another toplevel item without much pain.

Once I've updated it for ictl (or once someone provides a patch :) ) I think it would be worth creating a file release which would make it rather simpler to start using for most people.

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