wish (Windowing Shell) is a

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interpreter extended with Tk commands, available for

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s supporting the

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, as well as

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, Microsoft Windows, and Android. It provides developers the ability to create GUI widgets using the Tk toolkit and the

programming language. wish is open-source under the

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, and is currently part of the

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programming suite.

Usage

wish can be run without parameters. Then the % prompt is displayed and the interpreter awaits for commands entered interactively by the user. An empty window is opened in which the widgets created by user commands are displayed. This mode is suitable for experimenting. More often wish is run with a name of a file containing a Tcl/Tk script as a parameter. It is also possible to run directly Tcl/Tk scripts; in

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using the shebang construction; in

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by associating the .tcl extension with the wish program.

References

External links

A man page for wish
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Usage

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