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Tclkit introspection options
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| Aric Bills 2008-03-26, 7:59 pm |
| Hello all,
I'm wondering what my options are for discovering whether the current
script is operating from within a Tclkit, and if so, in what directory
the Tclkit resides. The reason I ask is that I'd like to create a
file in the directory where my program lives. If my program is just a
Tcl script, I can use [info script] to discover the directory; but if
my program is a Tclkit, [info script] will give me a virtual directory
which (as far as I know) I can't write to, and I don't think I want to
do that in any case.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Regards,
Aric
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| Gerald W. Lester 2008-03-26, 7:59 pm |
| Aric Bills wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm wondering what my options are for discovering whether the current
> script is operating from within a Tclkit, and if so, in what directory
> the Tclkit resides. The reason I ask is that I'd like to create a
> file in the directory where my program lives. If my program is just a
> Tcl script, I can use [info script] to discover the directory; but if
> my program is a Tclkit, [info script] will give me a virtual directory
> which (as far as I know) I can't write to, and I don't think I want to
> do that in any case.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
As usual, the Tcler's Wiki comes to the rescue at: http://wiki.tcl.tk/8186
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| Aric Bills 2008-03-27, 5:26 am |
| > As usual, the Tcler's Wiki comes to the rescue at:http://wiki.tcl.tk/8186
It took me a couple reads to discover it, but the answer is indeed
there (for those who may stumble across this post in the future,
[starkit::startup] gives information about whether a script was
sourced as a starkit, etc. and $starkit::topdir contains information
about the directory structure. Both come from the starkit package).
Thanks, Gerald.
Aric
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