[Richard Suchenwirth] 2006-02-05 - As I've decided to build my [PocketPC] "IDE patchwork", under the ceremonial name of [Sepp], based on [eTcl], here are notes on how components can be plugged in for easy reach: in the [console] menus, and in the toolbar.

First it is important to know that we're dealing with two "sibling" interpreters here, call them "Main" and "Console" neither being the slave of the other, and each being able to run code in the other:
   set mainres [console eval $consolecode]
   console eval {set consoleres [consoleinterp $maincode]}
This makes coding for both just a little bit more complicated.

Example, to '''add an item into an existing menu''' of the console (from [htext as eTcl plugin]):
 console eval {.menubar.help add command -label Help \
               -command {consoleinterp eval {htext::htext .h}}}

To '''create a new main item''' in the console menu: Here is a window selector that lists in an extra "Windows" menu the [toplevel]s that are currently there, and raises the one selected.

 (code tomorrow)

With good old [introspection] I also found out how to '''add items to the toolbar''' that appears below the main console window. You just need to hand a 16x16 GIF icon (e.g. picked from [iconview as eTcl plugin]) to the console interp, and [pack] a [button] with it into the toolbar. As proof of concept, I picked the "house" icon and associated it with the trivial operation "change to HOME directory", which [cd] without arguments does anyway:

 (code tomorrow)

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