** Synopsis **

A pure Tcl implementation of [incr Tcl].

** Attributes **

   name:   Tcl++/Tk++
   location:   http://www.amath.washington.edu/%7Elf/software/tcl++/
   updated:   1998-07
   contact:   mailto:egkioule@u.washington.edu (E. Gkioulekas)

** Description **

A package that makes development of extended Tcl/Tk interpreters easier and
more pleasant for C++ programmers.  It does not patch the core, nor need the
Tcl internals.  This also includes a small object oriented extension as well as
some widgets for Tk.  Further development of Tcl++ is on hold right now.  Mr.
Gkioulekas might have renamed this package "tclpp" to avoid conflict with Matt
Newman's Tcl++, although this raises a question about any relation to Stefan
Sinnige's tclpp.

Available from http://incrtcl.sourceforge.net/ (click on ''File Distributions'').

Useful when you want to distribute an application that requires [incr Tcl], and you don't know if it is available on the target system. (Or when you don't want to bother users with requiring them to install any add-on packages beyond Tcl/Tk itself.) Since the "real" incr Tcl is part of all known "[Batteries Included]" distributions of Tcl/Tk, and is also part of [Tclkit], there are few remaining use cases for Tcl++.

There are some subtle discrepancies in functionality that are easily avoided.

----

[FPX] likes to use the following code, which

   * attempts to load [incr Tcl], or if that fails,
   * loads tcl++, and fakes the presence of incr Tcl.

For that purpose, applications that require it include a copy of tcl++.

======
 if {[catch {
    package require Itcl
 }]} {
    #
    # If we can't have Itcl, load tcl++
    #

    lappend auto_path [file join [file dirname [info script]] tcl++]
    package require tcl++

    #
    # Fake presence of Itcl
    #

    namespace eval ::itcl {
      namespace import -force ::tcl++::class
      namespace import -force ::tcl++::delete
    }

    package provide Itcl 3.0
 }
======

----

Another package that used the ''tcl++'' name in the past:

| What:| tcl++|
| Where:| From the contact|
| Description:| Tcl based code providing SELF-like prototype-based tcl objects.|
| Updated:|| 
| Contact:| mailto:hwan@apple.com (Hansel Wan)|
<<br>>
| What:| Tcl++/Tk++|
| Where:| http://www.amath.washington.edu/%7Elf/software/tcl++/ |
| Description:| A package that makes development of extended Tcl/Tk interpreters easier and more pleasant for C++ programmers. It does not patch the core, nor need the Tcl internals. This also includes a small object oriented extension as well as some widgets for Tk.|
||        Further development of Tcl++ is on hold right now.|
| Updated:| 07/1998|
| Contact:| mailto:egkioule@u.washington.edu (E. Gkioulekas)|

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