Version 3 of TclScript

TclScript is a SourceForge project to provide an Active Script interface from the Tcl interpreter.

[What is Active Script? Are there any useful URLs for it?]

This will allow Tcl to be used in Windows Scripting Host and Internet Explorer. Successful implementation of this project will put Tcl in with Perl, Python and Ruby as Open Source languages that can be used natively in Windows programs.

The project requires implementation of IActiveScript and IActiveScriptParse along with support for COM / ActiveX objects within Tcl.

Status (23 July 2001):

The TclScript engine currently uses an statically linked and minimally patched tcom package to get the COM access required. It can be instantiated in scripting hosts and return parsed answers.

Once a bit more work gets done, there will be some code and documentation on sourceforge. The project is registered there under https://sourceforge.net/projects/tclscript and the documentation will be at http://tclscript.sourceforge.net/

However, I'm due a new baby in about two weeks (about 8 August 2001) so I might be a little slow with the initial release.

If anyone would like to discuss this - mail me (Pat Thoyts) at [email protected]