Tkinspect is a tool to permit one to inspect the contents of a separate running Tk application. It has views for the variables, arrays, procedures and other objects in the inspectee and communicates using the Tk '''[send]''' command.

The application was originally writted by [Sam Shen] and is now maintained as a SourceForge project [http://sourceforge.net/projects/tkcon] You can obtain the current CVS working files by executing
  cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.tkcon.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tkcon login
  cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.tkcon.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tkcon co tkinspect

The current file release (October 2002) is 5.1.6p9 which incorporates support for use under windows (using [dde] or [comm] instead of [send] ), support for [incr Tcl] 3.2 and a number of bug fixes.

Bug reports, patches and feature requests all to be submitted to the tkcon project tracker please [http://sourceforge.net/projects/tkcon]

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'''History'''

Tkinspect [ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/tkinspect-5.1.6.tar.gz] has quite a history in the [Tcl/Tk] environment.  Created by [Sam Shen], tkinspect provides the ability to examine and modify the procs and variables of any Tcl/Tk application with a working "send" command.

Later, Sam moved on and a few other people have since made
modifications.  [John Robert LoVerso] [http://www.schooner.com/~loverso/tcl-tk/] modified tkinspect so that it  used comm instead of send.  This allowed one to run tkinspect
under any operating system which supports sockets.

[Paul Healy] then wrote a patch so that tkinspect knows about Tcl 8 namespaces [ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/tkinspect-5.1.6p3.patch.tar.gz].

[Tako Schotanus] wrote a patch for TkInspect so it worked with incr Tcl [http://huizen.dds.nl/%7Equintess/].

[Pat Thoyts] integrated the above patches and is now maintaining the code at SourceForge.

[Mike Clarkson] overhauled its GUI and included it in [TixApps].

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Discussion about generalising the [send] command moved to [Transport independent send]

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The [Tcl Dev Kit] provides an enhanced version of TkInspect.

Perhaps some of these enhancements might get submitted back the the tkinspect project? (hint hint) -[PT]

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