XOTclIDE Programs and Start Options

XOTclIDE Programs and Start Options
	Chapter 3. Programming with XOTclIDE

There are two main options for starting XOTclIDE: with or without Version Control. To use the Version Control System you must install a database with the program installVC.tcl included in XOTclIDE (see the section called “Installing Version Control System”).

Starting XOTclIDE from tclkit

XotclIDE.exe -- [-help] [-startMode ideOnlyideDBideFromDBinstallVC] [-ignoreprefs] [-nodialog] [-preferences preferencesList]
[-configmap configmapFile] [-dumpcompid Id]
[-dumpconfid Id] [-startconfid Id]
[-configmap configmapFile] [-configmapdb configmap_name] [-preloadcomponents conponents_list] [-preexec script]

Starting XOTclIDE without Version Control System

XotclIDE.tcl -- [-help] [-configmap configmapFile] [-preloadcomponents conponents_list] [-preexec script]

Starting XOTclIDE with Version Control System

XotclIDEDB.tcl -- [-ignoreprefs] [-nodialog] [-preferences preferencesList]
[-configmap configmapFile] [-dumpcompid Id]
[-dumpconfid Id] [-startconfid Id]
[-configmapdb configmap_name] [-preloadcomponents conponents_list] [-preexec script]

Starting XOTclIDE with Version Control System by loading from Version Control

Version Control is important if you want to develop and change XOTclIDE itself. XotclIDEDBFromDB.tcl loads the IDEStart, SQL interface and the rest of XOTclIDE from a Version Control database. Before calling it, you must install the version control database and import the XOTclIDE sources into version control.

XotclIDEDBFromDB.tcl -- [-ignoreprefs] [-nodialog]
[-preferences preferencesList ] [-configmap configmapFile ]
[-dumpcompid Id ] [-dumpconfid Id ]

Options synopsis

-help: print all available options and exit
-preferences: You can specify the preferences for database connection. The parameter is a Tcl keyed list, for example {{interface mysqltcl} {connection {user root dbank xotcllib}}
-configmap file: Load config map and tell XOTclIDE to ignore its own components
-configmapdb configmap_name: Load config map from version control
-preloadcomponents components_list: Load components after startup
-preexec script: Evaluate script after startup
-ignoreprefs: do not read ~/.xotclide preferences file
-nodialog: connect to version control database without showing a connection dialog. All parameters will be read from preferences file or preferences list
-dumpcompid: Read component with id from version control database, print it and exit
-dumconfid id: Read configuration map with id from version control database print it and exit