Re: Is there a way to make 'wish' read standard input?


Aric Bills wrote:


If that's the case, and if you're developing for Windows or OS X, your
script can call [console show], which will pop up the interactive
console.

This one reads commands, but not stdin. A [gets stdin] makes the
console hanging forever. A look in the Tk sources shows that stdout and
stderr are connected to the console, whereas stdin is not. Is there a
special reason for this, btw?

I am also interrested in a way to read stdin in wish


Eckhard

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