Re: Why I need to click twice to destroy a top level window?

* "pheobe" <pheobe.du@xxxxxxxxx>
| By the way:
|
| exec wish.exe b.tcl

Just a guess: 'exec' in TCL does not terminate the current process
like e.g. in sh or perl. 'exec' executes the command, waits for it to
finish *and then continues the current TCL script*. So yes, after the
'exec', the current 'wish' is still running, the exec'd wish is not.

R'
.

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