CodeBrix.Platform.TclTk.BsdLicenseForever 1.0.240.97

CodeBrix.Platform.TclTk

A fully managed, cross-platform implementation of the Tcl scripting language for .NET. CodeBrix.Platform.TclTk embeds a complete Tcl interpreter — variables, expressions, commands, procedures, namespaces, and a rich two-way .NET object-interop bridge — directly into your application, with no native dependencies. CodeBrix.Platform.TclTk has a single NuGet dependency (System.Security.Cryptography.Pkcs, a Microsoft first-party package used for signature verification — the same dependency the upstream Eagle package declares), and is provided as a .NET 10 library and associated CodeBrix.Platform.TclTk.BsdLicenseForever NuGet package.

CodeBrix.Platform.TclTk supports applications and assemblies that target Microsoft .NET version 10.0 and later. Microsoft .NET version 10.0 is a Long-Term Supported (LTS) version of .NET, and was released on Nov 11, 2025; and will be actively supported by Microsoft until Nov 14, 2028. Please update your C#/.NET code and projects to the latest LTS version of Microsoft .NET.

CodeBrix.Platform.TclTk supports:

• Creating one or more independent, embeddable Tcl interpreters in-process
• Evaluating Tcl scripts and expressions from C#, and reading their results
• Getting and setting Tcl variables (scalars and arrays) from managed code
• The full core Tcl command set, procedures (proc), and namespaces
• A built-in script library, embedded in the assembly (no files to deploy)
• A two-way object-interop bridge for calling .NET from Tcl and vice-versa
• Cross-platform operation on Windows, Linux, and macOS with zero native dependencies

Sample Code

Evaluating a Tcl script and reading the result

using CodeBrix.Platform.TclTk._Components.Public;

Result result = null;

using (Interpreter interpreter = Interpreter.Create(ref result))
{
    ReturnCode code = interpreter.EvaluateScript("expr {6 * 7}", ref result);

    if (code == ReturnCode.Ok)
        System.Console.WriteLine(result); // 42
    else
        System.Console.WriteLine("error: {0}", result);
}

Getting and setting variables

using CodeBrix.Platform.TclTk._Components.Public;

Result result = null;
Result value = null;

using (Interpreter interpreter = Interpreter.Create(ref result))
{
    interpreter.SetVariableValue("name", "world", ref result);
    interpreter.EvaluateScript("set greeting \"hello, $name\"", ref result);

    interpreter.GetVariableValue("greeting", ref value, ref result);
    System.Console.WriteLine(value); // hello, world
}

CodeBrix.Platform.TclTk.Extras

This repository also builds the companion CodeBrix.Platform.TclTk.Extras.BsdLicenseForever NuGet package: interpreter-side Tcl command extensions that let existing Tcl programs which expect the classic sqlite3 and pdf4tcl packages run unmodified on the managed interpreter.

• sqlite3 NAME PATH — a tclsqlite-compatible database command (handle verbs eval, onecolumn, changes, close; caller-scope :name parameter binding; unset-variable → SQL NULL; NULL → empty-string read-back), backed by CodeBrix.Sqlite on a PRAGMA-neutral plaintext path, so SQLite files it writes are interchangeable with files written by stock Tcl applications
• pdf4tcl::new / pdf4tcl::loadBaseTrueTypeFont / pdf4tcl::createFont and the pdf4tcl 0.7 drawing surface (startPage, setFont, setFillColor, setStrokeColor, setLineStyle, getStringWidth, text, line, rectangle, polygon, write, destroy), backed by CodeBrix.PdfDocuments

using CodeBrix.Platform.TclTk._Components.Public;
using CodeBrix.Platform.TclTk.Extras;

Result result = null;

using (Interpreter interpreter = Interpreter.Create(ref result))
{
    Result error = null;
    TclTkExtras.RegisterAll(interpreter, ref error);

    interpreter.EvaluateScript(
        "sqlite3 db :memory:\n" +
        "db eval {create table t (a integer, b text)}\n" +
        "set b hello\n" +
        "db eval {insert into t values (1, :b)}\n" +
        "db onecolumn {select b from t}", ref result);

    System.Console.WriteLine(result); // hello
}

Provenance

CodeBrix.Platform.TclTk is a port of the Eagle project by Joe Mistachkin and the Eagle Development Team. See THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt for full attribution and the upstream license terms.

License

The project is licensed under the Tcl/Tk License (for the ported upstream code) and the BSD 2-Clause License (for modifications). See LICENSE, LICENSE-MODIFICATIONS.txt, and: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses