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- .so \*(]ltmac.sprite
- .HS Tcl_CreateTrace tcl
- .BS
- .SH NAME
- Tcl_CreateTrace \- arrange for command execution to be traced
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- .nf
- \fB#include <tcl.h>\fR
- .sp
- Tcl_Trace
- \fBTcl_CreateTrace\fR(\fIinterp, level, proc, clientData\fR)
- .SH ARGUMENTS
- .AS ClientData (clientData)()
- .AP Tcl_Interp *interp in
- Interpreter in which to create new command.
- .AP int level in
- Only commands at or below this nesting level will be traced. 1 means
- top-level commands only, 2 means top-level commands or those that are
- invoked as immediate consequences of executing top-level commands
- (procedure bodies, bracketed commands, etc.) and so on.
- .AP void (*proc)() in
- Procedure to call for each command that's executed. See below for
- details on the calling sequence.
- .AP ClientData clientData in
- Arbitrary one-word value to pass to \fIproc\fR.
- .BE
-
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- .PP
- \fBTcl_CreateTrace\fR arranges for command tracing. From now on, \fIproc\fR
- will be invoked before Tcl calls command procedures to process
- commands in \fIinterp\fR. The return value from
- \fBTcl_CreateTrace\fR is a token for the trace,
- which may be passed to \fBTcl_DeleteTrace\fR to remove the trace. There may
- be many traces in effect simultaneously for the same command interpreter.
- .PP
- \fIProc\fR should have the following structure:
- .nf
- .RS
- void
- proc(\fIclientData, interp, level, command, cmdProc, cmdClientData, argc, argv\fP)
- .RS
- ClientData \fIclientData\fP;
- Tcl_Interp *\fIinterp\fP;
- int \fIlevel\fP;
- char *\fIcommand\fP;
- int (*\fIcmdProc\fP)();
- ClientData \fIcmdClientData\fP;
- int \fIargc\fP;
- char *\fIargv\fP[];
- .RE
- {
- }
- .RE
- .fi
- The \fIclientData\fP and \fIinterp\fP parameters are
- copies of the corresponding arguments given to \fBTcl_CreateTrace\fR.
- \fIClientData\fR typically points to an application-specific
- data structure that describes what to do when \fIproc\fR
- is invoked. \fILevel\fR gives the nesting level of the command
- (1 for top-level commands passed to \fBTcl_Eval\fR by the application,
- 2 for the next-level commands passed to \fBTcl_Eval\fR as part of parsing
- or interpreting level-1 commands, and so on). \fICommand\fR
- points to a string containing the text of the
- command, before any argument substitution.
- \fICmdProc\fR contains the address of the command procedure that
- will be called to process the command (i.e. the \fIproc\fR argument
- of some previous call to \fBTcl_CreateCommand\fR) and \fIcmdClientData\fR
- contains the associated client data for \fIcmdProc\fR (the \fIclientData\fR
- value passed to \fBTcl_CreateCommand\fR). \fIArgc\fR and \fIargv\fR give
- the final argument information that will be passed to \fIcmdProc\fR, after
- command, variable, and backslash substitution.
- \fIProc\fR must not modify the \fIcommand\fR or \fIargv\fR strings.
- .PP
- Tracing will only occur for commands at nesting level less than
- or equal to the \fIlevel\fR parameter (i.e. the \fIlevel\fR
- parameter to \fIproc\fR will always be less than or equal to the
- \fIlevel\fR parameter to \fBTcl_CreateTrace\fR).
- .PP
- Calls to \fIproc\fR will be made by the Tcl parser immediately before
- it calls the command procedure for the command (\fIcmdProc\fR). This
- occurs after argument parsing and substitution, so tracing for
- substituted commands occurs before tracing of the commands
- containing the substitutions. If there is a syntax error in a
- command, or if there is no command procedure associated with a
- command name, then no tracing will occur for that command. If a
- string passed to Tcl_Eval contains multiple commands (bracketed, or
- on different lines) then multiple calls to \fIproc\fR will occur,
- one for each command. The \fIcommand\fR string for each of these
- trace calls will reflect only a single command, not the entire string
- passed to Tcl_Eval.
-
- .SH KEYWORDS
- command, create, interpreter, trace
-