General support and information

Damnation85 · Post by **Damnation85** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 4:05 pm

i did a search and couldn't find anything well i got 100 topic replies, and well yeah lots of fun o_O.

basically apart from tcl-commands.doc
and
tcl guide

is there any other information or links people can offer help to code a eggdrop(windrop till port to linux) or simply stuff on how it works, managing administrating optimizing etc etc ?

any help would rock

demond · Post by **demond** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 4:29 pm

AFAIK there is no documentation on how to "code eggdrop" - you simply need to study the source code (and check out doc/MODULES if you want to build your own module)

to write eggdrop scripts you really don't need anything else than tcl-commands.doc (assuming that you already have some Tcl programming skills; check out tcl.tk for tons of useful links)

Damnation85 · Post by **Damnation85** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 8:08 am

currently very very little tcl skills, but reading the tcl guide and a book on tcl/tk so i "will" at somepoint hold some skills, thank you for you reply. i am just wondering if there is an editor out there for tcl to give syntax highlight or a set of wordlists for ultraedit?

demond · Post by **demond** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 12:47 pm

Tcl Editors

Damnation85 · Post by **Damnation85** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 1:42 pm

ah sorry every time i went on the tcl.tk site
i get a HUGE list of links

/ i think they are reworking their site.

awyeah · Post by **awyeah** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 8:49 pm

Here are some which you can try (recommended):

1. MED (I use it)
2. ASED
3. EditPlus 2

Post by **caesar** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 3:07 am

or window's notepad/wordpad

^DooM^ · Post by **^DooM^** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 4:53 am

caesar wrote:or window's notepad/wordpad

They are ok if you know what you are doing however for newbies to tcl scripting i would recommend one of awyeah's suggestions. I personally use EditPlus which colours the code for you to make it easier to see and auto completes various preset functions whilst auto indenting your code to make it easy to see where you are.

Alchera · Post by **Alchera** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 10:54 am

.. not to forget that EditPlus formats in PC, Unix & Mac, an ideal tool.

KrzychuG · Post by **KrzychuG** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:09 am

Med and ASED can also format text as Unix & Mac. I hate those notepad edited tcl scripts with messy ^M at the end of line, but it is easy to fix (dos2unix filename.tcl) :)

awyeah · Post by **awyeah** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 9:16 pm

Well I mean, generally I would recommend everyone to use these. As see you can use wordpad, even notepad to write an official document, but which software would give you best formatting results other than your wordprocessor, Microsoft Word I guess?

And even alot of pro's make mistakes. Suppose you are coding a long tcl proc with alot of statements brackets, so these softwares would help you with syntax errors which are the most common problems. And I like the color technique which makes it easier to read, identify errors and logical mistakes. And obviously they have alot of other options and good formatting.

KevKev · Post by **KevKev** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 11:08 am

jEdit! Great cross platform editor. Syntax highlighting, integrated FTP/SFTP and a load of other goodies.