WAZ: Zipped Applications

A zip archive which contains a main.tcl in its toplevel directory (or within a single sub-directory) can be directly executed by Wize. Such an archive is referred to as a waz or Wize Application Zipfile.

Implicit Execution

For example, suppose archive foo.zip contains:

  foo1.2/
  foo1.2/main.tcl
  foo1.2/bar.tcl

Then the following wize will set the args into argv and sources main.tcl:

  wize foo.zip arg1 arg2 ...

A main.gui is also supported.

Exlicit Execution

The following executes a specific script rather than main.tcl:

  wize foo.zip:bar.tcl arg1 arg2 ...

Browse Then Execute

Wize can also browse for the script using:

  wize foo.zip:

This mounts the archive then uses tk_getOpenFile to select a script to execute.

Doing More

There is much more one can do. See Running for details.

© 2008 Peter MacDonald