An Object Oriented Tcl-Tk Binding for Interpreted Control of the NIST Express Toolkit in the NIST STEP Application Protocol Development Environment

Published

January 1, 1995

Author(s)

Donald E. Libes, Steve Clark

Abstract

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has build numerous software toolkits and applications for manipulating STEP and EXPRESS data. These toolkits are traditionally used as compiled libraries which are linked to other compiled modules. This paper describes a binding allowing the toolkit interfaces to be called from interpreted scripts. This significantly reduces the time required to construct and compile new applications. An X11 extension allows the construction of graphics elements, providing easy creation and integration of existing applications into X graphic user interfaces. We describe how the combination of bindings has been used to construct a STEP Application Protocol Development Environment.

Proceedings Title

Proceedings of the EUG '95 (Express User's Group) Conference

Conference Location

Grenoble, 1, FR

Pub Type

Conferences

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Keywords

APDE, Development Environment, Express, National PDES Testbed, Object Oriented, PDES, STEP, Tcl, Tk

Citation

Libes, D. and Clark, S. (1995), An Object Oriented Tcl-Tk Binding for Interpreted Control of the NIST Express Toolkit in the NIST STEP Application Protocol Development Environment, Proceedings of the EUG '95 (Express User's Group) Conference, Grenoble, 1, FR, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=821319 (Accessed October 17, 2025)