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NAME
Tk_BackgroundError - report Tcl error that occurred in
background processing
SYNOPSIS
#include <tk.h>
Tk_BackgroundError(interp)
ARGUMENTS
Tcl_Interp *interp (in) Interpreter in which the
error occurred.
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DESCRIPTION
This procedure is typically invoked when a Tcl error occurs
during ``background processing'' such as executing a Tcl
command in response to a button press or menu entry
invocation. When such an error occurs, the error condition
is reported to Tk or to a widget or some other C code, and
there is not usually any obvious way for that code to report
the error to the user. In these cases the code calls
Tk_BackgroundError with an interp argument identifying the
interpreter in which the error occurred. Tk_BackgroundError
attempts to invoke the tkerror Tcl command to report the
error in an application-specific fashion. If no tkerror
command exists, or if it returns with an error condition,
then Tk_BackgroundError reports the error itself by printing
a message on the standard error file.
Tk_BackgroundError does not invoke tkerror immediately (in |
some cases this could interfere with scripts that are in |
process at the time the error occurred). Instead, it |
invokes tkerror later as an idle callback. |
Tk_BackgroundError saves the values of the errorInfo and |
errorCode variables and restores these values just before |
invoking tkerror. |
It is possible for many background errors to accumulate |
before tkerror is invoked. When this happens, each of the |
errors is processed in order. However, if tkerror returns a |
break exception, then all remaining error reports for the |
interpreter are skipped.
KEYWORDS
background, error, tkerror