Hi,

I am trying to extend Tcl, so I have this command that will contain the name
of the command and some arguments. Some of the arguments are numbers but
some are not numbers and they maybe 50 byte long so when I am in the DLL
file I will do the following to assign some of these arguments to some
variables. Example:

double salary;

int cnt;

Tcl_Obj *Name;

if (error == TCL_OK)

error = Tcl_GetDoubleFromObj (interp, objv[3], &salary);

or

if (error == TCL_OK)

error = Tcl_GetIntFromObj (interp, objv[3], &cnt);

the problem is how would I be able to assign the data or the string to a
pointer of Tcl_Obj type

I tried the following but it didn't work.

if (error == TCL_OK)

error = Tcl_GetStringFromObj (interp, objv[1], Name);

Cheers,

Ahmed

        should this actually be error!=TCL_OK

        should this actually be error!=TCL_OK

if you want to extract the string characters

        stringpointer = Tcl_GetStringFromObj(objv[1],&length);

this always succeeds (or generates an address fault) so no TCL_OK or
TCL_ERROR is returned
its always TCL_OK

if you want to replace the value of an object
        Tcl_SetStringResult(obj,stringpointer, length or -1)
but you should check if Tcl_IsShared(obj) firsdt because it is bad karma
to change values co-owners of the object think are invariant