Tickle

For those who do not know, Tickle is a weird mixture of file utilities (such as BinHex), tcl scripting support, and general utility application. However, with this release it now also becomes an OSA script development environment.

Here is a quick summary:

• Text editor, breaks 32K limit, similar to MPW.

• File Translation Utilities:
  • BinHex

  • MacBinary

  • Apple Single/Double

  • StuffIt (with engine)

  • UNIX compress

  • UNIX tar

  • UUencode

  • Text Translation

  • All supported via drag and drop and via tcl scripts

• Tcl scripting support
  • Implements tcl 7.0 with tclX extensions

  • Implements Mac equivalents of ls, pwd, cd, etc.

  • Provides Macintosh access to:
    • Resource Manager
    • Communications Toolbox
    • OSA Components (and AppleScript)
    • Editions (publish and subscribe)
    • Apple Events (including AEBuild and AEPrint)

  • OSA Script Support
    • Allows Programming of any OSA scripting component within Tickle interpreter windows.
    • Provides the OSAtcl extension
    • Provides the OSAJ J/APL extension

  • Now creates Ticklets
    • Ticklets are micro sized applications that carry only the tcl script, and utilizes code in the OSAtcl component to drive an application that allows drag and drop with tcl scripts.

  • Tickle is now scriptable

  • Tickle is now recordable

November 8, 1994 - Robert Lentz (ralentz@ralentz.com)