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NAME

       Tcl_CommandTraceInfo,  Tcl_TraceCommand,  Tcl_UntraceCommand - monitor renames and deletes
       of a command

SYNOPSIS

       #include <tcl.h>

       ClientData
       Tcl_CommandTraceInfo(interp, cmdName, flags, proc, prevClientData)

       int
       Tcl_TraceCommand(interp, cmdName, flags, proc, clientData)

       void
       Tcl_UntraceCommand(interp, cmdName, flags, proc, clientData)

ARGUMENTS

       Tcl_Interp *interp (in)                           Interpreter containing the command.

       const char *cmdName (in)                          Name of command.

       int flags (in)                                    OR'ed   collection   of    the    values
                                                         TCL_TRACE_RENAME and TCL_TRACE_DELETE.

       Tcl_CommandTraceProc *proc (in)                   Procedure   to   call   when   specified
                                                         operations occur to cmdName.

       ClientData clientData (in)                        Arbitrary argument to pass to proc.

       ClientData prevClientData (in)                    If non-NULL, gives last  value  returned
                                                         by  Tcl_CommandTraceInfo,  so  this call
                                                         will  return  information   about   next
                                                         trace.   If  NULL, this call will return
                                                         information about first trace.
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DESCRIPTION

       Tcl_TraceCommand allows a C procedure to monitor operations performed on a Tcl command, so
       that  the C procedure is invoked whenever the command is renamed or deleted.  If the trace
       is created successfully then Tcl_TraceCommand returns TCL_OK. If an error  occurred  (e.g.
       cmdName  specifies a non-existent command) then TCL_ERROR is returned and an error message
       is left in the interpreter's result.

       The flags argument to Tcl_TraceCommand  indicates  when  the  trace  procedure  is  to  be
       invoked.  It consists of an OR'ed combination of any of the following values:

       TCL_TRACE_RENAME
              Invoke proc whenever the command is renamed.

       TCL_TRACE_DELETE
              Invoke proc when the command is deleted.

       Whenever  one of the specified operations occurs to the command, proc will be invoked.  It
       should have arguments and result that match the type Tcl_CommandTraceProc:

              typedef void Tcl_CommandTraceProc(
                      ClientData clientData,
                      Tcl_Interp *interp,
                      const char *oldName,
                      const char *newName,
                      int flags);

       The clientData and interp parameters  will  have  the  same  values  as  those  passed  to
       Tcl_TraceCommand   when  the  trace  was  created.   ClientData  typically  points  to  an
       application-specific data structure that describes  what  to  do  when  proc  is  invoked.
       OldName  gives  the name of the command being renamed, and newName gives the name that the
       command is being renamed to (or NULL when the command is  being  deleted.)   Flags  is  an
       OR'ed combination of bits potentially providing several pieces of information.  One of the
       bits TCL_TRACE_RENAME and  TCL_TRACE_DELETE  will  be  set  in  flags  to  indicate  which
       operation  is  being performed on the command.  The bit TCL_TRACE_DESTROYED will be set in
       flags if the trace is about to be destroyed; this information may be  useful  to  proc  so
       that it can clean up its own internal data structures (see the section TCL_TRACE_DESTROYED
       below for more details).  Because the deletion of commands can take place as part  of  the
       deletion  of  the  interp that contains them, proc must be careful about checking what the
       passed in interp value can be called upon to do.   The  routine  Tcl_InterpDeleted  is  an
       important  tool  for  this.   When  Tcl_InterpDeleted  returns 1, proc will not be able to
       invoke any scripts in interp.  The function of proc in that circumstance is limited to the
       cleanup of its own data structures.

       Tcl_UntraceCommand  may  be  used  to remove a trace.  If the command specified by interp,
       cmdName,  and  flags  has  a  trace  set  with  flags,  proc,  and  clientData,  then  the
       corresponding   trace   is   removed.    If  no  such  trace  exists,  then  the  call  to
       Tcl_UntraceCommand has no effect.  The same bits are valid  for  flags  as  for  calls  to
       Tcl_TraceCommand.

       Tcl_CommandTraceInfo  may  be  used  to  retrieve  information about traces set on a given
       command.  The return value from Tcl_CommandTraceInfo is the clientData associated  with  a
       particular  trace.  The trace must be on the command specified by the interp, cmdName, and
       flags arguments (note that currently the flags are ignored; flags should be set to  0  for
       future  compatibility) and its trace procedure must the same as the proc argument.  If the
       prevClientData argument is NULL then the return  value  corresponds  to  the  first  (most
       recently  created)  matching  trace,  or  NULL  if  there  are no matching traces.  If the
       prevClientData argument is not NULL, then it should be the return value  from  a  previous
       call  to  Tcl_CommandTraceInfo.  In this case, the new return value will correspond to the
       next matching trace after the one whose clientData matches prevClientData, or NULL  if  no
       trace  matches  prevClientData  or  if  there  are no more matching traces after it.  This
       mechanism makes it possible to step through all of the traces for  a  given  command  that
       have the same proc.

CALLING COMMANDS DURING TRACES

       During rename traces, the command being renamed is visible with both names simultaneously,
       and the command still exists during delete traces, unless the interp that contains  it  is
       being  deleted.   However, there is no mechanism for signaling that an error occurred in a
       trace procedure, so great care should be taken that errors do not get silently lost.

MULTIPLE TRACES

       It is possible for multiple traces to exist on the same command.  When this  happens,  all
       of  the  trace  procedures  will  be  invoked on each access, in order from most-recently-
       created to least-recently-created.  Attempts to delete the command during a  delete  trace
       will  fail  silently,  since the command is already scheduled for deletion anyway.  If the
       command being renamed is renamed  by  one  of  its  rename  traces,  that  renaming  takes
       precedence  over the one that triggered the trace and the collection of traces will not be
       reexecuted; if several traces rename the command, the last renaming takes precedence.

TCL_TRACE_DESTROYED FLAG

       In a delete callback to proc, the TCL_TRACE_DESTROYED bit is set in flags.

KEYWORDS

       clientData, trace, command