What is TWAPI?
TWAPI is an open-source software library for the Tcl scripting language that enables interfacing with the Windows API. It allows Tcl developers to access Windows system functionality by providing Tcl commands that wrap the Windows API.
Some key features of TWAPI include:
- File system access - read, write, delete files, enumerate drives
- Registry access - create, delete, read, write registry keys and values
- Process and thread management - create processes and threads, enumerate processes
- Service management - install, start, stop, delete services
- Event log access - read, write event logs
- Network management - enumerate network resources, manage connections
- User and group management - add/delete users and groups, enumerate users
- WMI access - query WMI classes, execute WMI methods
- COM support - access COM objects
TWAPI is implemented as a Tcl package in C. It leverages the power and simplicity of Tcl scripting along with access to the complete Windows API. This makes it useful for system administration tasks, testing Windows itself, and automating Windows workflows.
Some examples of how TWAPI can be used:
- Monitoring event logs for errors
- Managing IIS web sites and application pools
- Automating user account creation
- Scripting interactions with COM objects like Office
- Building Windows services and daemons
TWAPI is free, open source software released under a BSD-style license. It runs on all modern Windows versions. The latest version also runs on 64-bit Windows.