The
Tcl scripting language and the
Tk toolkit - a
programming environment for creating graphical user
interfaces under X
Windows - together represent one of the
most exciting innovations in X Window System programming.
Because Tcl and Tk are so easy to learn, extremely
powerful, and contain so many sophisticated features, they
have dramatically reduced development time for thousands of
X programmers.
Written by the creator of Tcl and Tk, this book is the
single authoritative resource for anyone who wants to work
with this extraordinary environment. The book offers an
introduction and overview of Tcl and Tk and then presents
detailed instructions for script writing in Tcl and working
with the Tk toolkit.
You will discover how Tk's windowing shell, wish, enables
you to develop window-based applications with amazingly few
lines of code. You will also find information on Tk's novel
and powerful facility for linking applications. Many other
features are also described, such as Tk's hypertext and
hypergraphics widgets and Tcl's facilities for procedures,
list management, and subprocess execution.
For interested readers, the book also describes the C
interfaces for Tcl and Tk, showing how to extend their
built-in features by writing new C commands.
Upon reading this book, you will learn how to produce far
more powerful X Windows System applications in a fraction
of the time that used to be required.