Tcl/Tk For Real Programmers

Acknowledgments Preface Tcl/Tk: GUI Programming for a Gooey World Introduction Where to Get More Information

CHAPTER 1 Why Tcl/Tk?

1.1 Tcl Overview 1.2 Tcl as a Command Glue Language 1.3 Tcl as a General-Purpose Interpreter 1.4 Tcl as an Extensible Interpreter 1.5 Tcl as an Embeddable Interpreter 1.6 Tcl as a Rapid Development Tool 1.7 GUI-Based Programming 1.8 Shipping Products 1.9 Bottom Line

CHAPTER 2 The Mechanics of Using the Tcl and Tk Interpreters

2.1 The tclsh and wish Interpreters 2.2 Using tclsh/wish Interactively 2.3 Evaluating Tcl Script Files 2.4 Bottom Line

CHAPTER 3 Introduction to the Tcl Language

3.1 Overview of the Basics 3.2 Data Types 3.3 Tcl Commands 3.4 Input/Output in Tcl 3.5 Bottom Line

CHAPTER 4 Tcl Code Examples

4.1 Pop Client 4.2 Command Evaluation and Substitutions 4.3 Looking for a Needle in a Haystack 4.4 Speed 4.5 Bottom Line

CHAPTER 5 Using Lists and Arrays

5.1 Using the Tcl List 5.2 Using the Associative Array 5.3 New Commands 5.4 Trees in Tcl 5.5 Tree Package Implementation 5.6 Using the Tree Package 5.7 Speed Considerations 5.8 Bottom Line

CHAPTER 6 Procedure Techniques

6.1 Arguments to Procedures 6.2 Renaming or Deleting Commands 6.3 Getting Information about Procedures 6.4 Substitution and Evaluation of Strings 6.5 Working with Global and Local Scopes 6.6 Making a Tcl Object 6.7 Bottom Line

CHAPTER 7 Namespaces and Packages

7.1 Namespaces and Scoping Rules 7.2 Packages 7.3 A Tree Object Package with Namespaces 7.4 Bottom Line

CHAPTER 8 Introduction to Tk Graphics

8.1 Creating a Widget 8.2 Conventions 8.3 Common Options 8.4 Determining and Setting Options 8.5 The Basic Widgets 8.6 Introducing Widgets: label, button, and entry 8.7 Widget Layout: frame, place, pack, and grid 8.8 Selection Widgets: radiobutton, checkbutton, menu, and listbox 8.8 radiobutton, checkbutton, menu, and listbox 8.9 Scrollbar 8.10 The scale Widget 8.11 New Windows 8.12 Interacting with the Event Loop 8.13 Scheduling the Future: after 8.14 Bottom Line

CHAPTER 9 The canvas Widget, Images, and Events

9.1 Overview of the canvas Widget 9.2 Creating a canvas 9.3 Creating Displayable Canvas Items 9.4 More Canvas Widget Subcommands 9.5 The bind and focus Commands 9.6 Creating a Widget 9.7 The image Object 9.8 Bottom Line

CHAPTER 10 The text Widget and html_library

10.1 Overview of the text Widget 10.2 Creating a text Widget 10.3 Text Widget Subcommands 10.4 HTML Display Package 10.5 Bottom Line

CHAPTER 11 Tk Megawidgets

11.1 Standard Dialog Widgets 11.2 Megawidget Building Philosophy 11.3 Building a Megawidget Library 11.4 A Scrolling Listbox Megawidget 11.5 Incorporating a Megawidget into a Larger Megawidget 11.6 Making a Modal Megawidget: The grab Command 11.7 A Different Technique for Building Megawidgets 11.8 Bottom Line

CHAPTER 12 Writing a Tcl Extension

12.1 Overview 12.2 Building an Extension 12.3 An Example 12.4 Complex Data 12.5 Bottom Line

CHAPTER 13 Extensions and Packages

13.1 [incr Tcl] 13.2 Expect 13.3 TclX 13.4 VS Package 13.5 Sybtcl and Oratcl 13.6 BLT 13.7 Graphics Extensions: Img and Dash-Patch 13.8 Bottom Line

CHAPTER 14 Programming Tools

14.1 Code Formatters 14.2 Code Checkers 14.3 Debugging 14.4 GUI Generators 14.5 Tcl Compilers 14.6 Packaging Tools 14.7 Tcl Extension Generator: SWIG 14.8 Bottom Line

CHAPTER 15 Tips and Techniques

15.1 Debugging Techniques 15.2 Tcl as a Glue Language: The exec Command 15.3 Common Mistakes 15.4 Coding Tips and Techniques 15.5 Bottom Line

APPENDIX A Introduction to the CD-ROM

A.1 How Do I Find Those Extra Goodies? A.2 Acknowledgments

APPENDIX B Installing Tcl/Tk Distributions

B.1 Installing Tcl/Tk on a Macintosh B.2 Installing Tcl/Tk on Windows 95 or Windows NT B.3 Installing Tcl/Tk on Unix/Linux Systems

APPENDIX C Installing Tcl/Tk Extensions

C.1 BLT C.2 dash C.3 Expect C.4 Img C.5 incr_tcl C.6 oratcl C.7 plus C.8 sybtcl C.9 TclX

APPENDIX D Installing Tcl/Tk Packages

D.1 Installing the vs Package D.2 TkCon D.3 Frink D.4 Tcl_Cruncher D.5 tclcheck D.6 tclparse D.7 tcl-debug D.8 Tuba D.9 TDebug D.10 SpecTcl D.11 SWIG D.12 megaWidget

APPENDIX E Bonus Book and Tutorials

E.1 Accessing the Real World Tcl Chapters E.2 Accessing the Tutorials E.3 TclTutor E.4 Accessing the Extra Documentation Index of Commands Used in Examples Index