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For many reasons people often like having a hard-copy manual as a reference
or like to be helped by other folks online.
Here you can find a selection of reference books, tutorials, www-sites
and newsgroup.
Many books concerning Tcl/Tk were written and are to be published. I won't
even try to list them all (another howto woudn't be enough for that :
) ). You
can find much more information plus additional notes at:
Here I will try to summarize with some notes the book I know concerning
the subject, they're all at a basic-medium level. Again, people who know the
subject, have enough information about where to find advanced level books.
Tcl and the Tk Toolkit
Author:
John K. Ousterhout WWW book information:
cseng.aw.com/bookdetail.qry?ISBN=0%2D201%2D63337%2DX&ptype=0 Book's examples:
ftp.script ics.com/pub/tcl/doc/book.examples.Z Book suppliment:
www.scriptics.com/doc/tk 4.0.ps The book primarily covers Tcl 7.3 and Tk 3.6.
Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk, II ed.
Author:
Brent Welch WWW book information:
www.beedub.com/book/ Book's table of contents:
www.beedub.com/book/ Book promotion info at section_50000.html of the URL
www.borders.com/sections/ This updated edition describes Tcl / Tk 8.0 as it was during the beta period.
Along with the material from the first edition, it also covers sockets, packag
es,
namespaces, a great section describing the changes in Tcl 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, and
8.0 (and Tk as well), Safe Tk and the Plugin!
Tcl and Tk Reference Manual
Editors: Donald Barnes,
Marc Ewing, Erik Troan
WWW book information:
www.lsl.com/catalog/bo oks/tcltk/ The Visual TCL Handbook, 1/e
Author:
David Young WWW book information:
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=013461674X/u/7141-5908756-107481 A comprehensive guide to Visual TCL. This book leads reader from basic
graphical user interface development concepts to meaningful application develo
pment.
The book focuses on the TCLX and VT extensions, addressing many fundamental
TCL topics. VT is a Motif based graphical interface, incompatible with Tk.
The entire TCL language is documented in a separate Commands section. Comes
with a CD-ROM that includes SGI, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and Unixware versions
of Visual Tcl.
Running LINUX
Author: Matt Welsh and Lar Kaufman
WWW book information:
www.ora.com/ca talog/runux2/noframes.html Running Linux is a really well written basic book. It has a chapter on
programming using Tcl/Tk. (and Perl, C, C++).
Tcl/Tk for Dummies (For Dummies)
Author: Timothy Webster, with Alex Francis
WWW book information:
www.dummies.com/ Another one of the series of the paperback programming books. This one
focuses on the Tcl plugin as a programming environment.
Interactive Web Applications With Tcl/Tk
Authors: Michael Doyle Hattie Schroeder
WWW book information:
www.eolas.com/tcl/ This is a learning by example book, for people who know a bit of programming,
but are not experts. It covers developing applets as well as stand-alone appli
cations
and simple server applications. The book comes with the Spynergy toolkit, whic
h
adds a variety of pure Tcl/Tk procedures for distributed processing, URL retri
eval,
HTML rendering, database management and platform independent file managment,
Ed, a Tcl editor and testing environment, an image conversion tool, a demo
of Tk features, a client/server version of a rolodex application, a pure Tcl
web server, a client/server push application, a tcl web browser,
There are a great number of WWW resources which provide additional information
about many aspects of Tcl and its extensions.
- Refer to
Tcl-FAQs (pa rt2)
for a great number of pointers to Tcl/Tk documentation and web sites.
- Point your web browser at
Tcl/Tk Information : a site with many
links to TclTk resources on the web (Information, Extensions, Tools, Training
and Events).
- Point your Web browser at
The Official Contributed Sources A rchive
for the Tool Command Language (Tcl) and the Tk Toolkit, hosted by NeoSoft,
Inc.
-
For a discussion dealing with the pros and cons
of the major scripting languages :
article in SunWorld
by
Cameron Laird
- A web page that contains a variety of comparisons between Tcl/Tk and othe
r
similar systems. Most of them are taken from "comp.lang.tcl", the author would
be happy to add any other important article that you folks want to send to
him.:
Comparison
by
Wayne Christopher.
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E.J. Friedman-Hill's Tcl/Tk Course:
this document is available only in PowerPoint source form and in low-quality
HTML form (in HTML format all the figures and some of the text is missing).
A lot of material is available on the Internet: introductory papers, white
papers, tutorials, slides, postscript versions of published books in draft
and many more.
For a complete reference please give a look at the excellent
Tcl-FAQs .
comp.lang.tcl is an unmoderated Usenet
newsgroup, created for the discussion of the Tcl programming language and tool
s
that use some form of Tcl, such as the Tk toolkit for the X window system,
Extended Tcl, and expect.
For Tcl/Tk related announcements always refer to
comp.lang.tcl.announce : you
will find release announcement, patches, new application and so on.
Again, faq could be retrieved at
Tcl-FAQs.
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