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List of contents
Preface;
Conventions;
Contact O'Reilly & Associates;
About This Book;
Acknowledgments;
Chapter 1: Introduction;
1.1 What Is Tcl?;
1.2 Structure of This Book;
Chapter 2: Tcl Core Commands;
2.1 Overview;
2.2 Basic Language Features;
2.3 Command-Line Options;
2.4 Environment Variables;
2.5 Special Variables;
2.6 Backslash Substitutions;
2.7 Operators and Math Functions;
2.8 Regular Expressions;
2.9 Pattern Globbing;
2.10 Predefined I/O Channel Identifiers;
2.11 Group Listing of Commands;
2.12 Alphabetical Summary of Commands;
Chapter 3: Tk Core Commands;
3.1 Example;
3.2 Command-Line Options;
3.3 Environment Variable;
3.4 Special Variables;
3.5 Group Listing of Tk Commands;
3.6 Widget Overview;
3.7 Widget Commands;
3.8 Utility Commands;
Chapter 4: The Tcl C Interface;
4.1 Constants;
4.2 Data Types;
4.3 Group Listing of Functions;
4.4 Alphabetical Summary of Functions;
Chapter 5: The Tk C Interface;
5.1 Constants;
5.2 Data Types;
5.3 Group Listing of Functions;
5.4 Alphabetical Summary of Functions;
Chapter 6: Expect;
6.1 Overview;
6.2 Example;
6.3 Command-Line Options;
6.4 Environment Variables;
6.5 Special Variables;
6.6 Grouped Summary of Commands;
6.7 Alphabetical Summary of Commands;
Chapter 7: [incr Tcl];
7.1 Basic Class Definition;
7.2 Special Variables;
7.3 Group Listing of Commands;
7.4 Example;
7.5 Alphabetical Summary of Commands;
Chapter 8: [incr Tk];
8.1 Basic Structure of a Mega-widget;
8.2 Special Variable;
8.3 Methods and Variables;
8.4 Alphabetical Summary of Commands;
Chapter 9: Tix;
9.1 Tix Overview;
9.2 Special Variables;
9.3 Group Listing of Tix Commands;
9.4 Tix Mega-widget Overview;
9.5 Tix Mega-widgets;
9.6 Tix Standard Widgets Overview;
9.7 Tix Standard Widgets;
9.8 Tix Core Commands;
9.9 Tix Extensions to Tk image Command;
Chapter 10: TclX;
10.1 Special Variables;
10.2 Group Listing of Commands;
10.3 Alphabetical Summary of Commands;
Chapter 11: BLT;
11.1 Environment Variable;
11.2 Special Variables;
11.3 Group Listing of Commands;
11.4 Alphabetical Summary of Commands;
Chapter 12: Oratcl;
12.1 Overview;
12.2 Example;
12.3 Environment Variables;
12.4 Special Variables;
12.5 Group Listing of Commands;
12.6 Alphabetical Summary of Commands;
Chapter 13: Sybtcl;
13.1 Overview;
13.2 Example;
13.3 Environment Variables;
13.4 Special Variables;
13.5 Group Listing of Commands;
13.6 Alphabetical Summary of Commands;
Chapter 14: Tclodbc;
14.1 Overview;
14.2 Group Listing of Commands;
14.3 Summary of Commands;
Chapter 15: Hints and Tips for the Tcl Programmer;
15.1 Think Commands, Not Statements;
15.2 Comments Are Treated as Commands;
15.3 A Symbolic Gesture;
15.4 Lists Are Strings, but Not All Strings Are Lists;
15.5 Indirect References;
15.6 Executing Other Programs;
15.7 When Is a Number Not a Number?;
15.8 Quoting and More Quoting;
15.9 Write Once, Run Where?;
15.10 Common Tk Errors;
15.11 Use the Source, Luke!;
Tcl Resources;
Web Sites;
Usenet Newsgroups;
Mailing Lists;
Colophon;
About the author
Paul Raines is a physicist and scientific programmer at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center at Stanford University where he is part of a large collaboration studying CP violation (why charge and parity are not conserved in some particle decays). He is a huge advocate of scripting languages and has been using Tcl on various projects since 1992. He is also the coauthor of O'Reilly & Associates' Tcl/Tk in a Nutshell. When he can get away from the lab, Paul enjoys hiking, bridge, and soccer.
When Jeff Tranter was first exposed to UNIX-based workstations about ten years ago, he dreamed of being able to afford a system with similar capabilities for home use. Today, he sees Linux as the realization of that dream, with the added bonus of being able to examine and modify all of the source code and even contribute to its development. He's been using Linux since 1992 and is the author of the freely available Linux Sound and CD-ROM HOWTO guides. Jeff has also written a number of Linux utilities and several Linux related magazine articles. Jeff received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Western Ontario. He currently works as a software designer for a high-tech telecommunications company in Kanata, Ontario, Canada's Silicon Valley North.
