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The Tcl/Tk combination is increasingly popular because it lets you produce sophisticated graphical interfaces with a few easy commands, develop and change scripts quickly, and conveniently tie together existing utilities or programming libraries.??The Tcl/Tk Pocket Reference,a handy reference guide to the basic Tcl language elements, Tcl and Tk commands, and Tk widgets, is a companion volume to Tcl/Tk in a Nutshell.
List of contents
Conventions 1. Basic Tcl Language Features 2. Tcl Special Variables 3. Operators and Expressions 4. Regular Expressions 5. Pattern Globbing 6. Control Statements 7. File Information 8. Tcl Interpreter Information 9. Lists 10. Arrays 11. Strings and Binary Data 12. System Interaction 13. File Input/Output 14. Multiple Interpreters 15. Packages 16. Namespaces 17. Other Tcl Commands 18. General Tk Widget Information 19. Tk Special Variables 20. Widget Scroll Commands 21. The Canvas Widget 22. The Entry Widget 23. The Listbox Widget 24. The Menu Widget 25. The Text Widget 26. Other Standard Widgets 27. Images 28. Window Information 29. The Window Manager 30. Binding and Virtual Events 31. Geometry Management 32. Fonts 33. Other Tk Commands Command Index
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.
Summary
A companion volume to "Tcl/tk in a Nutshell", this text is a reference guide to the basic Tcl language elements, Tcl and Tk commands, and Tk widgets. It includes easy-to-understand summaries of Tcl/Tk language elements, covering Tcl Version 8 and Tk Version 8.
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