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The Perl/Tk Pocket Reference is a companion volume to Learning Perl/Tk, an O'Reilly Animal Guide. Learning Perl/Tk is a tutorial for Perl/Tk, the extension to Perl for creating graphical user interfaces. With Tk, Perl programs can be window-based rather than command-line based, with buttons, entry fields, listboxes, menus, scrollbars, balloons, tables, dialogs, and more. And Perl/Tk programs run on UNIX and Windows-based computers.
This small book is a handy reference guide geared toward the advanced Perl/Tk programmer. Novice Perl/Tk programmers will find that its compact size gives them a global view of Perl/Tk's capabilities; they can then turn to Learning Perl/Tk for details. The Perl/Tk Pocket Reference describes every Perl/Tk graphical element, including general widget and variable information, callbacks, geometry management, bindings, events, and window management, as well as composite widget, font, and image creation and manipulation commands.
List of contents
Introduction. Conventions. 1. General Perl/Tk Widget Information. 2. Perl/Tk Special Variables. 3. Widget Scroll Commands. 4. The Canvas Widget. 5. The Entry Widget. 6. The Listbox Widget. 7. The Menu Widget. 8. The Text Widget. 9. Other Standard Widgets. 10. Perl/Tk Widgets. 11. Composite and Derived Widgets. 12. Images 13. Window Information. 14. The Window Manager. 15. Bindings and Virtual Events. 16. Geometry Management. 17. Fonts. 18. Other Perl/Tk Commands. Index.
About the author
Steve Lidie has spent decades consulting, programming and administering
systems from Apple, CDC, DEC, HP, IBM, Microsoft and SGI. Author of the
Perl/Tk Pocket Reference and graduate of Lehigh University, he currently
manages the University's large-scale scientific computing complex, and
occasionally writes Tk articles for The Perl Journal and PerlMonth.
Summary
A companion volume to "Learning Perl/Tk", this reference book describes every Perl/Tk graphical element, including general widget and variable information, callbacks, geometry management, bindings, events, and window management, as well as composite widget, font, and image creation.
