Practical Programming in Tcl & Tk
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ISBN: 0136168302 / Publisher: Prentice Hall, January 1997
An new edition of the beginners' guide to Tcl and Tk introducing the fundamental mechanisms and both basic and advanced coding techniques. Welch (software engineer, Sun Microsystems Laboratories) describes Tcl's interface to the operating system, the script library facility, graphical interface programming, and interface development including techniques for creating user interfaces that run on all major desktop platforms. In the new edition Welch review Tcl's improved network support, Safe-Tcl, the new Tcl 8.0 compiler and the Tcl/Tk plug-in for both Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Explorer. The accompanying CD-ROM contains sample scripts, Tcl and Tk versions for Windows 95, UNIX, and Macintosh. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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The world's #1 guide to Tcl/Tk has been updated to reflect Tcl/Tk 8.4's powerful improvements in functionality, flexibility, and performance. Brent Welch, Ken Jones, and Jeffrey Hobbs, three of the world's leading Tcl/Tk experts, cover every facet of Tcl/Tk programming, including cross-platform scripting and GUI development, networking, enterprise application integration, and much more.Coverage includes: systematic explanations and sample code for all Tcl/Tk 8.4 core commands; complete Tk GUI development guidance - perfect for developers working with Perl, Python, or Ruby; insider's insights into Tcl 8.4's key enhancements - VFS layer, internationalized font/character set support, new widgets, and more; definitive coverage of TclHttpd web server (written by its creator); new ways to leverage Tcl/Tk 8.4's major performance improvements; and advanced coverage - threading, Safe Tcl, Tcl script library, regular expressions, and namespaces.Whether you're upgrading to Tcl/Tk 8.4, or building GUIs for applications created with other languages or just searching for a better cross-platform scripting solution, Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk, Fourth Edition delivers all you need to get results.
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