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TITLE
| | Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk
| | EDITION
| | 4th
| | ISBN
| | 0-13-038560-3
| | AUTHOR(S)
| | Brent B. Welch, Ken Jones
| | PUBLISHER
| | Prentice Hall
| | PUBLISHED
| | 2003
| | LEVEL(S)
| | 1 to 4 [about levels]
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| SYNOPSIS |
The Tcl/Tk bestseller fully updated for Tcl 8.4!
- Authoritative coverage of every Tcl and Tk command in the core toolkits
- State-of-the-art Tk GUI coverage for Tcl, Perl, Python, and Ruby developers
- Covers all key Tcl 8.4 enhancements: VFS, internationalization and performance improvements, new widgets, and much more
- Covers multi-threaded Tcl applications and Starkits, a revolutionary way to package and deploy Tcl applications
- CD-ROM: Source and binary Tcl/Tk distributions and extensions for Windows¨, Linux®, Solaris®, and Macintosh¨, plus all code from the book
The Tcl/Tk bestseller, now completely updated for Tcl 8.4!
The world's #1 guide to Tcl/Tk has been thoroughly updated to reflect Tcl/Tk8.4's powerful improvements in functionality, flexibility, and performance!Brent Welch, Ken Jones, and Jeffrey Hobbs, three of the world1s 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
Advanced coverage: threading, Safe Tcl, Tcl script library, regular expressions, and namespaces.
Whether you1re upgrading to Tcl/Tk 8.4, or building GUIs for applicationscreated with other languages, or just searching for a better cross-platformscripting solution, Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk, Fourth Editiondelivers all you need to get results!
The accompanying CD-ROM includes source and binary distributionsof Tcl/Tk, Tcl extensions, and tools for Windows 9x/2000/XP, Linux, Solaris,and Macintosh, plus all the code from the book.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
| | Brent B. Welch | Brent Welch is a software engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories, and a former member of the research staff at Xerox PARC. At Sun he is a member of the Tcl/Tk development team. His home page is http://www.beedub.com. | | Ken Jones | Ken Jones has provided training and documentation for software developers for almost 20 years. He has specialized in the Tcl/Tk language since 1998, when he joined Scriptics - the company formed by Tcl creator John Ousterhout to develop commercial products based on Tcl. As lead instructor at Scriptics, Ken worked with many key developers of the Tcl language, including Jeff Hobbs and Brent Welch. In 2000, Ken founded Avia Training and Consulting (http://www.avia-training.com), which provides Tcl instruction and expertise to clients in a variety of industries.
Ken lives in San Francisco with his partner, Dean Akamine, and their three cats. In his free time, Ken enjoys reading and watching science fiction, listening to jazz, and accumulating as many frequent flier miles as possible. |
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