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Tcl/Tk module T216
Introduction to Tk
Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module T216. This topic is presented on public course Tcl/Tk

Tcl - the Tk Toolkit - The Graphic Application of Tcl through Tk This course takes the programmer who's already learnt to program in Tcl forward into the ...
http://www.wellho.net/course/tkfull.html  [course]
Many of the scripting languages we teach include the ability to provide a GUI - a Graphic User Interface. I ll describe some particular GUIs later in ...
http://www.wellho.net/solutions/general- ... -guis.html  [longer article]
With a Tk Graphic User Interface, you can add a friendly look and feel to an application running on your workstation if it's written in Tcl (Tcl/Tk), ...
http://www.wellho.net/mouth/595_Add- ... th-Tk.html  [short article]
If you set a Tcl (Tcl/Tk) variable within a proc, or within the callback command of a widget, that variable does not exist at run time until you have ...
http://www.wellho.net/mouth/2040_Err ... l-Tk-.html  [short article]
#!/usr/bin/wish button .action -text "Press for timestamp" -command { puts -nonewline "It is " puts [clock format [clock ...
http://www.wellho.net/resources/ex.php4?item=t216/tk_hello  [code sample]
#!/usr/bin/wish button .action -text "Press for timestamp" -command { set xx [format "It is %s" [clock format [clock seconds]]] ...
http://www.wellho.net/resources/ex.php4?item=t216/tk_h2  [code sample]
proc scanner {} { global counter set textval [.word get] if {[regexp -nocase ^\(exit|end|quit\)\$ $textval]} exit if {[info ...
http://www.wellho.net/resources/ex.php4?item=t216/tk_accesscount  [code sample]

Would you like to access your Tcl script through a Graphic User Interface? The Tk GUI, which is distributed with most releases of Tcl, provides such a capability. In this module we introduce you to Tk and see a couple of short examples of Tk in use.

This topic is presented on public course Tcl/Tk

Examples from our training material
tk_accesscount   Tcl/Tk - Access Log File counter!
tk_h2   Report Date Information on a widget
tk_hello   Tcl/Tk - Report Date Information
udq   Widgets, Geometry Managers and Events
Background information
This module is available under an Open Training Notes License for free download from http://www.training-notes.co.uk.
Topics covered in this module
Hello Tcl/Tk World.
Tcl/Tk supported platforms.
Sourcing Tcl/Tk.
Our sample program.
A real application.
Feedback via the Tk window.
Widgets as commands.
A GUI front end to a data file.
The main program.
The setup proc.
The scanner proc.
The complete program.
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