The Complete Tcl/Tk Training Course

Brent T. Welchis a software engineer at Xerox PARC, and a former software engineer at Sun Microsystems. He has served on the Tcl/Tk development team at each company. Dave Zeltsermanis a principal in Net-Mgmt Tools & Solutions, Middleton, MA. He previously developed network management tools for Digital, Cisco and 3Com.

Tcl fundamentals; getting started; the Guestbook CGI application; string processing in Tcl; Tcl lists; control structure commands; procedures and scope; Tcl arrays; working with files and programs; Eval; regular expressions; Script libraries and packages; reflection and debugging; namespaces; event-driven programming; socket programming; multiple interpreters and Safe-Tcl; Tk fundamentals; Tk by example; the pack geometry manager; the grid geometry manager; the place geometry manager; binding commands to events; buttons and menus; the resource database; simple Tk widgets; scrollbars; the entry widget; the listbox widget; the text widget; the canvas widget; selections and the clipboard; focus, grabs and dialogs; Tk widget attributes; colour, images and cursors; fonts and text attributes; send; Window managers and Window; information; managing user preferences; a user interface to bindings; C programming and Tcl; C library overview; writing a Tk widget in C; Tcl 7.4/Tk 4.0; Tcl 7.5/Tk 4.1; Tcl 7.6/Tk 4.2; Tcl/Tk 8.0; Safe-Tk and the browser plug-in.