See Also edit
- Tcl Developer Guide
- A guide to various aspectes of develping Tcl.
General edit
Style edit
Tcl Facilities edit
- Regular Expressions
- Arrays / Hash Maps
- String Processing
- Variable Traces
- when are they useful?
- Serial Port
- How to control a physical device
Toolbox edit
- configuration files
- debugging
- command options
- Techniques for processing the arguments to a command.
- profiling
- inter-process communication
- Remote execution
- templates and macros
Caveats edit
Builtin Extensions edit
Language Tricks edit
- New Control Structures
- Radical language modification
- ever wanted to write i = 1?
- Playing C
- Salt and sugar
- how to make Tcl code look nicer
- Tcl Gems
- Braintwisters
- code golf
- Due to the emphasis on brevity, these exercises tend toward the dense side.
Design Patterns edit
- Introspection
- Guarded proc
- Meta Programming
- Local procedures
- How can I add a new option to an existing Tcl command?
- How do I manage lock files in a cross platform manner in Tcl?
- Data is code
- Predicates: on being and having
- paragraphing
Event-Driven Programming edit
Parsing edit
- Data files in Tcl
- simple tricks to parse text files
- Syntax parsing in Tcl
- Simple tree layout
Inter-Process Communication edit
Object-Oriented Programming edit
- Will's Guide to Creating Object Commands
- Objects in Tcl
- Curbside Collection for Object Systems
- Gadgets
- LOST
- On things
- Doing things
- Doing things in namespaces
- Chaining things
- The Anatomy of an Object System
- A modern take, in the spirit of Will's Guide to Creating Object Commands, on working with objects.
Functional Style edit
- functional programming
- Steps towards functional programming
- Lambda in Tcl
- Tail call optimization
- linked lists
Integration edit
- Sendmail
- Sockets demonstration using an all-Tcl
- telnet
- Interacting with the internet
- Interacting with databases
Distributing Software edit
Administering tcl edit
Extending Tcl edit
See Extending TclTk Concepts edit
- Tk Performance
- Entry Field Processing
- Event Processing
- Overloading a widget command
- Poor Man's Drag-N-Drop
- by Bryan Oakley
- Geometry Managers
- Practical Guide to Choosing Fonts
- Grab Tips
- for when you want to redirect events from one window to another
- Option Database Tutorial
- a great way of getting user-configurable and localizable applications
- Adding User Data to Widgets the Megawidget Way
- Tk image Dos and Don'ts
- Cross Platform differences in Tcl/Tk
Internationalization edit
- i18n - Writing for the world
- Unicode and UTF-8
- UTF-8 bit by bit
- Encoding Translations and i18n
- i18n tester
- A little Unicode editor
- A little Korean editor
- Unicode file reader
- The Lish family
- converters from 7-bit ASCII to Arab/Cyrillic/Greek/Hebrew/Japanese/Korean.. Unicodes
- Bag of number/time spellers
- on the interface between people and numbers
- Chinese numbers
- Hebrew numbers
- Roman numbers
- Natural languages
- Things British
- Things Japanese
- taiku goes multilingual
- Endekalogue
- has links to almost a dozen translations of man Tcl into different languages
Old Skool edit
- BASIC in Tcl
- Retrocomputing
- Playing Assembler
- 8080!
- RPN in Tcl
- reverse Polish notation
Other Languages edit
- Playing Prolog
- Playing Python
- Playing C
- Playing APL
- Playing Smalltalk
- Tcl and LISP
- Playing Haskell
- Turtle graphics the LOGO way
- Unix shells
- Perl
- TclJava
- Eiffel-like Invariants
- Design by Contract stuff.
Diversions edit
- 99 bottles of beer
- ANSI color control
- Tcl/Tk games
- Obfuscation
- Quines
- Turtleshell
- Horseracing in Tcl
- Model railroading with Tcl
- Notes on a canvas
- Postcard from Switzerland
- Toy cars
Misc edit
- Bag of algorithms
- Bag of Tk algorithms
- Bag of number/time spellers
- Example scripts everybody should have
- Braintwisters
- Tcl gems
- Hacks
- When should Tcl/Tk/etc. NOT be used?
- Halting Problem
- Tcl-style
- Tk in a set-userid application
- How do I report a bug in Tcl, Tk, ...?
- Incr Tcl Design Patterns
- dead link
- Graph theory in Tcl
- Searching A Star in Space
- AVC
- A multi-platform, fully automatic, live connection among graphical interface widgets and application variables for the python language.
