Summary edit
An interactive community project to teach Tk scripting.Description edit
This is a list of pages useful to those learning Tk. Please help add pages items and explanations, and arrange them in an order that would be mose useful for efficient learning.General Information edit
- What is Tk?
- Tk syntax help
- Tk glossary
- When all you want is to run a Tk application
- Common questions about Tk
- ActiveTcl User Guide
- For ActiveTcl
- Tk performance
- Apple Macintosh and Tcl/Tk
- Microsoft Windows and Tcl
- Microsoft Windows and Tk
- Windows/CE
- Pocket PC
- Some common mistakes when programming in Tcl/Tk
- Widgets in the initial Tk package
- Coming to Tcl/Tk from an IDE environment
Basic Examples edit
- The Hello World program as implemented in Tcl/Tk
- Show me an example
- takes the Hello World program farther.
- Hello, Widgets! (a rock-bottom basic tutorial in Tcl and Tk)
- Reinhard's demo editor
- The beginnings of a text editor in about 200 lines of code. Although it is incomplete, it's a nice simple skeleton for a beginner to study. Use it as a tutorial by studying the successive commits. Tip: Use the diff functionality to visualize the development of the program.
Events edit
Patterns edit
- Interrupting loops
- how to build a stop button
- Overloading widgets
- Writing Tk programs so that the user can do simple custimizations without modifying the application
- Writing Tk programs so that the user can extend or interact with them without modifying the application
- Adding User Data to Widgets the Megawidget Way
- Some people have been asking (on news:comp.lang.tcl) for the Tk core to be modified so that widgets all carry with them some additional user data. This is not necessary. The following script illustrates how you can do this without all that paraphernalia in pure Tcl...
- the canvas as a data store
- Serializing a widget
Developer Tools edit
- Tcl/Tk Template Applications
- a template for a basic Tk application
Menus edit
Dialogues edit
Fonts edit
Text edit
- A change-sensitive text widget
- A little spellchecker
- A little hypertext system
- Text widget syntax highlighting
- A minimal console
- A minimal editor explained
- How do I insert text programmatically at the current insertion point
- in a text widget?
- A do-it-yourself IDE with the text widget
Text Entry edit
Canvas edit
- An analog clock in Tk
- Tkeyes
- Text widget example
- Shapes and Lights - a simple canvas script
- A little function plotter
- A minimal doodler explained
- A tiny drawing program
Image edit
Layout edit
Meter Displays edit
Miscellaneous Examples edit
- Widgets in the initial Tk package
- many screenshots
- Tk examples
- A little file searcher
- Scroll bars that appear only when needed
- Bag of Tk algorithms
- lots of little procs, help yourself
- Which Widget
- How to find the name and type of a TK Widget.
