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Subject: FAQ: comp.lang.tcl Frequently Asked Questions (1/3)
    (Last updated: June 16, 1993)
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Summary: A regular posting of the comp.lang.tcl Frequently Asked Questions
    (FAQ) and their answers.  This is the first of three parts.
    This part introduces Tcl and Tk and discusses documentation, etc.
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    For more information concerning Tcl (see "tcl-faq/part2") or
(see "tcl-faq/part3").

Index of questions:

I.   Origin of the comp.lang.tcl FAQ information.
II.  What is Tcl?  Tk?  Extended Tcl?
III. Do these packages run on my machine?
    A. Unix
    B. MacOS
    C. MS-DOS
    D. VMS
    E. AmigaDOS
IV.  Other than C, What languages can talk to tcl/tk?
    A. Shell
    B. C++
        C. Modula-3
    D. Eiffel
    E. Other
V.   Is there a bibliography of material relating to these programs?
    A. The Tcl distribution
    B. The Expect distribution
    C. Miscellaneous other online materials
    D. Published articles
    E. Training courses, materials, etc.
    F. Time-related seminars, conferences, sessions.
VI.  Where do I report problems, bugs, or enhancements - or -
    What is comp.lang.tcl?
VII. Where can I find the FAQ and who do I contact for more information
    about it?

End of FAQ Index

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From: FAQ General information
Subject: -I- Origin of the comp.lang.tcl FAQ information.

    The information in this set of FAQs comes from 3 sources.  The
primary source of information is the group itself - I spend (much too
much) time each month culling through what I feel are some of the best
answers, gathering up new information on ports, etc. and adding it
here.  I also gather new application information and add it as
best I can.  The next most predominant source of information comes from
the authors of the various software packages.  Finally, a small amount
comes from my personal experiences.

    I am always on the search for folk to assist in the maintenance
of these FAQs.  In fact, if you feel that you would like to coordinate
this effort, PLEASE let me know!

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From: FAQ General information
Subject: -II- What is Tcl?  Tk?  Extended Tcl?

    Tcl (Version 6.7) stands for ``tool command language'' and is
pronounced ``tickle.'' It is actually two things: a language and a
library.  First, Tcl is a simple textual language, intended primarily
for issuing commands to interactive programs such as text editors,
debuggers, illustrators, and shells.  It has a simple syntax and is
also programmable, so Tcl users can write command procedures to provide
more powerful commands than those in the built-in set.

    Second, Tcl is a library package that can be embedded in
application programs.  The Tcl library consists of a parser for the Tcl
language, routines to implement the Tcl built-in commands, and
procedures that allow each application to extend Tcl with additional
commands specific to that application.  The application program
generates Tcl commands and passes them to the Tcl parser for
execution.  Commands may be generated by reading characters from an
input source, or by associating command strings with elements of the
application's user interface, such as menu entries, buttons, or
keystrokes.  When the Tcl library receives commands it parses them into
component fields and executes built-in commands directly.  For commands
implemented by the application, Tcl calls back to the application to
execute the commands.  In many cases commands will invoke recursive
invocations of the Tcl interpreter by passing in additional strings to
execute (procedures, looping commands, and conditional commands all
work in this way).

    An application program gains three advantages by using Tcl for
its command language.  First, Tcl provides a standard syntax:  once
users know Tcl, they will be able to issue commands easily to any
Tcl-based application.  Second, Tcl provides programmability.  All a
Tcl application needs to do is to implement a few application-specific
low-level commands.  Tcl provides many utility commands plus a general
programming interface for building up complex command procedures.  By
using Tcl, applications need not re-implement these features.  Third,
extensions to Tcl, such as the Tk toolkit, provide mechanisms for
communicating between applications by sending Tcl commands back and
forth.  The common Tcl language framework makes it easier for
applications to communicate with one another.

    Tk (Version 3.2) - an extension to Tcl which provides the
programmer with an interface to the X11 windowing system.  Note that
many users will encounter Tk via the ``wish'' command.  Wish is a
simple windowing shell which permits the user to write Tcl applications
in a prototyping environment.

    Extended Tcl (tclX) (Version 6.7c) - This is an extended set of
commands for Tcl developed by Karl Lehenbauer and Mark Diekhans.  Extended Tcl
is oriented towards system programming tasks, with many additional interfaces
to the Unix operating system along with other useful utilities.

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From: FAQ General information
Subject: -III- Do these packages run on my machine?

A. Unix

    Tcl runs on Suns and SunOS, DECstations running Ultrix, Dec
VAXen running Ultrix or BSD, Alphas running OSF, 386s running SCO Unix,
Xenix, Bell-Tech, Silicon Graphics running IRIX, HPs running HP-UX,
Sequent Symmetry running Dynix.  It also has been reported to run fine under
AIX 3.2 and with few problems under Mt. Xino Mach.

See the porting section below for info on porting the code to VMS as well.

    Tk (being based on Tcl) requires X11R4 or better as the only additional
software requirement.

B. MacOS

    Contact W. Ross Brown <[e-mail]> for the current status of
the Tcl MacOS port.  Ross has a mailing list for discussion on that
topic.

C. MS-DOS

    At least four ports are available.  One unsupported port of Tcl and
Extended Tcl V6.0a, done by "Karl Lehenbauer" <[e-mail]>,
is available on harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/distrib/dostcl.zoo for
binaries and harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/distrib/dostcl60.zoo for
source.

    A port of Tcl V6.2 was done by
"John Martin" <[e-mail]> and is available via FTP from
cajal.uoregon.edu and harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/distrib/tcl62.dos.tar.Z .

    A source code only port of Tcl V6.7, done by
[e-mail] (Peter Sprenger), is available from
him, on wuarchive.wustl.edu, or on
harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/distrib/tcl67dos.zip .

    A port of Tcl, V6.1 ?, done by unknown, to MS-DOS Windows
V 3.1 ?, is available as binary at
harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/distrib/w_tclbin.zip and as source at
harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/distrib/w_tclsrc.zip .


D. VMS

    A port of Tcl 6.2 and Tk 1.4 to VMS was done by Angel Li
<[e-mail]>.  The files were at
mango.rsmas.miami.edu:/pub/tcl-vms.bck.Z and
mango.rsmas.miami.edu:/pub/tk-vms.bck.Z

and were compressed with the Unix compress command.  The files were VMS
BACKUP files.  A recent report has it that these files are no longer
available.

A port of most of Tcl 6.7 and Tk 3.2 was done by John Kimball
<[e-mail]> to VMS 5.5.  The files are on:
src.honeywell.com:/pub/tcl67-tk32-on-vms55.tar.Z .


E. AmigaDOS

    Karl Lehbauer <[e-mail]> has indicated that
he started a port of Tcl 3.x to the Amiga.  He has a working
version, but is no longer working on it.  His version uses the
Amiga's shared libraries and implements the "send" command.
He wrote a MIDI file loader and player as well.  Contact him for
further details.

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From: FAQ General information
Subject: -IV- Other than C, what languages can talk to tcl/tk?

A. Shell

    There are two standard interfaces which are shell-like.  The
first is wish, which is a windowing shell like interface that is a part
of the Tk package.  The second is tcl, a line command interpreter that
is part of the Extended Tcl package.

B. C++

    Check out tcl++.h in Extended Tcl.  Based on an original
implementation by Parag Patel, it defines a Tcl interpreter class by
which Tcl interpreters can be created as objects under C++.

    Also, harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/distrib/tk3.2forC++.patch
is a patch that allows tk 3.2 main.c and other extension routines
to be compiled with a C++ compiler.  Thanks to Ken Yap <[e-mail]>
for this code.

    Mark Diekhans and Karl Lehenbauer have used this, in
combination with the handle facility in Extended Tcl, to build Tcl
commands around C++ classes.

    The Tcl handle facility provides a way to manage table entries
that can be referenced by a textual handle from Tcl code.  This is
provided for applications that need to create data structures in one
command, return a reference (i.e. pointer) to that particular data
structure and then access that data structure in other commands.  An
example application is file handles.

    A handle table was built containing pointers to the instances
of a class that were to be accessed from Tcl, say a class `foo_cl', and
then a "new" command defined that created an instance of that class and
returned a Tcl handle to it.  The handle could then passed among Tcl
commands that accessed each member function.  The handle is in effect
an explicit `this' pointer.

    For example:

     set obj [foo_cl::new]
     foo_cl::baz $obj "Hello world"
     foo_cl::delete $obj

It's not totally object-oriented, but it's still very usable.

C. Modula-3

    Norman Ramsey <elan.uucp!nr> says:

    A long time back, Eric Muller posted a Modula-3 interface to
the C Tcl library.  I wrote down a Modula-3/Tcl interface that used
Modula-3 types rather than C types, and that used objects to build
closures for commands.  I wrote part of the implementation but never
finished it.  I have mailed copies to [e-mail], who asked the
question, and I will post them if there seems to be general interest.

D. Eiffel

    [e-mail] (Stephan Herrmann) says:

    ... [the tclish package provides] the marriage of two very different
principles by means of combining two programming languages into a
hybrid program architecture.  A paper, plus sample code, is available by
ftp from ftp.dcs.gla.ac.uk:/pub/glasgow-fp/authors/Duncan_Sinclair/fumx.* .

E. Other

    Duncan Sinclair has hacked into wish.c some hooks for a Tk <->
any language system, and has been using it for communication with functional
languages such as Haskell and Lazy ML.

    Contact him at Duncan Sinclair <[e-mail]>
for more details.

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From: FAQ General information
Subject: -V- Is there a bibliography of material relating to these
        programs?

A. The Tcl distribution

    With the Tcl distribution there is a Postscript version of a Usenix
paper introducing Tcl.  With the Tk distribution, there is a Postscript
version of a Usenix paper introducing Tk.

Ousterhout, J.K., (1990) ``TCL: An Embeddable Command Language'', in
the Proceedings of the 1990 Winter USENIX Conference, pp 133-146.

Ousterhout, J.K., (1991) ``An X11 Toolkit Based on the TCL Language'',
in the Proceedings of the 1991 Winter USENIX Conference, pp 105-115.

Postscript file for introductory papers on Tcl and Tk are available as
the public FTP area on sprite.berkeley.edu (Internet address
128.32.150.27).  Their address is:

sprite.berkeley.edu:/tcl/tclUsenix90.ps
sprite.berkeley.edu:/tcl/tkUsenix91.ps
sprite.berkeley.edu:/tcl/tkF10.ps

(The last of these files is the contents of Figure 10 of the Tk paper)

If you have trouble retrieving the papers via FTP or printing them,
send [e-mail] your U.S. Mail address and he will mail
you paper copies.

B. The Expect distribution

    With the Expect distribution, there are several Postscript documents
available which have been published.

1. "Curing Those Uncontrollable Fits of Interaction", Proceedings of the
Summer 1990 USENIX Conference, Anaheim, CA, June 11-15, 1990.

This paper is discussion of implementation, philosophy, and design.
It's address is:

ftp.cme.nist.gov:/pub/expect/seminal.ps.Z

2. "Using expect to Automate System Administration Tasks", Proceedings of
the 1990 USENIX Large Systems Administration Conference (LISA) IV,
Colorado Springs, CO, October 17-19, 1990.

This paper is discussion and examples, specifically aimed at system
administrators.  The address of this paper is:

ftp.cme.nist.gov:/pub/expect/sysadm.ps.Z

3. "expect: Scripts for Controlling Interactive Programs", Computing
Systems, Vol. 4, No. 2, University of California Press Journals, 1991.

A comprehensive paper of example scripts.  This paper's address is:

ftp.cme.nist.gov:/pub/expect/scripts.ps.Z

4. "Regression Testing and Conformance Testing Interactive Programs",
Proceedings of the Summer 1992 USENIX Conference, San Antonio, CA,
June 8-12, 1992.

This paper discusses the application of expect to the verification
of software.

This paper's address is:

ftp.cme.nist.gov:/pub/expect/regress.ps.Z

5. "Kibitz - Connecting Multiple Interactive Programs Together",
Software - Practice & Experience, John Wiley & Sons, West
Susses, England, Vol. 23, No. 5, May 1993.

This paper is a discussion of using Tcl and Expect to connect multiple
interactive programs together.

This paper's address is:

ftp.cme.nist.gov:/pub/expect/kibitz.ps.Z

C. Miscellaneous other online materials

1. The ftp address for a FrameMaker MIF file containing a Quick Reference guide
to Tcl is:

harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/docs/QuickRef.tar.Z

Many thanks to "Jeff Tranter" <[e-mail]> for
contributing it.

2. PostScript versions of the man pages were provided by
"Adrian Ho" <[e-mail]>.  The addresses for these are:

harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/docs/tcl6.3.manps.tar.Z
harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/docs/tclX6.2b.manps.tar.Z
harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/docs/tk2.1.manps.tar.Z

3. An early draft of a text book based on Tcl and Tk, written by
John Ousterhout and to be published in 1993 by Addison-Wesley is
available.

The section dealing with writing Tcl scripts is:
sprite.berkeley.edu:/tcl/book.p1.ps.Z

The section dealing with writing Tcl scripts for Tk is:
sprite.berkeley.edu:/tcl/book.p2.ps.Z

The section dealing with writing writing Tcl applications in C is:
sprite.berkeley.edu:/tcl/book.p3.ps.Z

The first two parts are about 130 pages in length and the third part is about
65 pages in length.  This is ONLY a draft and is not permitted to
be redistributed.

3. A series of PostScript slides used in a tutorial on Tcl and Tk at
the 1993 X Conference are available as:

sprite.berkeley.edu:/tcl/tut.tar.Z

D. Published articles and books

1. Computer Shopper, V12 N12, page 862 had an article referencing Tickle,
the shareware package under Macintosh System 7 which is based on Tcl.

2. MacWEEK, V6 N32, page 91 had an article referencing Alpha 5.0, the
Macintosh editor which incorporates Tcl.

3. Computer Language, V9 N7, page 76 had an article referencing Tcl in
a hardware/software testing package which talks to a remote machine via
a proprietary interface card.

4. SunWorld, V5 N10, pages 95-96 had a article discussing Tcl, Tk and
expect.

5. UNIX REVIEW, V11 N4, pages 93-94, by Richard Morin.  The article,
a part of "The Internet Notebook", is about Tcl, Tk, and friends.
It mentions a little about Tcl and Tk, where to find the
sources, where to find the draft of the book, and where to find the
contributed software.

6. SunExpert, V4 N3, pages 32-36, by Richard Morin.  As part of Morin's
I/Opener series of articles, this is just a brief overview of Tcl and Tk.
It mentions some of the technical ideas behind Tcl and Tk, where to find
the Tcl source and mentions that the draft of the book is available on
allspice.berkeley.edu.  A 'hello, world' 3 line wish script is really
all that is shown.

7. Libes, Don, "Obfuscated C and Other Mysteries", Wiley & Sons,
January 1993.

This book has a whole chapter on Tcl.  Aimed at the C programmer, it
describes how to effectively use Tcl from C applications.  Another
chapter is on Expect - a walk-through of some of the more interesting
code in Expect.  These chapters originally appeared as separate
articles in The C Users Journal, Vol. 8, No. 7, July 1990, and Vol. 9,
No. 1, 1991.  (Incidentally, the reason the book has such a peculiar
title is that it also contains explanations of the Obfuscated C Code
Contest winners.)

8.  IEEE Design & Test of Computers, June 1993, by Steve Vinoski.
An article describing a system called the Remote Interactive Scan
Environment (RISE++) that marries Tcl with RPC for the purpose of
testing remote computer systems.

9. The X Journal, March-April 1993, pages 74-81, "HYPERTOOLS
A revolution in GUI applications" (listed in the TOC as "Hypertools: A GUI
revolution") by John K. Ousterhout and Lawrence A. Rowe.


Additional bibliographic references are still being sought.

E. Training courses, materials, etc.

1. There have been, in the past, seminars at Usenix and the MIT X
conference taught by John Ousterhout on Tcl and Tk.  See above for the
slides from the most recent of these presentations.

2. NeoSoft Communications Services ( [e-mail], [phone] )
can teach introductory and advanced Tcl courses on site or at their location
in Houston, Texas.  A syllabus and pricing information are available on
request.  Please contact Ellyn Mustard at [phone] or via email to
[e-mail] for more details.

3. Computerized Processes Unlimited ( [e-mail], [phone] )
has a combined Tcl/Tclx reference manual for sale.  It groups the commands
by chapter based on functionality and has an extensive index.

F.  Time-related seminars, conferences, sessions.

1. A Tcl/Tk workshop was held June 10-11, 1993 at University of
California at Berkeley.  The workshop proceedings are going to be made
available for ftp in the near future.  The bibliographic references for
the articles published will be added in the near future.

2. Classes on Tcl and Tk have been held at Usenix and the MIT X
Developers Conferences in the past.  The next ones that I have seen
scheduled are during the Summer Usenix in Cincinnati, OH.  At least
three sessions relate in some manner to Tcl/Tk - the Unix Power Tools
(Monday) and the Tcl/Tk (Tuesday) tutorials, as well as the Unix guru
session with Dr. John Ousterhout on Tuesday night.



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From: FAQ General information
Subject: -VI- Where do I report problems, bugs, or enhancements - or -
        What is comp.lang.tcl?

    There are two alternatives for reporting bugs and problems.
The first is the USENET news group news:comp.lang.tcl, an unmoderated USENET
newsgroup, created for the discussion of the Tcl programming language
and tools that embed it, such as the Tk toolkit for the X window
system, expect, and Extended Tcl.  Please note that postings of source
code to comp.lang.tcl do not get archived to harbor.ecn.purdue.edu - if
you want your code to be available from the User Contributions archive
you will need to make arrangements for someone to ftp it there.  See
elsewhere in the FAQ for more details on the archive site.

    The second would be to report problems, suggestions, new
ideas, etc. to the author.  Email to

[e-mail] (John Ousterhout)

will get comments to the author of Tcl and Tk - for other programs, email
addresses are available either elsewhere in this part or part 3.

    Note: for those USENET-deprived individuals who are thus unable
to read comp.lang.tcl, a small echoing mailing list is available.
Contact John Ousterhout (see above for email address) for details.

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From: FAQ General information
Subject: -VII- Where can I find the FAQ and who do I contact for more
        information about it?

    I am going to attempt to keep a copy of this file up to date on
harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/docs/tcl-faq.p0[1-3] .
Also, I will be posting it on a regular basis to at least comp.lang.tcl,
news.answers, and comp.answers.

    If you have corrections, enhancements, modifications,
clarifications, suggestions, ideas, new questions, new answers to
questions which have never been asked, or something else that I have
not covered above, contact me at [e-mail].

    Many FAQs, including this one, are available on the archive
site rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news/answers.  The name
under which a FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-name line at the
top of the article.  For example, this part of the comp.lang.tcl FAQ is
archived as tcl-faq/part1.Z .  There is also a mail server from which
you can obtain a copy of the FAQ.  Send an email message to
[e-mail] with the word help in the body of the message
to find out how to use it.

    Also, this FAQ is available from within gopher, from WAIS
servers such as the comp.lang.tcl.src, and probably other resources as
well.  Let me know when you find the FAQ in new and unusual locations
so I can update this resource guide!

    A great new resource access point for the FAQ is WorldWideWeb.
The Uniform Resource Locator id for the FAQ is:

http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu:80/hypertext/faq/usenet/tcl-faq/top.html

Be sure to check this one out!

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Subject: FAQ: comp.lang.tcl Frequently Asked Questions (2/3)
    (Last updated: June 16, 1993)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Followup-To: comp.lang.tcl
Summary: A regular posting of the comp.lang.tcl Frequently Asked Questions
    (FAQ) and their answers.  This is the second of three parts.
    This part covers the how-to questions and answers.
Originator: lwv26@lwv26aws
Keywords: tcl, expect, extended tcl, wish, tk
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Please do not be offended if I neglect to acknowledge your contribution
to this FAQ!  I sometimes forget to put an attribution in.  I especially
try to add them if it appears that there is further experimentation or
debugging being done though.

    For more information concerning Tcl (see "tcl-faq/part1") or
(see "tcl-faq/part3").

Index of questions:

VIII. Questions on building Tcl and friends on your system
    Q8A. Is there anywhere I can find help with the details of getting
        Tcl to work on my machine?
    Q8B. When I am trying to build Tcl, the link step says that some
        of the functions Tcl needs are missing.
    Q8C. Has anyone built Tcl 6 on an RS/6000 AIX 3.1?
    Q8D. Has anyone gotten Tcl to compile under HP-UX?
    Q8E. Has anyone gotten Tcl to compile under VMS?
    Q8F. What does it take to get Tcl to compile under SCO Unix?
    Q8G. When I try to run the tclTest I get format and scan errors
        (NeXT, AIX, etc.)
    Q8H. When I try to run Tcl V6 tclTest under Irix 4.0.1 I get
        lots of errors.
    Q8I. Does anyone else have problems with Tcl on a Cray?
    Q8J. Does anyone know how to get Tk to run on a SparcBook or other
        laptop with a limited number of colors?
    Q8K. What does it take to get Tcl/Tk to compile on 386bsd/Linux
        or other POSIX/ANSI C systems not already supported?
    Q8L. Can anyone help me build tcl 6.7 under NextStep 3.0?

IX.  How, in Tcl, can I XXX:
    Q9A. get association lists or property lists?
    Q9B. call one proc with the multi parameter value returned by
        another proc?
    Q9C. pass an array into a proc?
    Q9D. pipe output of a command back into a Tcl parsing procedure?
    Q9E. merge extended Tcl into other programs such as wish or expect?
    Q9F. delete a procedure from within a script?
    Q9G. get parray to recognize an array variable I have created
        via upvar?
    Q9H. get more than 7 digits of double precision?
    Q9I. grab the command line whenever a non-built-in call is made?
    Q9J. get or set an environment variable?
    Q9K. use numbers with leading zeroes?
    Q9L. find the command line arguments to my application?
    Q9M. put comments in my script, for example in a case statement?
    Q9N. redirect stdin or stdout safely, including binary data?
    Q9O. trap signals, and other more Unix specific functions?

X.  How, in Tk, can I XXX:
    A. Question on starting Tk applications

    Q10.A.1. get my wish application to execute - I just get a wish prompt!
    Q10.A.2. ,using a machine with less than 8 bit color, run?
    Q10.A.3. set X11 resources for a wish application in an
        app-defaults file?
    Q10.A.4. specify bitmap patterns on the command line instead of
        as a file name?
    Q10.A.5. get a Motif user interface?
    Q10.A.6. get an OpenLook user interface?

    B. Questions on Tk applications and the keyboard

    Q10.B.1. change the default class bindings?
    Q10.B.2. delete a binding?
    Q10.B.3. change a binding while it is being executed?
    Q10.B.4. bind the arrow key on my Sun keyboard?
    Q10.B.5. get root's mouse bindings to work in my Tk application?

    C. Questions on Tk and X11 interactions

    Q10.C.1. get an application to also use libXt?
    Q10.C.2. change the X11 cursor?
    Q10.C.3. raise or lower a window?
    Q10.C.4. re-map a withdrawn window id?
    Q10.C.5. use Tk in a subwindow of a non-Tk X11 application?

    D. Questions on Tk listboxes

    Q10.D.1. resize a listbox?
    Q10.D.2. select two items that are not adjacent in the listbox at
        one time?
    Q10.D.3. select items in more than one Tk listbox at a time?

    E. Other questions

    Q10.E.1. get the name of my own interpreter?
    Q10.E.2. get -relief to work on my text widgets?
    Q10.E.3. get output from a Tk canvas?
    Q10.E.4. fill a canvas which is bounded by lines as opposed to a
        shape like a polygon, oval, etc.?
    Q10.E.5. create a scrollable window of buttons?
    Q10.E.6. pack a text widget so that it can be resized interactively?
    Q10.E.7. create a widget with an upper case name?

End of FAQ Index

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From: -VIII- Questions on building Tcl and friends on your system
Subject: -Q8A- Is there anywhere I can find help with the details of
        getting Tcl to work on my machine?

A8A. Glad you asked!  Look in the Tcl distribution for the file called
"porting.notes".  This will contain a collection of notes that various people
have provided about porting Tcl to various machines and operating systems.
There are also a file called "README" which should be read FIRST - before
doing anything else with the code (this should always be one's first
step with any package).  Finally, there is a "changes" file which details
what has changed since the last release - be sure to read this to see
what might need to change in your programs.

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From: -VIII- Questions on building Tcl and friends on your system
Subject: -Q8B- When I am trying to build Tcl, the link step says that
        some of the functions Tcl needs (such as strtoul and
        strerror) are missing.

A8B. Did you run the "config" program first, by doing a "csh ./config" or
equivalent?

Tcl includes equivalents for the following functions and include files
which may not be found on some systems:

dirent.h       limits.h          stdlib.h         string.h

opendir.c      strerror.c     strstr.c         strtol.c        strtoul.c

strtod.c

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From: -VIII- Questions on building Tcl and friends on your system
Subject: -Q8C- Has anyone built Tcl 6 on an RS/6000 AIX 3.1?

A8C. See porting notes - especially the note about strtoul.

One user got Tcl to compile with a few minor source modifications
(for example, duplicate case statements for errno and signal symbols in
tclUnixStr.c).

A few other problems arose in the tests.  One is caused by AIX printf
not formatting %#x and %#o correctly when the value to be printed is
zero:  they print "0x0" and "00" instead of "0" and "0" respectively.
This was reported as not a problem in earlier releases.  No fixes have
been posted.

Finally, a problem occurs in open.test.  test 13.6 hangs because "cat"
on the RS6000 is unbuffered.  A workaround is to change the execution
of "cat" in open.test to do a "cat -u".

Dov Grobgeld <[e-mail]> provided info on creating Tcl
and Tk shared libraries under AIX 3.1.5:

For Tcl:

cc -o tkshar.o *.o -bE:tclshar.exp -bM:SRE -berok -lX11 -lm
ar r libtclshr tclshar.o

For Tk:

cc -o tkshar.o *.o -bE:tkshar.exp -bM:SRE -berok -Ltcl -lX11 -lm -ltclshr
ar r libtkshr tkshar.o

where tckshar.exp and tkshar.exp had lists of the external functions.

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From: -VIII- Questions on building Tcl and friends on your system
Subject: -Q8D- Has anyone gotten Tcl to compile under HP-UX?

A8D. See the porting notes.

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From: -VIII- Questions on building Tcl and friends on your system
Subject: -Q8E- Has anyone gotten Tcl to compile under VMS?

A8E. Information from [e-mail] (John Kimball) on
May 4, 1993 was that he had gotten Tcl 6.7 and Tk 3.2 ported to VMS
5.5.  See the catalog for the file information.

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From: -VIII- Questions on building Tcl and friends on your system
Subject: -Q8F- What does it take to get Tcl to compile under SCO Unix?

A8F. Add a "#undef select" to tkEvent.c, and remove the reference to
TK_EXCEPTION around line 460 of main.c.

Tk uses its own scheme for allocating the border colors for its 3D
widgets, which causes problems when running TK on a system with
"PseudoColor" display class, and a 16-cell colormap.

If you can't go to eight bitplanes, you can instead start the server
with a "-static" (Xsco) or "-analog" (Xsight) option, making the
display class become "StaticColor".  This makes the entire colormap
read-only, and it will return the color that most closely maps to the
desired color as possible.

This information is from Keith Amann <[e-mail]>

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From: -VIII- Questions on building Tcl and friends on your system
Subject: -Q8G- When I try to run the tclTest I get format and scan errors
        (NeXT, AIX, etc.)

A8G. That's a problem (scanf/printf) many systems seem to have.  Don't
worry too much about it - just don't use these 'advanced' features.  If
you're hacking C, you'll have the same problems.

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From: -VIII- Questions on building Tcl and friends on your system
Subject: -Q8H- When I try to run Tcl V6 tclTest under Irix 4.0.1 I get
        lots of errors.

A8H. There's a bug in the 4.0.1 optimizer that's fixed in 4.0.2.
Compile tclVar.c using -O0 (no optimization).

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From: -VIII- Questions on building Tcl and friends on your system
Subject: -Q8I- Does anyone else have problems with Tcl on a Cray?

A8I. See the porting notes for a set of changes mentioned.  Also,
Booker C. Bense <[e-mail]> reports that version 3.0.1.6
has some real problems with char pointers, causing Tcl to crash.  Using
version 3.0.2.1, things are much better, except for a minor formatting
problem and serious problems with scan.

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From: -VIII- Questions on building Tcl and friends on your system
Subject: -Q8J- Does anyone know how to get Tk to run on a SparcBook or other
        laptop with a limited number of colors?

A8J. On a SparcBook, if you start openwin (the OpenWindows server starting
command) as:

openwin -dev "/dev/fb staticvis"

you get a static visual color model that Tk copes with better than the
default.  Some things are ugly, but not as ugly as monochrome.

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From: -VIII- Questions on building Tcl and friends on your system
Subject: -Q8K- What does it take to get Tcl/Tk to compile on 386bsd/Linux
        or other Posix/ANSI C systems not already supported?

A8K. Patches for 386BSD were posted to comp.lang.tcl back in Nov. 1992 to
alt.sources.  See one of the ftp archive sites for this group for them.
Basically, there were some setting of defines and a few places where
const char * had to be used in place of char *.

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Subject: -Q8L- Can anyone help me build tcl 6.7 under NextStep 3.0?

A8L. Put #include <sys/time.h> near the top of tclUnixAZ.c.
Thanks to Michael B. Johnson <[e-mail]>.

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From: -IX-  How, in Tcl, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q9A- association lists or property lists?

A9A. Use Extended Tcl arrays or keyed lists.

For example, if you did a:

keylset ttyFields ttyName tty1a
keylset ttyFields baudRate 57600
keylset ttyFields parity strip

And then an "echo $ttyFields", you'd get:

    {ttyName tty1a} {baudRate 57600} {parity strip}

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From: -IX-  How, in Tcl, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q9B- call one proc with the multi parameter value returned by
        another proc?

A9B. Assuming y requires multiple args and x returns multiple words, use
    Tcl's eval command "eval y [x]"

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From: -IX-  How, in Tcl, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q9C- pass an array into a proc?

A9C. Use upvar rather than try to use global variables.


# print elements of an array
proc show arrayName {
    upvar $arrayName myArray

    foreach element [array names myArray] {
       puts stdout "${arrayName}($element) =  $myArray($element)"
    }
}

set arval(0) zero
set arval(1) one
show arval

Extended Tcl introduces a concept called keyed lists which are arrays
made out of lists of key-value pairs and can be passed by value to routines,
over networks, etc.

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From: -IX-  How, in Tcl, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q9D- pipe output of a command back into a Tcl parsing
        procedure?

A9D. For example, to grep a pattern out of a range of files, one might
do:

[e-mail] (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:

set files [glob /home/cole/stats/*]

proc parseInfo { site } {
   global files

#
# site is chosen from a listbox earlier
#
   set in [open [concat "|/usr/bin/grep $site $files"] r]

   while {[gets $in line]>-1} {
      puts stderr $line
   }
   catch {close $in}
}

One thing:  the matching strings are _not_ returned in directory order.

But what if I want to check the return code AND use the output of
the command?  [e-mail] (Kevin B. Kenny) writes:

if [catch {exec ls} data] {
        # The exec got an error, and $errorCode has its termination status
} else {
        # The exec succeeded
}
# In any case, `data' contains all the output from the child process.

Note that Karl Lehenbauer adds that errorCode will be a list containing
three elements, the string "CHILDSTATUS", the process ID of the child,
and the exit status of the child.

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From: -IX-  How, in Tcl, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q9E- merge extended Tcl into other programs such as wish or expect?

A9E. The latest version of extended Tcl, tclX 6.5c, has been enhanced to
make it easier to incorporate into applications.

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From: -IX-  How, in Tcl, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q9F- delete a procedure from within a script?

A9F. rename procedureName ""

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From: -IX-  How, in Tcl, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q9G- get parray to recognize an array variable I have created
        via upvar?

A9G. Right now (June, 1992) upvar doesn't allow you to attach to an
individual element of an array.  This is considered a bug by
Mr. Ousterhout and has been place on a bug list.

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From: -IX-  How, in Tcl, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q9H- get more than 7 digits of double precision ?

A9H. Modify the tclExpr.c module to use %lf instead of %g.

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From: -IX-  How, in Tcl, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q9I- grab the command line whenever a non-built-in call is made?

A9I. The procedure "unknown" is called automatically with arguments
containing the command and its arguments for any command that couldn't be
found.  In fact, Tcl and Extended Tcl use this feature to provide demand
loaded commands, and even entire libraries.

So by modifying the unknown procedure you can provide your own extended
functionality, or even remove the demand loading capability if you so
desire.

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From: -IX-  How, in Tcl, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q9J- get or set an environment variable?

A9J. By using something like the following.

set olddisplay $env(DISPLAY)
set env(DISPLAY) unix:0

Thanks to "Joel Fine" <[e-mail]> for the answer.

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From: -IX-  How, in Tcl, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q9K- use numbers with leading zeroes?

A9K. Dave Morriss was recently having problems because he was trying
to do something like:

set index [expr [exec date +%W]%[llength $pop_server_list]]

but during the 9th and 9th week of the year, he got errors - 08 and 09
are not valid octal numbers in Tcl.

Some of the solutions provided were:

From George A. Howlett <[e-mail]>, we got:

set wknum [format "%g" [exec date +%W]]
set index [expr [exec $wknum%[llength $pop_server_list]]

From Fred Feirtag <[e-mail]> :

set index [expr (1[exec date +%W]-100)%[llength $pop_server_list]]

From Dan R. Schenck <[e-mail]>:

set index [expr [string trimleft [exec date +%W] 0]%[llength $pop_server_list]]

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From: -IX-  How, in Tcl, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q9L- find the command line arguments to my application?

A9L.  If you are using extended Tcl or Expect, you will find the parameters in
the Tcl variable argv as a list.  Note that in extended Tcl, the name of
the program is in the Tcl variable programName and NOT in argv[0].  Thanks to
[e-mail] (Brad Morrison) and [e-mail] (Bud Bach) for
this answer.

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From: -IX-  How, in Tcl, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q9M- put comments in my script, for example in a case statement?

A9M. You can't have comments where you have them.  Move the comments inside
of the "{" for the case that you want.  Your code should read:

case 1 {
  -1    {
        #
        # Cannot find information sought
        #
        exit 2
        }
   0    {
        #
        # Error in arguments
        #
        exit 1
        }
   default    {
        #
        # Desired information found
        #
        exit 0
        }
}

Thanks to [e-mail] (Gerald W. Lester).

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From: -IX-  How, in Tcl, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q9N- redirect stdin or stdout safely, including binary data?

A9N. With Extended Tcl you can safely do stuff like:

        set infp [open "|compress -dc $fileName"]
        set outfp [open "|gzip -c $newFileName" w]

        copyfile $infp $outfp

Thanks to [e-mail] (Karl Lehenbauer) for the code example.

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From: -IX-  How, in Tcl, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q9O- trap signals, and other more Unix specific functions?

A9O. Extended Tcl offers many of these types of functions.  For instance,
extended Tcl has the 'signal' command:

        signal action siglist [command]

        where action is one of "default", "ignore", "error", "trap", "get",
        plus the POSIX "block" and "unblock" actions (available only on
        POSIX systems, of course).  Siglist is a list of either the symbolic
        or numeric Unix signal (the SIG prefix is optional).  Command is your
        error handler (or a simple {puts stdout "Don't press *that* key!"}  :-)

"trap" does what you expect, and I find "error" and "get" to be
extremely useful in interactive programs which demand keyboard
traversal.

Extended Tcl also has things like fork, etc.

Answer by [e-mail] (Brad Morrison).

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From: -X-  How, in Tk, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q10.A.1- get my wish application to execute - I just get a
        wish prompt!  Or I just get error msgs about permission
        denied, not found, etc.

A10.A.1. Most systems require a full pathname to the interpreter.
So you cannot start a wish script out as

#! wish -f

Likewise, many Unix systems have a maximum length of characters that you can
put on a #! line.  If you exceed this, you do not get the behaviour you
expect.  So do not try to put something like:

#! /projects/somethingbig/bin/sun4/wish -f

followed by your wish code.  Keep the lines short - under 30 characters is
recommended.

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From: -X-  How, in Tk, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q10.A.2- ,using a machine with less than 8 bit color, run?

A10.A.2. Tk doesn't behave very well with less than 8-bit color screens.  To
try to use it, find all the places in the Tk/wish source where
DefaultDepthOfScreen is invoked to test the number of bit-planes.  Change all
of these to pretend there is just 1 bit-plane, or call a procedure which
monitors a Tcl variable so that it is configurable, and you should be okay.

Another alternative is to see if the server you are using has alternative
visual / color models, such as static visual, etc.  One of the alternatives
may allow Tk to work better.

Thanks to "Nathaniel Borenstein" <[e-mail]> for this info!

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From: -X-  How, in Tk, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q10.A.3- set X11 resources for a wish application in an
        app-defaults file?

A10.A.3. Read the documentation for the option command.
Then you should consider something like the following - assume the program
name is xwf.

The following are two general purpose functions to put into a library:

# envVal envValName
#   Looks up the envValName environment variable and returns its
#   value, or {} if it does not exists
proc envVal {envValName} {
  global env
  if [info exists env($envValName)] {return $env($envValName)} {return {}}
}

# loadAppDefaults classNameList ?priority?
#   Searches for the app-default files corresponding to classNames in
#   the order specified by X Toolkit Intrinsics, and loads them with
#   the priority specified (default: startupFile).
proc loadAppDefaults {classNameList {priority startupFile}} {
  set filepath "[split [envVal XUSERFILESEARCHPATH] :] \
        [envVal XAPPLRESDIR] \
        [split [envVal XFILESEARCHPATH] :] \
        /usr/lib/X11"
  foreach i $classNameList {
    foreach j $filepath {
      if {[file exists $j/$i]} {
    option readfile $j/$i $priority; break
      }
    }
  }
}

# Now, here is what you would put into xwf:

option add Tk.BoldFont "*-lucida sans-Bold-R-Normal-*-100-*" widgetDefault
loadAppDefaults {xwf XWF} userDefault

This sets a program default, then load any defaults specified in the user's
default resources and finally any site or general app-defaults resource.
Of course, you would want to add some xwf command line handling to allow
the user to override things at execution time.

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From: -X-  How, in Tk, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q10.A.4- specify bitmap patterns on the command line instead of
        just as a file name?

A10.A.4. You can not, at least as of June, 1992.

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From: -X-  How, in Tk, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q10.A.5- get a Motif user interface?

A10.A.5. Tk does not currently use the Xt toolkit, so a strict adherence
to Motif via the libXm.a routines is not possible.  However, the authors
of Tk prefer the Motif style of user interface, so you will find that Tk
makes quite an attempt to implement a Motif-like interface.

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From: -X-  How, in Tk, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q10.A.6- get an OpenLook user interface?

A10.A.6. Unfortunately, Tk does not currently use either XView or Xt based
widgets in its user interface, so an OpenLook compliant (or even
similar) interface is probably not easily achievable in the near future.

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From: -X-  How, in Tk, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q10.B.1- change the default class bindings?

A10.B.1. All default class bindings for Tk widgets are initialized in
$tk_library/tk.tcl.  Use this file as a guide to implement new
bindings.  For instance, the following code duplicates Button 1's
drag-select facility in Button 3 for all listboxes:

bind Listbox <3> {%W select from [%W nearest %y]}
bind Listbox <B3-Motion> {%W select to [%W nearest %y]}

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From: -X-  How, in Tk, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q10.B.2- delete a binding?

A10.B.2. Give an empty-string command to the "bind" invocation.  For
example, to disable the Delete key in all entry fields:

    bind Entry <Delete> {}

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From: -X-  How, in Tk, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q10.B.3- change a binding while it is being executed?

A10.B.3. As of June, 1992, this was not a safe thing to do in Tk.  It was
put on the bug list by John Ousterhout to be fixed in a future version.

The solution for now is not to change the bindings, but to change
something in the code they execute.  For example, keep a state variable
that indicates which binding you'd like, but always have the binding
call a given procedure.  Then that procedure checks the variable and
executes one piece of code or another.  Or, you could just make the
binding's command "eval $cmd" and then change the variable "cmd"
depending on your application's state.

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From: -X-  How, in Tk, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q10.B.4- bind the arrow key on my Sun keyboard?

A10.B.4. You have to call it <Left> rather than <R10>.  Under X11, keys are
referred to by their keysym.  One can use either xmodmap -pk or the xev
program to determine what the keysym a particular key on a keyboard is
currently generating.

If the keysym that is being used is not known by Tk, you may have to edit
its ks_names.h file.  There is a note in this file that indicates that
one should not edit it - but this is where the keysym must be for it to
be recognized.

Thanks to Wayne Christopher <[e-mail]> for this
note.

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From: -X-  How, in Tk, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q10.B.5- get root's mouse bindings to work in my Tk application?

A10.B.5. Some window managers, such as mwm, define mouse button bindings
which cause Tk some problems.  Try saving off the window manager's startup
file (something like /.mwmrc for instance) and then copy in a startup
file from a login id that works.  Thanks to [e-mail] (Brad Morrison)
for this invaluable tip!

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From: -X-  How, in Tk, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q10.C.1- get an application to also use libXt?

A10.C.1. Tk2.1 and Xt have different X connections, and XtAppNextEvent will
block is there is nothing coming from the X connection.  One way
of fixing this is get the connection number of Tk using

   ConnectionNumber(Tk_Display(tk_window));

and using XtAddInput to register this with the Xt event handler.  The
callback procedure for XtAddInput wrapper procedure that runs
Tk_OneEvent(1).  There might be problems with Tk file sources which
aren't registered with Xt.

Thanks to [e-mail] (Joe Wang) for this information.

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From: -X-  How, in Tk, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q10.C.2- change the X11 cursor?

A10.C.2. Here is a tip from [e-mail] (M. G. Christenson).

Look at /usr/include/X11/cursorfont.h for a list of available cursors.
You can use the names in there by removing the 'XC_'.

Here's a little proc I use to make my entire application go 'busy'
while it's doing something. Just call it with the commands you want to
execute, and the watch cursor will be displayed for the time it takes
the commands to complete.  Note that any new windows will have their
normal cursor.

proc busy {cmds} {
    global errorInfo

    set busy {.app .root}
    set list [winfo children .]
    while {$list != ""} {
    set next {}
    foreach w $list {
        set class [winfo class $w]
        set cursor [lindex [$w config -cursor] 4]
        if {[winfo toplevel $w] == $w || $cursor != ""} {
        lappend busy [list $w $cursor]
        }
        set next [concat $next [winfo children $w]]
    }
    set list $next
    }

    foreach w $busy {
    catch {[lindex $w 0] config -cursor watch}
    }

    update idletasks

    set error [catch {uplevel eval [list $cmds]} result]
    set ei $errorInfo

    foreach w $busy {
    catch {[lindex $w 0] config -cursor [lindex $w 1]}
    }

    if $error {
    error $result $ei
    } else {
    return $result
    }
}

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From: -X-  How, in Tk, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q10.C.3- raise or lower a window?

A10.C.3. This is on the (semi-infinite) list of things to be done in the future.
If you have the time, please go ahead and add it and submit the code and all
will be grateful.

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From: -X-  How, in Tk, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q10.C.4- re-map a withdrawn window id?

A10.C.4. Use wm deiconify <windowid>.

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From: -X-  How, in Tk, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q10.C.5- use Tk in a subwindow of a non-Tk X11 application?

A10.C.5. From [e-mail] (Wayne A. Christopher):

[C]reate the Tk toplevel window but don't map it (wm withdraw).  Then
re-parent the window to be a subwindow of your other one and then map
it.  I have done this when the Tk application is a separate process,
but if it's the same process I think you will get into trouble with the
event loop, since each toolkit wants control.

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From: -X-  How, in Tk, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q10.D.1- resize a listbox?

A10.D.1. Use wm min/maxsize - in a uniform manner.  Here is a resizable listbox:

        #!/usr/local/bin/wish -f
        wm minsize . 20 20
        wm maxsize . 1152 900
        pack append . [listbox .l -borderwidth 2 -relief raised] {expand fill}

Doing the same with the text widget brings its resizing under control too.

Thanks to "John C Ellson" <[e-mail]).

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From: -X-  How, in Tk, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q10.D.2- select two items that are not adjacent in the listbox at
        one time?

A10.D.2.  See Marc R. Ewing's Listbox.patch for a way to modify Tk to allow
selection of non-contiguous entries.

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From: -X-  How, in Tk, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q10.D.3- select items in more than one Tk listbox at a time?

A10.D.3. The default for Tk's listbox widget exports its selection as the
X selection.  There can only be one of these at a time.

To turn off this behavior in Tk, use the -exportselection false when
you create the listbox.  Or, use the

option add *Listbox.exportselection false

command in the beginning of your script.

Thanks to David Herron <[e-mail]> for this tip.

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From: -X-  How, in Tk, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q10.E.1- get the name of my own interpreter?

A10.E.1. [e-mail] (George A. Howlett) points us to the winfo manual
page - winfo name . gets the name of the current application.

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From: -X-  How, in Tk, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q10.E.2- get -relief to work on my text widgets?

A10.E.2. From Owen Rees <[e-mail]>, we find out that we must:

"[m]ake the border width non-zero as in"

   text .t -width 20 -height 20 -relief sunken -borderwidth 4

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From: -X-  How, in Tk, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q10.E.3- get output from a Tk canvas?

A10.E.3. The latest Tk has a save suboption on canvas which allows one
to create a file describing the canvas.  The default output is Encapsulated
Postscript, but there is an xpm3 suboption as well.

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From: -X-  How, in Tk, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q10.E.4- fill a canvas which is bounded by lines as opposed to a
        shape like a polygon, oval, etc.?

A10.E.4. No, you have to at least use a polygon if you want to fill an area
bounded by some lines.

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From: -X-  How, in Tk, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q10.E.5- create a scrollable window of buttons?

A10.E.5. There are at least two ways to do this.  First, there is a hypertext
widget that one can get from the Tcl User Contributed Code Archive (see
comp.lang.tcl FAQ part 3 for details) which provides such a facility.
And here is some sample code from
"Michael Moore" <[e-mail]> which shows a way to
do this using just Tk.

#! /bin/wish -f
#
# This demonstrates how to create a scrollable canvas with mutliple
# buttons.
#
# Author : Michael Moore
# Date   : November 17, 1992
#

#
# This procedure obtains all the items with the tag "active"
# and prints out their ids.

proc multi_action {} {
    set list [.frame.canvas find withtag "active"]
    puts stdout "Active Item Ids : "
    foreach item $list {
    puts stdout $item
    }
}

#
# This simulates the toggling of a command button...
# Note that it only works on a color display as is right now
# but the principle is the same for b&w screens.
#
proc multi_activate {num id} {

    set tags [.frame.canvas gettags $id]
    if {[lsearch $tags "active"] != -1} {
    .frame.canvas dtag $id "active"
    .frame.canvas.button$num configure \
        -background "#060" \
        -activebackground "#080"
    } else {
    .frame.canvas addtag "active" withtag $id
    .frame.canvas.button$num configure \
        -background "#600" \
        -activebackground "#800"
    }
}

proc setup {} {
     frame .frame

     scrollbar .frame.scroll \
         -command ".frame.canvas yview" \
         -relief raised

     canvas .frame.canvas \
         -yscroll ".frame.scroll set" \
         -scrollregion {0 0 0 650} \
         -relief raised \
     -confine false \
     -scrollincrement 25

     pack append .frame \
         .frame.scroll    {left frame center filly} \
         .frame.canvas    {left frame center fillx filly}

     pack append .\
         .frame   {left frame center fillx filly}

     button .frame.canvas.action  \
         -relief raised \
         -text "Action" \
     -command "multi_action"
     .frame.canvas create window 1 25 \
     -anchor w \
         -window .frame.canvas.action
     for {set i 2} {$i < 26} {incr i} {
     button .frame.canvas.button$i  \
        -relief raised \
        -background "#060" \
        -foreground wheat \
        -activebackground "#080" \
        -activeforeground wheat \
        -text "Button $i"
     set id [.frame.canvas create window 1 [expr $i*25] \
        -anchor w \
        -window .frame.canvas.button$i]
     .frame.canvas.button$i configure \
        -command "multi_activate $i $id"
    }
}

setup

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From: -X-  How, in Tk, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q10.E.6- pack a text widget so that it can be resized interactively?

A10.E.6. From Spencer W. Thomas <[e-mail]> we find that we need to:

wm minsize . 0 0
text .text
pack append . .text {fill expand}

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From: -X-  How, in Tk, can I XXX:
Subject: -Q10.E.7- create a widget with an upper case name?

A10.E.7. During a recent revision of Tk, things were changed so that names
beginning with a capital letter are reserved for class names.  Specific
instances of widgets must begin with a lower case letter.  This enables
X11 resource definitions to distinguish between a class and instance.

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    For more information concerning Tcl (see "tcl-faq/part1") or
(see "tcl-faq/part2").

Index of questions:

XI. Where can I get these packages?
    A. Retrieving Tcl and Tk
    B. Accessing the Tcl/Tk User Contributions Archive
    C. Expect available via e-mail.
    D. tcl-mode.el
    E. The tk toolbox project

XII. What are some examples of applications using Tcl and/or Tk?
    o Alpha
    o Amiga OS Tcl 3.x port
    o arTCLs
    o BOS
    o Bowling
    o browse.tcl
    o BYO
    o calc.tk
    o Clock (Analog)
    o Compare Manifest
    o coloredit
    o CUTE
    o DejaGnu
    o directory browser
    o Directory User Agent interface
    o Drag and Drop directory browser
    o Drag and Drop file browser
    o edit-html
    o Expect
    o expecTerm
    o Extended Tcl
    o fn and ForumNet
    o FSBox
    o getcons
    o hp-tcl-cdplay
    o js tools
    o Libsearch
    o lookup
    o MacOS Tcl, 6.1
    o MacOS Tcl, 6.1v2
    o MacOS Tcl, 6.7
    o man.tk
    o Modules
    o MS-DOS Tcl, 6.0a
    o MS-DOS Tcl, 6.2
    o MS-DOS Tcl, 6.7
    o MS-DOW Windows Tcl
    o Mx
    o Netrek Metaserver Monitor
    o Objectify
    o Parseargs
    o Point
    o PostgresBrowswer
    o Picasso
    o pixmap
    o reversi
    o Roger's Interface Language (RIL)
    o rolodex
    o ServiceMail(TM) Toolkit
    o SGI GL interpretor
    o smaillog
    o Tcl
    o tclbot
    o tcltags
    o tcltools
    o tcltt, v1
    o TCLtt, v2
    o TeenyMUD
    o tickle
    o Tk
    o Tk command interpretor
    o tk WWW interface
    o Tk xworld
    o tkinfo
    o tkinspect
    o TkIspell
    o tkkids
    o TkMail
    o TkMan
    o tkmines
    o tkwool
    o Towers of Hanoi
    o tupact
    o twoClocks
    o Tx
    o unix.tk
    o User-Maint
    o user-setup
    o VMS port of Tcl/Tk
    o Wafe
    o widget server
    o workman
    o wtour
    o Xdig
    o xf
    o Zap Interpreters

XIII. Since Tcl/Tk appear to be extensible, are there any common extensions?
    o addinput
    o busy window
    o C++ Tcl objects
    o Calc_Object
    o calculator
    o calendar
    o color settings
    o deck.tk
    o Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) widgets
    o Disjoint listbox selections
    o SunOS dld package
    o Eiffel / Tcl interface
    o file selector
    o file select (sherman)
    o Tk focus follows pointer
    o font settings
    o graph
    o GroupKit
    o iconbutton
    o Lamda anonymous procedures
    o lisp2wish
    o list select
    o Multibyte Support for Tk
    o Multiple interpretor support
    o Mxedit
    o net CDF
    o Network management
    o Photo widget
    o Postgres extensions
    o procedure tracing
    o Safe Tcl Interpreter
    o secure tcl
    o showproc.tcl
    o SIPP extensions
    o Spreadsheet
    o System V ipc
    o Sybase Tcl
    o tclcompare
    o tcl debugger
    o Tcl-DP
    o Tcl externals
    o tclIV
    o tclMIDI
    o tclOBST
    o Tcl Packages
    o tclprof
    o tclRawTCP
    o tclsql
    o tclsockets
    o tclTCP
    o tclvogle
    o Tcl SQL
    o tcl_streams
    o tclX dynamic library patches
    o tclX / Tk merge
    o tclXt
    o tcpConnect
    o tk Bell and Cutbuffer patches
    o Tk Emacs
    o tkFScale
    o tkGLXwin
    o tk-mod.shar
    o tk RichText Format widget
    o tkText (Tk 1.3 compatible)
    o tkText (Tk 2.0 compatible)
    o tree widget
    o turtle graphics
    o validate
    o Variable Frames
    o warp
    o wmstuff
    o Xpm support

XIV. Is there any commercial use of Tcl/Tk?

End of FAQ Index

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From: FAQ Tcl/Tk Package Catalog
Subject: -XI- Where can I get these packages?

The "home site" for Tcl on the Internet is sprite.berkeley.edu.
Sprite is an experimental research machine whose IP servers
occasionally flake out.  If you find that sprite is refusing
connections, send mail to "[e-mail]", wait a few
hours, and try again.

Tcl and Extended Tcl were posted to comp.sources.misc, appearing
In volume 25 and then Tcl appeared again in volume 26 and can be found at
most comp.sources.misc archive sites in the tcl and tclx directories.
These are quite old versions actually, but are still usable.

a. Tcl    - available on sprite.berkeley.edu and harbor.ecn.purdue.edu
b. Tk    - available on sprite.berkeley.edu and harbor.ecn.purdue.edu
c. Extended Tcl - available on sprite.berkeley.edu and harbor.ecn.purdue.edu

The IP address for harbor.ecn.purdue.edu is 128.46.128.76 .
sprite.berkeley.edu is a CNAME for allspice.Berkeley.EDU, whose
IP address is 128.32.150.27.

Other sites which either mirror the Tcl/Tk submissions or have special
versions are:

ftp.uu.net:/languages/tcl    <- sprite only
gatekeeper.dec.com:/.0/BSD/UCB/sprite <- sprite only
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/languages/tcl
ftp.ibp.fr:/pub/tcl        <- distrib, contrib, expect
syd.dit.csiro.au:/pub/tk    <- contrib and sprite

iskut.ucs.ubc.ca:/pub/X11/tcl
ftp.funet.fi:/pub/languages/tcl
coma.cs.tu-berlin.de:/pub/tcl
nic.funet.fi:/pub/languages/tcl
oskgate0.mei.co.jp:/free/X/toolkits/tcl <- sprite only

sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux    <- contains port of extended Tcl and
                    extended Tk to this OS.

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From: -XI- Where can I get these packages?
Subject: -A- Retrieving Tcl and Tk


>From: [e-mail] (John Ousterhout)
>Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
>Subject: Obtaining Tcl/Tk sources

For people new to the Tcl/Tk community, here is information on how
to obtain Tcl and Tk sources.  The information below describes what
I distribute; other information is available from other machines
also, such as harbor.ecn.purdue.edu.

The sources and documentation for the Tcl command
language library, for the Tk toolkit, and for a few Tcl-based
applications, are in the public FTP area on sprite.berkeley.edu.
All of these files are in the "tcl" subdirectory of the FTP area.
Here is a catalog of what's available.  Most of the files are
compressed tar files ("xxx.tar.Z").  There is some overlap
between the contents of the various packages.

tk3.2.tar.Z -        This is the latest release of the Tk toolkit, released
            in February 1993.  It includes a complete copy of the
            Tcl V6.7 release (the version of Tcl with which it is
            compatible) plus a simple windowing shell called
            "wish".  If you retrieve this file you don't need to
            retrieve Tcl separately.

tcl6.7.tar.Z -        This is the newest release of the Tcl library.
            It became available in February 1993.  This package
            includes only the Tcl library and its documentation,
            plus a simple main program for testing.

tclX6.5c.tar.Z -    Extended Tcl (or NeoSoft Tcl), created by Mark
            Diekhans and Karl Lehenbauer, which adds a number
            of useful facilities to the base Tcl release.
            Among the things in Extended Tcl are a Tcl shell,
            many new commands for things like UNIX kernel
            call access and math library routines, and an
            on-line help facility.  This file is based on
            Tcl versions 6.5 or later and Tk versions 3.0
            or later.

            Note that tclX6.5c-6.7c.update.shar.Z exists on
            the purdue archive site.

mx.tar.Z -        Sources and documentation for a mouse-based text
            editor (mx) and terminal emulator (tx) based on
            Tcl.  This is a very old release:  it uses an old
            version of Tcl (which is included) and doesn't
            even use Tk;  it uses an ancient toolkit called
            "Sx".  These tools will eventually be replaced
            with new tools based on Tk and the newest Tcl.

mx-2.5.tar.Z -         Newer version of mx (see above) that uses the
            standard X selection mechanism rather than the
            homegrown mechanism used by previous versions.
            Version 2.5 is not backwards compatible with
            previous versions (you can't cut and paste between
            the two). Still uses sx and an old version of
            Tcl (both of which are included).

book.p1.ps.Z        Compressed Postscript for a draft of the first part
            of an upcoming book on Tcl and Tk to be published in
            1993 by Addison-Wesley.  This part of the book
            describes the Tcl language and how to write scripts
            in it.  About 130 pages in length.

book.p2.ps.Z        Compressed Postscript for a draft of the second part
            of an upcoming book on Tcl and Tk to be published in
            1993 by Addison-Wesley.  This part of the book
            describes how to write Tcl scripts for Tk.  About
            125 pages in length.

book.p3.ps.Z            Compressed Postscript for a draft of the third part
                        of an upcoming book on Tcl and Tk to be published in
                        1993 by Addison-Wesley.  This part of the book
                        describes how to write Tcl applications in C, using
                        the Tcl library procedure.  64 pages in length.

tclUsenix90.ps -    Postscript for a paper on Tcl that appeared in the
            Winter 1990 USENIX Conference.  This paper is also
            included in the Tcl and Tk distributions.

tkUsenix91.ps -        Postscript for a paper on Tk that appeared in the
            Winter 1991 USENIX Conference.  This paper is also
            included in the Tk distribution.

tkF10.ps -        Postscript for Figure 10 of the Tk paper.

tut.tar.Z -        A collection of materials from a full-day tutorial
            on Tcl and Tk.  Includes viewgraphs from five one-hour
            talks plus a sample widget.

In addition, there may be older releases of some or all of the above
files;  look for files with earlier release numbers.


To retrieve any or all of these packages, use anonymous FTP to
sprite.berkeley.edu (Internet address 128.32.150.27).  Use user
"anonymous"; when asked for a password, type your login name.  Then
retrieve the relevant file(s) with the commands like the following:
        type image (try "type binary" if this command is rejected)
        cd tcl
        get tk3.2.tar.Z

Be sure to retrieve files in image mode (type "type image" to FTP)
in order to make sure that you don't lose bits.

Any file with a .Z extension is a compressed file, which means you must
use the "uncompress" program to get back a normal file.  For example, for
the file tk3.2.tar.Z, you should type

    uncompress tk3.2.tar.Z

once you've retrieved the file.  This will produce a file named "tk3.2.tar".
Then you will need to use tar to extract the members.  Typically one
would use a command such as:

    tar xv tk3.2.tar

to extract the pieces.

Each of the releases has a README file in the top-level directory that
describes how to compile the release, where to find documentation, etc.

Questions or problems about any of these distributions should be directed
to "John Ousterhout" <[e-mail]>.

If you don't have access to Sprite, you can also retrieve some or
all of the above files from other FTP repositories.  Here is a
sampler of machines that store some or all of the Tcl/Tk information,
plus the directories in which to check:

ftp.uu.net:        /languages/tcl/*
export.lcs.mit.edu:    /contrib/tk*
harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:    /pub/tcl/*

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From: -XI- Where can I get these packages?
Subject: -B- Accessing the Tcl/Tk User Contributions Archive

Contributions to the Tcl/Tk Contrib Archive are most welcome --
please upload them to:

    harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/incoming    [128.46.128.76]

send the archive maintainer <[e-mail]> a note stating
the names of the files you uploaded and a brief description for the
index.

Harbor is the central file server for the software staff of the
Engineering Computer Network, so please try to refrain from FTPing
stuff between 9am and 5pm EST (GMT -0500).  No mail-archive service is
planned as yet -- users without FTP capability should use one of the
following mail-based FTP services (send mail to the appropriate address
with "help" in the body):

BITNET users:   BITFTP <[e-mail]>
Others:         "DEC ftpmail" <[e-mail]>
Europe:         [e-mail]
        [e-mail]

WARNING!  The archive maintainer will NOT be automatically archiving anything
posted to comp.lang.tcl or previously to the mailing list.  So if you want
your nifty porting instructions for getting Tcl up on your Seiko wrist watch
or your pen computer to be saved for others benefit, be sure to ftp them into
the archive.

All contributions should be placed in harbor's ~ftp/incoming
subdirectory.  Please send [e-mail] and a short
mail message stating the filename(s) of your contribution and a brief
description (for the Index).  If you've posted some code to
comp.lang.tcl or the Tcl mailing list, and you want it to be archived
at this site, please deposit it in ~ftp/incoming or mail it in a
suitable form (preferably uuencoded compressed tar file, but a shar
file's OK) to [e-mail].

Note: I have noticed that some authors prefer to use plain names rather than
version level type names.  This means that you should a) make note of when
you get a package, and b) check the archive occasionally to see if a newer
version of the package has appeared.

-------------------------------

From: -XI- Where can I get these packages?
Subject: -C- Expect available via e-mail.

Besides being available via ftp, expect can also be received by email
by sending the message "send pub/expect/expect.shar.Z" to
[e-mail] .

As of January 11, 1993, the primary expect package does not work with Tcl 6.5
due to a Tcl 6.5 bug.  There is an alpha.tar.Z package which provides
compatibility with Tcl 6.[67] as well as provides some support for Tk.

-------------------------------

From: -XI- Where can I get these packages?
Subject: -D- tcl-mode.el

"Sean Levy" <[e-mail]> has hacked a version of Emacs's C mode into
a tcl-mode.el.  He mentions that you must use semi-colons at the end
of each statement to get indentation to work right, but he found that
easier than doing without.

The code is on [128.2.214.236]
sambar.ndim.edrc.cmu.edu:/afs/cs/user/snl/public/tcl-mode.el.Z
(don't forget binary mode) as well as
harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/distrib/tcl-mode.el.Z .

"Julian Anderson" <[e-mail]> was also working on an Emacs Tcl
minor mode to fundamental.

"Chris Lindblad" <[e-mail]> has contributed tcl.el, a Tcl mode for
GNU emacs.  It's address is harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/tcl.el .

-------------------------------

From: -XI- Where can I get these packages?
Subject: -E- The tk toolbox project

The Tk Toolbox & Toolchest project.

The Toolchest consists of convenience routines for Tcl and Tk - a kind of a
libc for Tcl.  The toolbox is a collection of commonly used code and
some specialized code such as fileselectors, dialogs that take care of
keyboard traversal through items automatically, etc.

The project has currently not yet reached a usable state, but each formal
release will be announced in comp.lang.tcl as well as other newsgroups.

There is a mailing list for discussion of the tk toolbox, kindly provided by
Ari Lemmke.  To subscribe, write a message with the line:
X-Mn-Admin: join tktools

in the body or header of the message.  Send this message to
[e-mail] .

To write to the list, send messages to to
[e-mail]
and add the line
X-Mn-Key: TKTOOLS
to the header or the body of the message. Especially remember this when
replying to messages from the list.

For more info about the list server (mailnet), write
an empty message to [e-mail] .

The intermediate snapshots are announced on this mailing list.

If you have problems or are willing to donate code or whatever,
you can contact the code maintainer (one of the three main implementors)
at [e-mail] or [e-mail] .

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From: FAQ Tcl/Tk Package Catalog
Subject: -XII- What are some examples of applications using Tcl and Tk?

What: Simple name of package
Where: ftp site or 'From the contact'
Description: One to two line description of package, including Tk/Tcl version
    requirements.
Contact: Email address for questions, comments, etc.

What: Alpha
Where: cs.rice.edu:/public/Alpha/Alpha_5.31.sea.hqx
Description: Alpha version 5.x is a Macintosh System 7.0 shareware ($25)
    Tcl programmable editor.  The Think C 5.0 Tcl source for the Mac
    is available on cs.rice.edu as well.
Contact: [e-mail]

What: Amiga OS Tcl 3.x port
Where: From the contact
Description: A port of Tcl 3.x to the Amiga.  Uses Amiga share libraries
    and implements "send" under the Amiga OS, plus a post.  Includes
    a MIDI file loader and player.  Works, but is not up to the latest
    version of Tcl nor is further work occurring.
Contact: "Karl Lehenbauer" <[e-mail]>

What: arTCLs
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/artcls.tar.Z
Description: a Wish-based USENET news reader
Contact: [e-mail] (Mike Hoegeman)

What: biff clock
Where: From the contact
Description: Tk example program showing biff and xclock like functions
Contact: [e-mail] (Karl Lehenbauer)

What: BOS
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/bos-1.31.tar.Z,
    monch.edrc.cmu.edu:/usr0/snl/archive,
    sambar.ndim.edrc.cmu.edu:/afs/cs/user/snl/public
Description: BOS - the Basic Object System; SELF-like Tcl objects.
    This is also an extension to Tcl.
Contact:  [e-mail] (Admin. requests for BOS mailing list)
    [e-mail] (BOS mailing list)

What: Bowling
Where: From the contact
Description: Tk based bowling game, using the core Tcl/Tk.
Contact: [e-mail] (Peter Grina)

What: browse.tcl
Where: alt.sources archives
Description: Directory browser w/Tcl
Contact: [e-mail] (Peter da Silva)

What: BYO
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/byo_tk2.1_v0.7_tar.Z ,
    harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/byo_v0.7_patch1 ,
    ftphost.comp.vuw.ac.nz:/pub/tcl/byo_tk2.1_v07_tar.Z
Description: A graphical User Interface Builder for Wish
Contact: [e-mail] (BYO Development Team)

What: calc.tk
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/calc.tk
Description: a simple calculator.
Contact: [e-mail] (David Herron)

What: Clock (Analog)
Where: From the contact
Description: Graphical representation of non-digital clock.
Contact: [e-mail] (Karl Lehenbauer)

What: Compare Manifest
Where: From the contact
Description: Extended Tcl program that reads a MANIFEST and compares
    directory hierarchy to it.
Contact: [e-mail] (Karl Lehenbauer)

What: coloredit
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/coloredit.tk
Description: Tk script to edit colors
Contact: "Sam Shen" <[e-mail]>

What: CUTE
Where: From the contact
Description: Call Unix/Tcl Environment - a serial port 'expect' like
    program.
Contact: [e-mail] (Karl Lehenbauer)

What: DejaGnu
Where: ftp.cygnus.com:/pub/dejagnu/dejagnu-1.0.tar.z and other GNU sites.
Description: an expect 4.5.2 based package designed to be a framework
    for testing other software.  Separate test suites exist for
    GDB and binutils.  Note that the tar includes a complete release
    of Tcl 6.7 and expect 4.5.2.
Contact: "Rob Savoye" <[e-mail]>

What: directory browser
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/dir.shar.Z
Description: Simple directory browser behaving similar to NeXT file browser.
Contact: [e-mail] (Taj Khattra)

What: Directory User Agent interface
Where: ftp.ics.uci.edu:/mrose/fredtcl/fredtcl-sunos4.tar.Z
    ftp.ics.uci.edu:/mrose/fredtcl/fredtcl.tar.Z
Description: A program that interrogates the OSI Directory about information
    objects, people, programs, organizations, etc.
Contact: [e-mail]

What: Drag and Drop directory browser
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/dragdrop-1.1.tar.Z
Description: Graphical paradigm for coordinating "send" commands
    Contains a drag and drop based directory browser.
Contact: "Michael J. Mclennan" <[e-mail]>

What: Drag and Drop file browser
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/dragndrop.tk.Z
Description: Drag and drop based directory browser (tkfb) and helper programs
Contact: "Scott Schwartz" <[e-mail]>

What: edit-html
Where: export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/edit-html.tcl.Z
Description: Tk wish script for creating HTML-based documents.
Contact: "Nathan Torkington" <[e-mail]>

What: Expect
Where: ftp.cme.nist.gov:/pub/expect/expect.shar.Z
Description: a scripting language to talk to interactive programs like ftp,
    telnet, fsck, and others that cannot be automated from a shell script
Contact: [e-mail] (Don Libes)

What: Expect (Tcl 6.5 compatible)
Where: ftp.cme.nist.gov:/pub/expect/alpha.shar.Z
Description: a scripting language to talk to interactive programs like ftp,
    telnet, fsck, and others that cannot be automated from a shell script
    This is an alpha version due to Tcl 6.5 limitations.
Contact: [e-mail] (Don Libes)

What: expecTerm
Where: ceylon.gte.com:/pub/expecterm/expecTerm1.0beta.tar.Z,
    harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/expecTerm1.0beta.tar.Z
Description: expect with terminal emulation
Contact: [e-mail] (Christopher J. Matheus) and
    [e-mail] (Mark D. Weissman)

What: Extended Tcl
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/tclX6.5c.tar.Z,
    harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/tclX6.5c-6.7c.update.shar.Z,
    sprite.berkeley.edu:/tcl/tclX6.5c.tar.Z
Description: an essential package of extensions for Tcl, compatible with
    Tcl 6.[567] / Tk 3.[012].
Contacts: [e-mail] (Mark Diekhans) and
    [e-mail] (Karl Lehenbauer)

What: fn and ForumNet
Where: f.ms.uky.edu
Description: ForumNet - teleconferencing system,
    fn - client to access ForumNet
Contact: [e-mail] (Sean Casey)

What: FSBox
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/FSBox.tar.Z ,
    harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/tkFSBox.tar.Z ,
    coma.cs.tu-berlin.de
Description: Tk 3.x File Selection dialog box
Contact: "Sven Delmas" <[e-mail]>

What: getcons
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/getcons.shar.Z
Description: Console managment tool - a wish based contool so to speak.
Contact: [e-mail] (Steve Osborn)

What: hp-tcl-cdplay
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/hp-tcl-cdplay.tar.Z
Description: a Tk interface to the HP CD-ROM player
Contact: "Mike Hoegeman" <[e-mail]>

What: js tools
Where: princeton.edu:/pub/js/jstools-tk3.2v1.0.tar.Z,
    harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/jstools-tk3.2v1.0.tar.Z
Description: A configurable directory browser (similar to the NeXT browser),
    a extensible text editor, and a multi-font help viewing system.
Contact: "Jay Sekora" <[e-mail]>

What: Libsearch
Where: From the contact
Description: expect driven interface to Internet library databases.
Contact: "Terrence Brannon" <[e-mail]>

What: lookup
Where: From the contact
Description: Look up words in /usr/dict/word file.
Contact: [e-mail] (Paul Raines)

What: MacOS Tcl, 6.1
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/distrib/tcl61.cpt.bin
Description: Tcl6.1 Mac port (ThinkC 5.0.1)
Contact: [e-mail] (Parag Patel)

What: MacOS Tcl, 6.1v2
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/distrib/MacTcl6.1v2.sea.hqx
Description: Tcl6.1 Mac port (ThinkC 5.0.1) with a few extensions and fixes
Contact: [e-mail] (Ray Johnson)

What: MacOS Tcl, 6.7
Where: From the contact
Description: Tcl6.7 Mac port (ThinkC 5.0.1).
Contact: [e-mail] (Ray Johnson)

What: man.tk
Where: From the contact
Description: Tk based man page browser.
Contact: [e-mail] (Bob Bagwill),
    [e-mail] (John Bowe)

What: Modules
Where: ftp.eng.auburn.edu:/pub/Modules/Modules-v2.0.tar.Z
Description: a dynamic user environment customization package
Contact: "John L. Furlani" <[e-mail]>

What: MS-DOS Tcl, 6.0a
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/distrib/dostcl.zoo,
    harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/distrib/dostcl60.tar.Z
Description: Experimental MS-DOS Tcl 6.0a port
Contact: "Karl Lehenbauer" <[e-mail]>

What: MS-DOS Tcl, 6.2
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/distrib/tcl62.dos.tar
    Cajal.uoregon.edu:/pub/tcl.dos.port/*
Description: stable port of Tcl 6.2, and extra libraries, ported to MS-DOS
Contact: [e-mail] (John Martin)

What: MS-DOS Tcl, 6.7
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/distrib/tcl67dos.zip
    wuarchive.wustl.edu:/incoming
Description: Port of Tcl 6.7 to MS-DOS.
Contact: [e-mail] (Peter Sprenger)

What: MS-DOS Windows Tcl
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/distrib/w_tclbin.zip ,
    harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/distrib/w_tclsrc.zip
Description: Port of Tcl (version unknown) to MS-DOS Windows (version unknown).
Contact: Unknown

What: Mx
Where: sprite.berkeley.edu:/pub/tcl/mx.tar.Z
    sprite.berkeley.edu:/pub/tcl/mx-2.5.tar.Z
Description: a old Tcl/Sx based text editor
Contact: "John Ousterhout" <[e-mail]>

What: Netrek Metaserver Monitor
Where: From the contact
Description: Tk 2.1/tclRawTCP based Tk program to monitor the metaserver.
Contact: [e-mail] (Sam Shen)

What: Objectify
Where: From the contact
Description: First attempt at turning a C++ class into a Tcl object type.
Contact: [e-mail] (Wayne A. Christopher)

What: Parseargs
Where: From comp.sources.misc archives, volume 29,
    wuarchive.wustl.edu:/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume29/parseargs
Description: Utility library for parsing command line arguments in various
    languages (including Tcl) and on various hardware platforms
Contact: "Eric P. Allman" <[e-mail]>,
    "Peter da Silva" <[e-mail]>,
    "Brad Appleton" <[e-mail]>

What: Point
Where: ftp.cs.unm.edu:/pub/Point/point1.60.tar.Z,
    ftp.cs.unm.edu:/pub/Point/point1.56.tar.Z
Description: a Tk based text editor - 1.60 works with Tk 3.0,
    1.56 works with tk 2.3.
Contact: "Charlie Crowley" <[e-mail]>

What: PostgresBrowswer
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/postgresbrowser.tcl.Z
Description: An experimental postgres frontend.
Contact: "Frank Sauer" <[e-mail]>

What: Picasso
Where: iis.ethz.ch:/iisdist/graphics/picasso.tar.Z.dex
Description: Interactive visualization tool with object oriented user interface.
    Free, but requires completion of physical license form before
    code is available.  See directory for examples.tar.Z which contains
    doc and some sample output files, etc.
Contact: "Mark Westermann" <[e-mail]>

What: pixmap
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/pixmap-0.1.tar.Z
Description: A color pixmap editor written in Tk.
Contact: "Sam Shen" <[e-mail]>

What: reversi
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/reversi-1.0.tk
Description: Reversi (othello) game.
Contact: "Joel Fine" <[e-mail]>

What: Roger's Interface Language (RIL)
Where: alt.sources archives,
    export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/ril.tar.Z
Description: a preprocessor for resource files.
Contact: "Roger Reynolds" <[e-mail]>

What: rolodex
Where: From the Tk demos directory
Description: John Ousterhout's entry to Tom Solbourne's 1992 X toolkit
    challenge.
Contact: [e-mail] (John Ousterhout)

What: ServiceMail(tm) Toolkit (servicemail.tar.Z)
Where: eitech.com:/servicemail1.2.tar.Z
Description: Electronic mail server toolkit (v1.1, 9-8-92).
Contact:  [e-mail] (ServiceMail questions),
    or subscribe to servicemail-help mailing list by sending a message
    to the "listserv subscribe servicemail-help your-real-name" service at
    "[e-mail]".

What: SGI GL interpretor
Where: metallica.prakinf.tu-ilmenau.de:/pub/GLIP/glip0.8.tar.Z
    metallica.prakinf.tu-ilmenau.de:/pub/GLIP/glip0.8.doc.ps.Z
Description: Tcl based interpreter for Silicon Graphics GL.
Contact: [e-mail] (Ekkehard Beier)

What: smaillog
Where: alt.sources archives
Description: email activity report for smail 2.5
Contact: [e-mail] (Karl Lehenbauer)

What: Tcl
Where: sprite.berkeley.edu:/tcl/tcl6.7.tar.Z
Description: the complete base package for Tcl 6.7.  Not needed if you
    get Tk 3.2.
Contact: "John Ousterhout" <[e-mail]>

What: tclbot
Where: belch.berkeley.edu:/pub/mud_robots/tclbot
Description: MUD robot for Tcl programmers
Contact: "Rusty C. Wright" <[e-mail].>

What: Tcl IPC interface
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/tclipc1-0.tar.Z
Description: Implements Tk's send command without requiring Tk or X11.
Contact: "Kim Gillies" <[e-mail]>

What: tcltags
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/tcltags.tcl.Z
Description: Emacs TAGS generation for Tcl source.
Contact: "Tom Tromey" <[e-mail]>

What: tcltools
Where: cygnus.com:/pub/tcltools-930124.tar.Z ,
     harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/tcltools-930124.tar.Z
Description: Version of Tcl 6.5 and Tk 3.0 which uses autoconfig for
    configuration purposes.
Contact: [e-mail] (david d 'zoo' zuhn)

What: tcltt, v1
Where: ftp.white.toronto.edu:/pub/muds/tcltt
Description: Tcl TinyTalk
Contact: "Chris Siebenmann" <[e-mail]>

What: TCLtt (TCL-TinyTalk)
Where: From the contact
Description: Programmable client for connecting to MUDs (effectively, chat
    servers with role playing).  Uses TCL 6.7, should be OK with earlier.
Contact: [e-mail] (David Fenger)

What: TeenyMUD
Where: From the contact
Description: a small Multi User Dungeon program which is based on a
    heavily modified version of Tcl.
Contact: [e-mail] (TeenyMUD admin addr) ,
    [e-mail] (Teeny MUD Mailing List) ,
    [e-mail] (jason downs)

What: tickle
Where: ftp.msen.com:/pub/vendor/ice/tickle/AppOnly.hqx ,
    ftp.msen.com:/pub/vendor/ice/tickle/DocOnly.hqx ,
    ftp.msen.com:/pub/vendor/ice/tickle/EngineOnly.hqx ,
    ftp.msen.com:/pub/vendor/ice/tickle/scripts.hqx ,
    ftp.msen.com:/pub/vendor/ice/tickle/XTCL.hqx
Description: Tickle 3.1v1 is a Macintosh utility for file conversions
     handles binhex, uudecode, compress, tar, MacBinary,
    Apple Single/Double, etc.
Contact: [e-mail]

What: Tk
Where: sprite.berkeley.edu:/tcl/tk3.2.tar.Z
Description: the complete base package for Tcl
Contact: "John Ousterhout" <[e-mail]>

What: Tk command interpretor
Where: From the contact
Description: A Tk terminal emulator-like widget.
Contact: Rudi Stouffs <[e-mail]>

What: tk WWW interface
Where: info.cern.ch:/pub/www/src/tkWWW-0.7.tar.Z ,
    harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/tkWWW-0.8.tar.Z ,
    export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/tkWWW-0.8.tar.Z
Description: A Tk World Wide Web (WWW) browser, requires tk 3.1 or greater.
Contact: [e-mail] (administration of mailing list),
    [e-mail] (WWW Tk Browser Discussion List)

What: Tk xworld
Where: From the contact
Description: Tk world builder for the xworld server
Contact: "Michael D. Moore" <[e-mail]>

What: tkinfo
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/tkinfo-0.3.tar.Z
    ptolemy.berkeley.edu:/pub/misc/tkinfo-0.3.tar.Z
Description: GNU info parsing and interpretation code and a Tk program
    providing a sample of how to use it.
Contact: [e-mail] (Kennard White)

What: tkinspect
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/tkinspect-4c.tar.Z
Description: A Tk application browser/inspector
Contact: [e-mail] (Sam Shen)

What: TkIspell
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/tkispell-1.3.Z
Description: Interface to ispell command
Contact: [e-mail] (Paul Raines)

What: tkkids
Where: From the contact
Description: Two kids' games - a Concentration-like memory game and
    a spelling game (requires speak/scat software).
Contact: [e-mail] (Peter Grina)

What: TkMail
Where: bohr.physics.upenn.edu:/pub/tk/tkmail.*
    harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/tkmail-1.2.tar.Z
Description: Tk interface to Mail
Contact: [e-mail] (Paul Raines)

What: TkMan
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/tkman-1.3.1.tar.Z
    bohr.physics.upenn.edu:/pub/tkman-1.3_SGI.tar.Z
Description: A Tk based man page reader with hypertext links.  Also a
    separate version for Silicon Graphics man pages exists.
Contact: [e-mail] (Tom Phelps)

What: tkmines
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/tkmines.1.3.shar.Z
Description: Mines game.
Contact: "Joel Fine" <[e-mail]>

What: tkwool
Where: From the contact
Description: A version of Tk which uses the wool language rather than
    Tcl.  A Sun 4 binary is available on avahi.inria.fr:/wtk
Contact: [e-mail] (Colas Nahaboo)

What: Towers of Hanoi
Where: From the contact
Description: Sample of Towers of Hanoi solution in Tk.
Contact: fubar![e-mail] (Damon Permezel)

What: tupact
Where: alt.sources archives
Description: 9X faster C-news active file "minimum article" updater
Contact: [e-mail] (Karl Lehenbauer)

What: twoClocks
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/twoClocks.tcl.Z
Description: Two different kinds of clock
Contact: "Charles Read" <[e-mail]>

What: Tx
Where: sprite.berkeley.edu:/pub/tcl/mx.tar.Z
Description: an old Tcl/Sx based terminal emulator
Contact: "John Ousterhout" <[e-mail]>

What: unix.tk
Where: sprite.berkeley.edu - in the Tcl mailing list archive file
Description: a Unix Tk browser
Contact: "Brent Welch" <[e-mail]>

What: UserMaint
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/UserMaint_V1.0.tar.Z
Description: a Tk based user account maintenance package for maintaining
    /etc/passwd, /etc/group, etc.
Contact: eads@mickey (Charles Eads)

What: user-setup
Where: ftp.eng.auburn.edu:/pub/Modules/user-setup2.0.tar.Z
Description: Menu driven interface to the Modules package.
Contact: [e-mail] (Richard Elling)

What: VMS port of Tcl/Tk
Where: src.honeywell.com:/pub/tcl67-tk32-on-vms55.tar.Z
Description: Port of most of Tcl 6.7 and Tk 3.2 done by a number of folk.
Contact: [e-mail] (John Kimball)

What: Wafe
Where: ftp.wu-wien.ac.at:/pub/src/X11/wafe/wafe-0.94.tar.Z
Description: Symbolic interface to Athena Widgets.  Note that this
    can be used with Xaw3d-0.1.tar.Z to get 3-D Athena widget
    presentation.
Contact: [e-mail]

What: widget server
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/ws1.0.tar.Z
Description: Widget server designed for use with the X11/emacs program epoch.
Contact: [e-mail] (Brian L. Kahn)

What: workman
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/workman.tar.Z
Description: workman - The Civilized CD Player
Contact: "Steve Grimm" <[e-mail]>

What: wtour
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/wtour1.0.tar.Z
Description: Tk 3.x Widget tour.
Contact: "Andrew Payne" <[e-mail]>

What: Xdig
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/Xdig.shar
Description: A Wish-based interface to the Domain Internet Groper (dig)
Contact: "Dave Collier-Brown" <[e-mail]>

What: xf
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/xf2.2.tar.Z ,
    harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/docs/xf-doc.ps.Z ,
    harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/docs/xf-doc-legal-nopics.dvi.Z ,
    harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/docs/xf-doc-legal-nopics.ps.Z ,
    harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/docs/xf-doc-legal.ps.Z ,
    harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/xf2.2.patch01.Z
    harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/xf2.2.patch02.Z
    harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/xf2.2.patch03.Z
    harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/xf2.2.patch04.Z
    coma.cs.tu-berlin.de:/pub/tcl/xf.tar.Z
Description: user interface builder for wish/Tk 2.3.  Older versions
    are available for older tk versions.
Contact: send a "sub xf-l Your Name" line to [e-mail]
    to subscribe to the XF mailing list,
    "Sven Delmas" <[e-mail]>

What: Zap Interpreters
Where: From the contact
Description: Simple Tk script to clear out all wish interpreters which
    died without being removed.
Contact: [e-mail] (Spencer W. Thomas)

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From: FAQ Tcl/Tk Package Catalog
Subject: -XIII- Since Tcl/Tk appear to be extensible, are there any
        common extensions?

What: addinput
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/addinput-3.2.Z
Description: Implements two new Tk file handle callback commands.
Contact: "Mark Diekhans" <[e-mail]>

What: busy window
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/busy-1.1.tar.Z
Description: Tk extension to create a busy command which prevents the
    user from clicking on application buttons while the program is busy.
Contact: [e-mail] (George A. Howlett)

What: C++ Tcl objects
Where: From the contact
Description: C++ code which allows you to develop software in C++
    and create C++ objects which implemented in Tcl/Tk.
Contact: [e-mail] (Stephan Herrmann)

What: Calc_Object
Where: From the contact
Description: A Tcl object which talks to bc via expect.
Contact: "Terrence Brannon" <[e-mail]>

What: calculator
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/calculator.tk.tar.Z
Description: Simple Tk calculator
Contact: "Richard Booth" <[e-mail]>

What: calendar
Where: From the contact
Description: Tk calendar widget
Contact: [e-mail] (Sani Nassif [227])

What:  color settings
Where: From the contact
Description: Tcl procedure to select appropriate color whether machine is
    color or monochrome
Contact: [e-mail] (Juergen Wagner)

What: deck.tk
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/deck.tk
Description: A simple implementation of InterViews "deck" widget
Contact: [e-mail] (Joe VanAndel)

What: Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) widgets
Where: From the contact
Description: Tk DAG display widget (computed in LISP and visualized in Tk).
    To be made available in May, 1993.
Contact: [e-mail] (Juergen Wagner)

What: Disjoint listbox selections
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/Listbox.patch
Descriptions: Tk 3.2 listbox Disjoint selections.
Contact: "Marc R. Ewing" <[e-mail]>

What: SunOS dld package
Where: From the contact
Description: Tcl front end for SunOS 4.x dynamic loading routines.
Contact: "Jean-Luc Chatelain" <[e-mail]>

What: Eiffel / Tcl interface
Where: ftp.dcs.gla.ac.uk:/pub/glasgow-fp/authors/Duncan_Sinclair/fumx.*
Description: A set of functions to allow an Eiffel program to invoke the
    Tcl interpretor.
Contact: [e-mail] (Stephan Herrmann)

What: file selector
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/fileselect.tcl
Description: file selector box
Contact: "Mario Jorge Silva" <[e-mail]>

What: file select (sherman)
Where: From the contact
Description: A "more over-developed file-selection mechanism".
Contact: [e-mail] (Aaron Sherman)

What: Tk focus follows pointer
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/focus3.1a.PATCH
Description: Tk 3.[12] patch to implement focus follows pointer and
    key propagation model.
Contact: "Kennard White" <[e-mail]>

What: font settings
Where: From the contact
Description: Tcl package "getfont" which returns a font matching request
    as closely as possible.
Contact: [e-mail] (Spencer W. Thomas)

What: graph
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/graph-1.1.tar.Z
Description: XY graphic plot and hypertext widgets for Tk 2.x
Contact: "George Howlett" <[e-mail]>

What: GroupKit
Where: cpsc.ucalgary.ca:/pub/roseman/tclgk-beta2.tar.Z
Description: Tcl/Tk based version of InterViews GroupKit.
Contact: [e-mail] (Mark Roseman)

What: iconbutton
Where: From the contact
Description: Tk 1.4 button widget which displays bitmap
Contact: [e-mail] (Trevor Lowe)

What: Lamda anonymous procedures
Where: From the contact
Description: Set of Tcl modifications to allow definition of anonymous
    (unnamed) procedures
Contact: [e-mail] (Spencer W. Thomas)

What: lisp2wish
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/lisp2wish6.tar.Z
Description: Wish to Common Lisp interface
Contact: [e-mail] (Jonathan Kaye)

What: list select
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/listselect.tcl
Description: Simple file selector
Contact: "Mario Jorge Silva" <[e-mail]>

What: Multibyte Support for Tk
Where: harbor.ecn,purdue,edu:/pub/tcl/extension/patch-16bit.0.2.tar.Z
Description: Tk 3.2 support for 2 byte character strings.
Contact: [e-mail] (Kazuro Furukawa)

What: Multiple interpretor support
Where:  harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/minterp-0.9.tar.gz
Description: Create/control Multiple Interpretors from TCL, and also
    Object Oriented Programming.
Contact: David Herron <[e-mail]>

What: Mxedit
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/mxedit.2.0.2.tar.Z,
    parcftp.xerox.com:/pub/mxedit/mxedit.2.0.2.tar.Z
Description: An editable text Tk widget and a fully functional editor
    based on the widget.
Contact: [e-mail] (Brent Welch)

What: net CDF
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/net_tcl.tar.Z
Description: Tcl wish with hooks for netCDF (??)
Contact:

What: Network Management
Where: From the contact
    (tcl_curses, tcl_dbm, tcl_mib, tclnm, and tcl_snmp or tk_snmp)
    harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/tcl_curses.shar.Z)
Description: These four independent packages are used to build a Tcl'ish
    network-management tool.  Though not finished yet, it offers many
    features lacking in commercial offerings, mainly by being a tool
    rather than an application.  If you're dissatisfied with your
    present NM-tool, check this.
Contact: [e-mail] (P-HK/Poul-Henning Kamp),
     [e-mail] (Mailing list for tcl_snmp)
     [e-mail] for subscription to above mailing list.

What: Photo widget
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/photo-2.0a.tar.Z
    dcssoft.anu.edu.au:/pub/tk/photo-2.0a.tar.Z ,
    harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/photo.tar.Z
Description: widget which displays a monochrome or color image using dithering
    (photo.tar.Z is an older version).
Contact: [e-mail] (Paul Mackerras)

What: Postgres extensions
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/PQTcl.tar.Z
Description: C and C++ versions of interface to the UCB libPQ Postgres
    relational database.
Contact: [e-mail] (Robin J. Maxwell)

What: procedure tracing
Where: From the contact
Description: Tcl procedure tracing package.
Contact: [e-mail] (Brian Smith)

What: Safe Tcl Interpreter
Where: From the contact
Description: Tcl cmds to provide some level of security.
Contact: [e-mail] (Karl Lehenbauer)

What: secure tcl
Where: From the contact
Description: Extension to provide a send message evaluator
Contact: [e-mail] (Thomas A Fine)

What: showproc.tcl
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/showproc.tcl
Description: A new showproc
Contact: [e-mail] (Lance Ellinghouse)

What: SIPP extensions
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/tsipp3.0b.tar.Z ,
    ftp.uu.net:/graphics/3D/tsipp.3.0b.tar.Z
Description: 3D rendering toolkit for Tcl and Tk based on the SImple
    Polygon Processor (SIPP)
Contact: [e-mail] (Mark Diekhans)

What: Spreadsheet
Where: From the contact
Description: Tk Spreadsheet like widget, which consists of a number of
    other widgets.
Contact: [e-mail]. (Craig 'Mover and Shaker' Struble)

What: System V ipc
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/SVipc.tar.Z
Description: Tcl interface to System V IPC facilities.
Contact: "Joe Kelsey" <[e-mail]>

What: Sybase Tcl
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/sybtcl-1.3.tar.Z
Description: Tk 3.0+ interface to Sybase database server.
Contact: [e-mail] (Tom Poindexter)

What: tclcompare
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/tclcompare
Description: Compare two lists for equality
Contact: "David Herron" <[e-mail]>

What: tcl debugger
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/tcl.debugger
Description: extended Tcl source level debugger (patch to tclX)
Contact: "Karl Lehenbauer" <[e-mail]>

What: Tcl-DP
Where: toe.berkeley.edu:/pub/multimedia/Tcl-DP/tcl-dp-v1.0ak.tar.Z
    harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/tcl-dp-v1.0ak.tar.Z
Description: Tcl Distibuted Programming - a public domain extension to
    Tcl 6.5/Tk 3.0 which adds TCP/IP connection management, remote
    procedure call and distributed object protocols to Tcl/Tk.
Contact: [e-mail] or
    [e-mail]

What: Tcl externals
Where: From the contact
Description: Tcl 6.x package to implement external variables.
Contact: [e-mail] (Andreas Stolcke)

What: tclIV
Where: cpsc.ucalgary.ca:/pub/tclIV.tar.Z
Description: Tk wrappers for InterViews 3.1 widgets.
Contact: [e-mail] (Mark Roseman)

What: tclMIDI
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/tclm-1.0.tar.Z ,
    harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/xdrum-1.0.tar.Z ,
    ftp.sterling.com:/usenet/comp.sources.misc/packages/xdrum ,
    ftp.sterling.com:/usenet/comp.sources.misc/packages/tclm ,
    other comp.sources.misc archives
Description: Tclm is Tcl extended with Standard MIDI file manipulation
    commands.  xdrum is an extended Tk user interface with a new
    drum widget, which combines to create wishm.  Also includes Xdrum
    wishm script, which allows you to edit MIDI drum patterns.
Contact: [e-mail] (Mike Durian)

What: tclOBST
Where: ftp.fzi.de:/pub/OBST/OBST3-3 directory
Description: Tcl library for the OBST persistent object management system.
Contact: [e-mail]

What: Tcl Packages
Where: toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu:/pub/TclPackage.tar.Z
Description: Provide ability to create enclosed groups of code which the
    user can load as a unit.
Contact: [e-mail] (Patrick C. Beard)

What: tclprof
Where: From the contact
    harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code/tclprof.shar.Z
Description: Tcl performance profiling facility.  Works with Tcl 6.4.
    Comes as a part of Extended Tcl, but does not require it.
Contact: [e-mail] (Mark Diekhans)

What: tclRawTCP
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/tclRawTCP.shar.Z,
    coma.cs.tu-berlin.de
Description: Raw TCP package for Tcl/Tk based on tcpConnect
Contact: "Tim MacKenzie" <[e-mail]>

What: tclsql
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/tclsql-1.0.tar.Z
Description: tclsql is a Tcl interface  to  SQL
    (Structured  Query Language).  Tclsql is probably INGRES 6.4
    specific, but it could be ported  to  other  SQL  platforms.
Contact: [e-mail] (Christopher Hylands)

What: tclsockets
Where: From the contact
Description: Extended Tcl interface to BSD sockets
Contact: [e-mail] (Lance Ellinghouse)

What: tclTCP
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/tclTCP-1.0.tar.Z
Description: Extended Tcl BSD socket library interface
Contact: "Kevin B. Kenny" <[e-mail]>

What: tclvogle
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/tclvogle.tar.Z ,
    harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/tclvogleDOCS.tar.Z ,
    harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/vogleWish.sun4.exe.Z
Description: Tk [23]-D drawing widgets (alpha)
Contact: "Mike Hoegeman" <[e-mail]>

What: Tcl SQL
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/tclql-1.0.tar.Z
Description: Tcl interface to SQL (INGRES 6.4 specific, but portable).
Contact: "Christopher Hylands" <[e-mail]>

What: tcl_streams
Where: From the contact
Description: System V stream I/O library for Tcl
Contact: [e-mail] (Peter da Silva)

What: tclX dynamic library patches
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/tclX_dld.shar.Z
Description: Patches to tclX to support GNU dld (v. 3.2.3) dynamic libraries.
Contact: [e-mail] (Adrian J Ho)

What: tclX / Tk merge
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/tclX-tk2.0.shar.Z
Description: Replacement files to incorporate tclX with Tk 2.x
Contact: [e-mail] (Mark Diekhans)

What: tclXt
Where: posted to comp.lang.tcl - other locations unknown
Description: Tk hooks to allow calls to Xt routines.
Contact: Unknown

What: tcpConnect
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/tcpConnect.shar.Z
Description: Tcl/Tk TCP connect and Tk filehandler extensions
Contact: "Pekka Nikander" <[e-mail]>

What: tk Bell and Cutbuffer patches
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/bellcut3.2.pat ,
    harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/bellcut.shar.Z ,
    harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/tkBellCutbuffer.shar.Z
Description: Tk 3.2, 2.3, and 2.1 patches to add bell and cutbuffer commands.
Contact: "Jim Davis" <[e-mail]>,
    [e-mail] (Richard Ohnemus)

What: Tk Emacs
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/TkEmacs1.3.tar.Z
Description: Emacs widget for the Tk widget set.  Allows emacs-lisp code to
    be sent to emacs and Tcl code to be sent from emacs to Tcl.
    Works with tk2.3 and tk3.0 (and should work with tk3.1 when it
    is available).  Contains patches for GNU Emacs 18.58 and 18.59.
Contact: "Sven Delmas" <[e-mail]>

What: tkFScale
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/tkFScale.tar.Z
Description: Tk 3.2 Scale widget which uses floating-point values.
Contact: "Paul Mackerras" <[e-mail]>

What: tkGLXwin
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/tkGLXwin-1.1.tar.Z,
    media.mit.edu:/pub/tkGLXwin-1.1.tar.Z
Description: Tk 3.x Silicon Graphics Graphics Library widget interface.
Contact: "Michael Halle" <[e-mail]>

What: tk-mod.shar
Where: From the contact
Description: Alternative geometry managers for Tk 1.4
Contact: [e-mail]

What: tk RichText Format widget
Where: multimedia.cc.gatech.edu:/pub/tk-rtf-0.1.tar.Z
Description: Tk based Microsoft RichText File Format widget reader (pre-alpha).
Contact: [e-mail] (Ian Smith)

What: tkText
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/tkText-inst.tar.Z
Description: A Tk 1.3 tkText text widget and installation patches
Contact: "Derrick C. Cole" <[e-mail]>

What: tkText
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/tkText.shar.Z
Description: A Tk 1.3 tkText text widget
Contact: "M. G. Christenson" <[e-mail]>

What: tkText
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/tkText-2.0.tar.Z
Description: A Tk 2.0 tkText text widget
Contact: "M. G. Christenson" <[e-mail]>

What: tree widget
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/te-3.2.tar.Z
Description: Tk 3.2 based widget for displaying dynamic trees.
Contact: [e-mail] (Allan Brighton)

What: turtle graphics
Where: From the contact
Description: Extended Tcl/Tk turtle graphics package
Contact: [e-mail] (R James Noble)

What: validate
Where: From the contact
Description: example of using bindings to validate entry widget data.
Contact: [e-mail] (Joe VanAndel)

What: Variable Frames
Where: From the contact
Description: A Tcl replacement for uplevel/upvar to provide a user with the
    ability to define scoping environments for variables.
Contact: [e-mail] (Cimarron Taylor)

What: warp
Where: From the contact
Description: Tk warp command to move the mouse point to specific locations.
Contact: [e-mail] (Thomas A Fine)

What: wmstuff
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/wmstuff.tar.Z ,
    harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/wmstuff.patch1.shar.Z
Description: Tk support for ICCCM WM_PROTOCOLS & WM_DELETE
Contact: "Mike Hoegeman" <[e-mail]>

What: Xpm support
Where: harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/extensions/TkPixmap1.5.tar.Z ,
    coma.cs.tu-berlin.de
Description: Tk 2.3/3.0 tkBitmap.c modification to support Xpm 3.2d pixmaps.
    Versions supporting previous Tk's are also available.
Contact: [e-mail] (Sven Delmas)

What:
Where:
Description:
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From: FAQ Tcl/Tk Package Catalog
Subject: -XIV- Is there any commercial use of Tcl/Tk?

A list of commercial packages which use Tcl/Tk is being maintained by
[e-mail] (Larry Rowe).  Contact him for details.

NeoSoft Communications Services - [phone] - provides
commercial support for developing Tcl applications, in short-term hourly,
long-term hourly, or fixed-price variations.  They have long term experience
with Tcl.

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