Tm--Tcl Motif

Tm--Tcl Motif

Tcl Motif, or Tm, is a binding of the Tcl language to the real Motif library. Motif widgets are in wide use commercially, and constitute a diverse, popular, and highly functional graphical user interface. Tcl Motif allows programmers to employ Motif widgets instead of the less sophisticated Tk widgets from high-level scripts. The style of programming in Tcl Motif is similar to the style of Tk, although the two interfaces are not compatible.

New Tm applications can be created easily by writing short scripts for the Motif toolkit windowing shell moat, which provides access to TclX and Tcl Motif. The function of moat is similar to that of wishx except that moat is for Tm while wishx is for Tk.

SGITCL provides access from Tcl Motif to custom IRIX features, such as help menus in ViewKit style, support for the icon-panel library, SGm widgets, Dt combo boxes, and the XbaeMatrix widget. See Chapter 3 for more details.