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- Subject: comp.lang.tcl Frequently Asked Questions (January 31, 2002) (1/6)
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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 six parts.
- This part introduces Tcl and Tk and discusses documentation, etc.
- Keywords: tcl, extended tcl, tk, expect, resources, history, help
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- Posting-Frequency: at least once a quarter
- Last-modified: January 31, 2002
- Version: 8.144
- URL: http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/part1.html
- Comp-lang-tcl-archive-name: tcl-faq.part01
-
- For more information concerning Tcl (see "part2"),
- (see "part3"), (see "part4"), (see "part5"), or (see "part6").
- Also (see "bibliography/part1").
-
- Index of questions:
-
- I. Origin of comp.lang.tcl, the FAQ information, and
- to whom do I contact for more information about the FAQ?
- II. What is Tcl? Tk? Extended Tcl? What is Tcl _not_?
- III. Do these packages run on my machine?
- A. Unix
- B. MacOS
- C. INTEL DOS-like systems
- D. VMS
- E. AmigaDOS
- F. NeXT
- G. Other
- IV. Other than C, What languages can talk to tcl/tk?
- A. Shell
- B. C++
- C. Modula-3
- D. Eiffel
- E. Ada
- F. Perl
- G. Prolog
- H. Other
- V. What training material is available?
- A. Books
- B. Training courses, etc.
- C. Time-related seminars, conferences, workshops.
- VI. Where do I report problems, bugs, or enhancements about Tcl - or -
- what is comp.lang.tcl?
-
- End of FAQ Index
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- ------------------------------
-
- From: FAQ General information
- Subject: -I- Origin of comp.lang.tcl, the FAQ information, and
- to whom do I contact for more information about the FAQ?
-
- What is comp.lang.tcl?
-
- First, let me assure you what it is not.
- <URL: news:comp.lang.tcl> (and <URL: news:comp.lang.tcl.announce> now)
- are *NOT* bulletin boards. They are not, innately, mailing lists.
- Some users may experience the messages in those formats, but
- these communities of users are what is known as USENET newsgroups.
- While Dr. John Ousterhout <URL: http://home.pacbell.net/ouster/ >
- was the creator of the original, unmoderated
- <URL: news:comp.lang.tcl>, in the current incarnation, clt (as it is
- often referenced) has no moderator, no owner, no authority to whom
- one can appeal when one feels slighted, offended, libeled, etc.
- On the other hand, there are a group of moderators associated with
- <URL: news:comp.lang.tcl.announce>, whose job it is to ensure that
- the postings there remain 'on charter'.
-
- What kinds of topics are appropriate for <URL: news:comp.lang.tcl>?
- Good question. The original charter stated:
-
- It will be an unmoderated forum for the discussion of the Tcl
- programming language and tools that include it, such as Expect and the
- Tk toolkit for X-Windows.
-
- Thus, discussing Tcl, extensions and tools that use Tcl, products and
- design ideas, all can be on topic. The "Welcome to comp.lang.tcl" message
- <URL: http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-Welcome> lays out other useful
- suggestions.
-
- The majority of readers of <URL: news:comp.lang.tcl> are
- access the postings in English, and seem to prefer plain text postings
- formatted to 78 or less characters per line, as opposed to HTML, Postscript,
- MIME base64, Macintosh special character sets, etc.. They also prefer to
- have postings which specify a working email address in the From or Reply-To
- header (or at least in the body of the msg somewhere). While
- alternatives to that are certainly possible, you decrease the chance of
- getting a timely relevant answer by choosing alternatives to these.
- These rules are not unique to clt, but are the typical USENET netiquette
- that posters are asked to respect. As an alternative to this,
- there are the French <URL: news:fr.comp.lang.tcl>, German
- <URL: news:de.comp.lang.tcl>, and Japanese <URL: news:fj.lang.tcl>
- equivalents of <URL: news:comp.lang.tcl>.
-
- Posting of source code is acceptable (and in fact encouraged if
- you are having problems) if reasonably sized (a few hundred lines);
- otherwise, <URL: http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/> is an archive which
- permits users to upload code they wish to share. Posting of binaries
- (or even HTML attachements) are in general is not looked upon kindly;
- use of NeoSoft or one of the many free web sites, etc. is a much better
- alternative. Advertising for books, jobs, software, etc. are acceptable
- if done with some forethought - frequent 'form letter' postings and
- announcements are likely to meet with some community resistance.
-
- One question that comes up fairly often concerning
- <URL: news:comp.lang.tcl> is 'why isn't it split?'. The newsgroup
- varies in traffic, but I have seen as many as 45 messages a day
- (counting current cross postings, etc.) Currently, many have come
- forward with ideas on how a split could be handled, but no concensus
- has been reached. Also, no moderators have stepped forward to take
- over moderation of a split group. During January, 1996,
- <URL: news:comp.lang.tcl.announce>, a moderated group containing
- announcements of new software, doc, etc. relating to Tcl, was created.
- So as of right now, asking to split the newsgroup only adds to the
- existing traffic, without resolving any problems.
-
- Other newsgroup in which you might encounter Tcl discussion are
- <URL: news:alt.comp.tkdesk>, where discussions about the Tk application
- TkDesk may take place, <URL: news:comp.unix.sco.programmer> - where
- discussion about SCO's vtcl (a graphical interface extension based on the
- Motif library) can be found, <URL: news:comp.lang.perl.tk>, which covers
- discussions about the Tk binding to Perl, and of course, discussions of
- specific ports of Tcl/Tk/other Tcl-based extensions and programs will
- frequently be found on the appropriate OS or hardware related newsgroups
- You can also find discussions regarding Tcl in many of the support newsgroups
- and mailing lists provided by vendors/authors who are using Tcl in their
- products. Two examples are the mailing lists for AOL's AOLserver and
- Tcl/Tk based Instant Messages client TiK (see "part2"), while Vignette has
- <URL: nntp://news.vignette.com/vignette.storyserver.misc> and
- <URL: nntp://news.vignette.com/vignette.storyserver.template-lang>.
-
- The information in this set of FAQs comes from several 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. You can find my general
- Tcl FAQs at either <URL: http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/> or
- <URL: ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/languages/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/info/faq/tcl-faq.part01.gz>
- <URL: ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/languages/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/info/faq/tcl-faq.part02.gz>,
- <URL: ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/languages/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/info/faq/tcl-faq.part03.gz>,
- <URL: ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/languages/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/info/faq/tcl-faq.part04.gz>,
- <URL: ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/languages/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/info/faq/tcl-faq.part05.gz>.
-
- The commercial use of Tcl FAQ is no longer being maintained.
- The last copy of it available for ftp can be found at
- <URL: ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/languages/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/info/faq/tcl-commercial-faq-p1.gz>,
- <URL: ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/languages/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/info/faq/tcl-commercial-faq-p2.gz>,
- <URL: ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/languages/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/info/faq/tcl-commercial-faq-p3.gz>.
-
- Commercial vendors who write products using Tcl and who would like some
- visibility in the community can contact the Tcl Core Team
- <URL: http://www.tcltk.com/> for ideas.
-
- The FAQ containing a series of Tcl-related questions
- and answers is managed by <URL: mailto:jmoss@ichips.intel.com> (Joe Moss).
- See <URL: http://psg.com/%7Ejoem/tcl/faq.html> or find it at
- <URL: ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/languages/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/info/faq/tcl-faq-usage.gz>.
-
- The FAQ containing Tk-related questions and answers is managed by
- <URL: mailto:jeff at hobbs.org> (Jeffrey Hobbs). You can find it at
- <URL: http://www.purl.org/net/hobbs/tcl/faqs/tk/>.
-
- A bibliography of published material related to Tcl will be
- managed by <URL: mailto:glv@utdallas.edu> (Glenn Vanderburg).
- (See "bibliography/part1") or ftp it at
- <URL: ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/languages/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/info/faq/tcl-faq-bib.gz>.
-
- Cameron Laird <URL: mailto:claird@Starbase.NeoSoft.com > has made
- available his personal notes on mistakes frequently made by newcomers
- to Tcl at <URL: http://starbase.neosoft.com/%7Eclaird/comp.lang.tcl/fmm.html>
- and will update it as time permits. Cameron maintains one of the more
- unusual FAQ pages as well - the Unanswered Frequently-Asked Questions
- about Tcl page
- <URL: http://starbase.neosoft.com/%7Eclaird/comp.lang.tcl/tcl-UFAQ.html>.
- He has many other useful collections of information on Tcl and Tk.
- Look over the list by going to
- <URL: http://starbase.neosoft.com/%7Eclaird/comp.lang.tcl/>.
-
- FAQs are also available for the Windows port of Tcl
- <URL: http://www.pconline.com/%7Eerc/tclwin.htm>,
- Macintosh port <URL: http://purl.org/tcl/home/mac/macFAQ.html>,
- and perl/Tk <URL: news:comp.lang.perl.tk>
- <URL: http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/comp.lang.perl.tk/ptkFAQ.html>.
-
- A renewal of the effort of converting the FAQs to Japanese has
- begun. You can find the ongoing updates (currently things are still old)
- at <URL: http://www.tohoku.iij.ad.jp/%7Etaguchi/tcl-tk/JpDocs/index-en.html>.
- It is being built by Taguchi Takeshi <URL: mailto:taguchi@tohoku.iij.ad.jp>
- and Oota Toshiya <URL: mailto:oota@pes.com1.fc.nec.co.jp>.
-
- A newsbot has been implemented by
- Andreas Kupries <URL: mailto:andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> which provides a
- <URL: news:comp.lang.tcl> automated welcome, providing first time
- posters some introductory remarks and a set of pointers to the FAQs and
- other common resources. You can see the current version of the mailing
- by looking at <URL: http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-Welcome>.
-
- A WWW form to submit entries to the Tcl/Tk software catalog is
- available at <URL: http://www.wwinfo.com/tcl/>. This provides you an interface
- not only to submit new items, but to submit updates or to browse the
- catalog as needed.
-
- A sort of "Who's Who in the Tcl Community"
- directory has been created - see
- <URL: http://purl.org/tcl/home/resource/community/people/>
- for the current information. Be sure to submit your own information.
-
- 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 <URL: mailto:lvirden@yahoo.com>.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: FAQ General information
- Subject: -II- What is Tcl? Tk? Extended Tcl? What is Tcl _not_?
-
- o Highlights of Tcl based languages
-
- Tcl and Tk originated with Dr. John Ousterhout (OH'-stir-howt)
- while teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, California.
- A quip about the pronunciation of Dr. O's last name from
- <URL: news:comp.lang.tcl> pundit <URL: mailto:js@aelfric.bu.edu> Jay Sekora:
-
- > `It's pronounced Oh-stir-howt
- > without a doubt!
- > Not Oh-stir-hoot;
- > he's not a brute.'
-
- A Brief History of Tcl-ing
-
- See <URL: http://purl.org/tcl/home/scripting/tclHistory.html> for
- more details!
-
- Dr. Ousterhout got the idea for Tcl while on sabbatical leave
- at DEC's Western Research Laboratory in the fall of 1987. He started
- actually implementing it when he got back to Berkeley in the spring of
- 1988; by summer of that year it was in use in some internal
- applications, but there was no Tk. The first external releases of Tcl
- were in 1989. Tk implemention began in 1989, and the first release of
- Tk was in 1991.
-
- John joined Sun in their research group in 1994.
- During April/May, 1997, the Sun research group responsible for
- Tcl development were spun off into a Sun business group called
- SunScript. However, things changed again soon afterwards.
- <URL: http://starbase.neosoft.com/%7Eclaird/comp.lang.tcl/SunScript_story> is
- a copy of the message posted by John Ousterhout regarding the situation
- as it developed during the Summer of 1997.
-
- During August of 1997, a Tcl Consortium was formed. In
- December of 1999, the Tcl Consortium was disbanded due to lack of
- participation.
-
- During February, 1998, John Ousterhout left Sun to create
- Scriptics, a company dedicated to scripting tools, applications, and
- services. He stated at the time that core Tcl and Tk would remain free,
- with his team continuing work right now on Tcl/Tk.
-
- During May, 2000, Scriptics changed their name to Ajuba (a-'joo-ba)
- Solutions. The intent was to de-emphasis the scripting nature the
- company previous had and to emphasize the business to business nature
- towards which the company has moved.
-
- During June, 2000, John Ousterhout announced the formation of a
- Tcl Core Team - a group of 14 key Tcl developers who are to spearhead
- the coordination of current and future Tcl maintenance and enhancements.
- See <URL: http://www.tcltk.com/> for details.
- This team is NOT intended to be the ones doing all the coding and debugging
- of Tcl; instead, the community is urged to take part in the process. These
- fourteen will be the 'project leaders', contributing code when they can,
- ideas and direction, enthusiasm, and experienced help where needed.
- John Ousterhout continues as a member of the team, providing guidance and
- final arbitration if necessary.
-
- During October, 2000, Ajuba Solutions announced the intent to merge
- with Interwoven. The association betweem Tcl and a company run by its
- creator came to an end as John moves on to Interwoven. Interwoven did
- open up the source for TclPro and made the product free, as well as for
- a time provided resources to keep the Tcl Developer's Xchange going.
- Then, during late February, 2001, ActiveState announced the hiring of
- Jeff Hobbs and Andreas Kupries, and the intention to make ActiveTcl another
- of their stable of supported scripting languages.
-
- On April 23, 1998 the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- <URL: http://www.acm.org/> awarded the 1997 Software System Award to
- John Ousterhout and Scriptics. This is awarded to an institution
- or individual(s) recognized for developing a software system that
- has had a lasting influence, reflected in contributions to concepts,
- in commercial acceptance, or both. The Software System Award carries
- a prize of $10,000. Financial support for the Software System Award
- is provided by IBM. See <URL: http://www.acm.org/awards/ssaward.html>
- for the others who have won this award.
-
- In September of 1998, Scriptics announced the availability of
- TclPro, a suite of developer tools and the Tcl Consortium announced
- Tcl-Blast! - a CD-ROM containing Tcl and extension source code as
- well as binaries for a number of platforms. With the demise of the
- Tcl Consortium and Ajuba Solutions I don't know where one would go to find
- the (Tcl 8.0.5 based) Tcl-Blast! CD-ROM.
-
- Another bit of Tcl trivia has to do with sites where you find
- Tcl and user contributed software. In the beginning, John created the
- heavens and the earth... no, that's not right. In the beginning, the
- Tcl and later the Tk source were available on an ftp site at Berkeley.
- As user contributed software began to appear, some kind people at Purdue
- graciously volunteered some disk space. Later, when John left Berkeley
- for Sun, the core Tcl and Tk software (source code, etc.) moved from
- Berkeley to Sun. Then, when Purdue no longer had resources to support the
- archive, it moved to Alcatel. Eventually, that archive was moved to Neosoft's
- <URL: http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/> archive.
-
- But what _is_ Tcl?
-
- Tcl (current release version 8.3.4) stands for ``tool command
- language'' and is pronounced ``tickle.'' The home download site for
- the Tcl source code is <URL: http://purl.org/tcl/home/software/download.html>.
- For brave souls, web access to the individual modules is provided via
- <URL: http://tcl.sf.net/ > and its CVS respository,
- where the latest and greatest patches and improvements can be found.
- Tcl 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 several 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.
-
- Note that Tcl was designed with the philosophy that one should
- actually use two or more languages when designing large software
- systems. One for manipulating complex internal data structures, or
- where performance is key, and another, such as Tcl, for writing
- smallish scripts that tie together the other pieces, providing hooks for
- the user to extend. For the Tcl script writer, ease of learning, ease of
- programming and ease of gluing are more important than performance or
- facilities for complex data structures and algorithms. Tcl was
- designed to make it easy to drop into a lower language when you come
- across tasks that make more sense at a lower level. In this way,
- the basic core functionality can remain small and one need only bring
- along pieces that one particular wants or needs.
-
- One answer to "What is Tcl?" can be found at
- <URL: http://purl.org/tcl/home/scripting/>. For a white
- paper written by Dr. Ousterhout discussing scripting languages, and Tcl
- in particular, see
- <URL: http://purl.org/tcl/home/people/john.ousterhout/scripting.html>.
- For a 1996 article in SunWorld on the state of Tcl, see
- <URL: http://www.sun.com/960710/cover/>. Other SunWorld articles have
- followed.
-
- Many times users post to <URL: news:comp.lang.tcl> asking about
- the changes from one release of Tcl to another. One resource of course
- comes with each source release of Tcl and Tk. A file named "changes"
- lists a change log of important changes. However, it has been pointed out
- that this file is not all inclusive. Another commonly referenced resource is
- <URL: http://purl.org/tcl/home/>, which has various release notes available
- online. In terms of books covering the topic, the book by Brent Welch
- (see below) covers the topic over several chapters.
-
- Tk (current release version 8.3.2) is an extension to Tcl which
- provides the programmer with an interface to the X11 windowing system.
- Note that Tk has been successfully compiled under X11 R4, X11 R5, X11
- R6, as well as Sun's NeWS/X11 environments. The home download site for
- this Tk release is <URL: http://purl.org/tcl/home/software/download.html>.
-
- Many users will encounter Tcl and Tk via the ``wish'' command. Wish
- is a simple windowing shell which permits the user to write Tcl/Tk
- applications in a prototyping environment.
-
- Note that one frequently asked question is whether Tcl/Tk can
- handle Japanese, Chinese, Korean, .... language fonts. As of 8.1, Tcl/Tk
- supports UniCode. This makes it easier to provide various language
- support, assuming that the appropriate fonts are available and appropriate
- care is taken.
-
- John also has asked me to mention that information about what is
- new or changed in each release is now available on the WWW. John writes:
-
- > there are now pages containing release notes. The best thing is just to
- > refer people to my home page, which is:
-
- > <URL: http://purl.org/tcl/home/people/john.ousterhout/>
- > <URL: http://purl.org/tcl/home/>
-
- > You might put a notice about this in the FAQ to help people who see
- > the FAQ after we reorganize.
-
- A Tcl/Tk logo and a "Tcl-Powered" logo are now available from John.
- GIF images in several different sizes are available in the Tk source
- code distribution's ../library/images/ subdirectory. See the README
- file in the library/images subdirectory for more details.
-
- From time to time, there is concern about the future of Tcl.
- John has given me permission to include this quote:
-
- >From: John Ousterhout <ouster@scriptics.com>
- >Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 14:00:40 -0800
-
- >My move from Sun to Scriptics will not change the open source nature of
- >Tcl and Tk. We will continue to develop new releases of both Tcl and
- >Tk at Scriptics, and we'll release them freely in source form as has
- >always been the case. The license terms will stay the same. You'll be
- >able to use Tcl/Tk for anything you wish, including making changes,
- >selling it, and redistributing it in whole or in part.
-
-
- Extended Tcl (tclX) (current release version 8.2.0) is an extended set
- of commands for Tcl developed by Karl Lehenbauer and Mark Diekhans.
- The authors' home ftp site for Extended Tcl is
- <URL: ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/languages/tcl/TclX/>. Extended
- Tcl is oriented towards system programming tasks, with many additional
- interfaces to the Unix operating system as well as other useful utilities.
-
- Expect (current release version 5.31) was perhaps the first extension
- to Tcl written. Its purpose is to ease interaction with applications which
- normally interact directly with users at a terminal (such as ftp,
- telnet, etc.). The WWW site for Expect is <URL: http://expect.nist.gov/>.
- Expect is oriented towards automating command seuqences commonly
- typed. One can use Expect with Tk to create graphical interfaces to
- these commands as well. Expect works with Tcl up through Tcl 8.x.
-
- Many other useful (and in some cases essential) extensions
- also exist. (See "part5") for details.
-
-
- o General information about Tcl and Tk by <URL: mailto:glv@utdallas.edu>
- (Glenn Vanderburg)
-
- Tcl (Tool command language) is a freely distributable simple,
- interpreted language designed to be used as a common extension and
- customization language for applications. It was designed and
- implemented by Dr. John Ousterhout in the hope that application
- designers could spend more of their time on applications and less on
- scripting languages, and in the hope that users could spend less time
- learning new scripting languages for each new application. Many useful
- applications, some of them sold commercially, use Tcl as their
- scripting language.
-
- Tcl is clean and regular, and relatively easy for non-hackers to
- learn. It is command-oriented, and commands added by applications and
- users exist on an equal footing with the built-in Tcl commands. Tcl
- has both simple variables and associative arrays (tables), and all
- values (including procedure bodies) are represented as strings.
- Simple customization scripts (such as preference initialization
- scripts) usually look much like novice users expect them to: a series
- of simple commands which set options.
-
- Tcl is implemented as a C library, which can be embedded in an
- application. The application can add its own commands to the
- interpreter (using a clean C interface). It is distributed under a
- license which allows use for any purpose with no royalties.
-
- The Tk toolkit is a Tcl extension (a group of new Tcl commands) which
- provides a Tcl interface to the X Window System. Tk is one of the
- easiest ways to build a graphical interface to an application, and due
- to the interpreted nature of Tcl, Tk-based interfaces tend to be much
- more customizable and dynamic than those built with one of the C- or
- C++-based toolkits. Tk implements the Motif look and feel. A number
- of interesting X applications are implemented entirely in Tk, with no
- new application-specific commands at all. Tk also provides a
- mechanism by which one application can send Tcl scripts to other
- Tk-based applications running on the same display, for easy
- cooperation between tools.
-
- Tcl and Tk are mature, and quite stable, but they are not static:
- Dr. Ousterhout [...] moved from Berkeley to Sun Microsystems, where his
- group [pursued] such projects as a commercial-quality Tk
- graphical interface designer, an on-the-fly Tcl compiler, and
- Macintosh and Microsoft Windows ports of Tk. John has stated that the
- copyright status and licensing provisions of Tcl and Tk will not change.
-
- ----
-
- As to what Tcl is not - in the context of the discussion in
- <URL: news:comp.lang.tcl>, it is not related directly to the
- Think C Library (TCL) available on the Mac. Confusingly enough, the language
- concerned with here _is_ available on the Mac, and someone in fact may have
- used Think C to compile it there. Just one of those universal 'coincidences'
- that set the stage for Vogon interstellar highway construction crews.
- Also, Oracle has a product called Tk2Motif which has nothing to do with
- Tcl or Tk as we are referring to it. Another 'TCL' that is sometimes
- encountered has to do with the Pick operating system - again, that
- is different than the language being discussed.
-
- What are some of the most common complaints about Tcl? Well of
- course the primary complaint is that because it is interpreted and
- because the data is primarily treated as strings, that programs written
- in Tcl are slow. Tcl 8.x attempts to address this by doing some degree
- of compilation as well as permitted additional variable types. There
- are also complaints frequently about the fact that several of Tcl's
- behaviors are not intuitive - comments are commands rather than
- traditional comments, numbers beginning with 0 are octal, proper use of
- quoting mechanisms, etc. These are covered in the various FAQs.
-
- A common question is whether Tcl/Tk/etc. is Year 2000 (Y2K)
- compliant. The 'official' statement from the creator of the Tcl and Tk
- core can be found at <URL: http://purl.org/tcl/home/Y2K.html>. A
- statement from one of the <URL: news:comp.lang.tcl> readers who has done
- his own analysis can be found at
- <URL: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/%7Efellowsd/tcl/tcly2k.html>. Information
- about Y2k compliance of various Tcl based programs or extensions should
- come from their creators - if the web page for the program or extension
- doesn't address the issue, email the creator and ask if they would
- please add such a statement.
-
- See The Tcl Wear <URL: http://www.nyx.net/%7Etpoindex/tcl-wear/> web page
- for images of some of the Tcl related merchandise that has been seen during
- the past 5 years.
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: FAQ General information
- Subject: -III- Do these packages run on my machine?
-
-
- A. Unix
-
- Tcl runs on Sun 3s, 4s, and later models running SunOS 4 and SunOS 5
- (Solaris 1.x and 2.x), DECstations running Ultrix, DEC VAXen running
- Ultrix or BSD, DEC Alphas running OSF/1, 386s running SCO Unix, Xenix,
- Bell-Tech, all sorts of HPs running HP-UX (even HP Snakes running OSF/1
- and HP-UX). Intel [34]86 systems running 386bsd, netbsd, freebsd,
- BSDI, Solaris 2.x and Linux have Tcl ported. In fact, Tcl/Tk even runs
- on the Agenda Vr3 Linux powered Personal Digital Assistant (PDA).
- Various CPUs running System V.4 report having ported Tcl. Tcl also
- appears to be running on Sequent Symmetry running Dynix as well as OSF/1.
- It also has been reported that Tcl runs fine on IBM RS6000 under AIX 3.x
- as well as IBM ES/9000 and AIX/ESA. A few problems getting Tcl running
- under Mt. Xinu Mach have been reported in the past. Tcl also has been
- ported to Encore 91's running UMAX V (an 88k based System V with BSD
- extension Unix), as well as to Apollos running BSD/SYSV. Tcl runs on a
- Cray running Unicos. Someone ported Tcl to a Sony NeWS machine running
- NEWS-OS 4.2. A Tcl port to a Convex 3220 and 3880 was also reported.
- Reports have been made of Tcl/Tk/BLT/itcl compiled on a Mac running the
- latest A/UX. A port to Tenon MachTen 2.1VM, running on a Mac II which
- was running MacOS System 7.1, has been reported. A port to a Mac running
- mkLinux has been reported. Tcl also runs on Supermax Motorola/MIPS based
- multiprocessors under SMOS. LynxOS 2.4.0 and 2.5.0 come with Tcl and
- expect (but not Tk). LynxOS 2.4.0 comes with Tcl 7.3. I've had a report
- of Tcl 7.[56] (as well as Tk 4.[12]) being built on LynxOS and Tru64 OS.
-
- Tk (being based on Tcl) generally requires X11R4 or better as
- the only additional software requirement. It runs on any of the above
- Unix systems with that base of software. It also runs on VMS and
- OSF/1.
-
- Note that SGI is shipping Tcl/Tk, TclMotif, expect, and some other
- custom extensions along with the OS starting with Irix 6.2. The desktop
- environment is called Indigo Magic.
-
- For information on Tcl/Tk/TclX availability (see "part4").
-
-
- B. MacOS
-
- (See "part2") for details of a Macintosh Tcl Mailing list.
-
- From Tcl 7.5/Tk 4.1 on, the source code for Tcl and Tk should
- compile and run on a Macintosh from the original distribution.
-
- The following BOF report from MacWorldExpo 1999 mentions support of
- Tcl being added to MacOS X CR1
- <URL: http://www.stepwise.com/SpecialCoverage/MacWorldExpo-99-SF/bof.html>.
-
-
- Also (see "part4"), the Tcl programs/packages catalog,
- for the latest port locations and versions.
-
-
- C. INTEL DOS-like systems
-
- From Tcl 7.5 on, the source code for Tcl and Tk should compile
- and run on Windows machines from the original distribution.
-
- Steve Furr <URL: mailto:furr@qnx.com> reports getting Tcl ported
- to QNX without a lot of trouble. He mentions that QNX users who have
- the beta X should have gotten a CD-ROM update with Tcl and Tk on the
- CD.
-
- A port of Tcl 7.3, except for glob or command pipelines, to OS/2 2.x
- using C Set++ has been done by <URL: mailto:wwb@wwa.com> (Bud Bach).
- Andreas Stuebinger <URL: mailto:stuebing@infosun.fmi.uni-passau.de>
- also has done an OS/2 port of Tcl (version unknown). Tcl 7.4 has been
- ported to OS/2 by Stefano Fornari <URL: mailto:fornari@ipvvis.unipv.it>
- It is available at
- <URL: ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/devtools/languages/>.
-
- Illya Vaes <URL: mailto:ivaes@hr.nl> has ported Tk 4.1 and Tk 4.2
- (the Win32 version) to OS/2 Presentation Manager. The ports use the
- the native PM/GPI calls and the EMX runtime and support OS/2 2.x.
- They can be downloaded from
- <URL: ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/tcl/tk42os2x.zip> (binaries 4.2),
- <URL: ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/tcl/tk42os2s.zip> (source 4.2).
- (and from Neosoft).
-
- It is reported that Ilya Zakharevich <URL: mailto:ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
- is doing something similar, using the Developer's API extensions to
- directly support most of the Win32 API's under OS/2 Warp with DAX/DAPIE
- and Fixpack 17 installed and the Open32 manager. Contact them for more
- details on the progress being made.
-
- Versions of Tcl for Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows NT, OpenNT
- should all be available or buildable.
-
- Also (see "part4"), the Tcl programs/packages catalog,
- for the latest port locations.
-
-
- D. VMS
-
- A port of a variety of versions of Tcl/Tk to VMS have been done
- by Angel Li <URL: mailto:angel@flipper.rsmas.miami.edu>. The files are at
- <URL: ftp://mango.rsmas.miami.edu/pub/VMS-tcl/>
- and were compressed with the Unix compress command.
- These were compiled on an Alpha running OpenVMS T6.1.
-
- A port of Tcl 6.3 onto VMS 5.5 was done by Wolfgang Kechel
- <URL: mailto:wolfgang@pr-wiesbaden.de> and Till Imanuel Panzschke. Contact them
- directly for assistance.
-
- Gerald W. Lester <URL: mailto:gwlester@cpu.com> says the following
- _should_ work. If you installed the POSIX package on VMS (its free),
- then you should be able to configure and make tcl. To access tcl you
- would have to do one of the following: 1) Use the POSIX shell, or 2) do
- a "psx tcl". Tcl scripts would not execute directly from DCL; to
- execute a script foo.tcl from DCL you would have to do "psx foo.tcl".
- DISCLAIMER: I have not built any version of tcl under VMS POSIX, these
- comments are based on other work I've done with VMS POSIX.
- <URL: ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/languages/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/distrib/vms-sharable-binaries.tar.gz>
- is a version of Tcl/Tk for VMS built as a sharable library. It
- includes a dynamic module loading command. Otherwise, it matches the
- src.honeywell.com version.
-
- Also (see "part4"), the Tcl programs/packages catalog,
- for the latest port locations.
-
-
- E. AmigaDOS
-
- Karl Lehbauer <URL: mailto:karl@sugar.NeoSoft.com> 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.
-
- Ty Sarna <URL: mailto:tsarna@endicor.com> has ported Tcl 6.x to the
- Amiga. He says:
- > I've ported 3.3 and several 6.x versions to the Amiga, and it can be
- > done in under and hour if you leave out the "Unix" functionality.
- > However, "Unix" functionality includes things like file I/O!
-
- Another Amiga user, <URL: mailto:colas@opossum.inria.fr>
- (Colas Nahaboo), mentioned that using Amiga gcc and the PD X server DaggeX
- and Xlibs that a port of Tk might be possible.
-
- <URL: mailto:hnm@hermes.bouw.tno.nl> (Marco van der Heiden) has
- completed a port to the Amiga, and suggests Amiga developers contact him
- by email.
-
- <URL: mailto:wulf@hotdog.ping.de> (Berndt Wulf) reports building
- Tcl and Tk on an Amiga system running NetBSD1.0b2, using the sources on
- the Walnut Creek Tcl/Tk CD-ROM.
-
- A version of Tcl is apparently available on Fish disk number 447.
- I do not have information concerning what version of Tcl this is. It
- is my understanding that the Fish disks are available on many of the
- Amiga Internet archive sites, one of which is
- <URL: ftp://ftp.cso.uiuc.edu/>.
-
- Tcl 7.6 and Tk 4.2 can also be found on the Geek Gadgets CDROM
- (formerly known as ADE) and on any ADE/Geek Gadgets FTP server along
- with an X11 server and a complete development kit for unix apps. The
- main site is <URL: ftp://ftp.ninemoons.com/pub/geekgadgets/>. This version
- of Tcl/Tk is not limited in any way (ie. everything should work as the
- Unix version) and Tcl/Tk 8.0+ should appear soon.
-
- Also (see "part4"), the Tcl programs/packages catalog,
- for the latest port locations.
-
-
- F. NeXT
-
- At one time, information about compiling Tcl and Tk were
- in the FAQs. This info appears to be gone now. Perhaps the configure
- information compiles out of the box. If not, please forward info to
- <URL: mailto:lvirden@yahoo.com> and I can add pointers here to you.
-
-
- G. Other
-
- A port of Tcl 7 has been done to VxWorks.
- You can find it at
- <URL: ftp://ftp.atd.ucar.edu/pub/vxworks/vx/tclvx7.0v5.tar.gz>,
- <URL: ftp://ftp.atd.ucar.edu/pub/vxworks/vx/tclvx7.3.tar.gz>, and
- <URL: ftp://ftp.atd.ucar.edu/pub/vxworks/vx/vxTcl7.4.tar.Z>
- or names similar (if updates have occurred). A diff file that appears to
- make Tcl 8.x compatible is in this ftp directory.
- Also Wind River Systems's Tornado development environment includes a
- tcl interface for VxWorks.
-
- A port to GEOS was attempted, but it was found to be difficult to
- run there (except perhaps under the desktop platform) due to resource limits
- and constraints.
-
- A port of Tcl/Tk and X11R6 to OS-9 has been reported to be
- done by <URL: mailto:kt@keihh.hanse.de> Kei Thomasen. A different port of
- Tcl/Tk to OS-9 was done by <URL: mailto:oertel@port.de> Heinz-Juergen Oertel.
-
- A port of Tcl 8.0 has been done to BeOS, by Dave Mills
- <URL: mailto:rfactory@earthlink.net>. See
- <URL: ftp://ftp.be.com/pub/contrib/lang/> for details.
-
- A port of Tcl 7.4 to Archimedes RISCOS 3.1 or later was performed
- by C.T.Stretch <URL: mailto:ct.stretch@ulst.ac.uk>.
-
- A port of Tcl/Tk 8.0.3 with the plus patch applied,
- as well as Expect 5.28, to OS/390 was reported by
- Ingo Struewing <URL: mailto:is@sql.de> in early 1999.
-
- A port of Tcl/Tk to Windows/CE has been mentioned as being in
- progress at times in the past, but no formal announcement has been made.
- A port of Tcl/Tk to LinuxCD was reported at least once. No definite work
- to port Tcl to PalmOS has been reported.
-
- Also (see "part4"), the Tcl programs/packages catalog,
- for the latest port locations.
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: FAQ General information
- Subject: -IV- Other than C, what languages can talk to tcl/tk?
-
-
- A. Shell
-
- There are a number of interfaces which are shell-like. The
- first is tclsh, which comes as a sample program implementing a Tcl
- interpreter as a part of the Tcl distribution. Another is wish, which
- is a shell-like interface that is a part of the Tk package. Many of
- the other extensions also build interpreters as well. The tclX extension
- is an example - it builds an interpreter called tcl as well as one called
- wishx.
-
-
- B. C++
-
- There is a package called Objectify which can be used to assist
- one in turning C++ classes into Tcl object types.
-
- If you wish to use C++ with Tcl then you must have your main()
- in a source file that is compiled with a C++ compiler; this will
- ensure that the necessary C++ pre-main initialization code is
- executed.
-
- You can call tcl and tk routines (or other C code) routines from C++
- provided that the function prototypes avoid C++ name mangling by using
- the C++ linkage specification :
-
- extern "C" ... prototype ...
-
- Fortunately, tcl.h and tk.h will provide these specifications when
- compiled with a C++ compiler and so you can just use them directly.
-
- You can construct your main using normal tcl and tk routines,
- or use tkMain.c and tkAppInit.c with minor modifications. Ken Yap's
- patch, obtainable from
- <URL: ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/languages/tcl/alcatel/extensions/tk3.6forC++.patch.gz>,
- is a patch that allows tk 3.6 main.c and other extension routines to be
- compiled with a C++ compiler. Thanks to Ken Yap
- <URL: mailto:ken@syd.dit.csiro.au> for this code.
-
- C++ functions and static class member functions can be used to
- create Tcl command using Tcl_CreateCommand in the normal way.
- Non-static member functions cannot be used so simply, Tcl would
- have to supply a "this" pointer.
-
- SWIG <URL: http://www.swig.org/> is another great
- resource for using C++ and Tcl. To quote the author:
-
- > SWIG is a code development tool created to solve real problems and
- > make C/C++ programming more enjoyable. Simply stated, SWIG
- > allows you to integrate common scripting languages such as Tcl,
- > Perl, Python, and Guile with programs containing collections of
- > functions written in C or C++. By using an interpreted scripting
- > language with a C program, you can do a number of cool things like:
- > Build a powerful interface.
- > Rapidly prototype new features.
- > Interactively debug and test your code.
- > Develop a graphical user interface.
- > Build C/C++ modules for scripting language applications.
- > Save lots of time--allowing you to work on the real problem.
- > Impress your friends.
-
- One user notes:
- > To contrast SWIG with Objectify - SWIG has you prepare a small interface
- > file that specifies what functions are to be wrapped, rather than adding
- > macros to your original header file. It also works with C, as well as
- > C++.
-
-
-
- C. Modula-3
-
- Norman Ramsey <URL: mailto: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 <URL: mailto:carroll@udel.edu>,
- who asked the question, and I will post them if there seems to be general
- interest.
-
- Also, there is an interface between Tk and Modula-3 that is a part
- of the Modula-3 archives on <URL: ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/>, and Tcl-DP and
- Modula-3 have been merged.
-
-
- D. Eiffel
-
- <URL: mailto:stephan@cs.tu-berlin.de> (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.
-
- There are three classes for the user - tcl interpretor, tk application,
- and tk window. See <URL: ftp://hepunx.rl.ac.uk/pub/eiffel/tclish> for
- details.
-
-
- E. Ada
-
- <URL: mailto:dennis@dennis.cs.colorado.edu> (Dennis Heimbigner)
- introduced an adatcl package which gives Ada programmers access to Tcl
- interpreters. (See "part4") for details of the package.
-
- F. Perl
-
- In the past, efforts by Dov Grobgeld
- <URL: mailto:dov@menora.weizmann.ac.il> and Guenther Schreiner
- <URL: mailto:guenther@ira.uka.de> were made to develop at least 2
- Perl 4 to Tcl/Tk interfaces.
-
- More effort has occured in the Perl 5 environment, where an
- extension to allow Perl 5 to directly access the Tcl C API, as well as an
- extension to allow the ability to do Tk programming without a Tcl
- interpreter involved at all are available. These packages can be ftp'd
- from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) - a series of ftp
- sites which keep the latest and greatest archives of Perl code in sync.
- See <URL: http://www.perl.com/perl/CPAN/CPAN.html> for a pointer to CPAN,
- and follow the links to find the Tcl related Perl packages.
-
-
- G. Prolog
-
- The package ProTcl is an interface between Prolog and Tcl/Tk.
- It works best with ECLiPSe, but the foreign interface of SICStus and Quintus
- is also provided. The interface is dynamically loaded into a Prolog process
- and it gives access to Tcl commands and to handling Tk events. It is also
- possible to call Prolog from Tcl, handle Tk events in Prolog and to
- pass Prolog variables back to Tcl. See
- <URL: http://www.ecrc.de/eclipse/html/protcl.html> for more details.
-
- H. Other
-
- A module for Python based on Tk is available - more details are
- available in <URL: news:comp.lang.python> on this front.
-
- Tk bindings for the Dylan language are being shipped as a part
- of CMU's Mindy compiler for Dylan. The Sather language also has a set
- of classes to bind in Tk/Tcl.
-
- Duncan Sinclair <URL: mailto:sinclair@dcs.gla.ac.uk> has details of a
- hack into wish.c some hooks for a Tk to any language system, and has been
- using it for communication with functional languages such as Haskell and
- Lazy ML. A paper, plus sample code, was available by ftp from
- <URL: ftp://ftp.dcs.gla.ac.uk/pub/glasgow-fp/authors/Duncan_Sinclair/>.
- Unfortunately I've been unable to confirm this is still available.
-
- The InterLanguage Unification project is a system that promotes
- software interoperability via interfaces. It has the ability to allow
- Common Lisp, ANSI C, C++, Modula 3 to interact and plans to add Python,
- Tcl, and GNU Emacs-Lisp shortly.
-
- Of course the Wafe application environment is designed to make
- it easier to do X like applications from within several languages using
- Tk as a basis.
-
- There are several interfaces to allow one to interface with SQL
- though some are specific to a database such as Oracle.
-
- There is an interpreter for Silicon Graphics machines for SGI's
- GL language. There is an interface to WOOL. The GNU language Guile not
- only has a Scheme backend, but a Tcl one as well. There are at least
- two interfaces to Tcl for Java. There is a Caml Light interface to
- Tcl/Tk. There is a commercial product which provides an interface
- between Objective C and Tcl. There is an interface between Oz and Tcl/Tk.
- There is a subset of Modula-3 with a Tk binding. There is at least one
- interface between Scheme and Tk. There is a binding in Gopher for Tcl/Tk.
-
- For more details on the above efforts, (see also "part4").
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: FAQ General information
- Subject: -V- What training material is available?
-
-
- Here you can find a brief list of Tcl or Tk related books.
- I currently only list brief notes about some of the books - unfortunately
- I removed a lot of info and pointed people over to the Tcl Consortium's
- site. Now that it is gone, I will be attempting to update my lists to make
- them more complete. I also list other books they didn't list.
- Just a note - I currently don't work for any of these. In some
- cases, someone has contributed the description of their own books.
- In most cases, I haven't even seen the book that's described - I just
- am using the information from book catalogs, press releases, etc.
- Another resource can be found at <URL: http://purl.org/tcl/home/> and
- their resource center. Another source of info regarding Tcl books is
- <URL: http://starbase.neosoft.com/%7Eclaird/comp.lang.tcl/tcl_books.html>
- Finally, Amazon.com encourages readers to submit reviews of books.
-
- PLEASE! If you read one of these books and find it good,
- or bad, place your reviews on this site. If you have a different
- site you prefer, drop me a line and I will add a mention of that
- book review site here as well. This way I can attempt to avoid
- it looking as if I hated or loved some particular book, but
- instead can leave it to those buying the books to indicate how
- good or bad a title is.
-
- 1. Title: Obfuscated C and Other Mysteries
- Author: Don Libes <URL: mailto:libes@nist.gov>
- WWW book information: <URL: http://catalog.wiley.com/ss/.147311173/index.cgi?script=remsrch&query=Obfuscated+C+and+Other+Mysteries>
-
- This is not your typical programming book. This book discusses programming
- in the Unix environment in a humorous manner. However, specific
- solutions to issues are addressed. Separate chapters on Tcl and Expect
- are covered.
-
- 2. Title: Tcl and the Tk Toolkit
- Author: John K. Ousterhout
- WWW book information: <URL: http://cseng.aw.com/bookdetail.qry?ISBN=0-201-63337-X&ptype=1176>
- <URL: http://www.awl.com/cseng/titles/0-201-63337-X/>
- Book's examples: <URL: ftp://tcl.activestate.com/pub/tcl/doc/book.examples.Z>
- Book supplement: <URL: http://purl.org/tcl/home/doc/tk4.0.ps>
-
- The book primarily covers Tcl 7.3 and Tk 3.6. A German translation of
- this book, titled _Tcl und Tk_, with the ISBN of 3893197931, is also
- available.
-
- While the book is a good intro to Tcl, its basis on the older
- Tk makes it difficult to use for some types of Tk development.
- The tk4.0 porting guide postscript document with a few of the issues.
- However, there have been many changes since Tk 3, particularly in
- Tk 8's cross platform environment.
-
- 3. Title: X User Tools
- Author: Linda Mui and Valier Quercia
- Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates
- 103A Morris Street
- Sebastopol, CA US 95472
- Publication date: November 1994
- ISBN: 1565920198
- Pages: 856
- Price: 49.95 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.ora.com/catalog/xtools/>
-
- Chapter 30 covers writing tools in Tcl/Tk. Several Tcl and Tk tools
- are available on the CD-ROM. However, since it is more than 2 years old,
- it is a rather outdated version of Tcl/Tk.
-
- 4. Title: Exploring Expect
- Subtitle: A Tcl-Based Toolkit for Automating Interactive Applications
- Author: Don Libes <URL: mailto:libes@nist.gov>
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.ora.com/catalog/expect/>
- Book's examples: <URL: ftp://ftp.cme.nist.gov/pub/subject/expect/example/>
- Errata: <URL: http://expect.nist.gov/errata>
-
- For all of you who thought that the Expect man page was too long and too
- terse at the same time, this book provides relief. "Exploring Expect"
- is an introduction and comprehensive tutorial to Expect. Numerous
- examples are provided and explained, demonstrating how to save you time
- and money. Example topics include how to write patterns, do signal
- handling, use Expect as a telnetable daemon, and use Expect with Tk and
- other Tcl extensions.
-
- The book also includes an innovative introduction to Tcl - if you've
- had trouble using Tcl before, all of a sudden, it will make a lot more
- sense. And while Exploring Expect concentrates primarily on using
- Expect with Tcl, programmers attempting to automate interactive
- programs using C, Perl, Python, or any other language will find this
- book helpful because many of the concepts underlying Expect-like
- programming are common to all languages.
-
- Exploring Expect remains in the first edition. There have only been a
- few corrections and updates so they have been easily incorporated in
- new printings. The last time Don had to make any corrections was in the
- third printing.
-
- Exploring Expect was originally based on Tcl 7.3 and 7.4 alpha.
- However, the book correctly describes 7.5 as well. Almost all of the
- recent changes in Tcl were under the cover - which is not the focus of
- Don's book, so it is still accurate.
-
- Interesting story time: Don only needed to make one change in the book
- when Tcl 7.4 came out of alpha. Tcl 7.4 added checking for overflow
- which was something his random number generator didn't like. So he
- changed the constants in the 2nd printing to avoid this problem.
- Later, Ousterhout got enough grief from people that he later changed
- it back. So it turned out that Don really hadn't needed to make any
- changes to the book after all.
-
- The book was also based on Tk 3.6 and Tk 4 alpha. Don's book doesn't
- go into enough depth on Tk that this really matters - in fact, he only
- needed to mention a difference between Tk 3 and Tk 4 at one point. So
- the text is still accurate. He does, however, have a lot of real code
- and some of the Tk examples no longer work quite right because of the
- way bind changed. However, all of those examples come with the Expect
- tar file and they are Tk4-ized, so it shouldn't be a significant
- problem. The text describing the examples is still correct.
-
- Note that a new version of Expect is in testing for Tcl 8.0. To get it,
- check on the WWW home page for the beta version of Expect.
-
- The WWW home for Expect is <URL: http://expect.nist.gov/>.
-
- 5. Title: How to Manage Your Network Using SNMP
- Subtitle: The Networking Management Practicum
- Authors: Marshall T. Rose <URL: mailto:mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us>
- Keith McCloghrie
- Publisher: Prentice Hall
- Publication date: January 1995
- ISBN: 0131415174
- Pages:
- Price: 52.00 US
-
- _How to Manage your Network..." describes a Tcl-based SNMP API, and contains
- several example programs.
-
- 6. Title: MH and xmh
- Subtitle: E-mail for users and programmers, Third edition
- Author: Jerry Peek
- Publisher: O'REILLY AND ASSOCIATES
- Publication date: April 1995
- ISBN: 1565920937
- Pages: 782
- Price: 34.95 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.ora.com/catalog/mh3/noframes.html>
-
- Besides the obvious also covered the Tk application exmh. According
- to the publisher, this product has been discontinued.
-
- 7. Title: Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk, Third edition
- Author: Brent Welch <URL: mailto:welch@acm.org>
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.beedub.com/book/>
- Book's examples: <URL: http://www.beedub.com/book/tclbook2.tar.Z>
- Book's table of contents: <URL: http://www.beedub.com/book/3rd/bookTOC.html>
-
- This updated edition describes Tcl / Tk 8.2.1. Along with the material
- from the first two editions, it also covers the tcl web server, building
- tcl and extensions such as tk, etc. from the source, internationalization,
- the new regular expressions, the plugin and a great section describing
- the changes from Tcl 7.4 to 8.2 and even the proposed changes for 8.3
- (and Tk as well).
-
- Also note that Prentice Hall is advertising the following as a companion
- product:
-
- Title: Tcl/Tk Multimedia Cyber Classroom
- Authors: Brent B. Welch
- Dave Zeltserman
- Publisher: Prentice Hall
- ISBN: 0139593470
- Price: 49.95 US
-
- 100% interactive training course on CD-ROM. 3 hours of audio explanations
- of key Tcl/Tk concepts and interactive exercises. Runs on Windows 95,
- Windows 98, Windows NT, and Solaris.
-
- NOTE: A third edition ins expected in Fall of 1999.
-
- 8. Title: UNIX Test Tools and Benchmarks
- Subtitle: Methods and Tools to Design, Develop, and Execute Functional,
- Structural Reliability, and Regression Tests, 1/e
- Author: Rodney C. Wilson
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.prenhall.com/ptrbooks/ptr_0131256343.html>
-
- This book covers in-depth discussions of state of the art
- testing strategies, technologies, and benchmarking products.
- Among the testing tools covered are expect, Tcl, Tk and many others.
-
- 10. Title: Tcl and Tk Reference Manual
- Editors: Donald Barnes,
- Marc Ewing <URL: mailto:marc@redhat.com>,
- Erik Troan
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.lsl.com/catalog/books/tcltk/>
-
- 11. Title: The Visualization Toolkit
- Subtitle: An Object-Oriented Approach to 3D Graphics
- Printing: 2/e
- Authors: Will Schroeder, Ken Martin, Bill Lorensen
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/%7Emartink/>
- <URL: http://www.prenhall.com/allbooks/ptr_0139546944.html>
-
- The book contains software (written in C++ and Tcl/Tk) and information
- to assist you in transforming data into 3D graphics. The book covers
- key algorithms, modeling, and techniques for various types of
- visualization. The CD-ROM contains 400 megabytes of software, data
- images, and documentation. The software runs on Unix, Windows 95, and
- Windows NT.
-
- 12. Title: Graphical Applications with Tcl and Tk
- Author: Eric Foster-Johnson <URL: mailto:erc@pconline.com>
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.pconline.com/%7Eerc/tclbook.htm>
-
- The second edition of this book focuses on creating and debugging
- cross-platform graphical applications using Tcl/Tk 8.0. Windows and
- Unix development is covered. The book comes with a CD-ROM containing
- Tcl/Tk sources, a binary Windows with install program, source code
- examples from the book and Tcl freeware.
-
- 13. Title: Bots and Other Internet Beasties Book/CD Package
- Author: Joseph Williams
- WWW book information: <URL: http://merchant.superlibrary.com:8000/catalog/hg/PRODUCT/PAGE/15752/bud/1575210169.html>
-
- Book covers internet robots, spiders, worms, and other agents.
- Covers software written in Tcl/Tk.
-
- 14. Title: RedHat Linux Unleashed Book/CD Package
- Authors: Kamran Husain, Tim Parker, et al.
- WWW book information: <URL: http://merchant.superlibrary.com:8000/catalog/hg/PRODUCT/PAGE/06723/bud/0672309629.html>
-
- Book covers the Linux OS/Environment. This includes Tcl/Tk as well as many
- other subjects.
-
- 15. Title: Tricks of the Java Programming Gurus
- Author: Glenn Vanderburg
- WWW book information: <URL: http://merchant.superlibrary.com:8000/catalog/hg/PRODUCT/PAGE/15752/bud/1575211025.html>
- <URL: http://www.mcp.com/samsnet/books/102-5/102-5.html>
-
- This book is primarily a book about advanced Java techniques. However,
- there's a chapter on the ability to embed a Tcl interpreter into a Java
- application using a native method library under Unix, as well as info
- on ways that Tcl might be useful for a Java application.
-
- 16. Title: The Visual TCL Handbook, 1/e
- Author: David Young <URL: mailto:david@inforef.com>
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=013461674X/u/7141-5908756-107481>
-
- A comprehensive guide to Visual TCL. This book leads reader from basic
- graphical user interface development concepts to meaningful application
- development. The book focuses on the TCLX and VT extensions,
- addressing many fundamental TCL topics. VT is a Motif based graphical
- interface, incompatible with Tk. The entire TCL language is documented
- in a separate Commands section. Comes with a CD-ROM that includes SGI,
- Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and Unixware versions of Visual Tcl.
-
- 17. Title: Running LINUX
- Author: Matt Welsh and Lar Kaufman
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.ora.com/catalog/runux2/noframes.html>
-
- Running LINUX deals with Linux administration. Has a chapter on programming
- using C, C++, Perl, Tcl/Tk. A companion product containing a CD-ROM is
- available.
-
- 18. Title: Understanding OSF DCE 1.1 For AIX and OS/2
- Author: Rolf Lendenmann
- Publisher: PTR Prentice Hall
- Publication date: August 1996
- ISBN: 0134937503
- Pages: 312
- Price: 36.00 US
-
- This book teachs OSF's Distributed Computing Environment. It covers
- many aspects of DCE and teaches how to create control scripts and RPC
- programs using Tcl, RPCs, and threads.
-
- 19. Title: LINUX Companion
- Subtitle: The Essential Guide for Users and System Administrators, 1/e
- Author: Mark F. Komarinski
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0132318385/u/7141-5908756-107481>
-
- LINUX Companion covers a lot of information about Linux. Chapter 11 is
- the development tools chapter, and gcc, g++, Perl and Tcl/Tk are
- covered.
-
- 20. Title: Beginning Linux Programming
- Authors: Neil Matthew, Richard Stones
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1874416680/u/7141-5908756-107481>
- <URL: http://www.wrox.com/Consumer/Store/Details.asp?ISBN=1861002971>
-
- Introduction to various types of programming tools. Includes a chapter
- on programming in Tcl/Tk. Supposedly it will be followed by Instant,
- Revolutionary, and Master Class editions. Source code supposedly available
- on WWW.
-
- 21. Title: CGI Bible
- Author: Ed Tittel <URL: mailto:etittel@lanw.com>
- Mark Gaither <URL: mailto:markg@hal.com>
- Sebastian Hassinger <URL: mailto:singe@outer.net>
- Mike Erwin <URL: mailto:mikee@outer.net>
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.idgbooks.com/database/book_result.msql?isbn=0-7645-8016-7>
-
- CGI Bible is a paperback with CD-ROM. It covers HTTP and HTML briefly,
- SGML and HTML DTDs (and validation), HTML 3.0, CGI (including the various
- languages which can be used, mentioning Tcl), then proceeds on to the
- topic of the design of CGI applications (using perl 4 - shudder).
-
- 22. Title: Tcl and Tk Reference Card
- Publisher: Specialized Systems Consultants
- Publication date: December 1996
- ISBN: 0916151808
- Pages:
- Price: 4.50 US
- WWW book information: <URL: https://www.ssc.com/cgi-bin/svend/#refs>
-
- Tcl cards cover Tcl 7.3.
- Tk cards cover Tk 4.0.
-
- 23. Title: Tcl Reference Card
- Author: Michael K. Johnson
- Publisher: Specialized Systems Consultants
- Publication date: December 1996
- ISBN: 0916151867
- Pages:
- Price: 3.00 US
- WWW book information: <URL: https://www.ssc.com/cgi-bin/svend/#refs>
-
- Tcl cards cover Tcl 7.3.
-
- 24. Title: Tk Reference Card
- Author: Michael K. Johnson
- Publisher: Specialized Systems Consultants
- Publication date: December 1996
- ISBN: 0916151859
- Pages:
- Price: 3.00 US
- WWW book information: <URL: https://www.ssc.com/cgi-bin/svend/#refs>
-
- Tk cards cover Tk 4.0.
-
- 25. Title: Linux Programming
- Authors: Patrick Volkerding,
- Eric Foster-Johnson <URL: mailto:erc@pconline.com>,
- Kevin Reichard
- Publisher: M and T Books
- Publication date: January 1997
- ISBN: 1558285075
- Pages:
- Price: 39.96 US
- WWW book information:
-
- This book and CD-ROM covers every major programming tool available for Linux,
- including Tk.
-
- 26. Title: Mastering Regular Expressions
- Author: Jeffrey Friedl <URL: mailto:jfriedl@omron.co.jp>
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.ora.com/catalog/regex/>
- More book information: <URL: http://enterprise.ic.gc.ca/%7Ejfriedl/regex/>
-
- This book explains regular expressions in general, and then covers a number
- of different tools explaining specialized variations. Tcl is one of the
- tools covered in its own chapter.
-
- 27. Title: Cookbook for Serving the Internet: UNIX Version, 1/e
- Author: Philip E. Bourne
- Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
- Publication date: February 1997
- ISBN: 0135199921
- Pages: 336
- Price: 29.95 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://merchant.superlibrary.com:8000/catalog/hg/PRODUCT/PAGE/01351/bud/0135199921.html>
-
- Cookbook is intended to help one set up their own UNIX internet information
- server. Covers where to find the software tools needed, how to design the
- structure of the information server, how to decide what information
- to upload, plan the use of graphics, how to write interactive forms,
- when to do custom programming in Perl or Tcl, etc.
- I don't know yet how much Tcl is actually mentioned in the book.
-
- 28. Title: CGI Developer's Resource: Web Programming in Tcl and Perl
- Authors: J.M. Ivler <URL: mailto:ivler@i-xpress.com>
- Kamran Husain
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.net-quest.com/%7Eivler/cgibook/>
-
- CGI Developer's Resource is a paperback with a CD-ROM. It contains
- complete program examples. The write up describes this book as covering
- a methodology of the analysis, design and coding of enterprise-wide CGI
- scripts in both Tcl and Perl. All source (over 50 solutions) from the
- book, as well as valuable programming tools, are contained on the CD-ROM.
-
- 29. Title: Tcl/Tk for Dummies (For Dummies)
- Authors: Timothy Webster, with Alex Francis
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.dummies.com/>
-
- Another one of the series of the paperback programming books. This one
- focues on the Tcl plugin as a programming environment.
-
- The focus here is primarily on Tk. The topic coverage appears to be
- light.
-
- 30. Title: Effective Tcl: Writing Better Programs in Tcl and Tk
- Author: Mark Harrison <URL: mailto:markh@usai.asiainfo.com>
- Michael J. McLennan <URL: mailto:mmc@cadence.com>
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.aw.com/cseng/books/efftcl/>
- <URL: http://cseng.aw.com/bookdetail.qry?ISBN=0-201-63474-0&ptype=0>
- WWW examples: <URL: http://www.awl.com/cseng/titles/0-201-63474-0/efftcl-ex.tar.Z>
- <URL: http://cseng.aw.com/bookdetail.qry?ISBN=0-201-63474-0&ptype=0>
-
- Practical information on how to exploit the full potential of Tcl/Tk.
-
- 31. Title: Database Backed Web Sites
- Author: Philip Greenspun <URL: mailto:philg@martigny.ai.mit.edu>
- Publisher: Ziff-Davis Press
- Publication date: May 1997
- ISBN: 1562765302
- Pages:
- Price: 29.95 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://photo.net/wtr/dead-trees/>
- WWW demo site: <URL: http://demo.webho.com/>
-
- A book on how to think about your Web publishing philosophy, make
- money (shudder), and build RDBMS-backed Web sites. This book will
- contain lots of examples of using the AOLserver, Tcl and RDBMS.
-
- 32. Title: Tcl/Tk Tools
- Editor: Mark Harrison <URL: mailto:markh@usai.asiainfo.com>
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.ora.com/catalog/tcltools/>
- FTP site for examples: <URL: ftp://ftp.oreilly.com/pub/examples/power_tools/tcltk/>
-
- This is a paperback with source code CD-ROM. The book covers the various
- Tcl extensions at a snapshot in time - i.e. Tcl 7.6.
- Extensions such as BLT, ET, expect, GroupKit, [incr Tcl], [incr Tk],
- [incr Widgets], MTtcl, Oratcl, Sybtcl, TCL-DP, TclX, Tix, TKReplay, Tree,
- TSIPP are covered. Several other topics, such as info on configuration
- and debugging Tcl/Tk are also covered.
- Some of the sources, as well as binaries for Linux and Solaris platforms,
- appear on the CD-ROM.
- However, some of the code does not appear on the first edition of the
- CD-ROM. Watch the ftp location where the missing code will be made
- available.
-
- 33. Title: Mobile Agents: Explanations and Example
- Authors: William R. Cockayne <URL: mailto:cockayne@acm.org>
- Michael Zyda <URL: mailto:zyda@siggraph.org>
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.manning.com/Cockayne/>
-
- Paperback with CD-ROM
-
- Book covers the technology to create mobile agents via various
- mechanisms, including Agent Tcl, Telescript, Ara, Aglest Workbench.
- Includes software to allow the reader to create and use mobile agents
- on the internet.
-
- 34. Title: The Pattern Recognition Basis of Artificial Intelligence
- Author: Donald Tveter <URL: mailto:drt@christianliving.net>
- Publisher: IEEE
- Publication date: August 1997
- ISBN: 0818677961
- Pages: 350
- Price: 46.00 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.computer.org/cspress/catalog/bp07796.htm>
- Book examples: <URL: http://www.dontveter.com/nnsoft/bp.tar.gz>
-
- An introduction to artificial intelligence. At least one of the software
- packages described in the book is written in Tcl/Tk and is available
- for Unix, DOS and Windows 3.x.
-
- 35. Title: Interactive Web Applications With Tcl/Tk
- Authors: Michael Doyle
- Hattie Schroeder
- Publisher: AP Incorporated
- Publication date: February 1998
- ISBN: 0122215400
- Pages: 600
- Price: 39.95 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.eolas.com/tcl/>
- Book examples: <URL: http://www.eolas.com/tcl/>
-
- Paperback with CD-ROM.
- This is a learning by example book, for someone who knows a bit of
- programming, but is not an expert. It covers developing applets as
- well as stand-alone applications and simple server applications. The
- examples have been tested with both Windows and Unix.
- The book comes with the Spynergy toolkit, which adds a variety
- of pure Tcl/Tk procedures for distributed processing, URL retrieval,
- HTML rendering, database management and platform independent file managment,
- Ed, a Tcl editor and testing environment, an image conversion tool, a
- demo of Tk features, a client/server version of a rolodex application,
- a pure Tcl web server, a client/server push application, a tcl web browser,
-
- 36. Title: Tcl/Tk Workshop Proceedings
- Subtitle: NR Edition
- Publisher: Usenix Assoc.
- Publication date: 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998
- ISBN:
- Pages:
- Price: varying
- WWW book information:
-
- Usenix prints the proceedings from each year's Tcl/Tk workshop.
-
- 37. Title: Professional Java Fundamentals
- Authors: Shy Cohen
- Publisher: Wrox Press
- ISBN: 1861000383
- Pages: 500
- Price: 39.95 US
- WWW book information:
-
- Describes the shell, unix, terminal and curses environment, a variety
- of Java issues, and Tcl programming. Why? I have no idea.
-
- 38. Title: Effektives Programmieren mit Perl5
- Author: Michael Schilling
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley
- ISBN: 3827310954
- Pages:
- Price: 59,90 DM
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.addison-wesley.de/>
-
- Effective Programming, available only in German, is a book and CD-ROM
- which covers Perl 5, OO-Perl, Perl/Tk, Perl and the Internet, and more.
-
- 39. Title: Cross-Platform Perl
- Author: Eric F. Johnson <URL: mailto:erc@pconline.com>
- Publisher: M and T Books <URL: http://www.mispress.com/>
- Publication date: September 1996
- ISBN: 155851483X
- Pages:
- Price: 34.95 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.pconline.com/%7Eerc/perlbook.htm>
- Errata: <URL: http://www.pconline.com/%7Eerc/perlbook.htm#Errata>
-
- Cross-Platform Perl focuses on writing cross-platform perl applications.
- Covers Perl on Windows NT and Unix. It also covers Perl/Tk as well as
- other Perl add-on modules for writing CGI, etc. Comes with a CD-ROM
- containing the Perl 5.002 source code, a binary version of Perl 5.001
- for Windows 95 and Windows NT, sources from the book examples and various
- Perl freeware.
-
- 40. Title: UNIX Programming Tools
- Author: Eric F. Johnson <URL: mailto:erc@pconline.com>
- Publisher: M and T Books <URL: http://www.mispress.com/>
- ISBN: 1558514821
- Pages:
- Price: 34.95 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.pconline.com/%7Eerc/unixprog.htm>
- Errata: <URL: http://www.pconline.com/%7Eerc/unixprog.htm#Errata>
-
- This paperback`s focus is teaching one how to use Unix to do programming.
- However, a discussion of Perl and Tcl as interpreters is present, and the
- CD-ROM includes Tcl 7.6 and Tk 4.2, as well as many other pieces of
- software useful when programming on Unix (gcc, Java, LessTif, tkdiff,
- Cocoon, cxref, Perl 5.003, emacs, tkedit, vim, CVS, gdb/tk and other
- tools).
-
- 41. Title: Linux Configuration and Installation, Second Edition
- Authors: Patrick Volkerding,
- Kevin Reichard, and
- Eric F. Johnson <URL: mailto:erc@pconline.com>
- Publisher: MIS: Press
- Publication date: January 1996
- ISBN: 1558284923
- Pages:
- Price: 39.95 US
- WWW book information:
-
- Comes with 2 CD-ROMs. Has a brief introduction to Tcl in the section on
- programming. CD-ROM has Tcl/Tk along with a lot of other tools on it.
- The CD-ROM was recently updated to include Slackware 3.2.
-
- 42. Title: Advanced Perl Programming
- Author: Sriram Srinivasan
- Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates
- Publication date: August 1997
- ISBN: 1565922204
- Pages: 434
- Price: 34.95 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.ora.com/>
- Errata: <URL: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/advperl/errata/>
- Book examples: <URL: ftp://ftp.oreilly.com/published/oreilly/nutshell/advanced_perl/examples.tar.gz>
-
- Advanced Perl covers objects, network programming, databases, and other topics,
- such as two chapters on Perl/Tk.
-
- 43. Title: Programming Python, 2nd Edition
- Subtitle: Object-Oriented Scripting
- Author: Mark Lutz <URL: mailto:lutz@rmi.net>
- Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates
- Publication date: October 1996
- ISBN: 0596000855
- Pages: 1256
- Price: 54.95 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/python2/>
- Errata: <URL: http://shell.rmi.net/%7Elutz/errata.html>
-
- Book (and CD-ROM) covers the use of the Python programming language. The
- book is full of running examples (all of which come on the CD-ROM).
- CD-ROM also contains versions of Python for all major UNIX, Windows,
- Windows NT, and Macintosh platforms. There are a few hundred pages
- that use python's Tkinter interface to Tk.
-
- A second edition, covering Python 2.0, is now available.
-
- 44. Title: Web Client Programming with Perl
- Subtitle: Automating Tasks on the Web
- Author: Clinton Wong
- Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates
- Publication date: March 1997
- ISBN: 156592214X
- Pages: 228
- Price: 29.95 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.ora.com/catalog/webclient/>
- Book's examples:
-
- Web Client Programming discusses extended your Perl scripting abilities to
- the WWW. A section on Tk including two or three examples is included.
-
- 45. Title: Web Development with TCL/TK 8.1
- Subtitle: A Complete Resource for Programmmers and Developers
- Author: Steven Holzner
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
- Publication date: February 1999
- ISBN: 0471327522
- Pages: 544
- Price: 44.99 US
-
-
- This book focuses exclusively on Web applications. Contains lots
- of examples, including writing a Web browser, interacting with other
- languages, writing of Tclets. A web site featuring the source for
- the examples from the book is available.
-
- 46. Title: Programacion en Tcl/Tk
- Authors: Francisco Ramon Feito Higueruela,
- Rafael Jesus Segura Sanchez <URL: mailto:rsegura@ujaen.es>,
- Francisco de Asis Conde Rodriguez,
- Publisher: Universidad de Jaen (Spain)
- Publication date: January 1997
- ISBN: 8488942966
- Pages:
- Price:
- WWW book information:
-
- The first Tcl/Tk book in Spanish.
-
- 47. Title: UNIX Power Tools, Second edition/
- Authors: Jerry Peek, Tim O'Reilly, and Mike Loukides
- Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates
- Publication date: August 1997
- ISBN: 1565922603
- Pages: 1120
- Price: 59.95 US
-
- This paper back and CD-ROM, covers the best tools for using Unix. The
- CD-ROM includes a large number of freely distributable software tools,
- including Tcl.
-
- 48. Title: Web TCL Complete
- Author: Steve Ball <URL: mailto:Steve.Ball@zveno.com>
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company
- Publication date: June 1999
- ISBN: 007913713X
- Pages: 500
- Price: 49.95 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.zveno.com/zm.cgi/in-wtc/>
-
- Paperback and CD-ROM which includes coverage of Web applications, Tclets, and
- Tcl/Java interfacing. The CD-ROM features a Tcl plug-in for Netscape
- browsers, plus Tcl, TclJava, and Jacl code, and a complete channel
- driver written in Tcl.
-
- The book will be covering all aspects of Web programming: from
- server-side CGI scripting and microscripting through to client-side
- Tclets and hyperpage scripting, with some general network programming
- thrown in for good measure.
-
- The author plans on including lots of example scripts, but probably not much C
- code - this is 100% Pure Tcl(TM) - which will provide a coherent
- collection of applications and libraries. He'll also include examples
- of code reuse; for server- and client-side processing of forms for
- example.
-
- The web site has online drafts of a number of chapters being written.
-
- 49. Title: Building Network Management Tools With Tcl/Tk
- Subtitle:
- Authors: Dave Zeltserman and Gerard Puoplo
- Publisher: Prentice Hall
- Publication date: April 1998
- Nth Printing:
- ISBN: 0130807273
- Pages: 448
- Price: 48.00 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.netmgmtsolutions.com/book.htm> ???
- <URL: http://www.prenhall.com/allbooks/ptr_0130807273.html>
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- Tools for people responsible for managing or consulting about networks.
- This book is more about building useful network management applications
- than it is about Tcl/Tk.
- Covers TickleMan and Scotty, two Tcl packages that provide access to SNMP.
- Covers among other things the building of tools to calculate network
- statistics, a web accessible server, network and status monitoring tools,
- discovery tool, IP path tracing tool, and RMON2 configuration assistance tools.
-
- 50. Title: Tcl & Tk Reference Manual
- Publisher: Linux Systems Labs
- Publication date: May 1996
- Price: 29.95 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.lsl.com/catalog/books/tcltk/>
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- 51. Title: Tcl/Tk For Programmers
- Authors: J Adrian Zimmer <URL: mailto:jzaimmer@acm.org>
- Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
- Publication date: 1998
- ISBN: 0818685158
- Pages: 560
- Price: 45.00 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.MapFree.com/sbf/tcl/book/home.html>
- Book's examples: <URL: http://www.MapFree.com/sbf/tcl/book/select/Scripts/>
- Errata: <URL: http://www.MapFree.com/sbf/tcl/book/errata.html>
-
- The material in Mr. Zimmer's course "Internet Introduction To Tcl/Tk" has been
- folded into this book. Covers Tcl, Tk, and the C/C++ connection. Both
- GUI and TCP/IP client programmer are given introductory treatments. Includes
- over 200 solved exercises which have been tested on both Unix and Windows 95.
-
- Author says: Image an elementary text, comprehensive manual and collection
- of production quality scripts. The approach taken in writing this book
- lies somewhere between those things.
-
- Sample chapters at the WWW book site include short introductions to
- Tcl, Tk, regular expressions and the plugin.
-
- Covers Tcl, Tk and the C/C++ connection. Both GUI and TCP/IP client
- programming are given introductory treatments. Over 200 solved exercises
-
- 52. Title: The Complete TCL/TK Training Course With CDROM
- Subtitle:
- Authors: Brent B. Welch and Dave Zeltserman
- Publisher: Prentice Hall
- Publication date: June, 1998
- ISBN: 0130807567
- Pages: 630
- Price: 99.95 US
- WWW book information:
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- 53. Title: Total SNMP
- Subtitle: Exploring the Simple Network Management Protocol, 2/e
- Authors: Sean Harnedy
- Publisher: Prentice Hall
- Publication date: July, 1997
- Nth Printing:
- ISBN: 0136469949
- Pages: 672
- Price: 55.00 US
- WWW book information:
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- Covers a variety of SNMP topics. Tcl is just one of many tools mentioned
- relating to the topic of managing networks.
-
- 54. Title: SGML CD, 1/e
- Subtitle:
- Authors: Robert DuCharme
- Publisher: Prentice Hall
- Publication date: 1998
- Nth Printing:
- ISBN: 0134757408
- Pages: 288
- Price: 49.95 US
- WWW book information:
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- A collection of freeware and shareware tools for SGML users.
-
- 55. Title: Perl/Tk Pocket Reference
- Authors: Steve Lidie
- Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates
- Publication date: October 1998
- Nth Printing:
- ISBN: 1565925173
- Pages: 112
- Price: 9.95 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perltkpr/desc.html>
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- Reference guide to the various Perl/Tk widgets.
-
- 56. Title: Perl 5 Complete
- Authors: Ed Peschko, Michele DeWolfe
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill
- Publication date: 1998
- Nth Printing:
- ISBN: 0079136982
- Pages: 1083
- Price: 49.95 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.perlcomplete.com/>
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- This softback book and CD-ROM covers many of the topics one needs to program
- in Perl 5 under either Unix or Windows NT. A variety of modules are covered,
- and the final chapter covers programming a GUI spreadsheet in Perl/Tk.
-
- 57. Title: Learning Perl/Tk
- Author: Nancy Walsh <URL: mailto:nwalsh@rtd.com>
- Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates
- Publication date: January 1999
- ISBN: 1565923146
- Pages: 344
- Price: 32.95 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperltk/noframes.html>
- Errata: <URL: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperltk/errata/>
-
- This book covers the standard widgets and geometry managers, covers event
- driven programming, creating a composite widget, snippets of code, and a
- number of complete program examples. Designed to be read by a new
- Perl Tk programmer as well as to be used as a reference.
-
- 58. Title: Perl from the Ground Up
- Subtitle:
- Authors: Michael McMillan
- Publisher: Osborne
- Publication date: June 1998
- Nth Printing:
- ISBN: 0078824044
- Pages: 520
- Price: 34.99 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.osborne.com/groundup/perlgu.htm>
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- Covers topics from where to get perl thru advanced development of
- powerful database utility programs. Has a smal section on creating user
- interfaces with Perl/Tk.
-
- 59. Title: TCL/TK Pocket Reference
- Author: Paul Raines
- Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates
- Publication date: October 1998
- ISBN: 1565924983
- Pages: 96
- Price: 7.95 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/tclpr/>
-
- 60. Title: Tcl/Tk in a Nutshell
- Authors: Paul Raines, Jeff Tranter
- Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates
- Publication date: March, 1999
- ISBN: 1565924339
- Pages: 456
- Price: 24.95 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/tclnut/>
- Book's examples:
- Errata: <URL: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/tclnut/>
-
- 61. Title: Handbook of Programming Languages, Volume 3
- Subtitle: Little Languages and Tools
- Editor: Peter H. Salus
- Publisher: Macmillan Technical Publications
- Publication date: 1998
- ISBN: 1578700108
- Pages: 685
- Price: 50.00 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www1.clbooks.com/asp/BookInfo/BookInfo.asp?theisbn=1578700108>
- <URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1578700108/qid=907860821/sr=1-8/002-4071093-7837066>
-
- Part of an extensive examination of programming languages, including a
- chapter on Tcl by Cameron Laird.
-
- 62. Title: Tcl/Tk for Real Programmers
- Author: Clif Flynt <URL: mailto:clif@cflynt.com>
- Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
- Publication date: December 1998
- ISBN: 0122612051
- Pages:
- Price: 45.95 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.msen.com/%7Eclif/RealProgrammer.html>
- <URL: http://www.mkp.com/books_catalog/0-12261-205-1.asp>
- Book's examples: <URL: http://www.msen.com/%7Eclif/CDROM/>
- Errata: <URL: http://www.msen.com/%7Eclif/RP_Updates.html>
-
- This book is the complete resource for computer professionals from systems
- analysts to programmers ready to code Tcl programs. It covers Tcl 8.1 and
- includes a CD-ROM containing the Tcl interpreter, libraries, as well as
- some electronic tutorials to get started quickly. It also includes some
- electronic material including case studies and techniques for the advanced
- user, plus examples from the book. See <URL: http://www.cflynt.com/>
- for the softcopy of the Real World chapters from the book.
-
- 63. Title: Tcl/Tk Programmer's Reference
- Author: Christopher Nelson <URL: mailto:nelson@pinebush.com>
- Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
- Publication date: October 1999
- ISBN: 0072120045
- Pages: 560
- Price: 19.99
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.purl.org/net/TclTkProgRef>
- Book's examples: <URL: http://www.purl.org/net/TclTkProgRef>
- Errata: <URL: http://www.purl.org/net/TclTkProgRef>
-
- This book represents a more technical presentation of Tcl/Tk, adding
- examples, notes, warnings and explanations to the material from the standard
- man pages available in the source distribution.
-
- 64. Title: Tcl/Tk Unleashed
- Authors: Red Hat Press
- Publisher: Sams Publishing
- Publication date: September 1997
- ISBN: 0672311437
- Pages: 1100
- Price: 49.99 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0672311437/u/002-1125435-9885037>
-
- This is a paperback with CD-ROM.
-
- 65. Title: [incr Tcl] from the Ground Up
- Subtitle: The Accelerated Track for Professional Programmers
- Author: Chad Smith <URL: mailto:chad_smith@adc.com>
- Publisher: Osborne McGraw-Hill
- Publication date: December, 1999
- ISBN: 0072121068
- Pages: 600
- Price: 27.95 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.osborne.com/groundup/incrtcltk_groundup.htm>
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- Complete reference manual for itcl, as well as covering OO design issues, etc.
- Covers fundamentas, as well as advanced topics such as overloading, code
- resuse, multiple inheritance, abstract base classes, performance issues.
- Also covers itk and the 56 iwidgets. This is a tutorial approach rather
- than an encyclopedic approach to covering the material.
-
- 66. Title: CGI Programming with Tcl
- Authors: David Maggiano <URL: mailto:david_maggiano@phx.mcd.mot.com>
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley
- Publication date: December 1999
- ISBN: 0201606291
- Pages: 608
- Price: 44.95 US
- WWW book information:
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- 67. Title: Mobility Processes, Computers and Agents
- Authors: Dejan Milojicic
- Frederick Douglis
- Richard Wheeler
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley
- Publication date: December 1999
- ISBN: 0201379287
- Pages: 704
- Price:
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.awl-he.com/titles/27063.html>
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- This book brings together a number of papers written by leading experts in
- 3 areas of mobility: process migration, mobile computer, and mobile agents.
- Includes a description of Agent Tcl among other mobile agent programming
- languages.
-
- 68. Title: Network Management Tools
- Authors: Steve Maxwell
- Publisher: Computing McGraw-Hill
- Publication date: March 1999
- ISBN: 0079137822
- Pages: 512
- Price: 39.99 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://mcgraw-hill.inforonics.com/cgi/getarec?mgh51644%comp>
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- Book and CDROM covering issues in designing your own network management tools,
- making use of Expect, Scotty, and more.
-
- 69. Title: UNIX Shell Programming Tools
- Authors: David Medinets
- Publisher: Computing McGraw-Hill
- Publication date: February 1999
- ISBN: 0079137903
- Pages: 568
- Price: 39.99 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://mcgraw-hill.inforonics.com/cgi/getarec?mgh51626%comp>
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- Book and CDROM covering programming in bash, perl and tcl under Unix.
-
- 70. Title: HP-UX Developer's Tool Kit
- Authors: Kevin E. Leininger
- Publisher: Computing McGraw-Hill
- Publication date: August 1995
- ISBN: 0079121756
- Pages: 473
- Price: 44.95 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://mcgraw-hill.inforonics.com/cgi/getarec?mgh27241%comp>
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- Book covers tools for developing on HP-UX. CD-ROM includes many common
- tools, including Tcl.
-
- 71. Title: Sams Teach Yourself Tcl/Tk in 24 Hours
- Authors: Venkat V. S. S. Sastry, Lakshmi Sastry
- Publisher: Sams
- Publication date: November, 1999
- ISBN: 0672317494
- Pages: 494
- Price: 24.99 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.mcp.com/sams/detail_sams.cfm?item=0672317494>
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- Paperback with CD-ROM which contains Tcl, Tk, various extensions, plus all
- examples.
-
- Intro to Tcl and Tk, covering 24 one hour lessons.
-
- 72. Title: The Complete TCL and TK Training Course, Student Edition
- Authors: Brent B. Welch and Dave Zeltserman
- Publisher: Prentice Hall
- Publication date: August, 1998
- ISBN: 0130830666
- Pages: 630
- Price: 71.93 US
- WWW book information:
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- 73. Title: Tcl for Web Nerds
- Subtitle:
- Authors: Hal Abelson
- Philip Greenspun
- Lydia Sandon
- Publisher: Arsdigita
- Publication date: 2000
- Nth Printing:
- ISBN:
- Pages:
- Price: 0 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.arsdigita.com/books/tcl/>
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- A book written for MIT students taking a Web service design course, to teach
- them the fundamentals of using Tcl. Examples are in relationship to
- Web programming, and make use of the Arsdigita toolset.
-
- 74. Title: Linux Unleashed
- Authors: Tim Parker
- Publisher: Sams
- Publication date: 1998
- ISBN: 0672313723
- Pages: 1114
- Price:
- WWW book information:
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- Contains a section on Tcl.
-
- 75. Title: Linux: The Complete Reference
- Authors: Richard Petersen
- Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill
- Publication date: 1998
- ISBN: 0078824613
- Pages: 1059
- Price:
- WWW book information:
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- Contains a section on Tcl, Tk, and SpecTcl.
-
- 76. Title: Java 2 Platform Unleashed
- Authors: Jamie Jaworski
- Publisher: Sams
- Publication date: 1999
- ISBN: 0672316315
- Pages: 1424
- Price:
- WWW book information:
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- Contains a Tcl primer, as well as sections on Jacl and Tcl Blend.
-
- 77. Title: Dictionary of Networking
- Authors: Peter Dyson
- Publisher: Sybex
- Publication date: 1999
- ISBN: 0782124615
- Pages: 448
- Price:
- WWW book information:
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
-
- 78. Title: Unicode: A Primer
- Authors: Tony Graham
- Publisher: M&T Books
- Publication date: 2000
- ISBN: 0764546252
- Pages: 475
- Price:
- WWW book information:
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- Tcl mentioned (perhaps more than a mention) under programming language support.
-
- 79. Title: Exploring Oracle (2000)
- Authors: Lisa Lenos (ed)
- Publisher: Element K Press
- Publication date: 2000
- ISBN:
- Pages:
- Price:
- WWW book information:
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- Section regarding use of Tcl with OEM as well as a reference in the designed
- and change manager chapter.
-
- 80. Title: The Practice of Programming
- Subtitle:
- Authors: Brian W. Kernighan
- Rob Pike
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley
- Publication date: 1999
- Nth Printing:
- ISBN: 020161586X
- Pages: 267
- Price:
- WWW book information: <URL: http://tpop.awl.com/>
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- This book focuses on programming issues in general, with code from a variety
- of languages from C, C++, Java, as well as Tcl and a few other scriptings
- languages.
-
- 81. Title: Managing IMAP
- Authors: Dianna Mullet
- Kevin Mullet
- Publisher: O'Reilly
- Publication date: 2000
- Nth Printing:
- ISBN: 059600012X
- Pages: 405
- Price: 34.95 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mimap/ >
- Book's examples: <URL: http://examples.oreilly.com/mimap/ >
- Errata: <URL: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mimap/errata/ >
-
- Covers the concepts and practical experiences of IMAP. The book
- talks alot about the Cyrus IMAP server, which has Tcl embedded,
- and includes an appendix covering Tcl.
-
- 82. Title: Oracle & Open Source
- Subtitle:
- Authors: Andy Duncan
- Sean Hull
- Publisher: O'Reilly
- Publication date: 2001
- ISBN: 0596000189
- Pages: 424
- Price: 39.95 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oracleopen/ >
- Book's examples:
- Errata: <URL: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oracleopen/errata/ >
-
- Book covers Oratcl and Perl/Tk interfaces to Oracle.
-
- 83. Title: Programming Ruby
- Authors: David Thomas
- Andrew Hunt
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley
- Publication date: 2000
- ISBN: 0201710897
- Pages: 608
- Price: 42.95 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/ >
- Book's examples: <URL: http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/samples/ >
- Errata: <URL: http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/errata/errata.html >
-
- Covers Ruby/Tk, which is a derivative of Perl/Tk.
-
- xx. Title:
- Subtitle:
- Authors:
- Publisher:
- Publication date:
- Nth Printing:
- ISBN:
- Pages:
- Price:
- WWW book information:
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- 99. Rumored to be in the works
-
- If you can confirm that any of these books are in any way relevant to
- Tcl and exist I will move them on up to the list above.
-
- A. International Thomson Publishing is producing a new
- series of books called "The Road to ...". One of these will be "The
- Road to Tcl/Tk". It will be a bit like a travel guide, covering the
- essentials, hints and tips, with longer worked examples. The author
- will be passing on the experience gained while writing Tcl/Tk. It will
- be asssuming Tcl 8.0.
-
- B. Title: Computer Vision and Image Processing
- Subtitle: A Practical Approach Using CVIPTools (BK/CD-ROM), 1/e
- Authors: Scott E. Umbaugh
- Publisher: Prentice Hall
- Publication date:
- Nth Printing:
- ISBN: 0132645998
- Pages:
- Price:
- WWW book information:
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- Covers the general topic of image processing, and the specifics of using
- the CVIP Tools, which include a Tcl shell which has access to all the
- computer vision image processing tools (which of course are on the CD-ROM).
-
- C. Python/Tk book
-
- A book that discusses the Python/Tk environment, how to use it to
- create useful software, doing rapid application development with Python/Tk
- and other useful libraries, and finally a series of graphically oriented
- applications is in process. Watch
- <URL: http://www.pythonware.com/fredrik/orabook.htm> for future details.
-
- D. Title: Porting to Java
- Author: New Riders Development Group
- Publisher: NEW RIDER'S PRESS
- Publication date: January 1996
- ISBN: 1562056026
- Pages:
- Price: 45.00 US
- WWW book information:
-
- The book includes applet converter scripts and covers Tcl/Tk, C,
- C shell and Perl conversion techniques. It explains usage for each
- Java class distributed by SUN in the Java Developer's Toolkit.
- I can't find any specifics on whether this actually was published or not.
-
- E. Title: Tcl
- Author: Kelvin Corocran
- Publisher: Small Press Distribution
- Publication date: December 1989
- ISBN: 1852980109
- Pages:
- Price: 8.00 US
- WWW book information:
-
- No other information available.
-
- F. Title: Tcl and the Tk Toolkit
- Author: John K. Ousterhout
- Publisher: Specialized Systems Consultants
- Publication date: December 1996
- ISBN: 9997887492
- Pages:
- Price:
- WWW book information:
-
- No other information available. This may be some sort of deal where
- John's book was bundled with a reference card or CD-ROM.
-
- G. Title: Advanced Programming Language Design
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series
- Author: Raphael Finkel
- Publication date:
- ISBN: 0805311912
- Pages:
- WWW book information: <URL: http://cseng.aw.com/bookdetail.qry?ISBN=0-8053-1191-2&ptype=179>
-
- Tcl is mentioned once in the Table of Contents under the subject:
- Homoiconic Use of Strings.
-
- H. Title: Perl 5 How-To
- Authors: Aidan Humphreys, Mike Glover, Ed Weiss
- Publisher: Waite Group
- Publication date: June 1996
- ISBN: 1571690581
- Pages:
- Price: 49.99 US
- WWW book information:
-
- Contains a chapter on perl/Tk programming.
-
- I. Title: Perl 5 Interactive Course
- Author: Jon Orwant
- Publisher: Waite Group
- Publication date: September 1996
- ISBN: 1571690646
- Pages:
- Price: 49.99 US
- WWW book information:
-
- Said to include a chapter on perl Tk.
-
- J. Title: C++ and C Tools, Utilities, Libraries and Resources, 1/e
- Author: David Spuler
- Publisher: Prentice Hall
-
- This book covers a variety of tools for developing in C++ and C. In
- a page written about the book, thanks is given to one person for helping
- with TCL tips. Until I see the book or hear from someone who has
- seen it, I have no idea if Tcl is really covered in the book much though.
-
- K. Title: Itinerant Agents: Explanations and Examples with CD-ROM
- Subtitle:
- Authors:
- Publisher: Manning Publishing
- Publication date: 1996
- Nth Printing:
- ISBN:
- Pages:
- Price:
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Eagent/>
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- This book supposedly covers roaming software agents and uses Agent Tcl
- as one of the languages. More details are needed.
-
- L. Title: Graphical Application Development in Perl/Tk
- Subtitle:
- Authors: Charlie Stross
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley
- Publication date: late 1998
- Nth Printing:
- ISBN:
- Pages:
- Price:
- WWW book information: <URL: http://public.antipope.org/charlie/nonfiction/tkperl/>
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- Author is writing a book on using perl/Tk.
-
- M. A number of other Linux related books mention Tcl at
- least in passing. See for instance
- Running Linux <URL: http://www.ora.com/catalog/runux2/noframes.html> or
- LINUX System Administration Handbook 1/e from 1998.
- I've also seen other non-Linux specific books on topics such as web site
- administration which mention Tcl in passing. While the descriptions of
- such books mention Tcl, typically, the coverage appears so small that I have
- not bothered to add them to this list at this time.
- A recent book mentioned is the Linux Programmer's Reference, by
- Richard Petersen <URL: http://linuxcentral.com/products/book/progref/>.
- It covers the various languages available on Linux and includes a
- quick reference for tcl and tk.
- Linux in a Nutshell is another of these books.
-
- N. Title: Linux Programming in Tcl/Tk
- Author: Rildo Pragana <URL: mailto:rpragana@acm.org>
-
- This book will be published in Portuguese. See
- <URL: http://members.xoom.com/rpragana/tcltk/titulo.html> for information.
-
- O. Title: Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing
- Author: Philip Greenspun
- Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
- Publication date: December 1998
- WWW book information: <URL: http://photo.net/wtr/thebook/>
-
- This book supercedes Database Backed Web Sites. The book is 50%
- longer, will have color photos, and covers more up to date topics.
- Tcl still is featured as one of the major web programming languages.
- Some readers may be offended by the arguments for Tcl though...
-
- P. Title: Tcl/Tk Tools, Second Edition
- Author:
- Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates
- Publication date:
- ISBN:
- Pages:
- Price:
- WWW book information:
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- Rumor has it that a second edition of this book is being considered.
-
- S. Designing the User Interface, Third Editions
- Subtitle: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series
- Author: Ben Shneiderman
- Publication date: 1997
- ISBN: 0201694972
- Pages: 600
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.aw.com/DTUI/>
-
- Associated with this book is a course syllabus (Cpsc 481: Human Computer
- Interaction, The University of Calgary) in which Tcl books are
- recommended reading for the course. Some Tcl/Tk code is also referenced
- in one of the chapters referenced online (Chapter 5-3). I've not
- had a chance to look at the book myself.
-
- T. Title: C Interfaces and Implementations
- Subtitle: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series
- Author: David R. Hanson
- Publication date:
- ISBN: 0201498413
- Pages:
- WWW book information: <URL: http://cseng.aw.com/bookdetail.qry?ISBN=0-201-49841-3&ptype=1140>
-
- Again, there are references to Tcl in the description associated with
- the book, but I haven't seen the book itself to see if Tcl is used there.
-
- U. Advanced Perl/TK Programming
- Author: Albert Lilley
- Publication date: 2000
-
- V. Programming Perl/TK
- Author: Andrew E. Page
- Publication date: 2000
-
- W. More Practical Programming in Tcl/Tk
- Author: Kevin B. Kenny
- Publisher: Prentice Hall
- ISBN: 013081251X
-
- Appears this one has been cancelled
-
- X. PERL 5 Developer's Guide
- Author: Edward S. Peschko and Michele DeWolfe
- ISBN: 0079136982
- Publisher: Computing McGraw-Hill
- Publication date: 1998
- Pages: 1062
-
- Covers Perl/Tk.
-
- Other documentation includes:
-
- 1. Many people learn Tcl/Tk from reading the 'man' pages. These files,
- a part of the source code distribution, are mentioned in Dr. Ousterhout's
- book as 'the reference manual'. If the person who installed Tcl/Tk at
- your site did a build of the executables and then ran the 'make install'
- step described in the source code distribution, the man pages are probably
- installed on your system in a directory. Contact your system adminstrator
- for more details. Also, (see "part2") for a number of WWW resources
- which provide additional information about many aspects of Tcl and its
- extensions. See the other FAQs mentioned in this document for additional
- help, pointers to software examples, and other resources from which you
- can draw help. For instance, (see "bibliography/part1") for details
- of published books, magazine and journal articles, proceedings papers, and
- thesises relating to the Tcl family of languages.
- See <URL: http://www.cpu.com/training/tclcom1.htm> for details of classes
- offered commercially.
-
- 2. For a list of free resources, (see "part3") which has an
- entry for a variety of resources.
-
- 3. Computerized Processes Unlimited has a combined Tcl/Tclx reference
- manual for sale. See <URL: http://www.cpu.com/training/tclcom1.htm> for
- more information.
-
- 4. The USENIX Association <URL: http://www.usenix.org/> not only
- sponsors various conferences and workshops of possible interest to the
- Tcl and Tk communities, but also offers the proceedings from those
- sessions for sale to members. See
- <URL: http://www.usenix.org/cgi-bin/lookbib.pl?raw=false&TERMS=tcl> for
- an example of just some of the articles that have been published by the
- USENIX Association.
-
- 5. Title: Tcl/Tk Documents
- Author: J. Ousterhout
- Publisher: Northside Copy Central
- 1862 Euclid
- Berkeley, CA
- Voice: (510) 849-9600
- Price: approx. $15-$20 US
- WWW book information:
-
- 6. Title: Tcl/Tk Reference
- Author: J. Ousterhout
- Publisher: Cheap Bytes
- P.O. Box 2714
- Lodi, CA 95241
- U.S.A.
- Pages: 700
- Price: 19.00 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.cheapbytes.com/>
-
- This contains the complete man pages for Tcl 7.4/Tk 4.0, along with two indexes.
-
- 7. Title: TCL/TK
- Author: Na
- Publisher: Walnut Creek
- Publication date: December 1994
- ISBN: 1571760237
- Pages:
- Price: 39.95 US
- WWW book information:
-
- Book store catalog description only says this is a hardcover, but I suspect
- it is really a copy of Ousterhout's book with a CD-ROM.
-
- 8. The Perl Journal
- ISBN: 1087903X
- Price: 18.00 US/year for U.S. delivery
- 25.00 US/year for foreign delivery,
- WWW book information: <URL: http://orwant.www.media.mit.edu/tpj/top>
-
- The Perl Journal is a quarterly publication devoted to discussing the
- Perl language and extensions. A regular column on the perl Tk
- extension has been appearing and is an excellent source of information
- about the extension.
-
- 9. Title: Distributed objects : neural network architecture rendered in
- Tcl-DP and Tcl widgets
- Author: Mark A. Stewart
- Publisher: Thesis (M.S.) University of Alabam at Birmingham
- Publication date: June 1995
- LoC: QA76.27.T41
- WWW book information:
-
- The topic is computer network architectures and neural networks.
-
- 10. Title: Thinking in Java
- Author: Bruce Eckel
- Publisher: Prentice-Hall
- Publication date: 1998
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.EckelObjects.com/javabook.html>
-
- In the first chapter, compares Tcl to JavaScript and VBscript.
-
- 11. Title: The Quick Python Book
- Authors: Ken McDonald <URL: mailto:kmcdona@watson.wustl.edu>
- Publisher:
- Publication date:
- Nth Printing:
- ISBN:
- Pages:
- Price:
- WWW book information:
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- Will contain a chapter on the use of Tk with Python.
-
- 12. Title: Tcl/Tk Tutorial Scripting
- Authors: Gerald Lester
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley Publishing
- Publication date: July, 2000
- ISBN: 0201379325
- Pages:
- Price: 40.00 US
- WWW book information:
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- 13. Title: Perl 5 Unleashed
- Subtitle: OOP, Sockets, Perl/Tk, IPC, 32-Bit Windows
- Authors: Chip Salzenberg
- Publisher: Sams
- Publication date: October, 1996
- Nth Printing: Out of Print
- ISBN:
- Pages: 798
- Price: 39.95 US
- WWW book information:
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- 14. Title: Introduction to Tkinter
- Subtitle:
- Authors: Fredrik Lundh
- Publisher:
- Publication date: March, 2000
- ISBN:
- Pages: 2000
- Price: Free
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.pythonware.com/people/fredrik/tkintrobook.htm>
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- This book only available in electronic form. It provides a brief introduction
- to the Tkinter user interface library.
-
- <URL: http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/>
- <URL: http://www.pythonware.com/library/an-introduction-to-tkinter.pdf>
-
- 15. Title: PerlMonth
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.perlmonth.com/>
- <URL: http://www.perlmonth.de/>
-
- Monthly web magazine which convers perl/Tk along with many other Perl
- topics.
-
- 16. Title: TCL and Expect Programming Made Easy
- Subtitle:
- Authors: Shastri Murali
- Publisher: by author
- Publication date: 10/1999
- ISBN: EB00003158
- Pages: 150
- Price: $30.00 US
- WWW book information:
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- Published in PDF format as eMatter. Readers available initially for Windows
- with plans during the year 2000 for MacOS and Linux readers.
-
- Book takes a cookbook approach to programming in Tcl.
-
- 17. Title: Python and Tkinter Programming
- Authors: John E. Grayson
- Publisher: Manning Publications Company
- Publication date: February 2000
- ISBN: 1884777813
- Pages: 660
- Price: 49.95 US
- WWW book information: <URL: http://www.manning.com/grayson/>
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- This book is intended for Python programmers who need to develop GUI driven
- applications. The examples should be portable between Windows and Unix.
- The author states that the examples are larger useful applications rather
- than smaller code fragments. Other Python extensions are covered as well,
- so the reader is given an idea of how to use Python to develop more
- realistic applications. The author expects to cover complex controls,
- photo-realistic panels, browser/notebook/wizard/image map interfaces,
- servers and CORBA, and more. Tkinter is fullly documented.
-
- 18. Title: Perl/Tk Programming
- Subtitle:
- Authors: Andrew L. Johnson
- Randy Kobes
- Publisher: Manning Publications Company
- Publication date: January 2001
- ISBN: 1884777937
- Pages: 400
- Price: 39.95 US
- WWW book information:
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
- xx. Title:
- Subtitle:
- Authors:
- Publisher:
- Publication date:
- Nth Printing:
- ISBN:
- Pages:
- Price:
- WWW book information:
- Book's examples:
- Errata:
-
-
- ---
-
- B. Training courses, etc.
-
- 1. See <URL: http://www.cpu.com/training/tclcom1.htm> for information about
- training courses by Computerized Processes Unlimited, NeoSoft Communications
- Services, and ATT training groups.
-
- 2. The first Tcl local users' group has formed in the Dallas Texas
- area. The group will be known as "Tcl Dallas" or "Tcl'D" for short.
- "Tcl Dallas" is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of
- the Tcl language along with its many extensions. As a local users
- group, "Tcl Dallas" supports the regional Tcl developer community by
- hosting special events and providing a local forum for the discussion
- of Tcl issues. For further information, see their WWW page at
- <URL: http://www.tcltk.com/TclDallas/> (???).
-
- 3. An IRC channel dedicated to the discussion of Tcl/Tk has been created.
- #TCL has been created by Noob Saibot <URL: mailto:noob@america.com>.
-
- 4. A Tcl user group is being considered in the Raleigh, North Carolina
- area. It is to be called the Triangle Area Tcl/Tk User Group (TTUG).
- Krishna Vedati <URL: mailto:kvedati@rational.com> is the person who
- is interested in forming this. Contact Krishna for more details.
-
- 5. The Tcl/Tk Journal is a free WWW based publication (ezine) which appears
- to be starting up in January, 1999. See <URL: http://tcl.webjump.com/>
- or <URL: http://www.linuxsupportline.com/%7Esto/journal/>
- for the ezine, its guidelines for contributions, etc. PLEASE, consider
- submitting articles to the editor! There is also a mailing list for
- discussion of the magazine available at
- <URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcltk/messages >.
-
- 6. A Silicon Valley Tcl Users Group has been created.
- This is organized similar to one night conferences
- Contact Jeffrey Hobbs <URL: mailto:jeff at hobbs.org> to express
- interest and to get more information.
-
- 7. The Second European Tcl/Tk Conference
- <URL: http://www.tu-harburg.de/skf/tcltk > takes place June 7-8, 2001.
- Contact Carsten Zerbst <URL: mailto:zerbst@tu-harburg.de>.
-
- ---
-
- C. Time-related seminars, conferences, workshops.
-
- 1. There have been, in the past, seminars and BOFs/SIGs at Usenix
- and other conferences taught by John Ousterhout and others on Tcl and Tk.
- See <URL: http://www.usenix.org/> for their current schedule of events.
- (See also "part2") for the URL to the slides from the most recent
- of these presentations by John.
-
- 2. University of Maryland Baltimore County has been held a
- course titled CMSC491C - Special Topics in Computer Science -
- Scripting Languages.
- This was an introduction to scripting languages with an emphasis on Perl and
- Tcl, but also mentioning sed, awk, etc. Taught by Bob Tarr.
- Call (410) 455-2336 (Continuing Education Department) to sign up
- as a special non-degree candidate.
- Info provided by <URL: mailto:finin@cs.umbc.edu> (Tim Finin).
-
- 4. See <URL: http://www.cpu.com/training/> or send mail to
- <URL: mailto:info@cpu.com> for details of training conducted by CPU.
-
- 5. See <URL: http://www.procplace.com/> for details on training from
- Karl Lehenbauer, one of the co-creators of one of the Tcl/Unix user's favorite
- extensions - Extended Tcl (TclX)!
-
- 6. See <URL: http://www.cflynt.com/> for information regarding Clif Flynt's
- availability to provide Tcl training - either introductory or custom
- sessions.
-
- 7. The International Linux Conference and Exposition (LINC)
- <URL: http://www.lincexpo.org/> is looking for presentations
- on many areas, including Tcl. Keep an eye on this web site
- to see whether there will be sessions of interest to the Tcl or Tk
- community.
-
- 8. Beginning January 11, 2000, there was an "Introduction to Tcl/Tk"
- course offered through UCLA Extension <URL: http://www.unex.ucla.edu/>.
- I'm uncertain whether or not this continues to be offered.
-
- 9. Avia Training and Consulting provides various public training classes
- covering Tcl related topics. For more information on the various classes
- offered, the locations for the classes, etc. see
- <URL: http://www.avia-training.com/> .
- Courses cost $500 US dollars per day per student. Avia also offers onsite
- private training.
- Contact Ken Jones <URL: mailto:ken@avia-training.com> or call
- 866-TCL-HELP (866-825-4357) in the USA or +1-408-983-1199 outside the USA.
- Prior to founding Avia, Ken was one of the instructors at Ajuba Solutions.
-
- If you are planning on attending any sort of conference or workshop,
- check for relevant types of classes, talks, presentations, as well as
- sessions dealing with applications and extensions of Tcl or Tk. Let the
- others in <URL: news:comp.lang.tcl> know about the event so that they
- might also attend. For that matter, consider scheduling a Tcl/Tk event
- yourself if you are so inclined!
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- From: FAQ General information
- Subject: -VI- Where do I report problems, bugs, or enhancements
-
- There are two alternatives for reporting bugs and problems.
- The first is the Usenet news group <URL: news:comp.lang.tcl>, an
- unmoderated Usenet newsgroup, created for the discussion of the Tcl
- programming language and tools that use some form of Tcl, such as the
- Tk toolkit for the X window system, Extended Tcl, and expect. Please
- note that postings of source code to <URL: news:comp.lang.tcl> does not
- automatically get archived anywhere (for example in
- <URL: ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/languages/tcl/> - the User Contributions
- archive site) - if you want your code to
- be available, you can take advantage of the <URL: http://www.neosoft.com/tcl>
- interface and add it yourself. See elsewhere in the FAQs for more details on
- the user contributed source code archive site.
-
- The second alternative would be to report problems, suggestions, new
- ideas, etc. directly to the author. To find the email address of
- the authors of Tcl/Tk based programs and extensions, (see "part4") and
- (see "part5"). Note that this does NOT apply to Tcl / Tk themselves
- - John has asked that you use <URL: news:comp.lang.tcl> for public
- communications.
- There is also <URL: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/tcl/> for reporting
- problems, suggesting improvements, and so on.
-
- When you report bugs, be sure you mention what hardware and
- operating system you are using (e.g. Pentium 100 mhz running Linux
- version x.y.z), what version of Tcl/Tk you are using (e.g. Tcl/Tk
- 8.3.2), what extensions you have added (e.g. tclX, dash,
- plus, itcl, tix, and blt), and any local modifications you have made.
- Then, provide if possible either a small piece of code, or a URL
- (e.g. <URL: ftp://ftp.myhost.com/some/path/stuff.tcl> ) to some code
- which demonstrates the problem. Either have the code explicitly mention
- "here's what I thought would happen", or in your description mention that.
- Also, if something used to work, mention which configuration you used.
- Most of all, be sure to provide an email address that is valid, and be
- sure to watch the Usenet newsgroups for responses, since seldom will
- private email be sent on a matter which likely is of public interest.
- On the other hand, if you DO get private email replies, remember to post a
- summary of what works to the group, so that future generations can benefit
- from your learning experience. If something in Tcl fails, don't just
- say "Tcl_Eval() fails" (or whatever function) but tell readers specifically
- what type of core dump occured, or what error codes were returned, what
- values were left in $errorCode and interp->result, and so on. If you submit
- information about your platform, version of Tcl, and code which can easily
- duplicate the bug to <URL: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/tcl/>,
- it can be examined, verified, logged and possibly fixed
- in a future Tcl/Tk release. If you have devised a fix (commonly referred
- to as a patch) for any Tcl or Tk related software, be sure to notify
- the author of the software as well as <URL: news:comp.lang.tcl>.
- To report patches to the core Tcl and Tk software, access
- <URL: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/tcl/>.
-
- If you have software from which you think someone might benefit
- (either a program, function, extension, or simple example), or you have
- a document, magazine or journal article, thesis, project, or even
- commercial advertisement, be sure to let the appropriate people know.
- There are FAQ maintainers for each of these areas as well as a
- <URL: news:comp.lang.tcl.announce> newsgroup you can use. Source code
- postings of reasonable length (and reasonable has been pretty large)
- are acceptable, BUT postings are _not_ automatically archived on the
- Neosoft ftp site. It is always worthwhile to submit your contributions
- directly to the ftp site so more members in the future can benefit from your
- experience. To make announcements to the <URL: news:comp.lang.tcl.announce>
- newsgroup, send email with the details to
- <URL: mailto:tcl-announce@mitchell.org>. Also, feel free to just point us
- to your own ftp site or WWW site if you have one which can be used. Don't
- feel compelled to keep everything on one site - but feel free to ftp
- contributions there if you wish.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- End of comp.lang.tcl Frequently Asked Questions (1/5)
- *****************************************************
- --
- Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem.
- Larry W. Virden <mailto:lvirden@cas.org> <URL: http://www.purl.org/NET/lvirden/>
- Even if explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing in this posting should
- be construed as representing my employer's opinions.
- -><-
-
- [[Send Tcl/Tk announcements to tcl-announce@mitchell.org
- Send administrivia to tcl-announce-request@mitchell.org
- Announcements archived at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/
- The primary Tcl/Tk archive is ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/ ]]
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