CS3007

Tcl/Tk is the recommended scripting language for producing graphical user interfaces in CS3007 projects.

• Tcl Developer Xchange
  Lots of Tcl/Tk resources, including the latest Tcl downloads.

• The Tcl/Tk Consortium
  Non-profit organisation dedicated to promotion of Tcl/Tk; check out the "Resource Center" for software, other material.
  Unfortunately this site has been hacked (PE 16/4/01).

• SCO's Tcl/Tk Site
  A HUGE resource containing links to documentation, Tcl/Tk extensions, example applications, etc, etc.

• Newsgroup: comp.lang.tcl

• Local Tcl/Tk Resources
  Details of locally available resources, including: a Tcl/Tk tutorial; and the Visual Tcl development environment.

• Tcl and the Tk Toolkit, J K Ousterhout, Addison-Wesley, 1994. ISBN 0-201-63337-X

• Effective Tcl/Tk Programming - Writing Better Programs with Tcl and Tk, M Harrison & M McLennan, Addison-Wesley, 1998. ISBN 0-201-63474-0

• Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk (Third Edition), B Welch, Prentice Hall, 2000.

• TCL/TK in a Nutshell, P Raines & J Tranter, O'Reilly, 1999. ISBN 1-56592-433-9

• Tcl/Tk 8.3 manual pages.

• Tcl Style Guide
  (15 page .pdf file)

• Tcl Architecture Guide
  (Guidance on how to integrate Tcl code and application code).

• Tcl syntax #1

• Tcl syntax #2

• Tcl syntax #3

• Tk widget examples

• Tk geometry managers

• Tk bind command

• Tk canvas widget

• Practical #1 (31/1/2002)

• Practical #2 (14/2/2002)

• Integrating Tcl/Tk & C
  A simple example which demonstrates how to link Tcl/Tk and C (by writing new Tcl commands as C functions); also demonstrates how to share variables. Extract using: gunzip simple.tar.gz followed by: tar xvf simple.tar