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This is not a book, though the title sounds like one (or rather a whole shelf full of good books ;-). No, it's just another page at the Tcler's Wiki. The ideas and contributions collected here needed some more indexing, and that's what this page tries to do. See also Where can I find a book about Tcl - Tcl articles.Copyright:
No rights reserved. Do what you want to do (but consider netiquette and general principles). Especially, add what you feel is missing! This page started by Richard Suchenwirth, but hopefully improved by many of you...Table of Contents edit
(see also Recent changes - New pages - Search - Tcl Chatroom)Starting out edit
What is Tcl - Beginning Tcl - Is Tcl different! - Tcl advocacy - The Tcl Way - The Tao of Tcl - Tcl heritage- Get Tcl and Tk (source and a few binary distributions) from http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/downloadnow84.html, or have a look at Binary Distributions, Batteries Included, and the places to find Tcl binaries and sources.
- In the beginning - first stop for someone new to Tcl and Tk
- Is there anything I should know before I start coding?
- Common questions about Tcl
- Are there tools which are required or would be useful when developing in Tcl
- A parser's monolog - How to change a running system
- Bag of algorithms - lots of little procs for you to cut'n'paste
- Arrays / hash maps
- Tcl syntax help
- Example scripts everybody should have - Tcl examples
- Math function help - Additional math functions
- Sample math programs - Arbitrary precision math procedures - Converting numbers from arbitrary bases
- expr problems with int - Importing expr functions - A real problem
- Comments in expressions - Some suggestions, on how to do it.
- Regular expressions - Syntax parsing in Tcl - string map - String processing
- owh - a fileless tclsh - pass one-liners from the shell
- Tcl performance - Can you run this benchmark 10 times faster
- Help! My Tcl application just crashed!
- Slurping Up Text in TCL
- The infinity trick
Links
- Places to go: http://www.tcl.tk/ - http://www.tcltk.com/ - http://sourceforge.net/foundry/tcl-foundry/ - http://tcl.sourceforge.net/ - http://sourceforge.net/projects/tktoolkit
- The community: Tcl'ers - Tcl Core Team - The comp.lang.tcl newsgroup - news:comp.lang.tcl.announce
- Weekly news: Tcl-URL! in the newsgroups, or archived at http://www.ddj.com/topics/tclurl/
- All manuals at a click: http://www.tcl.tk/man
- One non-wiki page covering frequently made mistakes in Tcl can be found at http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/fmm.html
Beginning Tk edit
- Tk syntax help - Widgets in the initial Tk package: many screenshots - Tk examples
- Common questions about Tk
- Bag of Tk algorithms - lots of little procs, help yourself
- Text widget example - Text widget syntax highlighting - A change-sensitive text widget - A little hypertext system
- menu - Menus made easy - An entry with a history
- Tk image Dos and Don'ts
- A simple voltmeter - Dial widget - A little spellchecker - A little function plotter - An analog clock in Tk
- A file properties dialog - A minimal console
- A little file searcher
- Scroll bars that appear only when needed - Paning widgets
- Interrupting loops - how to build a stop button
- Tk performance
- Apple Macintosh and Tcl/Tk - Microsoft Windows and Tcl / Microsoft Windows and Tk - Windows/CE - Pocket PC
- Tk glossary
Intermediate Tcl and Tk edit
- People new to Tcl often want to know how to embed Tcl into their C applications, or how to call C functions from their Tcl scripts. One place to find this information is http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/HowToC.html . But of course this Wiki has pages on Writing extensions!
- Overloading widgets
- A simple database
- Complex data structures
- New control structures
- Fun with functions: a function plotter plaything
- Writing Tcl scripts for eggdrop
Advanced Tcl and Tk edit
- Operating System specific Tcl commands
- Introspection
- telnet - dde
- Radical language modification - ever wanted to write i = 1?
- Overloading a widget command - Grab tips
- Fancy things with procs: Guarded proc - Local procedures - Playing C
- Tcl Gems - Braintwisters
- Salt and sugar: how to make Tcl code look nicer - Predicates: on being and having
- Dangers of creative writing
- Browse Tcl sources (CVS repository): http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/tcl/?cvsroot=tcl
- Tcl 9.0 WishList - Tcl style discussion
- Remote Script Execution
- Curbside Collection for Object Systems
- Dynamic Libraries in Tcl
- Animations and Timing issues
Foreign affairs edit
what Tcl/Tk offer for i18n - Writing for the world- Unicode and UTF-8 - UTF-8 bit by bit - i18n tester
- A little Unicode editor - A little Korean editor - Unicode file reader
- The Lish family - converters from 7-bit ASCII to Arab/Cyrillic/Greek/Hebrew/Japanese/Korean.. Unicodes
- Bag of number/time spellers - on the interface between people and numbers
- Chinese numbers - Hebrew numbers - Roman numbers
- Natural languages - Things British - Things Japanese
- taiku goes multilingual
- Endekalogue has links to almost a dozen translations of man Tcl into different languages
Tcl and other languages and concepts edit
- Object orientation: Gadgets - LOST - On things - Doing things - Doing things in namespaces - Chaining things
- TCL Basics[1]
- Goto Retro: BASIC in Tcl - Retrocomputing - Playing Assembler (8080!)
- Forth/Postscript style: RPN in Tcl - reverse Polish notation
- Steps towards functional programming - Lambda in Tcl - Tail call optimization - linked lists
- Playing Prolog - Playing Python - Playing C - Playing APL - Playing Smalltalk - Tcl and LISP - Playing Haskell
- Turtle graphics the LOGO way
- Critcl - C code generators
- Syntax parsing in Tcl - Simple tree layout
- Perl, Unix shells
- Graph theory in Tcl - Searching A Star in Space
- TclJava
- Eiffel-like Invariants - Design by Contract stuff.
- AVC [2] - A multiplatform, fully automatic, live connection among graphical interface widgets and application variables for the python language.
Fun stuff edit
- 99 bottles of beer - ANSI color control - Tcl/Tk games - Obfuscation - Quines - Turtleshell
- Horseracing in Tcl - Model railroading with Tcl - Notes on a canvas - Postcard from Switzerland - Toy cars
