Version 18 of Beginning Tk

Updated 2007-12-03 13:47:03 by LV

Purpose: An interactive community project to teach Tcl/Tk scripting.

This page is a group project. Please add topics, fill in information on topics already present, etc.

If you were going to teach someone to program in Tk, where would you start?

• What is Tk?
• The Hello World program as implemented in Tcl/Tk
• Someone else has written Show me an example, that takes the Hello World program farther.
• A minimal editor explained
• A minimal doodler explained
• Some common mistakes when programming in Tcl/Tk
• Tcl/Tk Template Applications has a template for a basic Tk application.
• Event programming and why it is relevant to Tcl/Tk programming
• Widgets in the initial Tk package
• Bindings and why they are important
• How does one change the font in the wish widgets?
• How do I insert text programmatically at the current insertion point (in a text widget)?
• How to find the name and type of a TK Widget. Which Widget
• When all you want is to run a Tk application
• Shapes and Lights - a simple canvas script
• Coming to Tcl/Tk from an IDE environment
• "ActiveTcl User Guide [L1 ]"
• A tiny drawing program
• Writing Tk programs so that the user can do simple custimizations without modifying the application
• Writing Tk programs so that the user can extend or interact with them without modifying the application
• Hello, Widgets! (a rock-bottom basic tutorial in Tcl and Tk)

If you don't know Tcl all that well yet, you should visit Beginning Tcl to help you get the hang of the language that Tk is most commonly hosted in.

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