Purpose: to provide a forum where developers used to an IDE development environment can share tools which provide them an environment suitable for development.
I hope established Tcl developers, as well as people learning to program Tcl the first time, update/add to this page information they find useful.
There have been times when users (particularly from the Windows development arena) come to the Tcl community perplexed as to how to get started.
Some of the issues they face are:
Tcl (and Tk) in their purest form (that is to say, either the source or perhaps executable form from the http://tcl.sf.net/ project) comes with minimal development aids. It is expected that the user will either already have a suitable set of tools for performing text editing, etc. or that you are willing and able to download various tools.
The standard development cycle for Tcl programs (that one plans on keeping) might be summarized:
start loop
type of debugging code. end loop
CL thinks it's important to say that it's not just that Tcl/Tk is defective in failing to integrate an IDE in the way someone coming from Delphi or Visual C++ might expect. Tcl/Tk programming is different from programming in those other languages, and has less need for an IDE. At some point in your Tcl programming career, try working with the language "on its own terms". Many of the most experience Tcl developers find that a more satisfying approach than use of an IDE.