Version 7 of GUI Primer

Updated 2015-05-18 16:36:42 by aspect

There are a lot of articles in Category GUI .

This page aims to be a "newbie-friendly"-pointer to the most essential topics.

Tcl - the "tool-command-language". All the elements for programming (but console-only).

Tk - the "toolkit", an extension to tcl, for graphics, GUI, etc.

• General
• Layout:
  • Frame
  • Layout-Managers (place, pack, grid)
• Text- and entry - Fields
• Buttons:
  • Push-Buttons,
  • checkboxes
  • radiobuttons
• Canvas
• graphic elements:
  • text, line, rect, oval, image, etc.
  • Labels
• Menu
• Control:
  • bind

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Pages:

• m+ - Simple menu-system
• Menus made easy
• Grid-Demos - layouts arranged in a grid, done with pack and grid
• Simple Canvas Demo - put text, lines, rect, curve on a canvas
• Simple Entry Demo - entry-fields for integers, calculate sum and product
• IP Calculator GUI - entry-fields for IP-addresses / uses ttk
• 7GUIs - a sequence of mini-applications, each highlighting a useful GUI pattern in a short implementation
• ...

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See also

• Tk-Demos - forms.tcl : simple entry-form for name, address, phone etc.
• TkDocs

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