Re: Tk....What exactly IS it?

Tk the Perl module is an interface written by Nick Ing-Simmons to Tcl/Tk. Tcl/Tk is actually two products originally developed at the University of California Berkeley, now at Sun by John Ousterhout: the Tool Command Language and the Tool Kit. They are a versatile scripting language and a graphical interface development tool, respectively.

In brief Tk lets you build GUIs. If you build a Tk GUI with Perl it should run on just about anything Perl (and Perl Tk) runs on. By way of simple example it will almost certainly run on Win32 or Linux.

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tachyon

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Re^2: Tk....What exactly IS it? by Spidy (Chaplain) on Sep 02, 2004 at 01:34 UTC
So is Tk useful for anything (I know it's useful for some things), or just that? And would it be worth it to spend money for a book on?	[reply]
Re^3: Tk....What exactly IS it? by tachyon (Chancellor) on Sep 02, 2004 at 02:43 UTC
PEBKAC. Tk does GUI widget stuff as noted above. If you need to do GUI widget stuff Tk is useful. Tcl (Tool control language) is a scripting language like Perl and is not Tk. Tcl can do lots of different stuff like Perl, but Tk just does widgets. The history of Tcl and Tk cheers tachyon	[reply]
Re^3: Tk....What exactly IS it? by WhiteBird (Hermit) on Sep 02, 2004 at 02:53 UTC
I picked up the O'Reilly book "Learning Perl/Tk" out of a book bin at a local book store. It cost me all of $7.00. While I haven't actually used a GUI on any of my Perl projects, I've enjoyed going through the book and learning about Perl/Tk. I usually pull it out when I'm feeling like I need a change in perspective. It's just different enough from what I'm usually working on that it provides me with some amusement. While I wouldn't recommend spending big bucks on a book about a technique you may never need, if you can pick up something inexpensive, it's worth the investment. For myself, if in the future I find I need a GUI for something, I'll be partly prepared to tackle that.	[reply]
Re^4: Tk....What exactly IS it? by Popcorn Dave (Abbot) on Sep 02, 2004 at 02:59 UTC
Be careful with that book. If you got the one authored solely by Walsh, I've heard it's full of problems. You want to get the one authored by ( I believe ) Liddie and Walsh. But really the best way to go is to try to pick up a copy of the Perl CD Bookshelf with the Perl/Tk book on it. Much easier to carry around. Plus you get 6 other Perl books on a CD ROM. :) Useless trivia: In the 2004 Las Vegas phone book there are approximately 28 pages of ads for massage, but almost 200 for lawyers.	[reply]
Re^3: Tk....What exactly IS it? by tachyon (Chancellor) on Sep 02, 2004 at 02:55 UTC
PEBKAC. A history of Tcl and Tk cheers tachyon	[reply]


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