perl/tk resources for beginners

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Re: perl/tk resources for beginners by teabag (Pilgrim) on Oct 26, 2004 at 13:54 UTC
Okay, some resources to make your PerlTK life easier. Seems to me there's loads of it around but hey, I'll point you in some directions. First of all start with: http://www.perltk.org/, it has all the info you need to get started. some info: http://www.devdaily.com/Dir/Perl/Articles_and_Tutorials/PerlTk/ http://www.perl.com/pub/a/1999/10/perltk/ some additional modules: http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~eserte/ some tools: http://ptktools.sourceforge.net/ some sourcecode: http://www.the-labs.com/Perl/ThePerlJournal/Issue_01_Tk/ enjoy yourself, Teabag Sure there's more than one way, but one just needs one anyway - Teabag	[reply]
Re: perl/tk resources for beginners by tachyon (Chancellor) on Oct 26, 2004 at 06:01 UTC
Tk comes with a program called widget. This gives you example code for widgets that do all sorts of stuff. You can have a play and view source.	[reply]
Re: perl/tk resources for beginners by si_lence (Deacon) on Oct 26, 2004 at 07:31 UTC
Hi, I found this quite useful when I first looked at Tk. Depending on your background it might be to superficial or to short. The Mastering Perl/Tk got me a lot of very good information and I do think it's worth the money hth si_lence	[reply]
Re: perl/tk resources for beginners by zentara (Archbishop) on Oct 26, 2004 at 14:27 UTC
Hi, your best bet to learning is just to start writing simple programs, and hack your way through the "underbrush". I always go to the website groups.google.com which has alot of code examples just for the asking. For example if you want to know about a tabbed notebook, go to groups.google and search for "perl Tk notebook". You will get alot of code samples to get you going. Do you want to know how to use a button? Type in "perl Tk button". There are some fine points which only come with experience, (and repeatedly making the same mistake)...like how to make proper callbacks, reusing widgets to avoid memory increases, and packing widgets well(use alot of frames :-) ). But you don't learn until you jump in and start. Also if you go to safari, you can download an html copy of Mastering Perl/Tk so you can cut'n'paste and run code as you learn. Thats a good book. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh	[reply]
Re: perl/tk resources for beginners by Tii (Monk) on Oct 26, 2004 at 13:46 UTC
This node is a great place to get started learning Perl/Tk. Tii	[reply]
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