Tcl/Tk in a Nutshell by Raines, Paul -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Tcl/Tk in a Nutshell Preface

Conventions Contact O'Reilly & Associates About This Book Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

What Is Tcl? Structure of This Book

2. Tcl Core Commands

Overview Basic Language Features Command-Line Options Environment Variables Special Variables Backslash Substitutions Operators and Math Functions Regular Expressions Pattern Globbing Predefined I/O Channel Identifiers Group Listing of Commands

Control Statements File Manipulation Tcl Interpreter Information Lists Arrays Strings Input/Output System Interaction Command History Multiple Interpreters Packages Miscellaneous Commands

Alphabetical Summary of Commands

after append array auto_execok auto_load auto_mkindex auto_reset bgerror binary break case catch cd clock close concat continue eof error eval exec exit expr fblocked fconfigure fcopy file fileevent flush for foreach format gets glob global history if incr info interp join lappend lindex linsert list llength load lrange lreplace lsearch lsort namespace open package pid pkg_mkIndex proc puts pwd read regexp regsub rename return scan seek set socket source split string subst switch tell time trace unknown unset update uplevel upvar variable vwait while

3. Tk Core Commands

Example Command-Line Options Environment Variable Special Variables Group Listing of Tk Commands

Widgets Geometry Management Event Handling Focus Dialogs Miscellaneous

Widget Overview

Standard Widget Options

Widget Commands

button canvas checkbutton entry frame label listbox menu menubutton message radiobutton scale scrollbar text toplevel

Utility Commands

bell bind bindtags clipboard destroy event focus font grab grid image lower option pack place raise selection send tk tkwait tk_ winfo wm

4. The Tcl C Interface

Constants Data Types Group Listing of Functions

Tcl Objects Interpreters and Script Evaluation Creating New Tcl Commands Initialization and Packages Parsing Exceptions Accessing Tcl Variables Hash Tables String Utilities POSIX Utilities Input/Output Notifier and Events Miscellaneous

Alphabetical Summary of Functions

5. The Tk C Interface

Constants Data Types Group Listing of Functions

Windows Configuring Widgets Bitmaps and Photo Images Events Displaying Widgets Canvases Text The Selection Geometry Management Application Startup and Initialization Error Handling Color Cursors Miscellaneous

Alphabetical Summary of Functions

6. Expect

Overview Example Command-Line Options Environment Variables Special Variables Grouped Summary of Commands

Process Interaction Utility Commands Synonyms

Alphabetical Summary of Commands

close debug disconnect exit exp_continue exp_getpid exp_internal exp_open exp_pid expect expect_after expect_background expect_before expect_tty expect_user expect_version fork inter_return interact interpreter log_file log_user match_max overlay parity remove_nulls send send_error send_log send_tty send_user sleep spawn strace stty system timestamp trap wait

7. [incr Tcl]

Basic Class Definition Special Variables Group Listing of Commands

Classes Objects Miscellaneous

Example Alphabetical Summary of Commands

className objName body class code configbody delete ensemble find itcl_class itcl_info local Scope

8. [incr Tk]

Basic Structure of a Mega-widget Special Variable Methods and Variables

Public Methods Protected Methods Protected Variables

Alphabetical Summary of Commands

usual

9. Tix

Tix Overview Special Variables Group Listing of Tix Commands

Mega-widgets Standard Widgets Core Commands

Tix Mega-widget Overview Tix Mega-widgets

Balloon ButtonBox CheckList ComboBox Control DialogShell DirList DirSelectBox DirSelectDialog DirTree ExFileSelectBox ExFileSelectDialog FileComboBox FileEntry FileSelectBox FileSelectDialog LabelEntry LabelFrame LabelWidget ListNoteBook Meter NoteBook OptionMenu PanedWindow PopupMenu Primitive ScrolledGrid ScrolledHList ScrolledListBox ScrolledText ScrolledTList ScrolledWidget ScrolledWindow Select Shell StackWindow StdButtonBox StdDialogShell Tree VStack VTree

Tix Standard Widgets Overview

Display Items

Image Items Imagetext Items Text Items Window Items

Tix Standard Widgets

Grid HList InputOnly NoteBookFrame TList

Tix Core Commands

tix CallMethod ChainMethod Class Descendants Destroy DisableAll DisplayStyle EnableAll Form GetBoolean GetInt Mwm PopGrab PushGrab WidgetClass

Tix Extensions to Tk image Command

image image

10. TclX

Special Variables Group Listing of Commands

General Commands Debugging and Development Commands Unix Access Commands File Commands File Scanning Commands Math Commands List Manipulation Commands Keyed List Commands String and Character Manipulation Commands XPG/3 Message Catalog Commands Help Commands Library and Package Commands

Alphabetical Summary of Commands

abs acos alarm apropos asin atan atan2 auto_commands auto_load_file auto_packages bsearch buildpackageindex catclose catgets catopen ccollate cconcat ceil cequal chgrp chmod chown chroot cindex clength cmdtrace commandloop convert_lib cos cosh crange csubstr ctoken ctype dirs double dup echo edprocs execl exp fcntl flock floor fmod for_array_keys for_file for_recursive_glob fork fstat ftruncate funlock help helpcd helppwd host_info hypot id infox int intersect intersect3 keyldel keylget keylkeys keylset kill lassign lcontain lempty lgets link lmatch loadlibindex log log10 loop lrmdups lvarcat lvarpop lvarpush mainloop max min nice pipe popd pow profile profrep pushd random read_file readdir recursive_glob replicate round saveprocs scancontext scanfile scanmatch searchpath select showproc signal sin sinh sleep sqrt sync system tan tanh tclx_errorHandler times translit try_eval umask union wait write_file

11. BLT

Environment Variable Special Variables Group Listing of Commands

Graphical Commands Numerical Data Commands Tile Widget Commands Utility Commands

Alphabetical Summary of Commands

barchart beep bgexec bitmap bltdebug busy container cutbuffer drag&drop graph hierbox htext spline stripchart table tabset tile vector watch winop

12. Oratcl

Overview Example Environment Variables Special Variables Group Listing of Commands

Database Server Setup Commands Data Manipulation Commands

Alphabetical Summary of Commands

oraautocom orabindexec orabreak oracancel oraclose oracols oracommit orafetch oralogoff oralogon oraopen oraplexec orapoll orareadlong oraroll orasql orawritelong

13. Sybtcl

Overview Example Environment Variables Special Variables Group Listing of Commands

Database Server Setup Commands Data Manipulation Commands

Alphabetical Summary of Commands

sybcancel sybclose sybcols sybconnect sybnext sybpoll sybreadtext sybretval sybsql sybuse sybwritetext

14. Tclodbc

Overview Group Listing of Commands

Connection and Configuration Commands Data Manipulation Commands Statement Commands

Summary of Commands

database database-id statement-id

15. Hints and Tips for the Tcl Programmer

Think Commands, Not Statements Comments Are Treated as Commands A Symbolic Gesture Lists Are Strings, but Not All Strings Are Lists Indirect References Executing Other Programs When Is a Number Not a Number? Quoting and More Quoting Write Once, Run Where?

Filenames and Pathnames End of Line Conventions Determining Platform Specifics Scanning and For matting Binary Data

Common Tk Errors

Global Scope for -variable and -textvariable The -command String Must Be a Tcl List Use update to Refresh Widgets and for Event Processing

Use the Source, Luke!

A. Tcl Resources

Web Sites

General Tcl/Tk Extensions

Usenet Newsgroups

Books

Mailing Lists

Index About the Authors Colophon Copyright

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