Resources

Online Documentation

The Tk system contains extensive documentation. This section does not list all the documents but includes only the most useful ones.

• Tk— Index of all the Tk documents.

• Tk::overview— Overview of the Tk system.

• Tk::UserGuide— More extensive introduction to the Tk system.

• Tk::Button— Typical widget.

• Tk::pack— Geometry manager that packs widgets as closely together as possible.

• Tk::grid— Grid-oriented geometry manager.

• Tk::options— A list of options common to all widgets as well as functions you can call to manipulate them.

Demonstrations

• widget— The Tk widget demo, which shows you what almost all the Tk widgets look like.

• Other demos— Distributed with the Tk source are a number of other demonstrations. Unfortunately, these are not installed when you install the Tk module, so if you want to a look at them, you’ll need to unpack the sources to the Tk module and look for things with the word “demo” in them.

Web Sites

• http://tcl.activestate.com/— The official Tcl/Tk web site.

• http://spectcl.sourceforge.net/— GUI builder for Perl/Tk. Unfortunately, this GUI builder limits you to the grid geometry manager.