Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk (3rd Edition)

Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk (3rd Edition), 9780130220288 (0130220280), Prentice Hall, 1999

The Tcl/Tk best-seller, now completely updated for Tcl 8.2 and the Tcl Web Server!

Tcl/Tk 8.2 is the first scripting language that can handle enterprise-wide integration tasks that encompass Windows, Solaris, Macintosh, and other key platforms. Now, in this fully updated Third Edition, Tcl/Tk development team member and best-selling author Brent Welch presents all you need to know to achieve powerful results with Tcl/Tk 8.2 and the new Tcl Web Server.

Coverage includes:

* Tcl's fundamental mechanisms and operating system interfaces
* Basic and advanced coding techniques and tools, including the Tcl script library facility
* Tk and X Windows-with detailed examples and sample widgets
* The new, extensible Tcl Web Server
* New Tcl internationalization features and thread support
* New techniques for working with regular expressions and namespaces

You'll find extensive coverage of user interface development, as well as application integration techniques that leverage Tcl/Tk's powerful cross-platform scripting capabilities. Welch covers Tcl's extensive network support, as well as Safe Tcl, C programming with the Tk toolkit, the Tcl compiler, and Tcl/Tk plug-ins for Netscape and Internet Explorer. Whether you're a current Tcl/Tk programmer, or a developer searching for a convenient, powerful multiplatform scripting language, Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk, Third Edition delivers exactly what you're looking for.

"This is an excellent book, loaded with useful examples. Newcomers to Tk will find the widget descriptions particularly helpful." --John Ousterhout CEO and founder of Scriptics Corporation and the creator of Tcl/Tk

"Brent Welch fills an important need for an introduction to Tcl/Tk with an applied focus and with coverage of many of the useful extensions available . . . I recommend this book to my new students . . . and I keep a copy handy for my own use." --Joseph A. Konstan, Professor of Computer Science University of

About the Author

BRENT B. WELCH is the senior web engineer at Scriptics Corporation, and a former software engineer at Sun Microsystems and Xerox PARC. At both Scriptics and Sun Microsystems, he has served as a member of the Tcl/Tk development team. His home page is beedub

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