Mastering Perl/Tk
Mastering Perl/Tk Graphical User Interfaces in Perl By Stephen Lidie, Nancy Walsh
January 2002
Pages: 768

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Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 Hello, Perl/Tk

    1. Perl/Tk Concepts

    2. Some Perl/Tk History

    3. Getting Started with Perl/Tk

    4. Hello World Example

    5. Unsolicited Advice

    6. Debugging and PrototypingPerl/Tk Programs

  2. Chapter 2 Geometry Management

    1. The pack Geometry Manager

    2. The grid Geometry Manager

    3. The place Geometry Manager

    4. The form Geometry Manager

    5. Geometry Management Summary

  3. Chapter 3 Fonts

    1. Experimenting with Fonts

    2. Dissecting a Font

    3. Using Fonts

    4. Using Fonts Dynamically

    5. Font Manipulation Methods

  4. Chapter 4 Button, Checkbutton, and Radiobutton Widgets

    1. Creating Button Widgets

    2. Standard Options for Each Button Type

    3. Table of Options for Button-Type Widgets

    4. Displaying Text on Buttons

    5. Displaying an Image or Bitmap

    6. Checkbutton and Radiobutton Indicator Status

    7. On and Off Values for a Checkbutton

    8. Radiobutton Values

    9. The -command Option

    10. Disabling a Button

    11. Text Manipulation

    12. Altering the Button's Style

    13. Changing the Size of a Button

    14. Adding a Keyboard Mapping

    15. Color Options

    16. Indicator Colors

    17. Hiding the Indicator

    18. Focus Options

    19. Altering the Highlight Rectangle

    20. Configuring a Button

    21. Flashing the Button

    22. Invoking the Button

    23. Turning a Checkbutton/Radiobutton On and Off

  5. Chapter 5 Label and Entry Widgets

    1. The Label Widget

    2. The Entry Widget

    3. The Perl/Tk LabEntry Mega-Widget

  6. Chapter 6 The Scrollbar Widget

    1. Defining Scrollbar Parts

    2. The Scrolled Method

    3. The Scrollbar Widget

    4. Examples

  7. Chapter 7 The Listbox Widget

    1. Creating and Filling a Listbox

    2. Listbox Options

    3. Selection Modes

    4. Colors

    5. Listbox Style

    6. Configuring a Listbox

    7. Inserting Items

    8. Deleting Items

    9. Retrieving Elements

    10. Selection Methods

    11. Moving to a Specific Index

    12. Translating Indexes

    13. Counting Items

    14. Active Versus Selected

    15. Bounding Box

    16. Finding an Index by y Coordinate

    17. Scrolling Methods

    18. Listbox Virtual Events

    19. Listbox Example

  8. Chapter 8 The Text, TextUndo,and ROText Widgets

    1. Creating and Using a Text Widget

    2. Text Widget Options

    3. A Short Break for a Simple Example

    4. Text Indexes

    5. Text Tags

    6. Inserting Text

    7. Deleting Text

    8. Retrieving Text

    9. Translating Index Values

    10. Comparing Index Values

    11. Showing an Index

    12. Getting the Size of a Character

    13. Getting Line Information

    14. Searching the Contents of a Text Widget

    15. Scrolling

    16. Marks

    17. Embedding Widgets

    18. Internal Debug Flag

    19. The Perl/Tk Text Widget Extended Methods

    20. The TextUndo Widget

    21. The ROText Widget

  9. Chapter 9 The Canvas Widget

    1. Creating a Canvas

    2. The Canvas Coordinate System

    3. The Scrollable Region

    4. Using bind with a Canvas

    5. Canvas Options

    6. Creating Items in a Canvas

    7. Configuring the Canvas Widget

    8. Configuring Items in the Canvas Widget

    9. Tags

    10. Retrieving Bounding Box Coordinates

    11. Translating Coordinates

    12. Moving Items Around

    13. Changing the Display List

    14. Deleting Items

    15. Deleting Tags

    16. Determining Item Type

    17. Setting Keyboard Focus

    18. Rendering the Canvas as PostScript

    19. Scaling the Canvas

    20. Scanning

    21. A Drawing Program Example

  10. Chapter 10 The Scale Widget

    1. Creating a Scale

    2. Assigning a Callback

    3. Orientation

    4. Minimum and Maximum Values

    5. Displayed Versus Stored Value

    6. Adding a Label

    7. Displaying Value Increments

    8. Changing the Size of the Scale

    9. Options You'll Probably Never Need

    10. Configuring a Scale

    11. Getting the Value of a Scale

    12. Setting the Value of a Scale

    13. Determining Coordinates

    14. Identifying Parts of a Scale

  11. Chapter 11 Frame, MainWindow,and Toplevel Widgets

    1. Creating a Frame

    2. Creating a Toplevel Widget

    3. Options

    4. Frame Methods

    5. Toplevel Methods

    6. Creating Multiple MainWindows

    7. Putting Two MainWindows to Work

  12. Chapter 12 The Menu System

    1. Menu System Components

    2. Menubars and Pulldown Menus

    3. The Win32 System Menu Item

    4. Classical Menubars

    5. Popup Menus

    6. Option Menus

    7. Menu Virtual Events

    8. Pie Menus

  13. Chapter 13 Miscellaneous Perl/Tk Methods

    1. Managing Widgets with configure and cget

    2. Building a Family Tree

    3. Widget's ID

    4. Color-Related Methods

    5. The Application's Name

    6. Widget Existence

    7. Is the Widget Mapped?

    8. Converting Screen Distances

    9. Size of Widget

    10. Widget Position

    11. Screen Information

    12. Atom Methods

    13. Ringing a Bell

    14. Clipboard and Selection Methods

    15. Destroying a Widget

    16. Focus Methods

    17. Grab Methods

    18. Marking a Widget Busy and Unbusy

    19. Widget Mapping and Layering

    20. Interapplication Communication

    21. Waiting for Events to Happen

    22. Time Delays

    23. Parsing Command-Line Options

    24. Really Miscellaneous Methods

  14. Chapter 14 Creating Custom Widgets in Pure Perl/Tk

    1. A Mega-Widget Quick-Start

    2. The Perl/Tk Class Hierarchy

    3. Mega-Widget Implementation Details

    4. Composite Mega-Widgets

    5. Derived Mega-Widgets

    6. Packaging a Mega-Widget for Public Distribution

  15. Chapter 15 Anatomy of the MainLoop

    1. Creating a Callback

    2. Binding to Events

    3. The bindtags Command

    4. Executing Nonblocking System Commands

    5. Tracing Perl/Tk Variables

    6. Nonblocking Wait Activities

    7. Splash Screens

    8. Synthesizing Virtual Events

    9. Coexisting with Other GUI Main Loops

  16. Chapter 16 User Customization

    1. Using the Command Line

    2. Using the Option Database

  17. Chapter 17 Images and Animations

    1. An Overview of Perl/Tk Image Types

    2. Methods Common to All Image Types

    3. Bitmap Primitives

    4. DefineBitmap

    5. The Bitmap Image Type

    6. The Pixmap Image Type

    7. The Photo Image Type

    8. The Compound Image Type

    9. Tk::Animation

    10. tkneko—Animating the Neko on a Canvas

    11. Tile and Transparent Images

    12. Miscellaneous Image Methods

    13. Simple Photo Rotations

  18. Chapter 18 A Tk Interface Extension Tour

    1. Display Items

    2. Item Styles

    3. The TList Widget

    4. The HList Family of Widgets

    5. Tix Images

  19. Chapter 19 Interprocess Communicationwith Pipes and Sockets

    1. Handling Unsolicited Media Changes

    2. IPADM Design Considerations

    3. The Perl/Tk IPADM Client, ipadm

    4. The IPADM Helper, ipadmh

    5. The IPADM Daemon, ipadmd

    6. Polling Win32 Sockets

  20. Chapter 20 IPC with send

    1. Security and Inter-Language Considerations

    2. Computing π with Parallel Message Passing

    3. TclRobots

  21. Chapter 21 C Widget Internals

    1. The Tk::Square Widget

    2. Interfacing tkSquare.c with Perl/Tk

    3. Building and Testing Tk::Square

    4. How Not to Port Tk::Square

  22. Chapter 22 Perl/Tk and the Web

    1. Library for WWW Access in Perl

    2. The PerlPlus Browser Plug-in

  23. Chapter 23 Plethora of pTk Potpourri

    1. pTk Special Variables and Exporter Symbols

    2. Manipulating the Cursor

    3. Dialog Boxes

    4. The Adjuster Widget

    5. The Balloon Widget

    6. The BrowseEntry Widget

    7. The LabFrame Widget

    8. The NoteBook Widget

    9. The Pane Widget

    10. The ProgressBar Widget

    11. Widgets Not in the Perl/Tk Distribution

  1. Appendix A Installing Perl/Tk

    1. Installing Perl/Tk for Unix

    2. Installing Perl/Tk for Win32

  2. Appendix B Options and Default Valuesfor Each Widget

    1. Adjuster

    2. Balloon

    3. Bitmap

    4. BrowseEntry

    5. Button

    6. Canvas

    7. Checkbutton

    8. ColorEditor

    9. Dialog

    10. DirTree

    11. Entry

    12. ErrorDialog

    13. FileSelect

    14. Frame

    15. HList

    16. Label

    17. LabEntry

    18. LabFrame

    19. Listbox

    20. MainWindow

    21. Menu

    22. Menubutton

    23. Message

    24. NoteBook

    25. Optionmenu

    26. Pane

    27. Photo

    28. ProgressBar

    29. Radiobutton

    30. ROText

    31. Scale

    32. Scrollbar

    33. Table

    34. Text

    35. TextUndo

    36. Tiler

    37. TList

    38. Toplevel

    39. Tree

  3. Appendix C Complete Program Listings

    1. Tk::CollapsableFrame

    2. Tk::MacCopy

    3. Tk::ExecuteCommand

    4. Proc::Killfam

    5. tkmpg123

    6. Tk::Trace

    7. tkhp16c

    8. Tk::MacProgressBar

    9. TclRobots.pm

    10. Robot Control Program complex.ptr

    11. clock-bezier.ppl

    12. tkhanoi.ppl

  4. Colophon

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