SEBASTOPOL, CA -- O'Reilly has just released the first book
covering the Perl/Tk:
Learning Perl/Tk:
Graphical User Interfaces with Perl.
Perl/Tk is the extension to Perl for creating graphical
user interfaces. With Tk, Perl programs can be window-based rather
than command-line based, with buttons, entry fields, listboxes,
menus, and scrollbars. Originally developed for the Tcl language,
the Perl port of the Tk toolkit liberates Perl programmers from
the world of command-line options, STDIN, and STDOUT, allowing
them to build graphical, event-driven applications for both Windows
and UNIX.
"This book is an excellent treatment of Perl/Tk. The paragraph in
the preface that refers to 'gurus' learning something was even
true for me."
-Nick Ing-Simmons, creator of Perl/Tk
Learning Perl/Tk
explains the reasoning behind event-driven
applications and drills in guidelines on how to best design graphical
applications. It teaches how to implement and configure each of the
Perl/Tk graphical elements step-by-step. Special attention is given
to the geometry managers, which are needed to position each button,
menu, label and listbox in the window frame.
Although Learning Perl/Tk does not teach basic Perl, anyone who has
written even the simplest Perl program should be able to learn Tk
from this book. The writing is breezy and informal, and gets right to
the point of what you need to know and why. The book is rife with
illustrations to demonstrate how each element is drawn and how
its configuration options affect its presentation.
Learning Perl/Tk
is for every Perl programmer who would like to
implement simple, easy-to-use graphical interfaces. For more
information, Table of Contents, index, and a sample chapter (Chapter
2 Geometry Management) see:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperltk/
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Learning Perl/Tk
Graphical User Interfaces with Perl
By Nancy Walsh
1st Edition January 1999 (US)
1-56592-314-6, 376 pages, $32.95 (US)