Press Release
April 5, 1999
O'Reilly Releases Tcl/Tk In a Nutshell
SEBASTOPOL, CA -- The Tcl language and Tk graphical toolkit are
simple and powerful building blocks for custom applications.
The Tcl/Tk combination is increasingly popular because it lets
you produce sophisticated graphical interfaces with a few easy
commands, develop and change scripts quickly, and conveniently
tie together existing utilities or programming libraries. But until
now, there were only a couple sources of documentation available --
the manual pages (critical, but cumbersome and hard to get through),
or the "Quick References" (15 pages of the essential commands written
by the authors of this new work, Tcl/Tk in a Nutshell). "There was a
real need for something between these two extremes," says
Andy Oram, O'Reilly editor. "Unix programmers need a comprehensive
source that covers everything they are likely to need in one easy-to-
lookup reference."
Tcl/Tk in a Nutshell provides just that -- a desktop
quick reference that covers all essential facets of Tcl/Tk -- every
command and option in the core Tcl/Tk distribution as well as the
most popular extensions
One of the attractive features of Tcl/Tk is the wide variety of
commands, many offering a wealth of options. Most of the things
you'd like to do have been anticipated by the language's creator,
John Ousterhout, or one of the developers of Tcl/Tk's many
powerful extensions. Thus, you'll find that a command or option
probably exists to provide just what you need. Keep this book on
your desk as you write scripts, and you'll be able to find almost
instantly the particular option you need.
Most chapters consist of alphabetical listings. Since Tk and mega-
widget packages break down commands by widget, the chapters on
these topics are organized by widget along with a section of core
commands where appropriate. Contents include:
- Core Tcl and Tk commands and Tk widgets
- C interface (prototypes)
- Expect
- [incr Tcl] and [incr Tk]
- Tix
- TclX
- BLT
- Oratcl, SybTcl, and Tclodbc
O'Reilly Holds TCL Conference in August
Announcing the
1999 O'Reilly Open Source Conferences,
August 21-24 in Monterey, California. It's the
Perl Conference 3.0 PLUS all-new
conferences for Linux, Apache, Tcl/Tk, Python, and sendmail. For
more information see:
http://conferences.oreilly.com/ or send email
to: oscon@oreilly.com
to be added to a mailing list for more information as it becomes
available.
Tcl/Tk in a Nutshell
By Paul Raines & Jeff Tranter
1st Edition March 1999
456 pages, 1-56592-433-9, $24.95
About O'Reilly
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