TCL WWW Info

These pages are an index to a set of TCL/Tk references on the WWW presented as something of an Information Overview. I've concentrated on Link sites distinct from the Tcl/Tk archive so if you are after a particular Tcl/Tk document/extension or distribution (probably on the Tcl Archive site) you may get faster results by using Wade Holst's HyperTcl link which acts as the WWW Tcl/Tk Resources Service.

If you want local copies of any of these pages for your own use, the entire tree plus the scripts I use to create them is archived on ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/docs :
tclhtml.README
tclhtml.tar.gz.

If you find any additional WWW references that you think would be useful to have here please tell me about it.
I'll take e-mail ( hops@sco.com) or a very loud yell.

For mirrored sites this page is (as of April 1995) based at http://www.sco.com/Technology/tcl/Tcl.html
and was last modified 25-Sep-95.

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• Local FAQ
• Manual Pages
• Tcl Reference Info
• General Information
• Applications
  • Net and Web Tools
  • User Applications
  • Systems that use Tcl
• Extensions
  • Script Only Extensions
  • Tcl Code Extensions
    • Patches for Added fnality
  • [incr Tcl]
  • Tk Widgets
  • Tcl GUI extensions
  • Tcl OOP Extensions
• Non Unix Tcl Ports
• Miscellaneous
• Ftp Sites
• Other Tcl Links

• Part1- Intro
• Part2 - Access Questions
• Part3 - References and Retrieval
• Part4- Tcl/Tk based Applications
• Part5- Common Extensions and Packages

• Tcl Language Usage Q&A
• Tk Toolkit Usage
• Tcl Commercial Usage
• Tcl Biblography

• Tcl/Tk Conference Papers
  • 1995
  • 1994
  • 1993

• Tcl7.3 and Tk3.6 Pages
  • TCL Man Pages
  • Tk Man Pages
  • TCL C API Man Pages
  • Tk C API Man Pages
  • TclX Man Page (at neosoft)

• SCO Tcl Manual Pages
• Access to the MBV Lab's tcl/Tk support

• Tcl7.4 and Tk4.0
  • Release Announcement
  • Tcl 7.4
  • Tk 4.0
  • Tcl 7.4 C API
  • Tk 4.0 C API

• Tcl7.4 and Tk4.0 Beta Man Pages at www.elf.org
  These pages are much more heavily hyperlinked than the ones above and include indexes by name and Keywords, A long Table of contents as well as cross references to the man pages and standard options.
  • Contents Page
  • Man Pages

• The (White and Yellow) Book :
  • Tcl and the Tk Toolkit by Dr John K Ousterhout
  • Addison-Wesley Publishing 1994 ISBN: 0-201-63337-X
  • An extremely clear and readable introduction/tutorial/explanation of TCL and Tk concepts, commands and implementation and how to augment both with additional functionality.
    Postscript Book Draft or directly from Berkeley
• Brent Welch's Tcl book
  • Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk
  • Prentice Hall ISBN 0-13-182007-9
  • Book Code examples
  • A good explanation and tutorial of Tcl 7.4 and Tk 4.0 describing features and common pitfalls to avoid. Probably a better introduction to Tcl and Tk than the above in this respect.
  • Postscript Book Draft ( ftp directory ).

• Comparisons of Tcl/Tk with other scripting Languages

  Tcl Programmming StyleGuides and Information

  • Tk/TCL style guide
  • StyleGuide (postscript) describing the coding, documentation, and testing conventions used by Dr Ousterhout when developing Tcl and Tk.

• Minimal example of including a C function into Tcl or Tk
  (German comments, English code).
• Tips to speed up your Tcl Code
• Instructions for the setup of a Secure Tk Send enabled X Server.
• Summary of File Contents in Tcl Source distrib.
• Tcl/Tk Postscript Reference Manual Distribution

• comp.lang.tcl newsgroup
• comp.lang.tcl mailing list Archive
• Key Search of comp.lang.tcl
• Tcl in the Catalog of Free Compilers and Interpreters
• What The Language List says about Tcl

• Brief Intro to Tcl/Tk
• Dr John Ousterhout's Home Page
• Tcl/Tk Project at Sun Microsystems Labs
  • Home Page
  • Goals, Projects and People
  • Tk 4.0 Release
    (also has links to the release announcements).
  • Latest (Experimental) Release
  • Tk4.0 Overview and Porting Guide (Postscript)
  • Installation Info Database
  • List of documents about Tcl and Tk.
  • How to Get help and report bugs .
• Tcl 7.4 and Tk4.0 Porting Experiences
• Misc
  • 1995 USENIX Tcl BOF Summary
• Original tcl 7.4 and Tk4.0 announcement (for those that haven't seen it )
• Stallman/Tcl FlameWar
• Peeves and thoughts on Tcl vs Perl

• Processing of CGI arguments under Tcl
• Simple httpd written in Tk/tcl
• Jungle - Tcl based WWW server
• Information about SIMON
  - ( System of Internet Mapping for Organised Navigation)
• Map_Marker
  Aid a user in designing an HTTP imagemap for an HTML page.
• TreeLink Home Page
• tclcci - a Tcl interface to Mosaic's CCI library.
• tcl versions of geturl, uncgi, w3robot and a tclhttpd
• Web* - system that provides capability of embedding of Tcl in Web docs. Web* Programmers Manual
• Some html tools in tcl
• Tcl based IRC (Internet Relay Communication ) browser
• tkined and scotty - Tk/Tcl based network management program (SNMP)

• TkWWW - Web Browser (Home Page)
• TkWWW
  • Internals Doc
  • Project Status
• ical - Tk based calendar program
• exmh - Extensible user interface to MH mail (Home Page).
• TkMail - Tk based mail user Agent by Paul Raines
• TkMan 1.7 Man page viewer using Tk
• tkGoodStuff - An X Button Panel Utility (distrib)
• Dotfile Generator - Application Configuration Tool

• Expect
  - a scripting language to talk to interactive programs like ftp, telnet, fsck, and others that cannot be automated from a shell script. Version 5 is Tcl 7 compatible.
  • Book Description

    Exploring Expect (ISBN 1-56592-090-2)

    By Don Libes, Published by O'Reilly & Associates

  • seminal Documentation
  • expectk Documentation
  • Expect distribution
  • Sharfile distrib
• Pad++ - Really cool Zoomable Interface Metaphor
• GOOD
  A Public Domain software environment for interactive programming of 3D graphics.
• Lex for Tcl (Scanner Generator)
• xstatus virtual client/server whiteboard tool
• SimCity Implemented using Tcl/Tk.
• Alpha - Macintosh Text editor (uses Tcl as scripting Language)
• QC/Replay - GUI testing tool (uses Tcl as its built-in script language)
• tkpvm tk interface to pvm ( P? Virtual Machines ) system.

• tkauxlib - Tk enhancements to add more Motif compatibility in keyboard bindings, as well as validation capabilities.
• Teaching Hypertools - Tk/Tcl programs whose main function is to extend and enhance other Tk/Tcl programs. Also ElsBeth A Text Editor making use of Teaching Hypertools
• jstools Tcl/Tk utilities including an editor (jsedit), dir Browser, ...
• Canvas Functions in tcl/tk3.6 for organizing items in a canvas as a table.
• for TCL7.4/TK4.0. A set of TCL procedures to render HTML into a TK text widget. Directory

• See the [incr Tcl] section
• BLT 1.7 README and distribution
  Extension to Tk3.6 adding support for Drag and Drop,Hypertext, Busy Windows, Additional widgets,...
  There is also an (unofficial) release BLT-1.8 for TK4.
• TIX - Tk Interface Extension
  Tcl based extension to Tk giving additional widgets, alternative color schemes and bindings (Motiflike) and some additional convenience cmds. ( This release of Tix has become a code extension) See some ScreenShots
  The distribution README (html doc) Distribution directory
  [ Tk4.0b4 README and distribution ]
• XPM
  Pixmap loading extension for tk4.0b2 ( + mwm communications). (README)
• Safe-Tcl
  Security oriented Tcl suitable for implementing active or enabled mail. Distribution .
• GroupKit
  A software toolkit for building real-time groupware applications. (Requires Tcl-DP)
• Embedded Tk or ET
  C preprocessor and library which simplifies C programs that access Tcl/Tk. Distribution directory
• Tcl-me Tcl multimedia extension
• NArray Multidimensional Numeric Arrays in Tcl
• Mtcl - extension giving access to the multi-threading features of Solaris 2. includes a modified version of Tcl 7.4b3, and a Tcl threads extension.
• package to map arbitrary binary C structures to tcl and vv

• tclLoad
  Shared lib Dynamic Loading. 1994 Tcl/Tk Workshop Paper or code Distribution
• tcldl and "supertcltk"

  Miscellaneous Patches for added Functionality
• Patch to Tk4.0, that adds support for dashed and stippled outlines for all canvas objects (arcs, rectangles, ovals, lines and polygons).
• Patches to support Standalone app's and Building Shared libraries for Tcl7.4 and Tk4.0
• Tk Patch for Postscript generation for images embedded in canvases.
• Tk Patchfile to support an entry widget validation proc.

• tkMovie Home Page.
  Tk extension giving a new movie widget that can be used to include, display and play MPEG video clips. ( Distribution )
• Tree widget
• HTML widget for Tk4.0.
• TkTable Widget Part of qddb distribution

• [incr Tcl] and distribution
• [incr Tk]
• [incr Widgets]
• distinct - Distributed [incr tcl] mailing list
• Nautilus - Tcl based incr tcl browser
• itcl-Widgets - Motif style widget behaviour and widgets implemented using itcl

• TclMotif - A Tcl shell (moat) and library which encapsulates Motif rather than Tk widgets.
  TclMotif Reference Information
• SCO Visual Tcl - Scripting Language for development of Motif and Character GUI Applications.
• tkwm - A Tcl/Tk shell for implementing Window Mgrs. Distribution
• tgdb - GUI (graphical user interface) for the gdb debugger ( directory )
• Ctk - port of Tk 4.0B2 to Curses. ( Distribution )

• See the [incr Tcl] section
• Object tcl
  Adds OOP concepts, use and extensibility of C++ classes to Tcl.
• Pacco
  object-based approach to data processing as an extension to Tcl. Distribution
• Hush
  C++ API for Tcl/Tk. Info
• (MIT) Object tcl and a link to the Directory containing the README, Notes and distribution
  A Link to the Paper by David Wetheralland Christopher Lindblad of the Telemedia, Networks and Systems group at MIT on this lightweight OOP extension to Tcl ( 94 tcl/Tk Workshop).
• TclDii - a Tcl front-end to the CORBA Dynamic Invocation Interface.

• portTk - Portable interface to Tk for both X and MSWindows. ( Distribution ).
• TkWin - Tcl7.3 and Tk3.6a port to MSWindows ( Borland C++ 4.0)
• twin - Tcl/Tk for MSWindows ( Visual C++ )
• OS/2 port - Tcl 7.3 (glob and exec missing). Contact ( wwb@wwa.com ).
• twin NT - above + tcl-DP port to Windows NT and Chicago Beta. ( README )
• Tcl 6.7 Dos Port. ( For more of these see alcatel )
• Macintosh TCL resources.

• Metamail Tk Scripts
• HTCLtoTCL preprocessor ( Whats HTCL?? )
• wave_tk - Visual Numerics PV-Wave with TK/TCL
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey Use of Tcl
  • Shiva Home Page
  • SPECTRO Home Page (SDSS Spectroscopic pipeline)
  • Spectro TCL Interfaces
• Experimental schematic spice interface
• MPEG animations , done with Tcl scripts using TSIPP
• A demo of images generated using Tk based tools

• Tcl Compiler in C++.
• Tcl Compiler README and its Distribution.
• ICEM CFD Tcl Compiler README
  Free Beta Release of forthcoming Commercial Tcl Compiler. Binaries are available for a multitude of platforms.

• Tcl Debugger - extended version of Don Libes tcldebug.
  Try the README

• Other Bindings to Tcl/Tk
  • proTcl the interface of Tcl/TK to Prolog.
  • Arcadia Ada Interface to Tcl

• Tcl/TK Apps
  This is the main ftp site for freely distributed Tcl/Tk code and apps
  Mirrors :
  • ftp.neosoft.com
• Tcl/TK Distribution
  ftp site for the Tcl and Tk Core Distributions
• Original Berkeley ftp site for the Tcl and Tk Distribution (deprecated)
• Extended Tcl (TclX) Distribution
  Additions to Tcl to support Unix system programming
• TclMotif 1.4beta or tclMotif-1.3 on alcatel.
  Tk-like Tcl extension for Motif
• itcl distribution
  An extension to Tcl to provide support for OOP techniques
• Evaluate Parameters
  Replacement for the getopt family of functions ( Tcl, Perl and C ),
• ftp.sunsite.unc.edu
• ftp.cs.columbia.edu

• Tcl/TK Resources (By Wade Holst),
• Tcl Applications Updated URL of above
  Searchable Presentation of Archive contents and other Tcl resources
  • Register your Code and design ideas ( to avoid duplication by others )
  • View Lists of TK/Tcl documents by various Criteria,
  • General Information
  • General Documents
• WWW Consortium WWW Virtual Library Tcl/Tk entry