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 3-Apr-95.

The original site at http://www.sco.com/IXI/of_interest/tcl/Tcl.html has been relocated physically to the UK ( Europeans may get faster access by accessing this URL ). It's now a mirror to the above and should contain a link back to it.

• 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 Man Pages
• Tk Man Pages
• TCL C API Man Pages
• Tk C API Man Pages
• TclX Man Page (at neosoft)

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

• Tcl7.3 and Tk4.0 Beta Man Pages
  • Original Release Announcement
  • Beta 3 Release Announcement
  • Beta 2 Release Announcement
  • TCL 7.4 Beta 2
  • Tk 4.0 Beta 2
  • TCL 7.4 Beta 2 C API
  • Tk 4.0 Beta 2 C API

• 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.
    Bound to become one of the classics...
    Postscript Book Draft or directly from Berkeley
• Draft of Brent Welch's forthcoming book
  "Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk"
  ( The 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 in to Tcl or Tk.
• 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.

• comp.lang.tcl newsgroup
• comp.lang.tcl mailing list Archive
• Key Search of comp.lang.tcl

• Brief Intro to Tcl/Tk
• Dr John Ousterhout's Home Page
• Futures
  • Tcl Project at Sun Microsystems
  • 1995 USENIX Tcl BOF Summary
• Original tcl 7.3 and Tk4.0 announcement (for those that haven't seen it )

• Processing of CGI arguments under Tcl
• Simple httpd written in Tk/tcl
• Jungle - Tcl based WWW server
• Tcl based IRC (Internet Relay Communication ) browser
• 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.

• TkWWW - Web Browser (Home Page)
• TkWWW Internals Doc
• TkWWW Project Status
• ical - Tk based calendar program
• TkMail - Tk based mail user Agent
• TkMan 1.7 Man page viewer using Tk

• TIX - Tk Interface Extension
  Tcl based extension to Tk giving additional widgets, alternative color schemes and bindings (Motiflike) and some additional convenience cmds. See some ScreenShots
  Get the full distribution or the new get Tk4.0 Beta distribution
• BLT Toolkit
  Extension to Tk toolkit adding support for Drag and Drop, Hypertext, Busy Windows, Additional widgets,...
• 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.

• distinct
  Distributed [incr tcl] mailing list

  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.

  Tcl-me Tcl multimedia extension

  NArray Multidimensional Numeric Arrays in Tcl

  Patch for Tk to do Postscript generation for images embedded in canvases.

  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"

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

• 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
• 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.

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

• itcl distribution
  An extension to Tcl to provide support for OOP techniques
• 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
• Paper by David Wetheralland Christopher Lindblad of the Telemedia, Networks and Systems group at MIT on a lightweight OOP extension to Tcl ( 94 tcl/Tk Workshop)

• 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++ )
• twin NT - above + tcl-DP port to Windows NT and Chicago Beta. ( README )
• itclNT - port of itcl to NT
• Tcl 6.7 Dos Port. ( For more of these see alcatel )
• Macintosh TCL resources.

• Nautilus - Tcl based incr tcl browser
• Metamail Tk Scripts
• HTCLtoTCL preprocessor
• 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
• tkined and scotty - Tk/Tcl based network management program

• Tcl Compiler in C++.
• Tcl Compiler README and its Distribution.

• Tcl Debugger - extended version of Don Libes tcldebug.

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

Info about Tcl

• Tcl re the Catalog of Free Compilers and Interpreters
• What The Language List says about 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
  Original ftp site for the Tcl and Tk Distribution
• 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
• parcftp.xerox.com

• 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
• CERN WWW Virtual Library Tcl/Tk entry