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Practical Programming in Tcl & Tk, Third Edition By Brent B. Welch   Publisher : Prentice Hall PTR Pub Date : November 10, 1999 ISBN : 0-13-022028-0 Pages : 832 Supplier : Team FLY     Copyright     List of Examples     List of Tables     Preface       Why Tcl?       Tcl and Tk Versions       Who Should Read This Book       How to Read This Book       Other Tcl Books       On-line Examples       Ftp Archives       World Wide Web       Newsgroups       Typographic Conventions       Hot Tips       Book Organization       What's New in the Third Edition       First Edition Thanks       Second Edition Thanks       Third Edition Thanks       Contact the Author     Part I.  Tcl Basics       Chapter 1.  Tcl Fundamentals       Tcl Commands       Hello, World!       Variables       Command Substitution       Math Expressions       Backslash Substitution       Grouping with Braces and Double Quotes       Procedures       A Factorial Example       More about Variables       More about Math Expressions       Comments       Substitution and Grouping Summary       Fine Points       Reference       Chapter 2.  Getting Started       The source Command       UNIX Tcl Scripts       Windows 95 Start Menu       The Macintosh and ResEdit       The console Command       Command-Line Arguments       Predefined Variables       Chapter 3.  The Guestbook CGI Application       A Quick Introduction to HTML       CGI for Dynamic Pages       The guestbook.cgi Script       Defining Forms and Processing Form Data       The cgi.tcl Package       Next Steps       Chapter 4.  String Processing in Tcl       The string Command       The append Command       The format Command       The scan Command       The binary Command       Related Chapters       Chapter 5.  Tcl Lists       Tcl Lists       Constructing Lists       Getting List Elements: llength, lindex, and lrange       Modifying Lists: linsert and lreplace       Searching Lists: lsearch       Sorting Lists: lsort       The split Command       The join Command       Related Chapters       Chapter 6.  Control Structure Commands       If Then Else       Switch       While       Foreach       For       Break and Continue       Catch       Error       Return       Chapter 7.  Procedures and Scope       The proc Command       Changing Command Names with rename       Scope       The global Command       Call by Name Using upvar       Variable Aliases with upvar       Chapter 8.  Tcl Arrays       Array Syntax       The array Command       Building Data Structures with Arrays       Chapter 9.  Working with Files and Programs       Running Programs with exec       The file Command       Cross-Platform File Naming       Manipulating Files and Directories       File Attributes       Input/Output Command Summary       Opening Files for I/O       Reading and Writing       The Current Directory ?cd and pwd       Matching File Names with glob       The exit and pid Commands       Environment Variables       The registry Command     Part II.  Advanced Tcl       Chapter 10.  Quoting Issues and Eval       Constructing Code with the list Command       Exploiting the concat inside eval       The uplevel Command       The subst Command       Chapter 11.  Regular Expressions       When to Use Regular Expressions       Regular Expression Syntax       Advanced Regular Expressions       Syntax Summary       The regexp Command       The regsub Command       Transforming Data to Program with regsub       Other Commands That Use Regular Expressions       Chapter 12.  Script Libraries and Packages       Locating Packages: The auto_path Variable       Using Packages       Summary of Package Loading       The package Command       Libraries Based on the tclIndex File       The unknown Command       Interactive Conveniences       Tcl Shell Library Environment       Coding Style       Chapter 13.  Reflection and Debugging       The clock Command       The info Command       Cross-Platform Support       Tracing Variable Values       Interactive Command History       Debugging       Scriptics' TclPro       Other Tools       Performance Tuning       Chapter 14.  Namespaces       Using Namespaces       Namespace Variables       Command Lookup       Nested Namespaces       Importing and Exporting Procedures       Callbacks and Namespaces       Introspection       The namespace Command       Converting Existing Packages to use Namespaces       [incr Tcl] Object System       Notes       Chapter 15.  Internationalization       Character Sets and Encodings       Message Catalogs       Chapter 16.  Event-Driven Programming       The Tcl Event Loop       The after Command       The fileevent Command       The vwait Command       The fconfigure Command       Chapter 17.  Socket Programming       Client Sockets       Server Sockets       The Echo Service       Fetching a URL with HTTP       The http Package       Basic Authentication       Chapter 18.  TclHttpd Web Server       Integrating TclHttpd with your Application       Domain Handlers       Application Direct URLs       Document Types       HTML + Tcl Templates       Form Handlers       Programming Reference       Standard Application-Direct URLs       The TclHttpd Distribution       Server Configuration       Chapter 19.  Multiple Interpreters and Safe-Tcl       The interp Command       Creating Interpreters       Safe Interpreters       Command Aliases       Hidden Commands       Substitutions       I/O from Safe Interpreters       The Safe Base       Security Policies       Chapter 20.  Safe-Tk and the Browser Plugin       Tk in Child Interpreters       The Browser Plugin       Security Policies and Browser Plugin       Configuring Security Policies     Part III.  Tk Basics       Chapter 21.  Tk Fundamentals       Hello, World! in Tk       Naming Tk Widgets       Configuring Tk Widgets       Tk Widget Attributes and the Resource Database       Summary of the Tk Commands       Chapter 22.  Tk by Example       ExecLog       The Example Browser       A Tcl Shell       Chapter 23.  The Pack Geometry Manager       Packing toward a Side       Horizontal and Vertical Stacking       The Cavity Model       Packing Space and Display Space       Resizing and -expand       Anchoring       Packing Order       Choosing the Parent for Packing       Unpacking a Widget       Packer Summary       Window Stacking Order       Chapter 24.  The Grid Geometry Manager       A Basic Grid       Spanning Rows and Columns       Row and Column Constraints       The grid Command       Chapter 25.  The Place Geometry Managery       place Basics       The Pane Manager       The place Command       Chapter 26.  Binding Commands to Events       The bind Command       The bindtags Command       Event Syntax       Modifiers       Event Sequences       Virtual Events       Event Keywords     Part IV.  Tk Widgets       Chapter 27.  Buttons and Menus       Button Commands and Scope Issues       Buttons Associated with Tcl Variables       Button Attributes       Button Operations       Menus and Menubuttons       Keyboard Traversal       Manipulating Menus and Menu Entries       Menu Attributes       A Menu by Name Package       Chapter 28.  The Resource Database       An Introduction to Resources       Loading Option Database Files       Adding Individual Database Entries       Accessing the Database       User-Defined Buttons       User-Defined Menus       Chapter 29.  Simple Tk Widgets       Frames and Toplevel Windows       The Label Widget       The Message Widget       The Scale Widget       The bell Command       Chapter 30.  Scrollbars       Using Scrollbars       The Scrollbar Protocol       The Scrollbar Widget       Chapter 31.  The Entry Widget       Using Entry Widgets       The Entry Widget       Chapter 32.  The Listbox Widget       Using Listboxes       Listbox Bindings       Listbox Attributes       Chapter 33.  The Text Widget       Text Indices       Text Marks       Text Tags       The Selection       Tag Bindings       Searching Text       Embedded Widgets       Embedded Images       Looking inside the Text Widget       Text Bindings       Text Operations       Text Attributes       Chapter 34.  The Canvas Widget       Canvas Coordinates       Hello, World!       The Min Max Scale Example       Canvas Objects       Canvas Operations       Generating Postscript       Canvas Attributes       Hints     Part V.  Tk Details       Chapter 35.  Selections and the Clipboard       The Selection Model       The selection Command       The clipboard Command       Selection Handlers       Chapter 36.  Focus, Grabs, and Dialogs       Standard Dialogs       Custom Dialogs       Animation with the update Command       Chapter 37.  Tk Widget Attributes       Configuring Attributes       Size       Borders and Relief       The Focus Highlight       Padding and Anchors       Chapter 38.  Color, Images, and Cursors       Colors       Colormaps and Visuals       Bitmaps and Images       The Text Insert Cursor       The Mouse Cursor       Chapter 39.  Fonts and Text Attributes       Naming a Font       X Font Names       Font Metrics       The font Command       Text Attributes       Gridding, Resizing, and Geometry       A Font Selection Application       Chapter 40.  Send       The send Command       The Sender Script       Communicating Processes       Remote eval through Sockets       Chapter 41.  Window Managers and Window Information       The wm Command       The winfo Command       The tk Command       Chapter 42.  Managing User Preferences       App-Defaults Files       Defining Preferences       The Preferences User Interface       Managing the Preferences File       Tracing Changes to Preference Variables       Improving the Package       Chapter 43.  A User Interface to Bindings       A Pair of Listboxes Working Together       The Editing Interface       Saving and Loading Bindings     Part VI.  C Programming       Chapter 44.  C Programming and Tcl       Basic Concepts       Creating a Loadable Package       A C Command Procedure       The blob Command Example       Strings and Internationalization       Tcl_Main and Tcl_AppInit       The Event Loop       Invoking Scripts from C       Chapter 45.  Compiling Tcl and Extensions       Standard Directory Structure       Building Tcl from Source       Using Stub Libraries       Using autoconf       The Sample Extension       Chapter 46.  Writing a Tk Widget in C       Initializing the Extension       The Widget Data Structure       The Widget Class Command       The Widget Instance Command       Configuring and Reconfiguring Attributes       Specifying Widget Attributes       Displaying the Clock       The Window Event Procedure       Final Cleanup       Chapter 47.  C Library Overview       An Overview of the Tcl C Library       An Overview of the Tk C Library     Part VII.  Changes       Chapter 48.  Tcl 7.4/Tk 4.0       wish       Obsolete Features       The cget Operation       Input Focus Highlight       Bindings       Scrollbar Interface       pack info       Focus       The send Command       Internal Button Padding       Radiobutton Value       Entry Widget       Menus       Listboxes       No geometry Attribute       Text Widget       Color Attributes       Color Allocation and tk colormodel       Canvas scrollincrement       The Selection       The bell Command       Chapter 49.  Tcl 7.5/Tk 4.1       Cross-Platform Scripts       The clock Command       The load Command       The package Command       Multiple foreach loop variables       Event Loop Moves from Tk to Tcl       Network Sockets       Multiple Interpreters and Safe-Tcl       The grid Geometry Manager       The Text Widget       The Entry Widget       Chapter 50.  Tcl 7.6/Tk 4.2       More file Operations       Virtual Events       Standard Dialogs       New grid Geometry Manager       Macintosh unsupported1 Command       Chapter 51.  Tcl/Tk 8.0       The Tcl Compiler       Namespaces       Safe-Tcl       New lsort       tcl_precision Variable       Year 2000 Convention       Http Package       Serial Line I/O       Platform-Independent Fonts       The tk scaling Command       Application Embedding       Native Menus and Menubars       CDE Border Width       Native Buttons and Scrollbars       Images in Text Widgets       No Errors from destroy       grid rowconfigure       The Patch Releases       Chapter 52.  Tcl/Tk 8.1       Unicode and Internationalization       Thread Safety       Advanced Regular Expressions       New String Commands       The DDE Extension       Miscellaneous       Chapter 53.  Tcl/Tk 8.2       The Trf Patch       Faster String Operations       Empty Array Names       Brower Plugin Compatiblity       Chapter 54.  Tcl/Tk 8.3       Proposed Tcl Changes       Proposed Tk Changes       Chapter 55.  About The CD-ROM       Technical Support     Index Top