[PLUG] A Good Book for TCL/TK

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Yeah ... Tk isn't too bad, but Tcl is a ghastly scripting language. The 
best book I've found so far on Tk is the big O'Reilly one on Perl/Tk. 
Most of the other scripting languages duplicate the Perl interface, so, 
for example, if you want to use Ruby, you'll still want the Perl/Tk book.

The big thing Tk has going for it is that it's ubiquitous, like Perl. 
Instant GUI. But yes, there are much better looking GUI toolkits out 
there. I'm partial to Qt because I'm also partial to KDE, and because 
there's a really good book at Pragmatic Programmers on QT with Ruby. So 
for the near term, that's the way I'm going.

Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Keith wrote:
>
>> Can anyone recommend a good learning for for tcl/tk?
>
>
> Keith,
>
>   There are a number of books by the author of Tcl/Tk, but why learn 
> that?
> Tcl is quite limited as a scripting language compared with python, 
> perl, and
> all the rest. Tk is very low level (near Xlib) and does not have the 
> widget
> support of GTK+2, wxWidgets, Qt, or even FLTK.
>
>   I started down the Tcl/Tk path about eight years ago and quickly
> backtracked for (my then needs) GTK+. Now I'm wrestling with wxPython.
>
> Rich
>

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