Programming with Tcl/Tk Training Course

Programming with Tcl/Tk

Note: During the Covid-19 crisis, courses will only be delivered over the web

5 days hands-on £2,425+VAT

This course can be delivered over the web

Next scheduled date:
Monday February 3^rd, 2025 Enrol Now!

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Tcl essentials and Tk GUI development

Outline

The Tcl Environment

Tcl commands
Running Tcl on Windows
Running Tcl on Unix and Linux
The windowing shell (Wish)

Tcl Basics

Variables
Command substitution
Grouping
Conditionals
Looping
Procedures
Scope

Tcl Data

String processing
List processing
Arrays
Dictionaries
Building complex data structures
Regular expressions

Multi-processing and I/O

Executing external programs
Manipulating files and directories
Reading and writing data
Inter-process communication

Libraries and Packages

Locating packages
Autoloading
Using namespaces

Network Programming

Client sockets
Server sockets
The HTTP package

Tk Basics

Creating and naming widgets
Configuring widgets
Using geometry managers
The 'pack' geometry manager
The 'grid' geometry manager
The 'place' geometry manager

Event Handling

Binding commands to events
Key events
Mouse events
Virtual events

Tk Widgets

Frames and windows
Buttons and menus
Text widgets
Scrollbars
List boxes
The canvas widget

Graphics and Text

Bitmaps
Colours
Cursors
Fonts

The Windowing Environment

Window management
Dialog boxes
Focus management
Using the clipboard

Object Orientation

The [incr Tcl] extension
Classes and instances
Constructors and destructors
Common members
Inheritance
Polymorphism

Overview

Tcl is a scripting language that with a simple syntax and cross-platform support. It is known for rapid development and extensibility. As such it is a popular choice for automated hardware and software testing. Tcl provides easy access to networking facilities and is also commonly used to generate dynamic web pages. With its Tk toolkit, Tcl provides facilities for creating GUIs that are very simple yet remarkably powerful.

This course provides a hands-on introduction to both Tcl and Tk. The workshops are based on real-world examples of Tcl and Tk applications.

Objectives

On successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

Write, debug and execute Tcl scripts
UnderstandTcl's powerful regular expressions
Use Tcl to manipulate files and directories
Write networked and web-enabled applications in Tcl
Create graphical interfaces with Tk
Use the [incr Tcl] object-oriented extension

Audience

This course is for programmers, testers, web developers and system administrators who wish to use Tcl/Tk in their environment.

Prerequisites

Participants are expected to be familiar with at least one other programming language.

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Programming with Tcl/Tk

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