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 and information distinct from the Tcl/Tk archive so if you are after a particular Tcl/Tk document/extension or distribution you may get faster results by looking at the

Tcl Archive site ,
using Wade Holst's HyperTcl link or
using the Tcl/Tk Resources Registry

If you want local copies of any of these pages for your own use, the entire tree plus the scripts I use to create was last archived on Aug 13 1996 and they now reside at
ftp.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/sorted/info:

Prior to that they were stored in ftp.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/alcatel/docs
( see tclhtml.README and 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 pages primary site (from April 1995) is at http://www.sco.com/Technology/tcl/Tcl.html
and was last modified $Date: 1998/08/08 20:33:58 $.

Repage to Contents

Whats New
Local FAQ
Other FAQ
Manual Pages
Tcl Reference Info
Additional Doc, Examples and Code
- HOWTO's
- Tcl Code Examples
Introductory Material
Tcl Core Development
Tcl Oriented Organisations
General Information
Applications
- Net and Web Applications
  - Net and Web Tools
- User Applications
- Systems that use Tcl
  - Commercial Systems
Extensions
- Script Only Extensions, Libraries and tools
- Tcl Code Extensions
  - Tk Extensions
  - Patches for Added fnality
- [incr Tcl]
- Tk Widgets
  - OpenGL Implementations
- Tcl GUI extensions
- GUI Builders
- Tcl OOP Extensions
Tcl Development Tools
Tcl Compilers
Tcl/Tk with other Languages
Non Unix Tcl Ports
Miscellaneous
Ftp Sites
Other Tcl Links
Tcl People Names and Addresses

Local TCL FAQ

These pages are a local mirror of the html TCL FAQ pages referenced at www.teraform.com/~lvirden/tcl-faq.

Other (possibly dated) tcl FAQ sites include http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/tcl-faq or backup and http://www.smartpages.com/bngfaqs/comp/lang/tcl/top.html.

The ideal is that this local mirror is updated shortly after the one at teraform.
The last upload/update was Jul-98(MJH) [finally!!].

Manual Pages

Latest Tcl and Tk Man Pages at The Entropy LiberationFront
These pages are much more heavily hyperlinked than the ones below and include indexes by name and Keyword, A long Table of contents as well as cross references to the man pages and standard options.
- Man Pages
- History and download information
Cool Man Page Viewer at tcltk.com (Uses Frames)

Tcl8.0

Tcl8.0 and Tk8.0 Doc
(made with script from www.elf.org above)
Changes in Tcl8.0
Changes in Tk8.0

Tcl7.6 and Tk4.2

These pages are from the distribution done by Tom Davis and are available for download . See also the original Contents and README files.
Release Announcement
tclsh7.6
wish4.1
Tcl 7.6
Tk 4.2
Tcl 7.6 C API
Tk 4.2 C API
KeyWords CrossReference (FRAMES Dependant)

Tcl7.5 and Tk4.1

tclsh7.5
wish4.1
Tcl 7.5
Tk 4.1
Tcl 7.5 C API
Tk 4.1 C API
Changes in Tcl7.5
Changes in Tk4.1
Changes betwen beta and final
Tcl/Tk Man Pages at SunLabs
Tcl/Tk Man Pages at SunScript
Tcl7.4 and Tk4.0
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)

References

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
Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk by Brent Welch
- Prentice Hall ISBN 0-13-182007-9
- Book Code examples
- The first edition is 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. The second edition covers all the newer added features as well as the fundamentals (sorely needed) and has increased in size by about a quarter over the first edition.
- Postscript Book Draft ( ftp directory ).
- Theres a second edition out as of June 1997 which covers the added functionality from tcl7.4 through to alpha tcl/tk 8.0 including Namespaces, Event Driven and Socket programming, Multiple Interpreters and Safe-Tcl, Grid Geometry Manager, ...
  See Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk 2nd Edition
  (Prentice Hall ISBN 0-13-616830-2)
Others
- Graphical Applications with Tcl and Tk By Eric Foster-Johnson.
  - M&T Books, 1996 ISBN 1-55851-471-6
  - Early coverage of Tcl7.5/Tk4.1 and its use in cross-platform development on MS-Windows and UNIX. Includes CDROM containing Tcl 7.4, 7.5a2 and Tk 4.0, 4.1a2, along with lots of Tcl freeware
  - Theres now a second edition
    - M&T Books, 1997 ISBN 1-55851-569-0
    - Covers cross-platform Tcl development on Windows and UNIX emphasizing developing graphical applications. Includes a CDROM containing Tcl/Tk 8.0 along with lots of Tcl freeware.
- The Visual TCL Handbook By David Young
  - Prentice-Hall (PTR/PH), August 1996 ISBN: 0-13-461674-X
  - Copyright 1997, 544 pp., Paper Bound w/CD-ROM
  - Updates and errata
  - Unique coverage of TclX and SCO Visual Tcl (Character/Motif) Graphic extensions
- CGI Web Programming using Tcl and Perl By J.M. Ivler
  - Prentice Hall (PTR/PH) March 1997 ISBN:0-13-727751-2
  - One of Developer's Resource Series
  - Includes CD containing Tcl and Perl programs documented in the book.
- Tcl/Tk Tools by Mark Harrison and other Contributors
  - O'Reilly 1997, ISBN:1-56592-218-2
  - Describes a number of common extensions to Tcl (usually by their authors) with additional sections on configuration and debugging.
  - Extensions described include
    - [incr Tcl] by Michael McLennan
    - [incr Tk] by Michael McLennan
    - [incr Widgets] by Mark Ulferts
    - Tix MegaWidgets by Ioi Lam
    - TclX by De Clark
    - The BLT Toolkit by George Howlett
    - Tcl-DP by Brain Smith and Lawrence Rowe
    - TSIPP: A 3D graphics Toolkit by Mark Diekhans
    - Oratcl by Top Poindexter
    - Sybtcl by Tom Poindexter
    - Expect by Don Libes
    - Embedded Tk by D. Richard Hipp
    - Building Groupware with Groupkit by Mark Roseman and Saul Greenberg
    - TkReplay: Record and Playback tools by Charles Crowley
  - This too has been sorely needed and gives a great description of the purpose and utility of each of these extensions.
- Interactive Web Applications with Tcl/Tk by Mike Doyle and Hattie Schroeder
  - AP Professional Dec 1997, ISBN:0-12221-540-0
  - written to introduce novice programmers to Tcl/Tk and to show how Web applications can be quickly built using Tcl/Tk.
NewsGroups/MailLists
- comp.lang.tcl
- comp.lang.tcl.announce
- Tcl Related mail lists
- comp.lang.tcl as Mail list Archive
- Archives of comp.lang.tcl.announce.
- Most frequently/recently mentioned web resources during the last few months (Viewing requires Netscape table support)
Comparisons of Tcl/Tk with other scripting Languages
Specific comparison with Python
MetaCards somewhat self serving comparison of Tcl/Tk, DtKsh and Metacard.
Tcl in the Catalog of Free Compilers and Interpreters
W3C WWW Virtual Library Tcl/Tk entry
What The Language List says about Tcl

Additional Documentation, Examples and Code

Summary of File Contents in Tcl Source distrib.
Tcl/Tk quick Ref for 8.0.2
Tk Widgets Quick Reference
Grid Layout Mini-Tutorial
Tcl/Tk Postscript Reference Manual Distribution
Tcl7.5 Channel Docs
Frequently made mistakes
Tcl Idioms and scripting Patterns
StyleGuides
- Engineering StyleGuide (postscript) describing the coding, documentation, and testing conventions used by Dr Ousterhout when developing Tcl and Tk.
- Tcl Scripting StyleGuide (Ousterhout, xpdf)
- A Tcl/Tk Coding style guide
- Tom Tromey's Tcl style Guide
HOWTOS
- Speed up your Tcl Code
- Setup a Secure Tk Send enabled X Server.
- Work with the Grid Layout Manager
- Create (instantiate) your own Tcl Interpreter in C
- Add a (static) extension to Tcl
- Use Extensions in Tcl
Useful Code Fragments and Examples

Tcl/Tk Introductory and Training Material

Brief Intro to Tcl/Tk
The Tcl Syntax
Tcl and Tk Overview
Tcl-Syntax - Short description of Tcl syntax
Intro Concepts (from 2nd Edition of Breant Welchs "Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk").
Tcl/Tk Tutor (Downloadable)
Decus Tcl/Tk and Expect Tutorial
Sample material from book "Tcl/Tk For Programmers" (was Skillshare Tcl Tutorial First Module)
E.J. Friedman-Hill's Tcl/Tk Course
Source code from the article "A Tutorial Introduction to Tcl and Tk" by (Graham Mark) in Issue 11 (July, 1994) of The X Resource.
Online Tcl/Tk Cookbook or its downloadable files.
TclCommandWriting man Page from TclX

Tcl Core Development

Scriptics - John Ousterhouts new company dedicated exclusively to scripting tools, applications, and services (Feb 98)
This is now the official home for current and future Tcl/Tk releases.
Dr John Ousterhout's Home Page at Sun
SunScript Business Group
"A Sun business group dedicated to developing Web-oriented tools for the next generation of enterprise applications ..."
- DownLoading
- Tech Info
- Group and People
- News
- Contact
- Surveys for Tcl devt direction/Markets
- The Windows Tcl/Tk Project
- The Macintosh Tcl/Tk Project
Sunlabs Old site
- Goals, Projects and People
- The Latest (Possibly Experimental) Release
Netscape Tcl/Tk Plugin
Notes on Tk 4.2 SafeTk Modifications
Tcl8.1 and Tk8.1
- Whats New
Tcl8.0 and Tk8.0
Tcl7.6 and Tk4.2
- Tcl7.6 and Tk4.2 Release
- Installation Info Database
Tcl7.5 and Tk4.1
- Tcl7.5 and Tk4.1 Release
- Installation Info Database
Tcl7.4 and Tk4.0
- Tcl7.4 and Tk4.0 Release
  (also has links to patches).
- Installation Info Database
- Tk4.0 Overview and Porting Guide (Postscript)
- Original tcl 7.4 and Tk4.0 announcement
List of documents about Tcl and Tk.
How to Get help and report bugs .
Brent Welch's Places that use Tcl in interesting ways. .

Tcl and Tk Oriented organisations

Tcl/Tk Consortium
Tcl/Tk Training (Lucent Technologies)
6th Usenix Tcl/Tk Conference (tcl98)
Info on previous conferences is under Tcl/Tk Conferences and Papers

General Info

Developing Graphical User Interfaces with Tcl/Tk/Expect
Tcl 7.4 and Tk4.0 Porting Experiences
Scripting Language 'Comparisons'
Plugin example(s)
- Jean-Luc Fontaines PieChart tclet
- TclTk Tclet Archive

Net and Web Applications

Net and Web Tools

GroupKit
A software toolkit for building real-time groupware applications.
Tacoma OS support for shipping around networking Agents (C/Tcl/Tk).
Content generation and CGI Scripting
- cgi.tcl - Don Libes CGI support library for TCL programming supports generation of both dynamic and static html. ( cgi.tcl FAQ)
- Fcgi - Tcl Interface for Fast CGI protocol
- NeoScript Allows neoscript programs embedded in HTML files to be executed by a suitably extended Web Server( e.g. Apache). Based on (Safe) Tcl with specific extensions for Web programming.
  - Docs
  - Overview
- mod_tcl - extension to the Apache WebServer to add a full Tcl scripting environment
- Web* - system that allows embedding of executable Tcl in Web docs. Programmers Manual
- Tcl cgi scripts for
  email.tcl - a forms to email procedure and
  cal.tcl - script to build calendars from databases. Demo
- Router-stats Perl and Tcl scripts to generate graphs of throughput statistics for internet routers. Distribution archive .
- tcl versions of geturl, uncgi, w3robot and a tclhttpd.
- Processing of CGI arguments under Tcl
- Some more HTML tools in tcl
- MapMarker
  Aid a user in designing an HTTP imagemap for an HTML page.
- TreeLink Home Page
  Tool to create a graphical representation of links accessable from a given url.

User Applications

Man/Info/Text Browsing
- TkMan Man page viewer using Tk
- tkInfo GNU Info File Viewer
Text Editors
- Alpha - Macintosh Text editor (uses Tcl as scripting Language)
- CEdit A programmer's editor written entirely in Tcl/Tk. Installation ReadMe
- tkedit - an X11 oriented editor entirely written in tcl-tk.
Personal
- TkDesk Desktop Manager/Graphical File Manager for Unix/X.
- ical - Tk based calendar program
- Picasso Interactive drawing tool in the style of idraw. Archive Directory
- qddb database suite with a tcl/tk interface.
- tkdir - a clusterwide directory utility
- tkGoodStuff - An X Button Panel Utility
- xtem_TexMenu - GUI for controlling a set of Tex/Latex utilities including file and directory selection, editor, previewer, printing, syntax and spell check, makeindex, bibtex, Additional programs as required...
- tkWorld Collection of graphical user interfaces to standard Unix commands
- Stock Portfolio Manager and Ticker Tape (Tk and Tcl)
- cade - An integrated platform for development of C/C++ applications on Unix in the X-Windows environment. Written in Tcl/Tk and uses Tix.
- JStrack - Freeware Hurricane tracking program (Text and Graphical).
Configurators
- Dotfile Generator - Application Configuration Tool
Games
- TclRobots You *write* a Tcl program to compete against others' Tcl programs. Your program controls a robot whose mission is to seek out and destroy the other robots, which are running your opponents' programs. see also TclRobots Challenge #2
- tkAtaxx v1.0 A strategy game similar to othello.
- Games on the Tcl Archive
- Minsweeper (Tcl8.0)
- TkTetris

Systems that Use Tcl/Tk

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 7.5 compatible.
- FAQ
- Book Description
  
  Exploring Expect (ISBN 1-56592-090-2)
  By Don Libes, Published by O'Reilly & Associates
- FTP Directory
- seminal Documentation
- expectk Documentation
- Expect distribution
- Sharfile distrib
- Binary and source for NT port of expect-5.21
Pad++ - Really cool Zoomable Interface Metaphor
Tkpvm - an interface between Tcl7.5/Tk4.1 and PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine)
GOOD
A Public Domain software environment for interactive programming of 3D graphics.
xstatus virtual client/server whiteboard tool
gdtcl tcl interface to the gd graphics library (outputs results as gif images )
LifeStreams some sort of electronic information organisation system and metaphor
Agent-Tcl A transportable agent system based around Tcl 7.4 and Tk 4.0
PLplot - Plotting Library with a Tcl binding and frame like widget for drawing into for use with Tk
Graphlet - A toolkit for implementing graph drawing editors and graphing algorithms
Proudhon's BBS - Web based BBS system using Tcl8.0 CGI scripts and Javascript
QC/Replay - GUI testing tool (uses Tcl as its built-in script language)
dejaGnu - a framework for testing other programs using expect and Tcl Distribution Files

Commercial or semi Commercial systems

TeamWave Workplace (was TeamRooms)
A realtime groupware application modelling team meeting rooms, giving a shared space for a workgroup to congregate and collaborate in.
SimCity Implemented using Tcl/Tk. ( distribution)
VHDLcapture - general schematic capture package (with a VHDL focus) (GUI using Tk)
Sibylla - Application Devt Framework for WWW with access to various databases.
Go Ahead Doctor - Distributed Systems management Framework Product uses Tcl in its Decision and action Inference engine.
GotIt! - an offline browser using an intelligent agent to give automatic web page delivery. Written entirely in TCL.
LPI Voice Modem - handles multiple open modem connections simultaneously where each connection executes in it's own thread.
Examples of commercial Web sites implemented with Tcl - All of these sites are complex, commercial web sites with searchable databases, secure online transaction processing, etc. All are built completely with Tcl and HTML -- no CGI, no Perl, etc.
VET - Binary Evolutions's Velocity Engine for Tcl embeds a TCL interpreter into a http server. Provides mixed HTML display and Tcl execution capability, database connectivity and reduced execution overhead for each CGI request. Free Evaluation copies are Web available.
WebBox (UK) Ltd. - manufacture a (solid state) Web site Server utilising a httpd server written in Tcl.
zMap CS - a set of tools (in Tcl) for developing and publishing animated imagemaps in Web pages. ( Press Release)
GIPSY Devt Tool for Cross platform Visualisation (Monitoring and Control) under NT and Unix. Uses Tcl/Tk as scripting Language.

Script Only Extensions, Libraries and Tools

tkauxlib - Tk enhancements to add more Motif compatibility in keyboard bindings, as well as validation capabilities. Archive
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.
HTML display library for TCL7.4/TK4.0. A set of TCL procedures to render HTML into a TK text widget. See also the Directory
tkBindEnhanced - Enhanced bindings for the text/entry widgets in Tk4.0 ( File )
CE-Toolkit Tcl/Tk Script Toolkit Includes dtclsh, htpqs2tcl, url2tcl, tcl-www, email-www, simpleforms and tkauxlib.
tcl-RPC RPC package written in tcl7.5 on top of 7.5's new IO system.
2D Graphing package
WebWise TclTk Toolkit - enhancement of Safe-Tcl and Safe-Tk, to re-defines the functionality of the auto_load mechanism such that it works for packages located anywhere on the World Wide Web.
ComboBox - an attempt at a pure Tcl combobox
VerTcl/TkCon a replacement for the Tk standard console.

Tcl Code Extensions

Tools for automating creation of C interfaces to existing code
- SWIG - Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator. A tool that automates adding C/C++ extensions to Tcl, Perl, Python, or Guile.
- ET or Embedded Tk
  C preprocessor and library which simplifies C programs that access Tcl/Tk and can make stand-alone executables out of a mixture of C or C++ and Tcl/Tk. Distribution directory
- TL - Description language for creating new Tcl commands, generates Ansi C Tcl command Implementations.
Tcl/Tk Extension Compatibility Matrix
See also the [incr Tcl] section.
Tcl-DP - Adds TCP, UDP, and IP-multicast connection management, remote procedure call (RPC), distributed object protocols, and a name server to Tcl/Tk.
Safe-Tcl
Security oriented Tcl suitable for implementing active or enabled mail. Distribution .
Tcl Interfaces to Relational Databases
- Sybtcl (Sybase)
- Oratcl (Oracle)
- AdabasTcl (AdabasD)
- Tclodbc - ODBC extension for tcl
Multi threading Interfaces to Tcl
- Pttcl Extension to support P(osix)Threads in Tcl(7.6)
- Alternate Later bug fixed update.
- 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.
Math Extensions
- NArray Multidimensional Numeric Arrays in Tcl (Distribution)
- Mpexpr - multiple precision (or large numbers) math package
tclbin - extension to handle binary data and also map between arbitrary binary C structures and tcl and its Distribution
Toocl (1.11) - extension supporting ToolTalk 1.0.2 (compiles with 1.1.1) Distribution Directory and its also on Alcatel
tclmidi - tcl extension for creating and editing standard MIDI files, with the proper device interface it will also play and record them. ( Current Version )
Signal - Unix/Posix Signal Handling Extensions.
Tcl-Trf (Transformer) Web site - Data Transformations for tcl7.6(>=). Includes transformation procedures for Data encryption, IDEA, Blowfish, RC4, DES, message digests (hash values, checksums), MD5, SHA/SHS, HAVAL CRC (polynomial used by PGP), Conversion from and to various data encodings(dual, octal, hexadecimal representation uuencoding, base64-encoding, ascii85-encoding) A reed-solomon error correcting coder and (De)Compression based on zlib 1.0.4
SSLtcl-0.42. - a loadable module for tcl that extends the socket command with SSL (SECURE SOCKET LAYER) functions.
tclLoad (OLD INFO)
Shared lib Dynamic Loading. 1994 Tcl/Tk Workshop Paper or code Distribution ( since superseded by capability added to tcl Core from tcl7.5)

Tk Code Extensions

BLT
adds support for Drag and Drop,Hypertext, Busy Windows, Additional widgets (graphs), miscellaneous commands, ....
BLT 2.4c README and distribution
TIX - Tk Interface Extension (Site going down (??) Aug-98)
Tcl based extension to Tk giving additional widgets, alternative color schemes and bindings (Motiflike) and some additional convenience cmds.
- See some ScreenShots
- Mailing List Archives
- Distribution README (html doc)
- Distribution directory
XPM
Pixmap loading extension for tk4.0b2 ( + mwm communications). (README)
Tcl-me Tcl multimedia extension
Cost - General Purpose SGML processing extension using sgmls.
Ktk Tk (+Tix) extension to provide a scripting language for Qt (KDE Graphical Toolkit library) and give wish scripts a KDE look and feel.

Miscellaneous Patches for added Functionality

NICI Extensions Includes :
- Plus Patch - Support for building standalone executables for Tcl7.5/Tk4.1, Tk as a dynamically loadable package, Tclsh Event loop and Xpm pixmap image Handler (plus various other fixes)
- Dash patch - Dashed and Stippled outlines for the Tk4.1 canvas items, Postscript output for images and windows on a canvas (and various other canvas improvements)
- Img - Package adding many support for many other image formats to Tk.
Tk Patch for Postscript generation for images embedded in canvases.
Tk Patchfile to support an entry widget validation proc.
tclsh-readline - Builds versions of tclsh and wish which use the GNU readline library to provide command history and editing. Previous versions available in earlier releases in the same directory
tclDMT Improved trace semantics (TclWorkshop 95 ) ( Distribution dir )
Extended Tk Text Widget supporting nestable blocks ( Distribution dir )
Tk ClassPatch patch for allowing explicit specification of classNames of TkWidgets on instantiation.

Additional TkWidgets

OpenGL Implementations
- Togl - OpenGL graphics window in a Tk widget. (updated from OglTk) Distribution
- EGR TIGER 1.0 - tool for OpenGL programming: Includes a 1:1 Tcl language binding for OpenGL 1.0, A Tk OpenGL widget, extensibility with C++ or C functions, An interpretative class system and a Tk based integrated graphical user interface. Archive Directory
- TkOGL - A Tk widget for the creation and display of 3D graphics using the OpenGL API, reasonably complete Tcl binding to the core OpenGL functionality and extensions implementing a higher-level interface to many common utility functions similar to those of the OpenGL utility library (GLU). Tcl97 Workshop paper
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
pict Widget - Image widget geared to gray-scale images. Distribution Directory
Extended VISU - extended version of pict Widget for the visualization and interactive manipulation of color 2D images or raw gridded scientific data.
fancyListBox - Replacement Tk4.0+ List widget supporting text tags and embedded windows. fancylb2 (archive)

[incr Tcl]

An extension to Tcl to provide support for OOP techniques.

Incr Tcl/Tk Base Page.
- [incr Tcl] - OO extension to Tcl
- [incr Tk] - Framework for building Tk style widgets using [incr Tcl]
- [incr Widgets] - OO Mega Widget set extending Tcl and Tk
distinct - Distributed [incr tcl] mailing list
Nautilus - Tcl based incr tcl browser
itcl-Widgets - Motif style widget behaviour and widgets implemented using itcl

Tcl GUI Extensions

TclMotif - A Tcl shell (moat) and library which encapsulates Motif rather than Tk widgets.
TclMotif Reference Information
Wafe - Widget [Athena] Front End - a Tcl binding to Xt supporting various widget sets Athena, Motif 1.1 to 2.0, Xew, Xbae, XmGraph, Plotter, Layout, Clock, Tree Widget) and extensions (Xpm, RDD, etc.)
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. ( README and 4.0 Distribution )

GUI Builders and IDE's

SpecTcl GUI tool
Alpha Release of SpecJava - GUI builder for Java/awt based on SpecTcl. MSW version (??)
XF
GUIBuilder or its distribution
The FREE Visual Tcl/Tk Project - Development of of a freely distributable cross platform, Visual, RAD environment for Tcl and Tk (in Tcl/Tk).
(Another) Visual Tcl - application development environment generating Tcl (supports Unix Windows and Mac)

Tcl OOP Extensions

See the [incr Tcl] section
Pacco - object-based approach to data processing as an extension to Tcl. Distribution
Hush Hyper Utility Shell - C++ API for Tcl/Tk allowing a programmer to employ the functionality of Tcl/Tk in a C++ program. A program created with hush is itself an interpreter extending the hush interpreter (and wish). Distribution
(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).
Tclobj - allows dynamic loading, access and operation of C++ classes + objects from Tcl. ( Distribution Directory)
TclDii - a Tcl front-end to the CORBA Dynamic Invocation Interface.
Tclpp C++ like Tcl OOP extension (tcl8.0)
Tcl++
obTcl Pure Tcl (script only) object and MegaWidget Extension.
STOOOP (Simple Tcl Only Object Oriented Programming) - Script only OOP extension to Tcl
- Stooop Documentation
- scwoop Simple Composite Widget Object Oriented Package based on Stooop
  README
- Distribution Directory for both the above.
jTcl - (Script only) Extension to Tcl to allow OO programming with a syntax similar to java.
sterno - Sterno is a very simple object system for Tcl built on top of the Tcl 8.0 namespace system and consists of less than 200 executable lines of Tcl code. Designed to be a straight-forward mechanism for structured data encapsulation and management. It provides an object is a command model similar to Tk and supports basic fields and methods.
Version sterno0.1
Tea - wrapper around Tcl that provides object-oriented functionality and features similar to that of Java.
classytcl dynamically loadable object system, (GUI Builder and Widget set) for Tcl which follows the Tcl philosophy. The system is simple, but flexible. Classes and objects are dynamic, and can easily be queried, changed and debugged at runtime.

Tcl Development Tools

See Neosoft Archive TCL Development Area
Debuggers
- tcl-debug - Don Libes debug Extension to TCL (README)
- Tk-debug - extended version of Don Libes tcl-debug. (README)
- tdebug TCL Script only debugger (README)
- Tuba - Source Level Debugging Environment for Tcl8.0
Formatting
- frink - TCL source prettify, minimise or obfuscate (README)
notmake Tcl-only make like utility
Doc
- autodoc - an app to convert specially formatted documentation embedded in tcl source into a cross-referenced set of HTML pages describing this source

Tcl Compilers

tcl_cruncher - tcl pseudo compiler/syntax checker. README and archive
Preparser Pseudo Compilers
- tcc (in C++) Another site
- protoTcl README and its Distribution.
ICEM CFD Tcl Compiler and 1.1 Distribution README
David Koski's Tcl to C Compiler Paper and Code.

Tcl/Tk with other Languages

JAVA

TclBlend and Jacl
TclJava - interface for using Tcl as a scripting language with Java or defining Tcl commands in Java (Java Applications not Applets) for the Java 1.0 SDK, and Tcl7.4/Tk4.0 or Tcl7.5b2/Tk4.1b2.

See Also A Java/Tcl Interface .
Other resources and JDK1.1 and NT Patches

Jacl - Tcl Interpreter implemented in Java (initial stages)
TclBlend Article from Developer.com
tkPerl Placeholder
tkPython Placeholder
ProTcXl - (was ProTcl) Prolog interface to the Tcl/Tk toolkit and to Xlib.
Arcadia Ada Interface to Tcl
TASH - (Tcl Ada SHell) a new Ada 95 binding to Tcl/Tk.
Lisp-Tk - port of Bill Schelter's Gcl-Tk, to CMU Lisp and Allegro Common Lisp.

Other ports of Tcl and Tk

PC versions of Tcl/Tk fm scriptics are in the Tcl/Tk version directories.
PC versions of Tcl/Tk fm smli
- win41a2.exe - PreCompiled binaries Tcl7.5a1 and Tk4.1a2
- w32s125.exe - additional setup files for the above under MS Windows 3.1
- VC++ Makefiles
- win31-sample-ext.tar.gz - sample dynamically loadable extension using Borland C on MS Windows 3.1
- Mac dist at scriptics - Pre-compiled source and binaries of Tcl/Tk for the Macintosh.
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 ).
Tknt4.0 Page and distribution directory.
Tcl 6.7 Dos Port. ( For more of these see alcatel )
TCL/TK DOS Port - based on Tcl7.5a2 and CTK 4.0b1 (the curses version of TK)
Macintosh TCL resources.
Tcl7.5b3 and Tk4.1b3 on VMS
NT Tcl extensions
- sys - commands for doing NT system administration
- odbc - database connectivity to ODBC sources
- registry - a port from Gordon Chaffee's NT Tcl distribution, with some enhancements for getting/setting security.
- gd - a port of gdtcl from unix
- tclping - a simple extension to use icmp echo protocol from tcl
- shortcut - an extension to create and maintain 95/NT shortcuts
Tkmswin - extension with commands for executing MSWindows programs, file manipulation, printing and .INI file access in an MSWindows environment.
TclOCX - a 32bit MSWindows95 & NT custom control 'wrapper' (OCX) that exposes much of the functionality of the Tcl version 7.5 script interpreter to programs capable of using OLE automated windows controls. (e.g VB4 and VB5) Latest version is wrapped in an ActiveX control allowing embedding of Tcl within any environment capable of using an ActiveX/OCX control and also allowing Extension of the 8.0 Interpreter using the Visual Basic language.
COSH - Wish on NT extended with a COM interface

Misc

Hobbs' University of Oregon Public Code
- Entry widget validation patches
- itcl-5.0 for tcl7.4/Tk4.0 patches
- TkTetris, Telnet, ComboBox, validation and HTML parsing scripts
by jhobbs of UOregon.
Sams NonStd Tcl Library and its Distribution - includes HTML generation procedures and an OO programming framework
Pool - Collection of generally useful pure tcl commands for Time/Date manipulation, Widgets, Logging, Network tools (Messaging, Simple Name service POP3, SMTP and general Server construction) and providing an OO framework.
Tcl extensions by Ted Durning. Includes
- Binary data access,
- Berkeley dbm extension
- Random numbers and searching from offset in string
Donal K. Fellows's Tcl Archive. Includes
- Directory Browser
- Platform Independent Drag and Drop,
- Generic Useful Library
- Canvas Dump/UnDump
- Image Pane Generation
- ComboBox and FrameBox
John LoVerso's Tcl/Tk Page (OSF). Includes:
- comm - a pure tcl send cmd (compatible) replacement implemented using Tcl7.5 socket command
- tkinspect modified to use comm
- CopyChan package for Tcl (similar to tclX copyfile)
- xbiff replacement
Hume Smiths Tcl Plugin page. Contains
- An apply command ( cf Lisp)
- msql 2.0 interface
- lsort patch for stable sorts
- backquote.tcl quoting primitive ( cf list quote macro)
Laurent Demailly's TclTk Software. Includes
- WWW tools
- Syntax checker (tcl_cruncher)
- tclbin
Robin Beckers Home Page. Contains
- Tcl/Tk Win32 patches
- BLT patches
- Balloon Help pkg
- Modified tclstruct pkg
wave_tk - Visual Numerics PV-Wave with TK/TCL
Sloan Digital Sky Survey Use of Tcl
Experimental schematic spice interface
MPEG animations , done with Tcl scripts using TSIPP
A demo of images generated using Tk based tools

FTP sites

The main ftp Archive for contributed freely distributed Tcl/Tk code and apps is now at ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/tcl or a mirror at ftp://mirror.neosoft.com/pub/tcl.
Access by package functionality is at ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/sorted/
There is also WWW Access to the same site
Prior to about April 96, The Contrib Archive was at ftp.aud.alcatel.com
The archive from there is now at ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/alcatel
Tcl/TK Distribution
ftp site for the Tcl and Tk Core Distributions (was ftp.smli.com )
Extended Tcl (TclX) Distribution
Additions to Tcl to support Unix system programming
TclMotif 1.4
Tk-like Tcl extension for Motif. The Distribution Directory, the README file (on neosoft) and next Beta.
itcl 1.5 distribution and 2.0 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
Walnut Creek CDROM and FTP TCL archive

Other Tcl Info Collations

Canonical Tcl Info Sites
(many of these are repeated above but here they are all in one place)
- Larry Virden's comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher
- Scriptics' Tcl new resource center
- NeoSoft's comp.lang.tcl contributed sources archive
- Cameron Laird's Tcl/Tk references of interest
- Tcl/Tk Consortium's search of comp.lang.tcl and c.l.t.accounce
- Welcome to comp.lang.tcl message by Andreas Kupries
- Links²Go
  TCL/TK
- Information Registries
  - Tcl/Tk Resources Registration and View
    - Register your Programs, Libraries, applets or Tcl Application code.
  - NIST Identifier Collaboration Service - A place to register your use of or interest in identifiers (related tho not limited to Tcl).
    Tcl domains include: Tcl commands, Tcl completion codes, Tcl math functions, Tcl namespaces,Tcl packages.
- Tcl Applications
  Rather old Searchable Presentation of Tcl 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
  (also at http://cuisung.unige.ch/TclTk.html)
- Incr Tcl/Tk/Widgets site
- Tcl Information (Tutorials, Online Books, Tcl and C integration)
- Cetus Links maintains a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
- Search Indexes
  - Yahoo
Hops ( hops@sco.com )
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