GUI Scripting with Tcl/Tk

摘要

Although many Linux developers are only now dis-covering the combination of a scripting language and a graphical user interface (GUI) toolkit, this sort of development environment is not new. The largely unsung forerunner to projects like PyQt and pyGTK is Tcl/Tk, the first footprints of which can be traced back to before Linux even was created. Supported by an enthusiastic community, Tcl/Tk quietly and efficiently has been providing cross-platform GUI scripting to UNIX, Windows and Macintosh developers for many years. The language itself currently is up to version 8.4.5.0, and the Tcl/Tk application development tool of choice, Visual Tcl, recently has been updated to version 1.6 after two years of development. This article looks at the language, toolkit and Visual Tel and describes how they can be used to produce a neat solution to a real requirement.