[hemmerling] Tcl / Tk ( tickle ) 1/2

Related page:

• Tcl / Tk ( tickle ) 2/2 - Debugging & Testing.

• European Tcl/Tk User Meeting by Tcl'ers User Group Munich.
  • Google+ "11th European Tcl/Tk User Meeting" in Munich, 2013-07-06.
  • Google+ "12th European Tcl/Tk User Meeting" in Munich, 2014-07-12 - 2014-07-13.
  • I was one of the 26 participants of the European Tcl/Tk User Meeting "13th European Tcl/Tk User Meeting" in Cologne, 2014-06-20 - 2015-06-21 .
• In 2015, the electronics distributor Silica (An Avnet Company) offered free seminars in Germany about TCL/TK, like “Seminar VIVADO Tool Flow + TCL/TK” .
• The free online conferences “SQLite & Tcl 2020 (Virtual Event)”, 2020-11-10 & “The SQLite & Tcl Conference (S&T) 2021”, 2021-11-17.
  • Eventbrite "TCL Community Association", TCL Community Association.
    • 2020.
      • Eventbrite "S&T 2020 - The SQLite & TCL Conference".
      • Tcl Developer Xchange "SQLite & Tcl 2020 (Virtual Event) - Schedule".
    • 2021.
      • Eventbrite "The SQLite & Tcl Conference (S&T) 2021".
      • Tcl Developer Xchange "SQLite & Tcl Conference".
    • YouTube "Tcl/Tk Video".
      • YouTube "Tcl/Tk Video", Playlist "The S&T 2020 Conference".
  • Tcl Developer Xchange - Tcl/Tk Community Resources "SQLite & Tcl 2020 (Virtual Event) Related".
• Tcler's Wiki "Tcl Conferences".

• Google - Search for "tcl/tk" videos.
• YouTube Channel "Tcl/Tk Video" - Videos of the US conference “Tcl/Tk Conferences” and of the European conferences “EuroTcl”.

• ActiveTcl Community Edition - Tcl for Windows.
  • ActiveTcl User Guide.
  • ActiveTcl Community Edition 8.5.18 ( TCL 8.5, TK 8.5 ) is the latest edition for W2k.
  • ActiveTcl Community Edition 8.6 is just for WinXP and newer.

• Pat Thoyts.
  • Pat Thoyts "TclKit: bleeding-edge builds", in 2015 newest pre-builts:
    • 32-bit Windows: Tcl/Tk 8.5.13 and Tcl/Tk 8.6.4.
    • 32-bit Linux: Tcl/Tk 8.5.10.
    • 64-bit Linux: Tcl/Tk 8.6.2.

• Google Code "tclkit. Self-contained runtime for Tcl/Tk" - Tcl/Tk 8.5.8 is the newest pre-built, in 2015.
• Jean-Claude Wippler, Equi4Software.
  • Equi4Software "Tclkit application runtime".
    • Equi4Software "Tclkit downloads" - Tcl/Tk 8.5.2 is the newest pre-built in 2015.

• AndroWish.
  • Christian Werner.
    • Christian Werner "Tcl/Tk on Android: AndroWish".
    • Christian Werner "HelloTclTk: How to roll your own Tcl/Tk based Android app".
  • Tcler's Wiki "AndroWish".
  • Tcler's Wiki "AndroWish: Documentation".
  • Rani Ahmad, Superlinux.net.
    • YouTube "superlinux" - “SuperLinux - The Linux and TCL Company”.
      • YouTube "Inventing Your Own Tcl/Tk Android App Using AndroWish Runtime Lesson 1 (English Version)".
      • YouTube "Explaining Project Structure In Android App For AndroWish And Tcl/Tk Lesson 2 (English Version)".
      • YouTube "Running Other Tcl/Tk Scripts And files in Android Androwish based App Lesson 3 (English Version)".
      • YouTube "How To Make Money From Android App Built On Androwish And Tcl/Tk? Lesson 4 (English Version)".
    • Google Play "Tcl/AndroWish Tutorials Free".
  • Tim Baker "SDLTk" - “SDLTk is the Tk GUI drawn completely inside an SDL surface... Tk thinks it is running under X11.
    • Simple DirectMedia Layer ( SDL ) - “A cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D”.

• The legacy Tcl Developer Xchange "Tcl Plugin", SourceForge "Tcl/Tk Plugin", SourceForge "Tcl/Tk Plugin" for Firefox. Does not work with current Firefox versions ( e.g. Firefox 12, 13,..).

• The Eagle Project for Windows with .NET 2.0 - “Eagle (Extensible Adaptable Generalized Logic Engine) is an implementation of the Tcl scripting language for the Common Language Runtime (CLR)”.

• The Jim Interpreter. A small footprint implementation of the Tcl programming language (jim.tcl.tk).

• SourceForge "Tcl 8.3 for Windows CE", SourceForge "tclce" by Akos Polster.
  • Tcler's Wiki "How to build for WinCE".

• Host Europe GmbH.
  • Host Europe GmbH - FAQ "Skripte (cgi, perl, php, Webanwendungen)".
    • Host Europe GmbH - FAQ "Tcl".

• The OpenSource IDE Andreas Sievers "ASED Tcl/Tk IDE", written in pure Tcl/Tk.
  • Makes use of core.tcl.tk - "Bwidget".
  • Tcler's Wiki "Ctext".
  • “Now also available as Starpack (single executable file) for Windows” .
• The OpenSource IDE “Eclipse” with “Dynamic Languages Toolkit” ( DLTK ) - See Software Development Tools.
  • Eclipse for PHP Developers is shipped with DLTK .
• Alexey Kakunin.
  • The OpenSource IDE Alexey Kakunin "TCL Developer Studio".
    • Makes use of SourceForge "Tix", SourceForge "Tix".
  • The OpenSource IDE Alexey Kakunin "TCL Developer Studio, Second Version".
    • Makes use of core.tcl.tk - "Bwidget".
• The commercial IDE KomodoIDE by ActiveState.
• The commercial IDE MyrmecoX.
• The OpenSource IDE NetBeans.
  • NetBeans Plugins "Tcl Plugin" for Netbeans 7.2 - “Syntax Highlight, Create/Open Tcl Projects And Files, Run Tcl Files, Debugger”.
  • Tcler's Wiki "netbeanstcl".
  • Chiselapp "Netbeans Support for Tcl".
    • Project of the Google Summer Of Code 2011.
    • Source code repositories for “TclPlugin”, “antlrgrammar”, “examples”.
    • Chiselapp "Netbeans Support for Tcl - Timeline".
      • Chiselapp "Netbeans Support for Tcl - Ticket ++++ Tcl plugin doesn´t work on Windows, it aborts with '% % wrong # args: should be "cd ?dirName?"' ++++.
  • On Ubuntu 14.04, NetBeans 8.02 works properly with the plugin.
    • At “Options / Tcl”, the tclsh path is set for Linux ”/user/bin/tclsh” by default, properly.
    • The default “start.tcl” script is executed by

      >>> /usr/bin/tclsh
      1
      % set ::tcl_interactive 1
      % % /usr/bin/tcls process exited with 0 status.
      Output window INACTIVE.
      

  • On Windows, the plugin doesn´t work both with NetBeans 8.02 and 7.4:
    • At “Options / Tcl”, the tclsh path is set for Linux ”/user/bin/tclsh”.
    • If you try to execute a Tcl script of a Tcl project, there is a modal error window with the message “Please set correct Tclsh path using Tools → Options Tcl tab.”.
      • The Tcl shell “Tclsh.exe” is installed on Windows at e.g “c:\Program Files\tcl\bin\Tclsh.exe”.
      • If you change this path to the location of the Tclsh.exe on Windows “c:/Program Files/tcl/bin/Tclsh.exe” ( or “c:/int/w32/develop/tcl/bin/tclsh.exe” on my machine ), Netbeans may execute Tclsh.exe.
        • Unfortunately, Tclsh aborts with the error message

          >>> c:/tcl/bin/tclsh.exe
          1
          % set ::tcl_interactive 1
          % % wrong # args: should be "cd ?dirName?"
          

      • Netbeans may not call Tclsh.exe by the Linux settings and Windows Shortcuts.
        • Create the directory “C:\usr\bin”.
        • In this directory, create a symbolic link “tclsh.lnk” to the location of Tclsh, by Right-Mouseclick “New / Shortcut”.
          • By this, Tclsh may be called by COMMAND.COM by “\usr\bin\tclsh.lnk” from the same drive, and by “c:\usr\bin\tclsh.lnk” .
          • As Windows depends on file extensions, you may not call Tclsh by “\usr\bin\tclsh” , after renaming “tclsh.lnk” to “tclsh”.
          • Netbeans does not accept to call Tclsh by “tclsh.lnk” after setting the tclpath to “c:/usr/bin/tclsh.lnk” - it still asks “Please set correct Tclsh path using Tools → Options Tcl tab.” .
      • On Windows, setting the Tclsh path to an invalid path, may cause Netbeans to block the computer by a modal window which consumes all computing power ( so you can´t even switch to another Windows window to access the Windows task manager, so that you have to logout .
• The OpenSource IDE RamDebugger - “A debugger and IDE for TCL-TK”.
  • RamDebugger - Contact.
  • Tcler's Wiki "RamDebugger".
  • There are no line numbers visible at the editor pane. But you can see the line number of the cursor in the status line on the window bottom. Also you can see/go to line with Edit→Go to line (CTRL-G).

• The OpenSource editor Geany for Linux and Windows.
  • EN.Wikipedia "Geany", DE.Wikipedia "Geany".

• The OpenSource GUI builders “SpecTcl and GUI Builder” → See Python 8/10 - IDEs & GUI Designers. “SpecTcl” may generate TCL code. In the “*.ui” files, you can select that by the statement “language tcl 8.4”.
• Archive.org "Sawpit" ( - 2008-05-09 ) - The OpenSource GUI builder “tkBuilder” by Frank Schnekenburger.
  • Fork:
    • The OpenSource GUI builder SourceForge "tkBuilder for tcl 8.4", SourceForge "tkBuilder for tcl 8.4".
• The OpenSource GUI builder SourceForge "TCL/TK Programming Environment", SourceForge "TCL/TK Programming Environment" - “TKproE is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for building TCL/TK programs”.
• The OpenSource GUI builder “Visual Tcl” by Stewart Allen.
  • SourceForge "Visual Tcl", SourceForge "Visual Tcl", Roy Keene "vTcl (version 1.6.1a1) Starpacks for various platforms", Google Code "vtcl-bin", Tcler's Wiki "Visual Tcl".
  • High-quality application development environment... Visual Tcl is written entirely in Tcl/Tk and generates pure Tcl/Tk code.
  • Fork:
    • The OpenSource GUI builder “PAGE - Python Automatic GUI Generator” is based on “Visual Tcl”, ( still ) generates TCL code, but the TCL code is incomplete and can´t run → See Python 8/10 - IDEs & GUI Designers.
  • Documentation.
    • SourceForge "Visual Tcl".
      • SourceForge "Visual Tcl" - "Frequently Asked Questions".
    • Starpacks ( for Windows ) are “just binary” editions ( for Windows ) and don´t contain demo code and demo projects, by definition.
    • The latest source code archive “vtcl-1.6.1a1.tar.gz” contains 2 directories with demo code and demo projects:
      1. demo.
      2. sample.

• The free online service Steven Hazel "Codepad" - “Online compiler/interpreter ( for C, C++, D, Haskell, Lua, OCaml, PHP, Perl, Plain Text, Python, Ruby, Scheme, Tcl ) and a simple collaboration tool. Paste your code below, and codepad will run it and give you a short URL you can use to share it in chat or email”.

• Tcler's Wiki "GUI Building Tools".

• Equi4Software "The Starkit Developer eXtension" ( SDX ).
  • “The SDX utility has a few convenient options to create, inspect, and unravel Starkits”
• Equi4Software "/pub/sk".
  • Download of SDX utility: “sdx.bat”, “sdx.kit”
  • Download of “starkit.tar.gz”.
• SourceForge "kitgen build system", SourceForge "kitgen build system".
  • Tcler's Wiki "Tclkit Kitgen Build System".

• Tcl Developer Xchange "Tcl/Tk Starkits" - Download of StarKit-packed applications.
• Equi4Software "/pub/sk".
• Equi4Software "/pub/om/sdarchive".

• Equi4Software "Tclkit application runtime".
  • “Tclkit is a compact, single file executable containing a complete scripting runtime, including a rich scripting language (Tcl), a high-level GUI toolkit (Tk), a powerful object system (IncrTcl), the Tcl Virtual File System (TclVFS), and an embedded high-performance database (Metakit)”.
• Equi4Software "Starkit deployment technology".
  • “A Starkit is a wrapping mechanism for delivering an application in a self-contained, installation-free, and highly portable way. The name comes from being based on a StandAlone Runtime, called Tclkit”.
• Equi4Software "So you want to use starkits, eh?".
• Equi4Software, Steve Landers "Beyond Tclkit - Starkits, Starpacks, and other *stuff".
• Equi4Software "How Starkits are mapped to Metakit views".
• Roy Keene "vTcl" - “starpack-vtcl.sh is the shell script used to generate these starpacks from the unmodified vTcl source code”.
  • Roy Keene - HTML view of "starpack-vtcl.sh".
  • Roy Keene "starpack-vtcl.sh".
• Tcler's Wiki "Starkit".
• Tcler's Wiki "Build Your First Starkit".
• Tcler's Wiki "Starkit - How To's".

• The official Tcl repository tool “Teacup”.
  • The public repository directory ActiveState Teapot.
  • “Teacup” is shipped with ActiveTcl distribution at “C:\Program Files\Tcl\bin\teacup.exe”.
  • Tcler's Wiki "Teapot".
• SourceForge "Free Fossil-SCM Repository Hosting".
  • SourceForge "Fossil-SCM Demo", username “admin”, password: “admin”
• Chisel Fossil SCM Hosting - “Free. Chisel offers an unlimited number of fossil repositories. Its codebase is free software, licensed under the ISC license”.

• Fossil - “A simple, high-reliability, distributed software configuration management system”.
  • Fossil "Fossil Quick Start".
• Tcler's Wiki "Fossil".
• EN.Wikipedia "Fossil (software)".

• The OpenSource TkSQLite - “A GUI database manager for SQLite implemented by Tcl/Tk”.
• SourceForge "TclX", SourceForge "Extended Tcl (TclX)", Archive.org "NeoSoft, Mark Diekhans and Karl Lehenbauer - Homepage for Extended Tcl" ( - 2003-04-16 ) - “Extends Tcl by providing new operating system interface commands, extended file control, scanning and status commands and many others”.
• SourceForge "TkCon", SourceForge "TkCon: Enhanced Tk Console" - “An enhanced interactive console for developing in Tcl. It also has the ability to connect to other Tk send-enabled languages, as well as generically to sockets”.

• GitHub.io "AOLserver", GitHub "AOLserver", SourceForge "AOLserver", SourceForge "AOLserver. High-performance multithreaded web server" - “A multithreaded, Tcl-enabled, massively-scalable and extensible web server tuned for large scale, dynamic web sites. AOLserver also includes complete database integration and a dynamic page scripting language”.

• OpenACS - “The Toolkit for Online Communities”.
  • Tcler's Wiki "OpenACS".
  • EN.Wikipedia "ArsDigita Community System".
    • “The ACS was originally written in Tcl to run on an AOLserver web server and an Oracle database. In 2001, the code tree was forked, with the Tcl code base being maintained and refactored by one group of developers... and official support for the Tcl version ceased. However, the Tcl version continued to be maintained by the OpenACS community”.
• PORTABLE.NSD - pure TCL OpenACS.
• )project-open(, SourceForge ")project-open( - Project Management", SourceForge ")project-open( - Project Management".
  • ]project-open[ "Architecture FAQ" - ”]project-open[ is based on AOLServer and the OpenACS platform.”.

• Apache Tcl. Tcl and Apache HTTP webserver Integration.

• Rivetweb - HTML generation with Tcl, SourceForge "rivetweb. Small size template based websites", SourceForge "rivetweb. Small size template based websites".
  • Apache Tcl "Rivetweb".

• tänzer, GitHub "xantronix/tanzer" - “Minimalistic web server framework for Tcl which provides a very straightforward environment for writing HTTP/1.1 web applications”.
  • Tcler's Wiki "Tanzer".
• Tcler's Wiki "Wub", Google Code "wub. Wub pure tcl HTTP1.1 server, client and tool suite", BitBucket "andrew_shadura/wub" - “Runs the Tcler's Wiki# !!!!!!
• Tcler's Wiki "SCGI".

• SourceForge "TLS OpenSSL extension to Tcl", SourceForge "TLS: OpenSSL Tcl Extension".

• Tcler's Wiki "Web framework" - “A list of web frameworks for Tcl”.
• Tcler's Wiki "Web servers which provide native Tcl support".

• Database support.
  • SourceForge "Oratcl", SourceForge "oratcl".
    • Tcler's Wiki "Oratcl", Tcler's Wiki "Oratcl Examples".
    • ActiveState Docs "ActiveTcl User Guide - Oratcl Frequently Asked Questions".
    • The Oracle FAQ "Tcl".
  • SourceForge "Sybtcl", SourceForge "sybtcl".
  • TDBC, GitHub "tcltk/tdbc", a new package introduced with Tcl 8.6.
    • Tcl/Tk Documentation > TDBC Package Commands - “Tcl Database Connectivity (TDBC) is a common interface for Tcl programs to access SQL databases” ( mysql, odbc, postgres, sqlite3 ).
• Andreas Kupries "CRIMP" - “The C Raster Image Manipulation Package, a set of extensions of Tcl for the handling and processing of images”.
• Equi4Software "Critcl - the easy way to use C in Tcl scripts".
• Java & Tcl.
  • SourceForge "The Tcl/Java Project", SourceForge "Tcl/Java".
  • Tcler's Wiki "TclBlend".
  • Tcler's Wiki "Building TclBlend with msys_mingw".
  • EN.Wikipedia "Tcl/Java".
• Csaba Nemethi "The Multi-Column Listbox and Tree Widget Package Tablelist".
• Archive.org "Noumena Corporation - Free Packages".
• OLE support on Windows.
  • Cornell University "Project Zero - TOCX! An ActiveX Extension to Tcl/tk".
• SOAP support.
  • SourceForge "Tcl SOAP Client Utility Packages", SourceForge "TclSOAP".
• SourceForge "Tcl/Tk @ SF", SourceForge "Tcl" - “The core development home for Tcl (Tool Command Language, pronounced tickle) and the Tk toolkit”.
• SourceForge "tcllib", SourceForge "tcllib" - “The core development home for the tcllib standardized Tcl library”.
• SourceForge "Tcl Foundry", SourceForge "Tcl Foundry".
• Tcl Source Code ( core.tcl.tk ).
• TclOO.
  • GitHub "tcltk/tcloo" - “Tcl OO Package (for Tcl 8.5, integrated in 8.6). (Mirror of core.tcl.tk)”.
  • Tcl/Tk Documentation / Tcl Commands "class".
  • Tcler's Wiki "TclOO".
  • Slides SlideShare, Donal Fellows "Adventures in TclOO".
  • Tcl Community Association "Tcl/Tk Conference: 2010".
    • Tcl Community Association "Tcl/Tk Conference: 2010", Georgios Petasis "iTcl and TclOO. From the perspective of a simple user" ( PDF ).
  • Magicsplat "Object Oriented Programming in Tcl".
  • As with Tcl/Tk 8.6, with object orient software based on TclOO, objects are not destroyed automatically after use as used from Java, C++ and C#. It is up to the application to destroy objects when they become invalid!
    • Google Groups "comp.lang.tcl", Thread "TclOO destructor".
• The OpenSource SourceForge "The Simple Development Library. A collection of packages and utilities for Tcl development", SourceForge "The Simple Development Library".
• TkDND.
  • Georgios P. Petasis
    • Georgios P. Petasis "Tcl/Tk Projects".
      • Georgios P. Petasis "TkDND".
    • Petasis George "Tk Drag & Drop Extension (tkdnd)"
    • GitHub "petasis/tkdnd".
  • SourceForge "TkDND", SourceForge "TkDND".
• Tcler's Wiki "TkDND Tutorial".
  • StackOverflow "How to Install and Use TkDnD with Python 2.7 Tkinter on OSX?".
• SourceForge "tkImg", SourceForge "tkImg" - “The 'Img' package adds a lot of image formats to Tcl/Tk”.
• Windows.
  • Ashok P. Nadkarni, Magicsplat.
    • Magicsplat "Tcl Windows API extension", SourceForge "Tcl Windows API extension", SourceForge "Tcl Windows API extension".
    • SourceForge - Mercurial source repository "Tcl Windows API extension".
    • StackOverflow "Calling a DLL function from tcl via twapi".
  • Paul Obermeier, poSoft "CAWT - Com Automation With Tcl".
    • SourceForge "CAWT. Com Automation With Tcl", SourceForge "CAWT. Com Automation With Tcl" - “Based on Twapi to script Microsoft Windows applications with Tcl. It provides high level procedures for automation via the COM interface”.
    • Tcler's Wiki "TWAPI".
    • "Tcl Windows API extension".

• Both the FPGA IDEs of Altera and Xilinx are driven by Tcl scripts .
  • See Electronic Design Automation ( EDA ) 3/5 - Design for Application-Specific Integrated Circuits ( ASIC ) - Design of digital Chips.
  • See Altera ( now merged with Intel ) "System on Chip" ( SoC ).
  • See Xilinx "System on Chip" ( SoC ).
• The OpenSource GUI builder “PAGE - Python Automatic GUI Generator” is based on “Visual Tcl”, ( still ) generates TCL code, but the TCL code is incomplete and can´t run → See Python 8/10 - IDEs & GUI Designers
• The legacy slide presentation software Perspecta Presents.
  • Tcler's Wiki "Tcl chronology" - 1993, Tcl 6.5: “Perspecta Software formed. Perspecta Presents, a presentation software package using Tcl commands, was the company's first, and only, product”.
  • Tcler's Wiki "Perspecta".
• “Visual Tcl - The SCO Toolkit”.
  • Book David H. Young: "The Visual Tcl Handbook".
    • The accompanying CD is shipped with the “Visual Tcl” software framework for Tcl 7.3.
    • “The Visual Tcl language was expressly designed to be a powerful, easy-to-use GUI development tool for the system administrator” of a Unix / Linux system.
• “WebWiseTclTk”.
  • Archive.org "CBL Software Index " ( - 2003-11-04 ).
    • Archive.org "The WebWiseTclTk Toolkit Home Page" ( - 2003-11-03 ) - Software download.
      • “The WebWiseTclTk toolkit is an enhancement of the existing feature set of Safe-Tcl and Safe-Tk, without compromising security. The toolkit re-defines the functionality of the auto_load mechanism in Tcl such that it works for packages located anywhere on the World Wide Web. It also re-introduces several commands not available in Safe-Tk such as toplevel and menu to provide a much richer feature set of Tk commands. The toolkit is written entirely in Safe-Tcl/Tk and uses the home policy for running applications as Tcl-plugins”.
      • “The toolkit supports (1) creation of new Web-based Tcl applications with greatly enhanced functionality, and (2) migration of existing Tcl applications to the Web by merely writing an encapsulation script. We demonstrate the capabilities of the WebWiseTclTk toolkit by readily creating an encapsulation script for Web-based execution of the Tk Widget Demonstrations, distributed with the core Tcl/Tk”.
  • USENIX Technical Program - Paper - Proceedings of the The Sixth Annual Tcl/Tk Workshop, 1998 "WebWiseTclTk: A Safe-Tcl/Tk-based Toolkit Enhanced for the World Wide Web".
  • ResearchGate "WebWiseTclTk, OmniDesk and OmniFlows: A User-Configurable Distributed Design Environment inside a Web-Browser".

• iSYSTEM AG für Informatiksysteme.
  • “Access winIDEA from a Tcl application”: iSYSTEM AG "SDKs - winIDEA" - There is an SDK, “isystem.connect SDK”, for the commercial edition of the Windows IDE “winIDEA”. “iSYSTEM.Tcl.SDK-9.12.68.zip” of 2014-06 is the latest edition.
• The commercial Zeal SoftStudio.
  • Zeal SoftStudio "NTPort Library" - “Additional Samples”, “TCL/TK Samples”.
    • “All these samples are tested under ActiveTCL for Windows 8.4.12. Németh József Gábor's DLL caller is used in these samples”.
  • Pudn "ntporttclexam - NTPort Library for ActiveTCL Samples".
    • Some of the sample files were created using the GUI designer “Visual Tcl”.

• Tcler's Wiki "Perspecta", about Tcl 6.5 as of 1994 - “In Tcl, the programmer is forced to write such functions in C, negating some of the benefit of using Tcl in the first place. For example, the Perspecta Presents! slide-making program consists of ~29,000 lines of C code and only ~13,000 lines of Tcl code”.

• append - concat - lappend.
  • Tcler's Wiki "append".
  • Tcler's Wiki "concat".
  • Tcler's Wiki "lappend".
• Auto-generated list of numbers.
  • ActiveState Docs, ActiveTcl User Guide "struct::list(n) 1.8.3 'Tcl Data Structures'".
  • StackOverflow "Is there shorthand in Tcl to get a sequential array of numbers?".
• Dictionaries.
  • I was told by experts, Tcl dictionaries are similar to Json, but not identical .
  • Tcl/Tk Documentation "Tcl Commands / dict".
  • ActiveState Docs, ActiveTcl User Guide - "Dictionaries as alternative to arrays".
  • Tcler's Wiki "dict".
  • Tcl Developer Xchange "Tcl Tutorial": "Dictionaries as alternative to arrays".
  • TutorialsPoint "Tcl - Dictionary".
  • Well House Consultants LTD "Tcl - dicts - a tutorial and examples".
  • Markos "Open Automation for Water. Monitoring and Controlling of Bioreactors with Tcl/Tk and Arduino".
    • Open Automation for Water "A. Dictionaries in Tcl".
• Namespaces.
  • Will's Tcl/Tk Page "Will's Guide To Success with Tcl 8.x Namespaces and Packages".
  • Cliff Flynt: "Tcl/Tk. A Developer's Guide", page 215:
    • “Note that using namespaces to implement inheritance is implemented in the opposite way as C++ or Java-style inheritance. In C++ and Java, a child class inherits functionality down from a parent, whereas in Tcl a primary namespace can inherit functionality up from a nested namespace”.
    • “If two or more namespaces need functionality that exists in a third namespace, there are a couple of options. They can create a shared copy of the third namespace in the scope of the first two namespaces, or each can create a copy of the third namespace nested within its own namespace. One advantage of nesting the third namespace is that it creates a unique copy of the persistant data defined within the third namespace. If a namespace is shared, that data is also shared”.
    • “Note that whereas procedures can be imported from any namespace, regardless of his parent/child relationship, variables cannot be imported. If your design requires separate copies of data, you must have separate copies of the namespace, The namespace copies can be placed at any positon in the namespace hierarchy, but it is simplest to inherit the functionality from child namespaces”.
• Printing.
  • Tcl/Tk Documentation "Tcl Commands / format".
• Comparison Tcl to other Programming Languages.
  • Tcler's Wiki "Tcl in comparison".

• Tcl Developer Xchange "Tcl Tutorial" for Tcl 8.5.

• Tcler's Wiki "Tcl'ers" - People.
• Elmicron Dr. Harald Oehlmann GmbH.

• Book Steven Ball: "Web Tcl Complete, w. CD-ROM" ( 1998 ).
• Clif Flynt.
  • Clif Flynt "Clif Flynt's Home Page".
    • The OpenSource Clif Flynt "htmlview.tcl: A simple HTML viewer", with download offer of “htmllib.tcl.gz” V0.3.4.
      • Archive.org "wuarchive.wustl.edu/languages/tcl/" ( - 2004-08-31 ) - “html_library-0.3.tar.gz”.
  • Clif Flynt "Temporary site for Clif Flynt's current Tcl fancies".
  • wiki.tcl.tk "Clif Flynt".
  • The free computer aided instruction package Clif Flynt "TclTutor".
    • These tools can be used to access the man pages from TclTutor:
      • SourceForge "PolyglotMan", SourceForge "PolyglotMan".
      • SourceForge "TkMan", SourceForge "TkMan".
  • Book Clif Flynt: "Tcl/Tk. A Developer's Guide" ( 2003 ) / Clif Flynt: "Tcl/Tk. A Developer's Guide" ( 2012 ) #.
  • Book Clif Flynt: "Tcl/Tk for Real Programmers, w. CD-ROM" ( 1998 ).
  • The accompanying website for the 2.nd edition of the book Tcl/Tk: A Developer's Guide.
  • Noumena Corporation "Tclsh Spot summaries and code".
  • Elsevier store "Tcl/Tk, 3rd Edition. A Developer's Guide" → Free downloads:
    • Online Companion Materials.
      • There is a faulty link to the code zip file “Chapter 19.xmpl”, the right link is chapter_19.zip.
    • Instructor Ancillary Support Materials.
• Book Eric Foster-Johnson: "Graphical Applications with Tcl and Tk, w. CD-ROM" ( 1998 ).
• Mark Harrison.
  • Book Mark Harrison: "Tcl/ Tk Tools" ( 1997 ).
  • Book Mark Harrison, Michael J. McLennan: "Effective TCL/TK Programming: Writing Better Programs with TCL and TK: Writing Better Programs in TCL and TK" ( 1998 ).
  • Book Mark Harrison, Michael J. McLennan: "Effektiv Tcl/Tk programmieren" ( 1998 ).
• Book Steven Holzner: "Web Development with Tcl/Tk 8.1" ( 1999 ).
• Book Wojciech Kocjan, Piotr Beltowski: "Tcl 8.5 Network Programming " ( 2010 ) #.
  • “Get to know the key differences between free TclPro Debugger and paid ActiveState Tcl Dev Kit Debugger”.
  • This book was suggested to me by experts on the “European Tcl/TK Users Meeting 2015”, it teaches a lot of useful tricks #.
  • The accompanying website PACKT Publishing "Tcl 8.5 Network Programming".
• Book Don Libes: "Exploring EXPECT: A TCL Based Toolkit for Automating Interactive Programs (Nutshell Handbooks)" ( 1994 ).
• Book David Maggiano: "CGI Programming with Tcl, w. CD-ROM" ( 2000 ).
• Ashok P. Nadkarni, Magicsplat.
  • The free online HTML book Ashok P. Nadkarn "Tcl Programming for Windows" - “When Tcl is your hammer, even Windows is a nail”.
  • Magicsplat "Tcl on Windows FAQ (2015-05-09)".
  • Magicsplat "Object Oriented Programming in Tcl" #.
• Book Christopher Nelson: "Tcl/Tk Programmer's Reference " ( 1999 ).
• John K. Ousterhout.
  • Book John K. Ousterhout: "Tcl und Tk. Entwicklung grafischer Benutzerschnittstellen für X Window System" ( 1995 ).
  • Book Ken Jones, John K. Ousterhout: "Tcl and the Tk Toolkit" ( 2009 ).
    • “Definitive Introduction to Tcl/Tk-Now Fully Updated for Tcl/Tk 8.5 Tcl and the Tk Toolkit”.
    • The book spends much pages in the “Part III Writing Tcl Applications in C” about development in C for Tcl .
• Book Gerard Puoplo, Dave Zeltserman: "Building Network Management Tools with TCL/TK" ( 1998 ).
• Book Paul Raines, Jeff Tranter: "TCL/TK in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell )" ( 1999 ).
• Book Venkat V. S. S. Sastry, Lakshmi Sastry: "Sams Teach Yourself Tcl/Tk in 24 Hours" ( 1999 ).
• Book Chad Smith: "[Incr Tcl/Tk] from the Ground Up" ( 1999 ).
• Book Timothy Webster, Alex Francis: "Tcl/Tk für Dummies, m. CD-ROM " ( 2000 ).
• Book Bert Wheeler: "Tcl/Tk 8.5 Programming Cookbook" ( 2011 ) #.
• Brent Welch.
  • Book Brent B. Welch: "Praktisches Programmieren in Tcl und Tk" ( 1996 ).
  • Book Brent Welch: "Complete TCL and TK Training Course, Student Edition" ( 1998 ).
• Book David H. Young: "The Visual Tcl Handbook" ( 1996 ).
• Book J. Adrian Zimmer, Atrian J. Zimmer: "TCL/TK for Programmers with Solved Exercises That Work with Unix & Windows" ( 1998 ).
  • Book Jeffrey Hobbs, Brent B. Welch: "Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk" ( 2003 ) - This book was suggested to me by experts on the “European Tcl/TK Users Meeting 2015” #.
    • The accompanying website Brent Welch "Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk".

• The Tkinter module ( “Tk interface” ) is the standard Python interface to the Tk GUI toolkit from Scriptics ( formerly developed by Sun Labs ).
• Fredrik Lundh.
  • The free PDF and HTML book Fredrik Lundh "An Introduction to Tkinter" as of 1999 ( - 2012-11-10 ).
  • The free HTML book Fredrik Lundh "An Introduction to Tkinter" as of 2005-11.
• The free PDF an online HTML book John W. Shipman "Tkinter 8.5 reference: a GUI for Python".

• ActiveState Recipes.
  • ActiveState Code / Recipes "Recipe languages".
    • ActiveState Code / Recipes "Popular Tcl recipes".
• ASIC World "Tcl Tutorial".
• Tilo Bigalke, tcl-tk.de.
• Bin-Co "A Tcl(Tutorial for Cool Languages) for Tcl/Tk".
• Bruno Champagne "Linux Book".
  • Bruno Champagne "Tcl Tutorial".
• Fachhochschule Bielefeld, Laborbereich für Technische Informatik - Studienarbeit "Einführung in Tcl/Tk".
• Eric Foster-Johnson - Tcl/Tk expert.
• Detlef Groth "TclTk" by Detlef Groth.
• Hai's Blog - Category Archives "Tcl".
  • Roy Keene.
    • Roy Keene "TCL/TK Command Reference Guide".
• Cameron Laird "Index to Cameron Laird's personal Tcl pages" ( no “www.” ).
  • Cameron Laird "Tcl/Tk references of interest to Cameron Laird".
    • Cameron Laird "Frequently Made Mistakes in Tcl" #.
• Noumena Corporation.
  • Noumena Corporation "TCL/TK".
• Rildo Pragana - Adventures in Linux Programming - Tcl applications for Linux.
  • Rildo Pragana - Adventures in Linux Programming "Tcl/tk Programming for Linux".
  • Rildo Pragana - Adventures in Linux Programming "tdesk - A tcl/tk desktop environment".
  • Rildo Pragana - Adventures in Linux Programming "Programming with TinyCobol".
  • Rildo Pragana - Adventures in Linux Programming "Slidedraw and SlideWidget".
• Archive.org "Self-Tcl.de - Tcl / Tk ( tickle )" ( - 2014-08-26 ).
  • Archive.org "Self-Tcl.de - Tcl / Tk ( tickle ) 'Für Programmierer und Entwickler. Bücher zu Tcl/Tk (tickle)'" ( 1/2 ).
  • Archive.org "Self-Tcl.de - Tcl / Tk ( tickle ) 'Bücher zu Tcl/Tk (tickle)'" ( 2/2 ).
• Tcl Community Association.
• Tcl Developer Xchange - The #1 resource for Tcl/Tk.
  • The current Tcler's Wiki - The #1 resource for Tcl/Tk.
    • Tcler's Wiki "Tcl chronology".
    • Tcler's Wiki "Welcome Visitors".
      • Tcler's Wiki "Tcl'ers" - People.
      • Tcler's Wiki "Category Person".
      • Tcler's Wiki "New Pages".
      • Tcler's Wiki "Formatting Rules".
    • Tcler's Wiki "Tcl Style Guide" by Ray Johnson ##.
    • Tcler's Wiki "NeoSoft".
    • Tcler's Wiki "GUI Building Tools".
    • Tcler's Wiki "Online Tcl and Tk Tutorials"#.
  • Tcl Developer Xchange - Tutorial.
  • Tcl Developer Xchange - Tcl/Tk Documentation.
  • Tcl Developer Xchange - Uses of Tcl.
  • tcl.tk "Tcl tutorial" for Tcl/Tk 8.5.
• The legacy Archive.org "Tcl'ers Wiki".
  • Archive.org "Tcl'ers Wiki: event-oriented programming".
  • Archive.org "Tcl'ers Wiki: Threads vs. events".
• TkDocs - Information you need to build high-quality Tk user interfaces.
  • TkDocs "Tk Tutorial" #.
• Tutorialspoint "Tcl Tutorial".
• EN.Wikipedia "Tcl", DE.Wikipedia "Tcl".
• Will's Tcl/Tk Page.
• ZetCode Tutorial.
  • GUI: “Tkinter tutorial”, “Tcl/Tk tutorial”.
  • Languages: “Tcl tutorial”.

• Activestate.
  • Activestate Community, Forum - Perl, Python & Tcl/Tk forums.
  • KomodoIDE Forum.
• Facebook "Tcl/Tk, The official group of the computer language".
• Google.
  • Google Groups "comp.lang.tcl", Google Groups "comp.lang.perl.tk", Google Groups "comp.lang.tcl.announce".
  • Google Groups "Wub Discussion".
  • Google+"Tcl/Tk Users".
• LinkedIn.
  • LinkedIn "Tcl/Tk Users Group".
  • LinkedIn "TED: Tcl/Tk EDA Development".
  • LinkedIn "Tcl-Expect".
• OpenACS Forums.
• Archive.org "Self-Tcl.de - TCL/TK Forum".
• SourceForge Mailing Lists "Visual Tcl" ( - 2009-11 ).
  • SourceForge Mailing List "Visual Tcl", Message "Re: [vtcl-user] scrolled frame widget sample" - “There is a project in the demo folder called combo.tcl It demonstrates the three geometry managers”.1
• Stack Overflow - Tagged Questions "[tcl]", Stack Overflow - Tagged Questions "[tk]".
• Tcler's Wiki - The #1 resource for Tcl/Tk.
  • Tcler's Wiki "Tcl User Groups".
    • Tcl'ers User Group Munich.
• XING "Tcl User Group".
• Yahoo Groups "VTCL".

• OpenDirectory "Top: Computers: Programming: Languages: Tcl-Tk.
• OpenDirectory "Top: World: Deutsch: Computer: Programmieren: Sprachen: Tcl-Tk".