Table of Contents

Forward. Acknowledgements. 1. Getting Started. I: Tcl. 2. Basic Syntax and I/O. 3. Expressions and Branching. 4. Procedures. 5. Data Structures and Iteration. 6. Strings, Files, and Glob Pattern Matching. 7. Regexp and Regsub. 8. Tcl Odds and Ends. 9. More about Procedures. 10. TCP/IP Networks and Event-Driven Programming. II: Tk. 11. Overview of Tk. 12. Widget Characteristics. 13. Geometry Management. 14. Some Basic Widget Types. 15. List of Widget Types. 16. Bindings.17. Partially Displayed Widgets. 18. Text Widgets. 19. Canvases. 20. Tk Odds and Ends. 21. The Browser Plugin and Safe-Tcl. III: C/C++. 22. The C/C++ Connection. 23. Essential Library Functions. 24. Some Useful Library Functions. 25. Creating Tcl Objects in C/C++. Bibliography. Index.

About the Author

J. Adrian Zimmer was raised in Nebraska and lived in Canada, Denmark, and Iran as well as South Carolina, Oklahoma, North Dakota, and Massachusetts. Educated through a postdoc in mathematics, his publications include two books Tcl/Tk for Programmers, I.E.E.E. Computer Society Press, 1998 and  Abstraction for Programmers, McGraw Hill, 1985.