Advanced Tcl

Advanced Tcl is a guide for programmers who are beyond Beginning Tcl, and would really like to exploit some of the power of the Tcl language and/or the Tk Toolkit, here is a list of pages describing some advanced concepts.

See Also

Tcl Developer Guide

A guide to various aspectes of develping Tcl.

General

The Tcl Core

Tcl data types

Tcl Performance

Tcl Questions and Answers

Style

Tcl style discussion

Tcl Facilities

Regular Expressions

Arrays / Hash Maps

String Processing

Variable Traces

when are they useful?

Serial Port

How to control a physical device

Toolbox

configuration files

debugging

command options

Techniques for processing the arguments to a command.

profiling

templates and macros

Builtin Extensions

dde

Caveats

Dangers of creative writing

Language Tricks

New Control Structures

Radical language modification

ever wanted to write i = 1?

Playing C

Salt and sugar

how to make Tcl code look nicer

Tcl Gems

Braintwisters

code golf

Due to the emphasis on brevity, these exercises tend toward the dense side.

Design Patterns

Introspection

Guarded proc

Meta Programming

Local procedures

How can I add a new option to an existing Tcl command?

How do I manage lock files in a cross platform manner in Tcl?

Data is code

Predicates: on being and having

paragraphing

Event-Driven Programming

Animations and Timing issues

Parsing

Data files in Tcl

simple tricks to parse text files

Syntax parsing in Tcl

Simple tree layout

Inter-Process Communication

inter-process communication

Setting up lines of communications between processes.

message passing

Systems for interoperating over some IPC mechanism.

Object-Oriented Programming

Will's Guide to Creating Object Commands

Objects in Tcl

Curbside Collection for Object Systems

Gadgets

LOST

On things

Doing things

Doing things in namespaces

Chaining things

The Anatomy of an Object System

A modern take, in the spirit of Will's Guide to Creating Object Commands , on working with objects.

Functional Style

functional programming

Steps towards functional programming

Lambda in Tcl

Tail call optimization

linked lists

Integration

Sendmail

Sockets demonstration using an all-Tcl

telnet

Interacting with the internet

Interacting with databases

Distributing Software

What should I be sure to do so my Tcl based programs run cross platform

?

Administering tcl

Dynamic Libraries in Tcl

Extending Tcl

See Extending Tcl

Tk Concepts

Tk Performance

Entry Field Processing

Event Processing

Overloading a widget command

Poor Man's Drag-N-Drop

by Bryan Oakley

Geometry Managers

Practical Guide to Choosing Fonts

Grab Tips

for when you want to redirect events from one window to another

Option Database Tutorial

a great way of getting user-configurable and localizable applications

Adding User Data to Widgets the Megawidget Way

Tk image Dos and Don'ts

Cross Platform differences in Tcl/Tk

Internationalization

i18n - Writing for the world

Unicode and UTF-8

UTF-8 bit by bit

Encoding Translations and i18n

i18n tester

A little Unicode editor

A little Korean editor

Unicode file reader

The Lish family

converters from 7-bit ASCII to Arab/Cyrillic/Greek/Hebrew/Japanese/Korean.. Unicodes

Bag of number/time spellers

on the interface between people and numbers

Chinese numbers

Hebrew numbers

Roman numbers

Natural languages

Things British

Things Japanese

taiku goes multilingual

Endekalogue

has links to almost a dozen translations of man Tcl into different languages

Old Skool

BASIC in Tcl

Retrocomputing

Playing Assembler

8080!

RPN in Tcl

reverse Polish notation

Other Languages

Playing Prolog

Playing Python

Playing C

Playing APL

Playing Smalltalk

Tcl and LISP

Playing Haskell

Turtle graphics the LOGO way

Unix shells

Perl

TclJava

Eiffel-like Invariants

Design by Contract stuff.

Diversions

99 bottles of beer

ANSI color control

Tcl/Tk games

Obfuscation

Quines

Turtleshell

Horseracing in Tcl

Model railroading with Tcl

Notes on a canvas

Postcard from Switzerland

Toy cars

Misc

Bag of algorithms

Bag of Tk algorithms

Bag of number/time spellers

Example scripts everybody should have

Braintwisters

Tcl gems

Hacks

When should Tcl/Tk/etc. NOT be used?

Halting Problem

Tcl-style

Tk in a set-userid application

How do I report a bug in Tcl, Tk, ...?

Incr Tcl Design Patterns

dead link

Graph theory in Tcl

Searching A Star in Space

AVC

A multi-platform, fully automatic, live connection among graphical interface widgets and application variables for the python language.

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