Documentation

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Guides

Getting Started

Beginning Tcl

User Guide

A User's Guide to Tcl/Tk

Developer Guide

Internationalization

see Advanced Tcl.

Best Practices

Tcl performance

ActiveTcl 8.5 User Guide (broken link)

ActiveTcl 8.6 User Guide (broken link)

Reference

official documentation page

official reference pages

Magicsplat tcl-docs

Consolidated reference pages for Tcl/Tk and extensions with a searchable index.

syntax

the rules of Tcl

quick reference

A concise and intuitive guide to all Tcl and Tk routines.

TclTkWinHelp

Provides documentation in Windows Help (CHM) format for Tcl/Tk and several extensions, with a comprehensive table of contents and integrated index.

TMML Tcl/Tk documentation

An older copy of Tcl and Tk reference documentation published by the TMML project. At one point a search feature was provided, but that no-longer works. de loves to point people to http://tmml.sf.net/doc , because it's the best-looking tcl/tk core documentation ...

routines

The page on this wiki for the Tcl routines available in the core distribution.

Operating System specific Tcl commands

Tcl C API

The public Tcl C calls that a C programmer should consider safe to use.

The Tcl Core (Want to hack on Tcl?)

BOOK TCL/TK Pocket Reference

A community version is also available for download.

Common Tcl Error Messages and Possible Explanations

Details

filename

Filename conventions supported by Tcl routines.

re_syntax

Regular expression syntax.

tclvars

Describes Tcl variables.

library

Built-in library of procedures for commonly-needed functions.

Design

bytecode and TAL

A description of the Tcl virtual machine.

copy-on-write

Tcl Command Evaluation: Layer by Layer

shimmering

the immutability of values

virtual filesystem (VFS)

virtual machine

Facilities

Tcl Software Libraries

Tools

docstring

Easy documentation in procedure bodies.

tcldoc

Generates html documentation from comments in source code.

Extensions

Tcllib

Tk syntax help

Routines provided by Tk.

Resources

this wiki

Tcl/Tk Documentation Project (TTDP)

Help! My Tcl application just crashed!

Where can I find a book about Tcl

articles

Specials (OS specific, particular questions, etc.)

Apple Macintosh and Tcl/Tk

Microsoft Windows and Tcl

Microsoft Windows and Tk

TclBridge

Windows COM/DCOM/ActiveX/.NET integration

Windows Helper Utilities

operating system specific Tcl commands

Why can I not place unmatched braces in Tcl comments

future of Tcl/Tk

changes in Tcl/Tk

Details about changes in each released version of Tcl and Tk.

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